TLDR: The latest round of cuts will mostly affect employees in Amazon Web Services (AWS), People, Experience and Technology (PXT), advertising and Twitch divisions, according to Jassy. The company’s senior management team expects to make final decisions on which jobs will be eliminated by “mid to late April,” the CEO said.
External link →This. I also find it hard to believe. Small streamers, f.e. I am costing Twitch definately more than I have income. I am using lots of diskspace and traffic for many streams I did, compared to my small viewerbase and the income I make. Why would they do million dollar contracts with f.e. Shroud and other streamers, to use exclusively Twitch, when it costs them money to do so... It doesn't make sense to me.
I really would like to understand the architectural and technical issues, or better said, what is technically needed and whats the difference in streaming to thousands, rather than just a few viewers. It can't be much more than just traffic capabilities?! Shrouds videos take 2mbit more than mine, so storage can't really be the big cost here.
And then again, isn't everyone able to watch everyones stream? What if thousands of viewers decide to "raid" a small streamer? It's not like the small streamer will suddenly cost a lot of money, as technically, this already works...
Sorry, just putting my thoughts here as I really would like to understand their argumentation. And right now, I don't believe the statements and they seem to be PR bullshit for damage control.
Sorry, just putting my thoughts here as I really would like to understand their argumentation. And right now, I don't believe the statements and they seem to be PR bullsh*t for damage control.
As Sam covered in that thread, the sub/viewers ratio for larger streamers is much smaller than for smaller ones, while consuming much more bandwidth. That's really it.
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