Twitch Boosting – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Esports.net

Last week Twitch has revealed its latest feature, Twitch boosting. This allows players to ‘boost’ their Twitch views, so by paying cash you’re going to be able to make your Twitch stream appear to have more viewers and be more popular. This will naturally lead to more actual viewers discovering your stream, allowing streams to bypass that whole ‘make something people want to watch part of streaming. This new feature has had a mixed reaction from streamers, with many calling out the pretty horrendous optics of this new system. The Twitch boosting feature isn’t brand new. It was tried out in the past in a different form. However, the newer version of the channel boost in Twitch has been quite rightfully called out as a pay-to-win mode. This is what’s going on with the Twitch boost, the pros, and many cons, along with what streamers are saying about this latest feature. © Twitch Twitch Boost – What is Twitch Boosting? Twitch Boosting was originally tried out as a feature last December. In that version, channels could trade in their community points to activate the twitch boosting, this would move their stream into more visible areas of twitch. This wasn’t a…
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