re: Twitch streamer, xQc signs 2 year deal for $100M

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Oh, so that Buffalo Bills kickoff return guy that's heart stopped because of a big hit during that Monday night game holds the same weight as someone playing a 3rd person shooter on Halo 3 killing another character?

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Are you saying you only watch football because of the off chance someone actually dies in real life? You seem really triggered by the statement….but it’s absolutely true. You’re watching someone do something else as a form of entertainment instead of doing that act yourself.

And if the comparison to football made you cry that hard....then lets compare it to golf.

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This guy can retire after 2 years and never have to touch a video game again, good for him.

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This dude was already making around $115,000/month with a pretty good net worth.

$115,000 per month.. Im jealous.

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actly. Just pedaling hope to the hopeless. It’s also lot cheaper than the price tag mentioned. A lot.

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Kinda like high school players watching the NFL.

I bet they dream of playing in the NFL.

There's a lot of streamers who make crazy freaking money. They make revenue in several different ways.

Twitch
Subs
Donations
Gaming sponsors (could be $100,000 to play their game for 4 hours)
Youtube, cuz they put tons of highlight videos up that get clicks.
Now many streamers have merged into groups and creating companies.

It's a crazy side of the gaming/tech world. So much freaking money in this stuff.

Of course, there are thousands upon thousands of streamers who don't make money. This generation really likes to see itself on screens. Makes them feel famous.

Some people will stream all day to 0 viewers.

Kick is backed by an online casino. Online casinos have paid millions to streamers to promote Bitcoin gambling to kids but the streamers were getting kicked off of Twitch and Youtube so the casinos backed Kick

This dude is getting paid $100 million to continue to promote foreign-based Bitcoin casinos to kids and show them how to use proxies to access them.


Twitch Mega Streamer xQc Signed By Gambling Company For $100 Million

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Twitch’s biggest streamer, Félix “xQc” Lengyel, is signing with the company’s newest rival, Kick, a streaming platform that offers better revenue splits and also appears to be centered around online gambling. The non-exclusive deal is valued at up to $100 million over two years, and is the latest and biggest blow to Twitch as creator discontent continues to mount.

As first reported by The New York Times, the agreement will pay out $35 million per year, with $30 million in additional incentives available if xQc hits certain benchmarks. As Dexerto points out, this would make it the 12th biggest annual payout in all of sports, putting xQc right ahead of Kevin Durant.

Kick is a streaming platform startup funded by online gambling companies including Easygo Gaming and Stake.com. Following Twitch’s crackdown on gambling promotion last fall, the platform attracted big names like Adin Ross, BruceDropEmOff, and Trainwreckstv with its lax rules and 5/95 revenue split for creators. It’s not yet clear if Kick is profitable or how it plans to become so, but it has managed to benefit from a backlash against Twitch as the Amazon-owned platform has sought to more aggressively monetize the people making content for it.

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Stake and Roobet were paying referral fees in the millions to streamers based on the losses of the people they referred to their site

You guys are arguing about esports when this is actually about online casinos.

The dude is getting $100 million to play CoD. He is getting that to show kids how to use proxies and bitcoin to access foreign-based online casinos.

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Stake.com

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Trainwreckstv

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What's funny is he just gambles with fake money all day long and people eat it up.

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You watch sports?

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Could still be a bit different. Do they actually watch the gamer, or they watch the same screen that the gamer watches?
Or think about it this way, what if the gamer is playing a sports game, is watching the gamer sports game the same thing as directly watching an actual sports game?
It's still just watching something for entertainment from the spectator perspective, but seems one more step removed with watching a gamer.

I dated a Korean woman whose son got paid 4 grand a month for playing League of Legends, he is 14.

still think that Faze Censor, or whatever his name was, pulling Yanet Garcia is more impressive... by far