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Is Twitch Falling Apart After Recent Announcements?

Author Jered Eastmond
LAS VEGAS, NV - APRIL 21: Gamers play "Fortnite" against Twitch streamer and professional gamer Tyler "Ninja" Blevins during Ninja Vegas '18 at Esports Arena Las Vegas at Luxor Hotel and Casino on April 21, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Blevins is playing against more than 230 challengers in front of 700 fans in 10 live "Fortnite" games with up to USD 50,000 in cash prizes on the line. He is donating all his winnings to the Alzheimer's Association. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Twitch.tv for those who don’t know, is a massive online streaming service, which houses millions of content creators and hundreds of millions of users around the world. However, now that might all be coming apart as new policy updates has some of the top streamers concerned. 

For those who don’t know right now for some top streamers, Twitch was giving them a revenue split of 70/30 with the majority going to the content creators, while others are typically on a 50/50 split. Now that’s pretty good and it promotes competition to be a big streamer, while not totally putting down lower-scale creators. However, Twitch is now saying they will be ending that program and moving all creators to a 50/50 split.  

This is one of the many choices Twitch has made that has upset users including bans of certain large streamers, streamers leaving in favor of YouTube, and policy choices, and features being removed over the last few years as now there seems to be no resolution as far as the revenue split issue is concerned. 

Some streamers don’t care about something like this, but others may leave the platform entirely taking their communities with them. So, what is Twitch going to do about it ahead of their update this October? Well, it’s hard to say as supposedly they’ve taken a stance on the current gambling issue after hundreds of people were scammed by a streamer and now, a new feature will see viewers spending more money to pin messages at rates that make zero sense. 

If I had to describe it, Twitch is on fire right now and they are trying to fight it with more fire. As you can pay $5 to pin a message for 30 seconds or pay $100 for 2 minutes and 30 seconds. Now if you can do basic math, why would you spend $100 for a longer seen message, when you can pay $25 for the same amount of time drawn out? It just doesn’t make sense, so hopefully, Twitch will address these issues, otherwise, we may see more content creators jump ship. 

Mets Watch Division Title Slip Away

BRAVES 5 – METS 3

For the better part of six months the New York Mets were in first place in the NL East. And at several points this season it appeared the Amazin’s were going to ride off with the NL East crown, en route to one of the top seeds in the National League playoffs with a date set with the LA Dodgers in the NLCS. The Mets may still in fact get to the LCS, but the route to get there is much more circuitous after they were swept away by the Atlanta Braves on Sunday night.

The Braves, the defending World Series Champion Atlanta Braves, are now firmly in the drivers seat of the NL East. The Mets now have to navigate their way through the postseason as a wild card. And that begins Friday, mostly likely against the San Diego Padres, a team that has beaten the Mets five times in seven tries this season.

On Sunday the Mets were once again failed by one of their top flight starters, as Chris Bassist couldn’t hold leads of 1-0 and 3-1. He lasted only 2.2 innings, allowing four runs on three hits, including giving up the eventual game-winning hit to former Met Travis d’Arnaud.

d’Arnaud’s two-run single in the third inning gave the Braves a 4-3 lead. They would never look back. d’Arnaud hit .265 with a homer and 9 RBI against his old team this season.

As for Bassitt his poor outing follows poor outings by Jacob deGrom and Max Scherzer in the most critical series of the season, an idea that seemed inexplicable just a couple months ago.

Offensively, the Mets were again in a molasse, going 1-for-6 with runners in scoring position and leaving nine men on base. Aside from Jeff McNeil (3-of-5 with a home run) and Daniel Voglebach (2-for-2 with a Homer and two RBI) there wasn’t much to write home about from the Mets.

The Mets finish the regular season this week against Washington at Citi Field, before welcoming the Padres into town for the Wild Card round.

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