Asmongold calls out Twitch for “anti-competitive” multistreaming rules
Kick streamer Asmongold put Twitch on blast for its rules on multistreaming that he believes are biased towards the purple platform.
In June, Asmongold and Tectone made theleap over to Kickas part of a new commitment to multistreaming and immediately revealed how muchmore money they were making as a result.
With so much attention on multistreaming, many creators followed suitincluding FaZe, OTK and numerous other streamers, but that suddenly shed light on Twitch’s policies towards simulcasting.
Of note, a streamer by the name of ‘Nutty’ wasbanned for violating those rules, which prevent creators from showing other websites’ chats, providing links to off-platform streams or merging features.
On June 18, Asmongold reviewed those guidelines during a broadcast and was absolutely baffled at how restrictive they can be.
Asmongold accuses Twitch of trying to “monopolize” multistreaming
“Twitch, I’m not even kidding you, puts it as a rule that if you simulcast, you have to read Twitch chat,” he said. “Oh my God.”
He continued on,reading the guidelines, and grew flustered at Twitch’s wording, adding that they should just state they don’t want viewers going to competing websites.
Asmongold calls out Twitch for their archaic TOS surrounding simulcastingSays they enforce these rules meticulously because they’re losing market share“Twitch puts it as a rule that if you simulcast you have to read Twitch chat..Twitch wants to give themselves an edge..over…pic.twitter.com/rzxmZfolXL
“None of this makes sense…The reason this exists is because Twitch wants to give themselves an edge in multistreaming and they know because they have the biggest platform, they can afford to do that,” he explained.
“This is total anti-competitive behavior. There is no benefit for any streamer. There is no benefit for any user. This is purely something Twitch can do so they can monopolize their platform.”
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Asmongold further labeled these policies “detrimental” to the user experience but believes that Twitch won’t be able to get away with this forever as competition in the streaming space from Kick and YouTube intensifies.
In fact,according to StreamsCharts, Kick viewership grew by 29% in May alone, something the site’s co-founder, Bijan Tehrani, used to put Twitch on blast.
“Twitch banning multistreamers proves only one thing: the party’s better elsewhere and they’re terrified you’ll find out,” he said.
Twitch banning multistreamers proves only one thing: the party’s better elsewhere and they’re terrified you’ll find out.https://t.co/Q4Ep7umAd6
Tehrani further echoed some of Asmongold’s points,adding: “Twitch is afraid of losing their monopoly. Instead of innovating or giving creators more they are going to do what they’ve always done which is engage in pathetic anti-competitive behavior.”
Only time will tell if Twitch decides to change its multistreaming rules, especially now that more and more creators are giving it a shot.
Even Valkyrae, in a request ahead of its time,urged Twitch to modify its guidelines back in April, as she risked a ban for showing YouTube chat while streaming on the Amazon-owned platform.
