Sunday, July 27, 2014

Pro's and cons of streaming for Twitch

I often think to myself: Is streaming worth it?
I'm sure many people were wondering about starting to stream so I made this for those people. 

PROS
  • Build a community
  • Chance of fame 
  • Able to promote things if you are a big streamer in the long run (advertise)
  • Money from donations 
  • Doing what you love (Playing games while getting paid)
  • You can help others or partner up with your favorite streamers

CONS

  • Takes a long time to take off if you're starting from scratch (As in you aren't known or popular on Youtube, or other social medias prior to streaming)
  • May not be worth the investment time wise, it's possible that your stream never takes off
  • Can be emotionally damaging because you WILL get many insults
  • Very difficult to get a twitch partnership and sub button 
  • Again time investment, you might have to stream 2-10 hours to even kick off
  • If you can't think of something for your stream to be unique or draw people in, it will be difficult and this can be hard to think of
  • You'd be better off having a minimum wage job money wise as to streaming so you have to LOVE streaming and not expect money
 That's all I could think of at the moment, let me know if you can think of anything else to list that I may have missed.