Twitch is upping subscription prices on mobile

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• greenshirtdenimjeans@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  VPN to a smaller country to avoid ads

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• ozoned@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anyone for Owncast here besides me? :-D

  !owncast@lemmy.world

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  • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s self-hosted, so people that stream need to switch first, which is not happening.

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    • ozoned@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I switched. :-). People on Reddiy used to tell me no one would switch to Lemmy. Also look at Mastodon.

      I also know some streamers that stream to both Twitch and their Owncast. To each their own. It’s here if folks become interested. Most don’t even know a self hosted option exists.

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Blame Google Play and the App Store.

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• Bluefruit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Twitch announced on Wednesday that Tier 1 and gift subscriptions in more than 40 countries will have a higher price on the iOS and Android apps starting on October 1st. According to emails from Twitch shared by Dexerto and on Reddit, Tier 1 subscriptions will cost $7.99 per month, an increase from the current Tier 1 price on the app of $5.99 per month. The cost of Tier 2 and Tier 3 subscriptions will remain the same.

  The July price hike, which affected subscriptions on the web, upped a Tier 1 subscription to $5.99 per month in the US, an increase of $1. (Once the new mobile price increase takes effect, subscribing via the app will once again be more expensive than on the web; like other companies, Twitch charges higher prices for subscriptions on mobile apps as a way to offset Apple’s and Google’s app store fees.)

  Last year, in the US, Twitch increased the price of Twitch Turbo, its monthly subscription that removes ads, from $8.99 per month to $11.99 per month.

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