Discussion Twitch Korea shutting down
I'm sure they are really thrilled about Cook's offers
Let's check back later and see what his success rate is in February
Well, cook can always go back to dress'n drag and bothering passers by in English in Japan and Korea... ha
Was watching Aesoon. She goes off on this topic every stream. Was ranting about the payment delays at afreeca... like three months. How is she supposed to be a happy banker?!
maybe she is also frustrated she is not pulling the numbers of afreeca that she was expecting? maybe i've only noticed her when it's been quieter for her, but i noticed she was getting in the 400-600 viewers on afreeca, which is kind of the opposite of what most twitch streamers going there have experienced (viewer drop off compared to viewer increases).
cook gives off such weird vibes on cam, but i bet he is okay in person. Still remember when he touched heosu's ear and esco told him no touch the wife. Cook has serious boundry issues.
You seen him in Vietnam trying hard to coax Vietnamese street hookers into becoming Twitch streamers ?!?... it was cringe as fuck... LOL
And yes.. he was also trying to score with them spending millions of dongs on them. They really pulled a number on him LOL
Chzzk implemented 19+, similar maybe lower level than afreeca. However, you need to verify your account to access 19+ content, unlike afreeca. Afreeca > Chzzk for foreigners based on this alone. Also, Chzzk is basically unwatchable for me, constant lags and buffers anyway.
Naver has never been interested in doing business outside Korea. I am sceptical, that Chzzk will be ever designed in a foreigner-friendly way. Not really an option for streamers with mainly foreign viewers.
Seems like that kind of applies to all Korean streamer platforms... Afreeca has copy paste disabled in their chatbox so you can't post translations, FlexTV and PandaTV are 100% inaccessable for foreigners (require Korean ID access) and well.. Chzzk/Naver has the Facebook backdoor access for foreigners, but who knows how long that will stay intact...
Afreeca has announced that it will become more foreigner-friendly in February/March. We will see how far this will go. But it certainly won't reach Twitch level to use.
Creating a Naver account is easy. We'll just have to wait, and see how payment services for foreigners work on the platform. As a search engine, Naver is a very profitable advertising and sales platform in South Korea. Gaming and streaming fit in well with this. But I don't believe, that Naver thinks that 19+ content on Chzzk is a good fit. The platform will be at least as conservative as Twitch in Korea.
Making an account is easy, but you still need to send Naver a copy of your license or passport to age verify for 19+, it's not like Afreeca where you can access 19+ by making an account.
I doubt Afreeca would be more foreign-friendly for Westerners. One because Afreeca already has a US headquarters in California, the global Afreeca department is basically a separate company from the main Korean version. They make different decisions, changes don't impact each other, and hold different events. The global Afreeca and Korean Afreeca seem to have different strategies, gameplan, and operate on their own. Also, they announced that they are mainly focusing on South East Asia when they went in depth about going global. I can't fault them for that decision though. With how popular Twitch is in the West, money would be better spent on reaching areas where Twitch is less popular like Vietnam, Thailand, etc
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True, Naver doesn't need to do business outside of Korea. Naver is a portal whose main focus is creating an apple like ecosystem for Koreans. Their goal is to get every Korean integrated into the Naver ecosystem. They want everyone to use Naver pay, Naver maps, Naver shop, Naver gaming, and all the other Naver services. No point in reaching out to foreigners if they can't/won't use like 90% of Naver. It's a waste of money for Naver with not much upside for Naver to make things easier for foreigners.
LOL Love that one comment "Keep in mind, South Korea is a Confusian Taliban Country" LOLOLOL
Yeah I've seen that translation in chat and on Korean forums when they talked about AV being banned in Korea too
Think they were really hoping for PandaTV/Flex 19+ rules, but knew deep down it was not gonna happen with Naver.Can't watch Sooflower on Chzzk
Same... ,,, need a Korean phone carrier...
,,, need a Korean phone carrier...
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I believe, Chzzk currently don't support international routing of streams. The only thing that works for me, is their own advertising. As soon as that is over and the stream starts, the connection is lost.
Twitch banned implied nudity (shoulder & knee streams) and the American e girls already came up with a new Meta
One thing I won't miss is the trend that started with Korea streamers a few months ago where they started replaying vods on their Twitch channels 24/7. At least I don't think this happens on the other streaming platforms.