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Twitch Will Shut Down Its Streaming Platform in South Korea (blog.twitch.tv)

submitted 10 months ago by Goronmon to c/games

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why would they do that if they aren't mutually exclusive to one another? I'd get this notion if they'd started to do some sort of alternate way of providing for the SK market where their original platform would have been in the way but why close off profitable branches for no reason at all?

[–] PrettyLights 1 points 10 months ago

Because an organization or person only has so much bandwidth and attention. You can't infinitely scale to grab every bit of profit.

"Tripping over dollars to pick up pennies."