Is The Final Fantasy XIV Club Scene Moving To Kick.com?

Watching the news, one might get the impression the chat application Discord is only for leaking classified documents. Not so. Discord is a free-to-use app which keeps gaming communities together. I received a notification from one of those communities this morning, the Sugar Rush DJ Team.

Final Fantasy XIV has a robust club scene fueled by the game's housing and glamour systems as well as large selection of dance emotes. Dancing in a video game? That's right. In addition to two NPC run locations that qualify as clubs, players create their own, including hiring bartenders, waitresses, bouncers, and DJs. Up until now, the DJs operate on Twitch, playing music that club goers can dance to. Or at least, run their dance emotes while cooking dinner.

This morning, DJ Dollipop, the founder of the Sugar Rush DJ Team Discord server, sent out a server-wide ping with news about Kick.com, a new competitor to the Amazon-owned Twitch.com.

With Kick.com up and coming, we decided to start reserving our names and planning a “kick off” event to give it a try. 

Why do you ask? Well Twitch takes 50% of yalls hard earned money with every sub you drop on anyone. Meaning your $100 worth of subs , you pay $50 to Twitch. 

Kick on the other hand pays the streamers 90%, so your $100 you just dropped goes a long ways, almost double. A lot of the streamers in our community do this for a living. So even if you decide to not support kick, think of hitting that donate button or using bits instead. This is not me saying everyone will be moving over to Kick. This is us preparing for the “just in case”. Y’all know me, plan for the worse hope for the best and get ducks in a row. So! 

Head over to kick, make ya selfs a account and drop ya link in here for everyone to cross follow and help each other out!

While FFXIV DJs don't have the viewership of say, mind1 during EVE Online's World War Bee 2/Beeitnam War, FFXIV DJs are certainly more plentiful. As of this morning, 47 DJs have a channel on the server for club owners to book performances. And in the new kick-handles channel, 17 DJs have posted their new Kick.com accounts.

I'm not sure if Kick.com will succeed where so many Twitch competitors have failed in the past. But club goers who want to listen to a DJ may see new URLs pop up.