You really don't think Twitch did some analysis on this matter before making a decision? Or do you just figure that your uninformed assumptions about their financials are more accurate than their internal analysis? Clearly whatever benefit they were or were not getting from their SK business was not enough to justify the operating costs.

[+] schmidtster@lemmy.world -23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Negative press costs money too. There will be unforeseen costs related to this move.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They're leaving the market. If anything Amazon is putting a shot across the bow of the ISPs who are charging these interconnect fees to get THEM negative press and make the Korean public demand a change in the laws so they can get the Internet they pay for.

Amazon may be quitting twitch in Korea, but their cloud services are still paying for the dumb fees.

[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

What negative press? They're no longer going to do business in a particular market for completely normal reasons. This isn't some kind of scandal, it's a standard decision for a company to make regarding unprofitable operations. Everyone besides you seems to understand this.

You clearly have no idea what you're talking about.