Matthew Mercer, Marisha Ray, and Travis Willingham announce our new membership service, Beacon!We’re excited to bring you even MORE with a Beacon membership!...
A Digital Critical Role Land Awaits

We’re excited to welcome you to BEACON, our magical new membership service and home of all things Critical Role!

Nothing changes with how you can watch or listen to our content currently, we’ll continue to be on Twitch, YouTube, & podcast platforms as usual. Beacon simply gives us the flexibility to create special perks, stay better connected with you all, and provide you with a better, unfiltered experience. We’re really excited for all there is to come!

Beacon members will receive live event presales, merch discounts, a members-only Discord, and more - including early access to things like the never before seen Re-Slayers Take and, exclusives like Critical Role Cooldown!

Let Ashley Johnson fill you in and head over to Beacon.tv to begin your journey today.

  • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    This seems like a very ill-advised move. Video hosting, whether streaming or locally stored is extremely expensive. Their videos in decent quality are going to be a couple of gigs each. The cost of bandwidth for people to watch alone is going to be at a loss financially, not to mention the required tech side and the storage of the media.

    LTT has many times the viewership and can barely justify their video service (FloatPlane). I do hope this does well for them but I will never be signing up because in my opinion this is doomed to fail.

    • Backfire@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      A few weeks back LTT mentioned on the WAN Show that some YouTube channel would be transitioning to their own (paid) platform; said platform appeared to be running on the Vimeo video backend. If anything, using an external backbone seems like the smart way to go at it.