It is no secret that the new Twitch rival Kick wants to secure one of the biggest German streamers, Marcel “MontanaBlack” Eris (35). He has now mentioned specific figures regarding how much the platform has offered him for a switch.
What is the situation with Kick? The new streaming platform aims to compete with Twitch and is actively poaching streamers. Already, two of the biggest names from the English-speaking world have switched: Félix “xQc” Lengyel and Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa.
But Kick is also on the hunt for streamers in Germany. Already in March 2023, MontanaBlack reported a million offer, which he declined. However, Kick did not give up easily, as the 35-year-old reported in a recent stream about a second offer and mentioned specific figures for the first time.
With that money, MontanaBlack could surely have given his mods a raise:
Kick offered MontanaBlack a four-figure hourly wage
How much money should MontanaBlack receive? The Twitch streamer reports that he has received a verbal offer for a switch. While he can’t remember the exact amount, he stated: “It must have been between 13 and 14 million euros for a period of 2 years.”
However, that was not all, as MontanaBlack just revealed, there was a second offer. This time, Kick reportedly offered to pay him per hour instead of a flat sum: the 35-year-old was said to be worth 5,000 € per hour to the platform.
He declined this offer as well. In the event of a switch, MontanaBlack fears that his planned projects could be jeopardized and he would look like an “idiot”.
We have embedded a recording of the stream for you here. Starting at about 6:40, it discusses the Kick deals.
“Just really annoying”
What does the streamer criticize? In addition to MontanaBlack, other content creators have publicly turned down offers from Kick. However, critics suspect that some may not have been completely honest. The accusation: Streamers would mention inflated sums to profile themselves as having rejected so much money from the evil Kick.
MontanaBlack holds little of this; he finds it “unsympathetic.”
I find one thing in the situation just really annoying: profiling in public by saying “I rejected such and such a fat offer” to gain sympathy points from the community.
For him personally, it is of course a different matter: he doesn’t mention his rejected deals to gain sympathy points; he already has that.
While MontanaBlack was mainly concerned about his good reputation, another streamer thought primarily about his community when he turned down a million deal. You can read here how he fared with his decision:
Streamer turned down a million deal and stayed on Twitch: “If Kick offered me that much money…”
