Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
The way it worked was:
Base pay until the signature exceeded the base payout. Is actually a rather shitty way to do it.
If under the base pay amount all the signature revenue goes to Valve. The casters don't see anything.
If the signature is above it the base pay amount goes back into Valve's pocket and it's the community that basically paid for them only.
It's so incredibly greedy.
That's fucking awful, I guess you could argue that it's supposed to incentive each caster to try their heart out but instead all it does is exactly what another poster here said, turn it into a huge popularity contest where the meme spouting casters are the ones who are selling the most signatures.
Now I'm assuming that this means that the signature pool has to reach a certain level where all the casters can be paid from it, if that's the case then it could get casters mad at each other for not pandering enough for signatures, and do bullshit where basically the casters that are heavy on analysis which many people don't watch end up trying to be funny all the time or something incredibly forced and no one watches them anyways only now the viewers who like analysis have absolutely no one to watch.
All this so valve can get out of paying them.