Tips are overrated ... for 10 or 50 tokens ($1 or $5) what is your motivation -- just a freak maybe? Now you make more money than you did in yahoo chat cams? However, it may be part of a general spiral downward -- only time will tell.

The quality will suffer. I think it is just catering to a lower value paying audience with a lot of bandwidth consuming "free voyeurs" along for the ride.

It's actually good for us; This freeshow for tokens gives the freeloaders somewhere else to go.

Streamate "Gold Shows" are not full nude + public shows for tips. The credits are given as contributions to a joint user group show and the total buy in I have seen is $100.00 to $300.00 to a group full nude + group show of some duration and that makes sense.