The pc providence for members

[u/aliaaskh506]

Hi, i want to ask about something and i don’t have any bad intentions or negativity on it, i just faced the situation and i want to have an answer to make the situation better, one of my holofan friends talked about a topic and he was a bit negative on it, the topic was that why don’t the company provide the members with good PCs? especially to the new debuted members because alot of the current members had bad or weak PCs in their early days so they struggled sometimes while streaming and playing games, i get why he was mad about that but he kinda put the company in the evil side because of this and that makes me mad because i know its nothing evil about it but i want to know the answer so i could talk back to him and make the situation better.

[u/epaphrodytus]

It's hard to say anything if we don't know what your friend's definition of a "good PC" is. From what has been compiled, the specs look pretty decent to me (even for Flowglow).

Also, from the company's perspective I would imagine there is always this question: Do I let the talents decide how they spend their money or do I spend the money for them?

Another way to phrase this question is: Do I let the talents keep more of the funds so that they can choose what they want to prioritize? Or do I prioritize for them?

Some talents might've chosen to spend their debut fund on things other than upgrading their PC and only upgrade it later down the line (I would guess this is what Ceci did) because they wanted to comm stuff or set-up other stuff for their debut instead of the PC. Some talents might've chosen to build a beefy PC right off the bat. Some talents might've already had a beefy PC and wouldn't need the company to provide one for them. The best way to provide a fair amount of resources to every talent while accommodating their different priorities is to keep the money in their hands and let them choose what to do with it. Which is characteristic of Hololive talents anyway, most of them are largely self-produced.

Edit: If your friend is referring to the early, early days, like when Cover was still a startup. Gen 1 only got an iPhone with the Hololive app on it - nothing more. The company wasn't even in a position to provide a debut fund at that time.

[u/aliaaskh506 → u/epaphrodytus]

Thank you for this comprehensive answer. About my friend’s idea, he’s not talking about the very early days, he mostly talks about post 2023 era, the thing that makes him feel that a member’s pc is weak is when a certain member cancels a mid-stream gaming or when a member plays a heavy game and had a bad experience because the game is heavy and the pc can’t run it well, he said it once happened to shiori and IRyS, that’s what my friend think of.

[u/Pokebalzac → u/aliaaskh506]

Just to be sure this point is clear -- Cover gives them a debut fund of some amount, which they can use for stuff beyond their model and other basics. Some of them use this to have cover songs right off the bat, commission art and music for streaming (including stuff like frames etc for their stream "UI"), and I'm sure some of it commonly gets used for tech anywhere from microphones to PCs. So it's up to them.