Microsoft sells Mixer to Facebook, partnering with Facebook Gaming for streaming

[Ryo Hazuki]

What the fuck?!

 

[Deleted member 31817]

Out of the frying pan...

 

[noyram23]

Xbox next and partner it with Occulus

 

[Rolodzeo]

excuse me wat

 

[christocolus]

Interesting.

 

[R0987]

Does this mean that the contract they signed with Ninja and others is void?

 

[bsigg]

From the article

Microsoft's choice to partner with Facebook is clearly a strategic one that's also related to broadening the appeal of its upcoming xCloud game streaming service and its overall gaming efforts. Microsoft will work closely with Facebook to bring xCloud to Facebook Gaming, allowing viewers to click and immediately play games that people are streaming. It's a vision that's very similar to Google's ambitions with Stadia, but Mixer has lacked the scale and viewership to truly deliver this more broadly. Microsoft recruited exclusive streamers like Ninja and Shroud with big deals, but they haven't been enough to get more people using the service over rivals. Ninja, Shroud, and other top streamers are now free to rejoin Twitch or stream on Facebook Gaming.

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[Nugnip]

Them going from Mixer to Facebook has me going from "why not" to "no fucking way".

 

[Anth0ny]

lol wow

what happens to ninja now

 

[Rowsdower]

Holy Crap, thats big. What happens to all those peeps that paid to come over to Mixer?

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Hopefully they move to Facebook Gaming.

Or they can move back to Twitch, per the article. Will be interesting.

 

[Khrol]

Lol wut

 

[Dinjooh]

Haven't read much about Facebook gaming yet. Will have to look into it.

 

[illmatic22]

Say hi to Zune, Mixer

 

[Crossing Eden]

After all that money spent on Ninja and other streamers. Yeeesh

 

[Deleted member 5604]

There's your 20/20 news for June.

 

[Xbox Live Mike]

Wow as a Mixer Streamer that sucks but I can understand why. I wont be streaming on Facebook but maybe I'll do twitch.

 

[tiebreaker]

Mic dropped.

 

[Smurf]

facebook?

no thank you.

 

[cantbebothered]

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lol

 

[EssBeeVee]

ninja got paid. is he moving back to twitch now.

 

[Thiago]

Daaaamn

 

[MJForum Poster]

I won't touch XCloud if it has deep Facebook integration

 

[AppleMIX]

holy shit.

 

[Imitatio]

Facebook?? RIP.

 

[Cosmic Voyager]

So does Ninja and co. crawl back to Twitch now or they just migrating to Facebook?

 

[Aadiboy]

Wow, Ninja raked in the cash to move to Mixer, and now he gets to move back to Twitch in less than a year with no consequences.

 

[adj_noun]

What is Facebook?

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Oh, Zucker don't hurt me
Don't hurt me
No more

 

[Sedated]

Streamers gonna go back to twitch again most likely

 

[EekumBokum]

Facebook huh. Wtf are you doing MS.

 

[Hippopuncher12]

Well that is certainly interesting. People are not going to be happy about the Facebook thing.

 

[Lashley]

 

[data]

Holy shit, that talk went real well

 

[Alchemist]

Twitch won.

 

[maximumzero]

What a shame.

 

[KernelC]

expected, Mixer was clearly a failure from the start. Despite what a very loud minority of people would proclaim.
The racism claims and then desperate higher ups only made it easier for MS to shut it down

They wasted so much money, it was all so pointless

 

[fracas]

Not surprising at all. The paid streamer deals didn't work at all and the writing has been on the wall, unfortunately.

Facebook gaming on the other hand appears to be absolutely huge and I'm curious to see where it heads.

 

[Alien Bob]

Gross

 

[TameLucas]

This sucks so much.

 

[GlowingBovine]

Well this is certainly unexpected in a couple of different ways.
Why Facebook? Damn.

I always hoped someone would be able to replace twitch because the people running it are awful, and Facebook is worse especially in regards to privacy.

 

[Empyrean Cocytus]

This is pretty damn big.

 

[Kouriozan]

A bit shocking, they spent so much money securing some streamers exclusivity.

 

[Deleted member 13645]

Wow, it was only some months ago they were paying big streamer exclusivity deals. That's a bummer, Mixer was fantastic on a technology level.

 

[Crushed]

fucking lmao

 

[FTF]

Holy shit what?! Also, why Facebook :/

 

[Bear]

Holy shit that's insane.

 

[Expy]

Ninja, got off with 50M... like a ninja. lol!

 

[Meatwad]

Partnering with Facebook is not a good look

 

[Kthulhu]

Guess that talk with Phil really worked /s

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LMAO

 

[Raide]

Hopefully they move to Facebook Gaming.

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Hopefully they do.

Some have only been there a handful of months.

Also, RIP Mixpot.

 

[Deleted member 1120]

Jesus, I wish they didn't do this. Didn't use Mixer much but I'd prefer it over facebook.