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Microsoft sells Mixer to Facebook, partnering with Facebook Gaming for streaming
- Thread starter Lashley
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Honestly, I just don't see any other live-streaming service dedicated to games going up against Twitch. YT is the closest and honestly I don't even think Amazon sees it as competition. It transitioning to Facebook is an even bigger joke.
Yeah. But their Mixpots kept going downhill. I setup a script to alert me when new ones went up and I think they've only done TWO in the last year, and they were both hot garbage F2P stuff.
Doubtful. You don't do something like shut an entire division or a product portfolio like this in a single day. This most likely has been in the works for a while.
For real man, what a bunch of lucky ass mofos.. lol
but basically twitch is king and no one can touch it. I'm surprised Microsoft is ditching Mixer right before Series X, though. I thought maybe they would give it one last push with cool Series X integration but deep down it was always going to struggle and be a failure, I guess. Going with Facebook is weird, though.
I guess all that cash paid to the guy from Fortnite (Ninja?) didn't exactly pan out the way they thought it would.
You have to spend money to make money. This type of thing happens all the time in big business, the chances of Mixer dethroning twitch were low from the start. The question was always how much money MS was willing to invest to try. They simply hit that threshold.
I only use Mixer for playing collaborative games with friends, but I will *not* be using Facebook Gaming for anything. I'm completely against that and don't want there to be any integration between my Xbox and Facebook -- which I personally boycott.
Really sours me on a lot, I don't even like hearing xCloud and Facebook being in the same sentence or parapraph... even if it's just like, they're sharing technology stacks or something. Nope.
From the Verge article it just sounds like there were no bigger buyers for Mixer than Facebook. I'd imagine this locks Microsoft into supporting Facebook Gaming as the sole option on Xbox, then right? Yuck. I hope to god they don't keep the console-level OS integation that mixer has now. I don't mind it at all with Mixer, but if there's a dedicated tab on my OS with Facebook Gaming on it, even if it's the exact same thing as Mixer but the logo is swapped out, I'll be really turned off from that.
Really sours me on a lot, I don't even like hearing xCloud and Facebook being in the same sentence or parapraph... even if it's just like, they're sharing technology stacks or something. Nope.
From the Verge article it just sounds like there were no bigger buyers for Mixer than Facebook. I'd imagine this locks Microsoft into supporting Facebook Gaming as the sole option on Xbox, then right? Yuck. I hope to god they don't keep the console-level OS integation that mixer has now. I don't mind it at all with Mixer, but if there's a dedicated tab on my OS with Facebook Gaming on it, even if it's the exact same thing as Mixer but the logo is swapped out, I'll be really turned off from that.
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Never been a Facebooker and really can't stand anything about it, but I am also old so it really won't matter to me. Just hope they don't flood my Xbox UI with Facebook ads.
Bummed about Mixer...it was a great streaming service that just couldn't crack the dominance of Twitch...it happens.
As for not telling employees before you close...that happens every day in big business. It sucks for a company that I like to do it, but in the end, with the Facebook deal in place, there probably wasn't a really good way to do it.
Bummed about Mixer...it was a great streaming service that just couldn't crack the dominance of Twitch...it happens.
As for not telling employees before you close...that happens every day in big business. It sucks for a company that I like to do it, but in the end, with the Facebook deal in place, there probably wasn't a really good way to do it.
Ouch, but was expected Mixers was failing compared to others and that racist shit put a nail on the coffing.
I guess paying all of that money for talent was just a last ditched effort to save the platform
Bloody hell! That's crazy that they gave up on it so soon! And after all that investment!?
Bonkers!
Bonkers!
Yeah, this is my biggest fear right now. Really don't want a bunch of Facebook hooks into the Xbox UI and OS. Just want that shit where I never have to look at it.
You click on facebook on a game, and play the streaming version of it.
Facebook gaming by xcloud.
Pretty much this. They're not going to say that they are sunsetting an entire division with like a week or month of advance. Unfortunately, it just happens.
Oh shit.
PLEASE don't tell me this means FB integration is going to be standard/mandatory on XSX?!
I do not use FB I got rid of it over a year ago and WILL NOT use it no matter what do I sure hope it isn't required or I'm going to have an issue regarding XSX.
I didn't even know FB had significant streaming. Shocked that Mixer is done and more shocked they went with evil overlords FB ugh
PLEASE don't tell me this means FB integration is going to be standard/mandatory on XSX?!
I do not use FB I got rid of it over a year ago and WILL NOT use it no matter what do I sure hope it isn't required or I'm going to have an issue regarding XSX.
I didn't even know FB had significant streaming. Shocked that Mixer is done and more shocked they went with evil overlords FB ugh
He can't. He must move to Facebook next month. His deal moves him there
I'd imagine they made a decent chunk of change though, would not be surprised if it was a lot more than what they normally would have gotten if they stayed on Twitch for that amount of time. They had to do something to get them to move.
