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Mixer employees were unaware of Mixer being shut down. Learned at the same time as the public.
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This story is unfortunately getting worse and worse, while Mixer's shutdown was - jarring at best to those looking through a window in, but I didn't think it would be the same weird limbo for the employees as well. I know a lot of work went into this platform, and wish all of the employees the best.
Yep. Their plan didn't work. But they also don't fall for sunken cost fallacy
Mixers shutting down? When did this happen?
Whats happening to those contracts they made with Ninja and Shroud? Did those two just get two huge paydays and can go back to twitch?
Whats happening to those contracts they made with Ninja and Shroud? Did those two just get two huge paydays and can go back to twitch?
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I'm just hearing it now (Mixer getting shut down). It's..... weird. Really thought they would give it a chance for another year because they hired all these famous streamers. But yeah, Mixer was trash since day 1.
I don't believe they announced layoffs. She tweeted she still has her job.
Tech is full of smarty pants that all are worth a billion dollars, but even I, a humble moron worth practically nothing, could have told you with 100% certainty that spending $50mm to get one guy to stream exclusively on Mixer wasn't going to be the thing that got eyeballs off twitch. I'm sure Ninja will still walk away with at least a few million bucks, but f in chat to all the low to mid-tier streamers that also jumped for a chance at getting in early on something. They're the ones who go back to Twitch with drastically lowered subs and attention. This is going to be the end of many streaming careers.
Shifted to Microsoft Teams. Atleast the developers are. No idea about non-dev employees.
They tried. It failed.
Tax write off to a trillion dollar company.
It's a bad way to find out for sure. And I feel for everyone there who is at least scared about their job security if they haven't outright lost it already.
But weren't reports saying that lots of employees were already getting reassigned to other divisions and morale was awful because it felt like a ghost town at Mixer? If those were accurate this had to have been expected.
But weren't reports saying that lots of employees were already getting reassigned to other divisions and morale was awful because it felt like a ghost town at Mixer? If those were accurate this had to have been expected.
source?
lots of people have lost their jobs btw - have you seen unemployment numbers?
Exactly, probably will get an opportunity get employment in another position... It's not Nokia
There's no announcements of layoffs, and I hope that continues.
Extremely unlikely. This was probably already happening today - and then timing caught up in the worst way. You don't make a partnership with Facebook Gaming in a couple of hours. This is unbelievable and infuriating on so many levels.
Also extremely unlikely. They didn't lock Twitch out when they OWNED Mixer, why would they go out of their way for Facebook?
Not confirmed that all employees will be relocated to other jobs.
