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Ninja leaves Twitch, now streaming on Mixer exclusively

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Xwing

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I love how this thread started as a discussion about Mixer vs. Twitch and had the potential to lead to a fruitful discussion about the need for real competition among online services for there to be any kind of advancement in quality of the service (Notice how little YouTube has improved over the years because of the lack of any competitor?), then it got derailed and started focusing on Ninja himself and "streaming is dumb".

Never change Era.
 
ManaByte

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Xwing said:
I love how this thread started as a discussion about Mixer vs. Twitch and had the potential to lead to a fruitful discussion about the need for real competition among online services for there to be any kind of advancement in quality of the service (Notice how little YouTube has improved over the years because of the lack of any competitor?), then it got derailed and started focusing on Ninja himself and "streaming is dumb".

Never change Era.
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A lot of people have pointed out how much better Mixer is than Twitch. But since MS owns it, you know...
 
LAM09

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ItsBobbyDarin said:
Useless clips. "Don't nag, no one likes a nagger. Haha, that sounded weird". You gotta try harder brother.

I am no fan of Ninja, and I know he said it once in regards to a song, but all your clips and proof as of right now, is pure spin.
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It's clear as day but whatever. Everyone makes the same "mistake" multiple times, I guess.
 
Super Barrier

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Over 260k subs in less than 24 hours and he hasn't even begun streaming yet. My guess is he'll cap at about 500k subs by end of the month.
 
Parenegade

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Shlice said:
Nah.

Outside of those few insane months Ninja has settled down into the "popular streamer" range of subs. Little kids just don't pay to subscribe. He can average 50k viewers and was still only pulling in <25k subs the last few months. There are streamers with stronger fan bases that get higher viewer to sub ratios. Ninja has been on the decline. With all his television, merch, NYE, etc antics. He still doesn't pull the paid subs of Doc and Shroud and Timthetatman and others.

I bet MS got him cheap. Real cheap.
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It's amazing how people post about this shit like they have any idea what they're talking about when they're so blatantly ignorant lol. Blows my mind.
 
SuikerBrood

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Hadok said:
You can watch a videogame player for different reasons: speedrun,VS fighting,narrative story with reactions and thoughts etc
But you can stream others things. :)

I watch a lot of incredible musicians on Twitch.It's awesome :)
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When Mixer was still called Beam I watched a couple of musicians streaming. I think I watched them a couple of hours per week. It's really relaxing and I thought talent like that deserved the views. Should do that more often again.
 

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Piccoro said:
You don't even need to install it.
You can watch it directly through any web browser: https://mixer.com/ninja
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right, but you make it seem like its not impressive cause theyre free. I mean shit, who else can get that many subs in this amount of time, free or not?

He clearly has some appeal to be able to get people to create an account on mixer. Which is the entire point.

The goal here is to create some buzz around mixer and him just like trading Gretzky to the LA kings was to create buzz for hockey in the US back in the day.
 

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Mixer is a pretty cool platform and I like it a lot more than Twitch, but I don't visit it much since most of the heavy hitter streamers are on Twitch. Hopefully this will push more folks to Mixer.
 
whooter

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DrLupo's Twitch stream is advertising an "annoucement at 10am Central"

I wonder what it might be...
 
SlipperyMoose

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I can see both sides on this. On one side he was paid to be exclusive to a certain platform meaning if you want to indulge in all of his ninjaness you will have to go to mixer and that's similar to how EGS is paying for games to be on their platform vs others. On the other hand Ninja was really only going to stream on twitch in the first place so places like mixer and youtube weren't going to get that content for the most part anyway. So now he's just going from one exclusive place to the other. With the games paying for exclusive games most of those games were going to be on multiple platforms and now they are only on one. At least for the time being.
 
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JDFaulky said:
Mixer is a pretty cool platform and I like it a lot more than Twitch, but I don't visit it much since most of the heavy hitter streamers are on Twitch. Hopefully this will push more folks to Mixer.
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It's been slowly growing and honestly right now is the best time to start on the site on the sole fact that a lot of eyes will be on you now.
 
neatsaux

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this is wild. i've been watching view counts since yesterday and destiny had like 200 mixer views yesterday afternoon. now, it has like 3500 at 9:30am
 
Becks'

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Just went on Mixer for the first time and saw that they have a Reggie emote. No wonder why Ninja moved.

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Piccoro said:
You don't even need to install it.
You can watch it directly through any web browser: https://mixer.com/ninja
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There is 272k and a heart beside it: is that the people who already "subbed" his "channel"?
And wtf is going on with the chat? People just randomly post something there for what? You see a message for like two seconds and it's gone again.
Also I hope that Microsoft has enough bandwidth this time for the impact: the e3 conference didn't work for me via phone in Germany, had to use YouTube with bad image quality but at least it showed something.
Also also: Mixer did not work with the PS4 internal browser if anyone is curious.
 
Goldenroad

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I was just thinking. Remember when Ninja broke all kinds of records by having Drake stream with him? Which was also the first time that people like me (who don't follow streamers at all) ever heard of Ninja. What's the Mixer stunt going to be, along those lines? MS paying The Rock to come stream with Ninja? Who else is bigger than, or as big as Drake, that they could rope into helping Ninja break that Twitch record?
 
Dphex

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in a year from now: "Ninja retires as streamer and doesn´t need to work for the rest of his life"

but i´ll be honest, i would do the same, he already has a shit ton of money, so he grabs what he can while he is "hot", his book will also sell a shitton.
 
SuikerBrood

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c0de said:
There is 272k and a heart beside it: is that the people who already "subbed" his "channel"?
And wtf is going on with the chat? People just randomly post something there for what? You see a message for like two seconds and it's gone again.
Also I hope that Microsoft has enough bandwidth this time for the impact: the e3 conference didn't work for me via phone in Germany, had to use YouTube with bad image quality but at least it showed something.
Also also: Mixer did not work with the PS4 internal browser if anyone is curious.
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You've never seen a Twitch (or Mixer for that matter) chat of a popular streamer before? :P

The hearts are the followers. We can't really see how many subs he's got. But it was 100k yesterday.
 
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Bernard Coleslaw said:
Let's hope Ninja will use his new platform for positive change, like vocally denouncing sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, toxic masculinity, the alt-right etc etc. and heavily moderating/rebuking such views expressed by his audience in chat.

That's the least a cis white male with his reach should be doing.
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He refuses to stream with women because he doesn't want to be accused of cheating on his wife.
 

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Kthulhu

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Bernard Coleslaw said:
I know, which is why...



You should use this opportunity to watch a streamer who is actually interesting, has a personality and isn't a millionaire corporate shill with hundreds of thousands of fans without the backbone to be outspoken about social issues.
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As disappointing as it is that someone with such reach isn't gonna try to rock the boat, at least Ninja hopefully won't act like his YouTube equivalent.
 
Themaddestgamer

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Comment wasnt meant to sound derogatory so changed it anyway.

Corporations throw money around in different ways to achieve marketshare. They buy exclusive rights, etc..

This was new to me, hearing MS paid a popular streamer to come to their platform.
 
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SeanMN

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Wow, this is crazy! I thought maybe a few million, like 5 or so, but holy crap at around 50 million!


Could end up being a smart bet though. Already a lot more traffic and discussion on the topic of Mixer.
 
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