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The Verge's senior editor: "Ninja was paid ~US$ 50 million+ to play video games exclusively on Mixer"
- Thread starter Proven
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If someone's making this much money, it's because someones making even more off them. That's why he got his check. That's why you get yours. It's why I get mine.
It's not literally, you play games, here's 50 mil.
He got paid a million from EA to stream Apex on launch. The entire page was sponsored streams, and that game also exploded out of the gate with that basically being the marketing and it seems to have worked. The way streamers/streaming can impact this medium is still pretty unexplored, but reach and viewership is pretty much undeniable.
I had to double read this lol and I clicked it and yeah he on got people watching him forreal lol
What is is about streamers and YouTubers that just pulls this vitriolic bile out of poster? It not just an Era occurrence, and not just tied to big streamers. I remember a thread back on Neogaf back before Twitch had "talk show" and "just chatting" tags were some people streamed themselves eating dinner against a green screen, and people were livid that it wasn't gaming content. I think the dude proposed or something and people were still having none of it.
Whenever a video content creators come up as a topic for discussion, people just turn into the vilest of old men yelling at clouds.
Whenever a video content creators come up as a topic for discussion, people just turn into the vilest of old men yelling at clouds.
I think this is a part of it that not many people are realizing. He's probably going to stream Halo Infinite more than anything else when it comes out. I wouldn't be surprised if he does a whole Halo campaign run before release as well.
Yes, and one of the reasons those market rates in the sport are large is because of the limited ability to play and expensive medical treatments of the players. To say that the money isn't based at all in any way on the length of their ability to work the career isn't looking at the whole picture.
Bitterness and jealousy. Probably the same way their dads and granddads talked about ball players' salaries.
Welp, was showing my friend him on mixer went from 50k viewers to 75k and got 11 kills in a victory, gotta admit, he put on a good show.
As a big ninja (not hater, but dislike-r), I give him props
As a big ninja (not hater, but dislike-r), I give him props
is that actually a reason for that epic spend? i am both inspired and depressed if true.
The $50m from Microsoft is one thing. That's how they've decided to spend their money to build their platform. It's the thought of kids still donating money to him that freaks me out.
Sounds reasonable. When Conan moved to TBS almost a decade ago he was getting 10 million a year with around a million viewers tuning in. He gets a little more than that each year now with a third of the tv audience plus all his social media following.
A lot of Mixer, xCloud and Game Pass shoutouts on stream every hour.
"Check out Halo Infinite on Game Pass or xCloud now!" Use the links on screen.
They'll probably have him run special promos for Game Pass using a code or something. $5 for your first month, cancel any time!
Imagine his 70,000+ viewers all signed up for it. He always did something similar with Twitch Prime.
That is a huge amount of money! Good for him!
They're already doing that in preparation for next gen.
They're already doing that in preparation for next gen.
Its not. It may be something some individual players take into account when they negotiate their own contracts, but as a whole, the collective bargaining agreements and the piece of the pie the players get is solely based on revenue. As revenue goes up, so do player salaries. It's got nothing to do with how long they play. In fact, of the three major american sports by revenue, the NBA, NFL and MLB, the NFL iirc has the lowest revenue split in favor of the players despite those players having a much shorter average career.
There are 67K users watching Ninja on Mixer right now, so maybe MS knows something about this whole thing and figured out that the figure was paid was worth it.
And oh, the salt at his acquisition $ in this thread is amusing. If you all think he is a talentless wonk, go and start streaming. Now, personally I find it ridiculous that streaming and youtube personalities are so highly paid (alongside esports players), but that's just my early 40s age talking :).
And oh, the salt at his acquisition $ in this thread is amusing. If you all think he is a talentless wonk, go and start streaming. Now, personally I find it ridiculous that streaming and youtube personalities are so highly paid (alongside esports players), but that's just my early 40s age talking :).
No, it's based on owners, broadcasters, and sports management making as much money as they can from the fans.
Is it just me or was the fact Microsoft had to pay a guy millions of dollars to exclusively stream on their platform which he would otherwise do on his own for far less money speak volumes of the popularity crisis of Mixer? Well, it could also speak volumes of Blevins' personality...
I think most people don't know his background. I've seen post about being "Forced to play Halo in the future". He was making money playing professional Halo 3 in 2009. Years before he even started streaming.
I'm more interested in what the fuck SE/CD/Eidos spent $135 million dollars on making Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
Ninja right now has damn hear 80k concurrent viewers, on Mixer. Long term this will be a good play for MS. We'll see how things settle after a month, but we'll also see who else moves over.
Also how the FUCK can you be upset about any of this? It's straight jealousy at this point. Has to be. For anyone saying he has no talent. Get on twitch right now. Get anywhere near the viewers he does, get anywhere near the reach he does and still be good at the game.
He's set for life no matter what at this point. He won't always be the best but he just secured his future. Can't hate on that.
Also how the FUCK can you be upset about any of this? It's straight jealousy at this point. Has to be. For anyone saying he has no talent. Get on twitch right now. Get anywhere near the viewers he does, get anywhere near the reach he does and still be good at the game.
He's set for life no matter what at this point. He won't always be the best but he just secured his future. Can't hate on that.
For whom? Ninja gets paid and MS has all the eyes on their streaming platform that will pay dividends long term. Sounds like a win win. Yall did this same song and dance when yall thought they overpaid for Minecraft.
I will say this. Mixer will have to update a few of their guidelines if they get a bit more mainstream.