I don't have 65M, but I certainly wouldn't stop working if I'm in my 30's. Perhaps that's just me.
Same reason Sports stars go into broadcasting and coaching.
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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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I don't have 65M, but I certainly wouldn't stop working if I'm in my 30's. Perhaps that's just me.
Same reason Sports stars go into broadcasting and coaching.
And the reason so many child movie stars end up with substance abuse problems.
I've just looked it up.
Microsoft bought Minecraft at around 50 million copies sold. It's now triple that at 176 million copies sold, and has surpassed Tetris to become the best-selling game of all time.
Unless I'm wrong, I don't think your claim holds up.
As an aside, I wonder if Microsoft would make a theoretical Minecraft 2 exclusive to Xbox and PC? There's a helluva lot of argument for and against them doing that.
Never going to happen. Way too much to be made on Mobile alone.
Why should the team owners get all the profits? Need the players to make your profits and in order to do that you have to pay them.
They shouldn't? The "stars" should earn up to a certain amount and the rest should be split up between the other employees and taxes.
This is just insane to me.
Microsoft just paid my guy a chunk of a AAA game's budget to stream himself playing video games.
Congrats to Ninja.
Microsoft just paid my guy a chunk of a AAA game's budget to stream himself playing video games.
Congrats to Ninja.
Jez has no fucking clue. I would take Warren over Jez any day of the week.
In marketing and PR terms, it could be pretty cheap in the longrun. Still way too early to write the deal off or crown it as the deal of the century.
Exactly. If all it does is grow the platform and draw more new-Ninja people to it, then it was a good deal for Ninja and MS.
Gaming is a big deal. And, if he goes back to his Halo roots, then it could be a wise marketing investment (although £50m is too much to be true, unless it is over a period of years).
Also, even if it doesn't work out: What else were Mixer going to do. Buying out smaller streamers and original content creation haven't worked out so far, going for a big shot seems logical.
Good for Ninja.
Unfortunately I'm in my 30s so it's way too late for me to be successful at anything beyond a management role, and I'll just have to remain jealous at young people like Ninja making money from a hobby that I do for free and have never felt I should be paid for but somehow someone of a younger generation getting paid for it makes me salty.
Unfortunately I'm in my 30s so it's way too late for me to be successful at anything beyond a management role, and I'll just have to remain jealous at young people like Ninja making money from a hobby that I do for free and have never felt I should be paid for but somehow someone of a younger generation getting paid for it makes me salty.
My guess is that it's a mix of the two, and is a guaranteed income of $50mil. So Mixer topping up his streaming income over a period of years to hit that number.
Between that and the $100K salary isn't rich thread, you can tell some take others income as a personal insult. I need to need to stop jumping in those arguments and just watch the salt flow.
It'd almost definitely be 50m over x amount of years, my baseless guess is 5. He made millions last year, so makes sense he'd negotiate to be making millions every year.
It will get Ninja's fan to watch him on Mixer yeah, but I'm not sure it will spark an exodus of popular streamers from Twitch, which I'm assuming is the long term goal.
If I'm a big streamer and seeing this, I wouldn't touch the platform unless MS dumped a bag of money at my feet too, though there's pretty much zero chance any of the big streamers would go over without a deal anyway. More for the smaller streamers thinking hopefully I'll get big over there instead, because doing so on Twitch nowadays is extremely hard, hell, pretty much impossible.
I was actually also going to say but held off, that Microoft may have put themselves in an Epic Games Store situation, where they have to keep paying names to come over as a way to build the platform.
Agreed. Unless MS drops more cash on those bigger streamers, it will be a hard sell for them to move over. For smaller wannabe Ninja Streamers, Mixer currently has way less competition than Twitch does. Some people might make their name getting in at ground level, since its almost impossible to make a dent in Twitch with so many people doing exactly the same thing.
Ahh very true, I completely forgot about that.
I was thinking more along the lines of "everywhere but Sony platforms", but I reckon they'd be leaving a whole of money on the table if they did that as well, and that doesn't seem to be how Microsoft wants to operate.
Either way, this thread is about Mixer, it was just a side thought!
I actually stealth edited in a response to this, but MS are probably looking at pulling some of the smaller streamers over as they probably have a better shot at getting viewers on Mixer than the extremely competitive Twitch. But yeah, I'd be shocked if any of the already successful streamers jumped ship without getting a deal first, just be extremely stupid really.
The thing is, money changes you...
A kid in high school says he will be happy with $100 allowance a week
A kid out of college says he will be happy landing a $60k job
A 35 yr old making $75k says he will be happy with his mortgage paid off
A guy with $500k in the bank and house paid off says he will be happy with $2M in the bank to retire with...
... once he has $2M, he ponders buying his dream car (Lambo/Ferrari) that he has wanted as a child..
etc
That would be the smart move, start grabbing lower tier streamers with dedicated fanbases.
I have to be honest with you. This is that "mo money, mo problems" talk, that us broke people consider straight up bullshit.
Because it is straight up bullshit. Gotta call it out when you see it.
Money changes weak people with materialistic ambitions. But in reality money is just a platform for these soul suckers to realize their ambitions. It doesn't change them.
Even if it was a few hundred thousand dollars, I'm very jealous.
lol
lol
Not really that insane if you think about how much companies like Microsoft spend in marketing campaigns, nowadays an influencer like Ninja gives you way more and better visibility than standard marketing, and they're willing to pay for that
Exact figures still haven't been leaked, but Slasher did confirm on the Rajj Royale that Twitch offered him a 3 yr/$25 million contract to stay with Twitch. His team felt slighted and he turned it down.
She won't be smiling for long once she realizes he won't play games with her.