I august kunne vi rapportere at Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins forlot Twitch for å satse på Mixer. Nå gjør enda en stjerne det samme, nemlig Michael 'Shroud' Grzesiek.
Shroud har sagt dette viaTwitter. Han er mest kjent for å streame Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Apex Legends og til og med Fortnite. Vil du følge ham i fremtiden, så må du det via hans Mixer-kanal, hvor han allerede er i full gang.
Ninja har også kommentert saken og skriver at dette er et "seriously a massive move for the platform and the streaming industry. Excited to watch more of his streams!"
Ninjas kone og manager Jessica Blevins fortalte hvorfor de valgte å bytte format i et intervju hos Business Insider og sa at "money was the last thing on our mind".
Hun fortsatte:
"It's like, they don't even know what went on behind the scenes and how hard we tried to make that deal work — and then how amazing Microsoft was for us.
"With the wording of how that contract was going, he wouldn't have been able to grow his brand much outside of gaming. There were already conflicts with his current sponsors and resigning with that platform. And we were like, 'Straight up, guys, we've worked so, so hard to grow the Ninja brand to license things and get his name out there. We can't go backwards with it.' So that's where that deal just really started not making sense."
Shroud selv kommenterer også saken overfor CNN:
"The move to Mixer allows me to focus on what I love: gaming. It allows me to focus on livestreaming for my fans and directly engage with more interactivity and variety."