Service Closes Soon, Streamer Mixer Prefers Twitch Over Facebook Gaming
Despite a very promising start against Twitch, Mixer last week was announced by Microsoft that it would be closing operations soon. Instead, they will work closely with Facebook Gaming. Big names like Tyler “Ninja” Blevins and Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek signed to Mixer are now free agents and will most likely be back streaming on Twitch.
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The big question is what will happen to the small streamers on the platform? Many streamers on Mixer chose the Microsoft-owned service because Twitch is considered to have a very large community toxic, but now that their service of choice will stop operating next month, they prefer to return to Twitch instead of the Facebook Gaming option offered by Microsoft.
When you go back to the main Mixer page, almost the majority of them start promoting their Twitch page, but none of them promote the gaming Facebook page. When asked why, the majority gave the same answer – privacy concerns.
According to Kotaku, Mixer streamers such as Foxyzilla and ShadowKal refuse to switch to Facebook because of their need to enter real information, at least their real names. For them, using an alias or nickname make them calmer. Using a real name as a streamer invites a lot of potential privacy concerns. Not only that, they also feel more comfortable talking to their audience using aliases rather than their real names.
“Many of them said they refused to switch to Facebook. Almost all of them made the transition to Twitch. The main concern with Facebook is that many people don’t want to be forced to use their real names and personal profiles to talk to other people on streams. After talking to my community, I was given the choice of starting afresh on Facebook with few people following me or transitioning to Twitch with everyone agreeing to switch there,” ShadowKal told Kotaku.
Twitch is temporarily still the most popular streaming website today, making it difficult for many streamers to deny its existence. The service has been known to have a community that toxic in the eyes of many streamers, however, they have no more options if they are to continue their success. Facebook Gaming has the potential to become a streaming service competitor from Twitch, but it seems that this will be difficult to happen with the service having to have its own profile containing their information.
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