One of the first people to sign exclusivity deals with the platform, Siefe Awade, recently switched to Facebook's streaming service. Kotaku recently released a report detailing the stories of several smaller streamers and their issues with Mixer. Related: FaZe EwOk Signs With Mixer, Dealing Another Major Blow to Twitch Ninja's absence could prove very dire for the future of the platform. Twitch on the other hand, had already lost a massive amount of streamers prior to Ninja leaving. Ninja seemed to have no problems bouncing back from this, as he regained over one million followers in his first week - though part of that was due to the free subscription promotion Mixer ran to celebrate his addition to the platform. This was a huge move for the popular streamer considering he had been working on Twitch for several years and had amassed over 14 million followers.
Richard Blevins (Ninja) was reportedly given 20 to 30 million dollars to make the switch to Mixer.
Popular streamers seem to be getting impressive deals to leave behind their former platforms, but what happens to the less famous streamers? Several of them it seems are getting ignored by Mixer, or not being given what they were initially promised.
Big name streamers like Ninja have left Twitch for Microsoft's Mixer because of the large amounts of money that Mixer has been able to offer.
