Shroud reveals why he chose Twitch return over YouTube or Facebook Twitch: ShroudMichael \u2018shroud\u2019 Grzesiek has admitted he was always going to return to Twitch after Mixer\u2019s shock shutdown in July, in part due to the fact rival sites YouTube and Facebook just aren\u2019t big enough for all his \u201cbig plans.\u201d The retired CSGO pro originally exploded as one of the world\u2019s leading streamers on Twitch, before defecting to Microsoft-owned Mixer at the height of the platform exclusivity wars. He was one of many, including Ninja and FaZe Clan\u2019s Ewok. Mixer wasn\u2019t to last though. On June 22, it was announced the Twitch rival would be shutting doors permanently just a month later. The move left a host of stream-stars, including shroud, as the hottest free agents on the market. Only, shroud was never going to consider a move to YouTube or Facebook Gaming, the star revealed during his first stream back. He was always headed back to the website he built his fandom on. The Twitch move \u201cjust fit,\u201d he said. I\u2019m coming homehttps:\/\/t.co\/0nsby7MTHi pic.twitter.com\/6qO2E4m4jy \u2014 Michael Grzesiek (@shroud) August 11, 2020 \u201cI am streaming exclusively on Twitch.tv, nowhere else! I am, in fact, back,\u201d the former Mixer streamer said early on in his return broadcast. \u201cA lot of you are like, why Twitch? Obviously Twitch is the best, obviously, duh! Born and raised on this platform from the start. It\u2019s the biggest [streaming platform]. Definitely the biggest in gaming. It just feels right, you know? \u201cTwitch fits well with the big plans that I have in gaming. I might have some plans coming up soon\u2026 I\u2019m not going to tell you just yet. There\u2019s some cool things that I\u2019m brewing up though! A lot of secrets are in my head right now, a lot.\u201d Those plans won\u2019t come to fruition just yet though, Shroud revealed. The streamer wants to \u201clet the whole thing stabilize first\u201d before he unveils anything else \u201chuge\u201d in the near future. Read more: Ewok returns to Twitch after Mixer shutdown – There will be plenty more Shroud now he\u2019s back on Twitch though, the returned streamer promised. \u201cGet used to me being here. I\u2019m here for the long haul,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not going to burn myself out, but I\u2019ll be around a lot. I ain\u2019t going anywhere.\u201d Related segment begins at 4:08 in the video below. Shroud\u2019s declaration that Twitch is the \u201cbiggest on the market\u201d is a direct echo of the reason Pokimane gave when she inked her own exclusive deal in March. The star \u2014 who is currently on a month-long hiatus \u2014 admitted she even took \u201cless money\u201d to stay with the platform. \u201cThere\u2019s just not much recognition on other platforms,\u201d Pokimane said at the time. \u201cYou can be on another site with 30k viewers, but people still won\u2019t see you as a top streamer because [everyone] exclusively looks at the Twitch space.\u201d For now, it looks like Twitch may have won the first battle of the exclusivity wars. YouTube is certainly still in the fight, however, especially considering Dr Disrespect has shifted there following his shock Twitch ban back in June. Other huge Mixer names like Gothalion and Ewok have already inked new deals after their platform collapsed too. The former jumped shipped to Facebook Gaming nearly immediately, while Ewok rejoined Twitch on August 12. One streamer question mark still remains too; former Mixer star Ninja has yet to settle on new digs post-shutdown. He has streamed on both Twitch and YouTube recently, but hasn\u2019t locked himself into anything just yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shroud reveals why he chose Twitch return over YouTube or Facebook Twitch: ShroudMichael \u2018shroud\u2019 Grzesiek has admitted he was always going to return to Twitch after Mixer\u2019s shock shutdown in July, in part due to the fact rival sites YouTube and Facebook just aren\u2019t big enough for all his \u201cbig plans.\u201d The retired CSGO pro […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}