Shroud explains why he made the shock decision to move to Mixer Michael \u2018shroud\u2019 Grzesiek shocked the gaming world this week with the announcement he would be making the switch from Twitch to Mixer. Now he\u2019s lifted the lid on why he made the massive decision, and what\u2019s next for the streaming superstar. Shroud announced in a video on October 24 that he would be following in the footsteps of Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins, moving to Microsoft\u2019s streaming platform, but promised viewers it would be the \u201csame shroud\u201d just in a \u201cnew home.\u201d In his first broadcast on Mixer the same day, the former Counter-Strike star explained to his thousands of fans, many of whom waited hours and hours for Grzesiek to go live for the first time, why he thought the change was the right choice personally and professionally. \u201cI just thought it was the best move for my career, straight up,\u201d he admitted, before revealing that he had suffered through nerves ahead of his debut October 24 broadcast. \u201cI wasn\u2019t nervous about the move, but I was nervous about being here (Mixer) for the first day, for some reason. After the first day, I\u2019m chilling, but I just knew 100% this is it. This is my decision, this is the best decision, and I am doing it, you know what I\u2019m saying?\u201d Read more: Dr Disrespect roasts Shroud over Mixer move – He also addressed the fact that many had subscribed to him on Twitch ahead of the move, and pointed to Mixer\u2019s free subs as a potential solution to the problem. \u201cAt the end of the day, it\u2019s my move,\u201d he said to those asking about the subs. \u201cI had to take that into account. You get a free sub on Mixer, so you get your Twitch sub back really.\u201d Shroud, who seemed a little over-awed at how many people had tuned in to see him on his very first day, confirmed that more features would be appearing across his stream\u2019s channel. He confirmed his name would be set to \u2018shroud\u2019 instead of \u2018Shroud\u2019 soon enough, and promised more emotes, proper donation alerts, and his chat frame\u2019s return. \u201cAre you coming out with more emotes? Yeah, so it\u2019s the first day. Before this it\u2019s not like we could have talked about this before it happened, everything was on the down-low, so everything is a little bit delayed,\u201d he explained. \u201cMy chat room, for example, it will pop up whenever they\u2019re done, and my alerts are going to start popping up. So yes, I will take everyone\u2019s input, we\u2019ll add more emotes. I\u2019ve already had some ideas that I\u2019ve sent over, but we\u2019ll change some things. It\u2019s just going to take some time.\u201d Mixer\u2019s newest star also reminisced on the process that went behind making his 50-second clip, which also starred his partner Hannah Kennedy and his kitten, and has already raked in nearly 5 million views in just 10 hours. \u201cThere were \u2018actions,\u2019 there were cuts. It was really cool. They had a whole team, a whole team, to just build the tunnel in my living room, and assemble that tunnel,\u201d he said. Shroud revealed that most of the filming had happened in his home, where they assembled the dark-blue tunnel, and recorded him sitting in his gaming set-up ready to play. All in all, the shoot took just over 12 hours from start to finish, he said. \u201cThey even had a person that was on-deck ready because the cat was in the shot, the cat was part of the filming, and that person took all its medical information,\u201d he explained. \u201cI thought, \u201cThis is really cool, Hollywood baby!\u201d It was really cool.\u201d Shroud\u2019s first big stream wasn\u2019t without its hiccups either, though it was through no fault of the former Twitch star \u2014 the former CSGO pro was left staring at a Modern Warfare loading screen as the game\u2019s servers crumbled under community hype. It wasn\u2019t too long before he was in-game, however, showing off the full power of Mixer\u2019s high-resolution streams, as well as Infinity Ward\u2019s return to the Call of Duty series, and it seemed quickly seemed like his day-one nerves evaporated completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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