win gift card Mixer users get Xbox Gift Card credit for Embers: Here’s how much. Credit will be given to users of the Mixer game streaming platform after it closes its doors this summer and transitions to Facebook Gaming. The amount of credit a person receives will depend entirely on how much credit they have on the Mixer platform or if they’ve subscribed to a Mixer streamer in the month of June, 2020. If you are a Mixer streamer, you’re in a different boat entirely. Mixer Subscription end-times are near. Mixer has a “subscription” system that has users pay approximately $5 a month to subscribe. You can “gift” a person a subscription or redeem subscription codes, too. One of the ways in which you’ll be eligible to get Xbox Gift Card credit as Mixer shuts down is having an active channel subscription. If you have an active Mixer channel subscription on June 30, 2020, you will get a “promotional Xbox Gift Card credit” of approximately $5. That’s if you’re the subscriber – and this amount does not stack up. You could be subscribing to 100x streamers on Mixer and you’d still get just $5, total. If you’re subscribing to a streamer on Mixer with a “Mixer Pro” subscription, you’ll get a gift card of approximately $15. If you were a streamer on Mixer, you’ll get your money too. “After July 22, 2020, we will pay all earned amounts according to the Mixer Content Monetization Terms & Conditions.” Time limit. There are limits to these credits – they’re not like normal Xbox credits. They’re not just cards you can turn around and sell on eBay. They’re applied to your Microsoft account and they’ve got a time limit. They’ll be applied to your Microsoft account by July 31, 2020, and they must be spend by September 30, 2020. What about my Embers? Microsoft partnered with Facebook and, in ending Mixer, is encouraging users of Mixer to just… go to Facebook Gaming. If you’re a Mixer streamer now, you’ll (likely) be fast-tracked in the process to becoming a streamer on Facebook Gaming. If you’re a viewer you’ll just… have to figure that all out for yourself, basically. Microsoft is giving you the time now to spend up all your “Embers” as soon as you can, otherwise they… turn to charcoal, sorta – here’s how that works: Microsoft suggested that “Any unspent Embers will be converted to a promotional Xbox Gift Card credit of similar value and automatically applied to the Microsoft account associated with your Mixer account.” This converted Embers-to-Xbox Credit is subject to the same expiration situation as the other credit mentioned above. You’ll get the credit in your Microsoft account by July 31, 2020, and you’ll need to spend it before September 30, 2020, or it’ll evaporate. You cannot purchase Mixer Embers after June 30, 2020, and any unspent Sparks will be “forfeited” after July 22, 2020. It’s unclear at this moment why Microsoft uses the word “forfeited” if they actually intend to convert unused Sparks into Xbox credit – we shall see! Xbox will shut down Mixer in a new deal with Facebook Gaming. Mixer is no more. Xbox is shutting down its in-house live-streaming service this summer and transitioning its entire platform to Facebook Gaming, in an attempt to rapidly expand its audience base. All Mixer services will go dark on July 22nd, and its sites and apps will redirect to Facebook Gaming. After July 22nd, native streaming from the will only be possible via , Mixer’s largest competitor. “It became clear that the time needed to grow our own live-streaming community to scale was out of measure with the vision and experiences we want to deliver to gamers now,” Xbox head Phil Spencer said in an Xbox Wire post. Mixer Partners that make the leap to Facebook Gaming will receive similar status there, and Microsoft says existing agreements will be followed as closely as possible by the new management. Streamers participating in Mixer’s monetization program will be eligible for -- but not automatically enrolled in -- the Facebook Gaming Level Up Program, which unlocks the ability to earn money through Stars and Fan Subscriptions. Mixer viewers with leftover Embers, the service's in-house monetary system, will receive a digital Xbox gift card worth a “similar value.” This converted credit should appear in Xbox accounts by July 31st, and it will expire on September 30th. Today’s news came as a surprise to the streaming community, especially considering all the work (and money) that Microsoft has been funneling into Mixer. Late last year, Microsoft dropped millions of dollars to secure top personalities like Soleil "Faze Ewok" Wheeler, Cory "King Gothalion" Michael, Michael "Shroud" Grzesiek, and the biggest catch, Tyler "Ninja" Blevins. When Mixer signed Ninja, he had 14.7 million followers on Twitch. As of today, Ninja has just over 3 million followers on Mixer. It was reported at the time that Microsoft spent $20 million to $30 million to lure Ninja away from Twitch. With today’s news, Ninja, Shroud and the other Mixer-exclusive streamers are ostensibly free to re-join Twitch or any other platform. Multiple people involved in the esports and streaming industries are reporting that Ninja and Shroud, Mixer’s two biggest names, turned down multimillion-dollar deals with Facebook Gaming amid Mixer’s closure. Esports consultant Rod Breslau said Facebook offered both streamers “almost double” the amount of their original contracts, but they opted for a buy-out from Mixer instead. “Ninja and Shroud are now free agents,” he said. Sources: Facebook offered an insane offer at almost double for the original Mixer contracts of Ninja and Shroud but Loaded/Ninja/Shroud said no and forced Mixer to buy them out. Ninja made. $30M from Mixer, and Shroud made. Ninja and Shroud are now free agents — Rod "4475 SR & Immortal peak" Breslau (@Slasher) June 22, 2020. Hours after the Mixer news dropped, Shroud said on Twitter that he’s still figuring out his next move. Similarly, Ninja tweeted, “I love my community and what we built together on Mixer. I have some decisions to make and will be thinking about you all as I make them.” Mixer enjoyed plenty of attention following its streamer-signing spree in late 2019, though it’s been unable to truly compete with Twitch, Amazon’s live-video service. In the first quarter of this year, Mixer was the No. 2 service in terms of hours streamed, and it had more streamers than YouTube and Facebook Gaming combined, according to Streamlabs. However, in terms of total hours watched, Mixer fell far behind its counterparts: Twitch clocked 3.1 billion hours, YouTube Gaming hit 1 billion, Facebook Gaming reached 553.8 million, and Mixer eked out 81.4 million. Mixer was able to sign streamers, but it wasn’t able to turn those deals into eyeballs -- which is what advertisers want to see. Mixer’s “hours watched” numbers have been continually falling since their height in 2019, according to Streamlabs. Facebook Gaming, on the other hand, has been reeling in more and more viewers, and its “hours watched” metric grew 236 percent from Q1 2019 to Q1 2020. Xbox is preparing to launch the Xbox Series this fall, and it’s attempting to build a solid foundation for the next generation of console gaming. Mixer was clearly a weak point. By offloading the upkeep of an entire streaming platform, Microsoft is free to focus on services like Project xCloud, the backbone of Xbox’s cloud-gaming service. “Gaming is already part of our social fabric, and Project xCloud can take you from discussing a new game -- whether it’s a funny in-game moment posted by a friend, an ad, or an ongoing stream -- directly to playing it,” Spencer wrote. “In the future, through the power of Xbox Live and Project xCloud, we see there being just one click between ‘I’m watching’ and ‘I’m playing.’” This sounds similar to plans that Google has laid out for Stadia, its rival cloud-gaming system. As the next generation of console gaming begins, Microsoft is already competing with Google, Amazon, , Nintendo and dozens of other huge companies -- but at least in terms of live- streaming, it now has Facebook on its side. xbox/ Gift card. Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. How satisfied are you with this reply? 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If its another seller you should contact them to get a refund, out of curiosity what seller did you buy from? Microsoft Kills Mixer, Will Transition Users to Facebook Gaming. Microsoft announced today that it would kill its Mixer streaming service and transition users to Facebook Gaming. The announcement both is and isn’t a surprise. On the one hand, it’s been rumored that Microsoft might make a move with Mixer and shake things up in the process. On the other, Microsoft has spent a tremendous amount of time and money building Mixer in the first place — and integrating it as the automatic streaming solution for the Xbox One. When Microsoft bought Mixer (formerly Beam) in 2016, it explicitly set about integrating streaming as a push-button feature. It’s still possible to configure other alternatives, like Twitch, but there’s currently no way to duplicate the exact functionality Microsoft offers you with Mixer integration. If you’ve purchased Embers or Sparks, you can award them to your favorite Mixers through the month of June (they’ll receive double credit), but after June 30 you won’t be able to buy them. You’ll get an Xbox Gift Card of “similar value,” automatically applied to your Microsoft account, but only have until September 30 to spend the money. This is an odd deal. Facebook Gaming has no method of directly streaming from consoles. Microsoft refers to plans to bring that feature out in the future but had nothing ready for this announcement. This about-face also comes less than a year after Microsoft announced it had signed Tyler “Ninja” Blevins to a multi-year Mixer contract — and Blevins wasn’t the only streamer who moved to the platform. We didn't know this was coming. We found out right before you. — Tara Voelker Wake (@LadieAuPair) June 22, 2020. The sudden announcement caught even Mixer staff off-guard. Tera Wake, who worked at Mixer and was chairing an accessibility committee that had “barely gotten started,” announced that staff had found out about the project shutdown right before the announcement was made public. Mixer has had some noted morale problems, as reported by OnMSFT, but there was still no sign the service was being canceled. Polygon reports that in exchange, Microsoft is getting something it wants — Project xCloud support on Facebook Gaming. Again, this is something of an odd deal. Why would Microsoft need to tap Facebook’s gaming leverage when it has so many methods of reaching its own customers directly? My guess is that this is about extending xCloud to a group of users who might not encounter the service another way. Microsoft doesn’t need Facebook to reach Xbox gamers, but it could use Facebook’s social reach to try and appeal to people who don’t fit the standard core gaming demographic. That makes sense, as far as it goes, but Microsoft’s entire business approach to gaming is that it attempts to cater to what I’d call the “core gaming demographic.” The idea of reaching people over Facebook with the appeal of games they might not have considered seems like the sort of thing that would play more to Nintendo’s strengths, with family-friendly titles like Animal Crossing (if, of course, Nintendo was interested in that kind of service). Microsoft is spinning this idea as a way to help its Mixers find larger audiences. Mixer, unlike Facebook, was known for robust moderation tools and cultivating non-toxic fan communities. Facebook is, shall we say, not known for these things. It’s not clear if anyone actually benefits from this. Mixer isn’t a big enough platform to make Facebook Gaming look appealing. Facebook Gaming still has the word “Facebook” in it, which makes it a non-starter. Microsoft gets to put xCloud on Facebook Gaming, but whether it’ll actually provide any kind of meaningful market for the product is another question entirely. Oh — and it’s not clear how content creators will themselves be impacted, though Microsoft has made some mouth noises about trying to help them establish themselves on equivalent terms with Zuck and Co. As of now, it’s likely the Xbox Series X will either feature streaming integration with a service like Twitch or will simply allow users to set their own service without a preset default. The feature has become too important to imagine consoles leaving it off altogether. Microsoft's Mixer gives loyal users free digital gifts. Mixer caused a bit of confusion earlier this week when it began upgrading members to its paid Pro membership without their consent or knowledge but the staff at Mixer have now explained exactly what it was all about in a new blog post on the official Mixer blog. As was implied by the numerous replies to concerned users on Twitter, the Pro memberships were given to those that had been users before the name change (from Beam) and had user levels above 50. These power users also received 50,000 sparks (digital currency which can be used to interact with streams), a special gold badge for their profile, and one free subscription which they can gift to any Beam Partner. Beam users who hadn't made it to Level 50 but had surpassed Level 10 received the free subscription and gold badge. Mixer is Microsoft's rival solution to Amazon's Twitch streaming service and had its name changed from Beam last month due to the company not having the rights to use that brand in all regions. Do you use Mixer? Let us know why or why not in the comments below.