# Game and In-Game Sales Discontinued - and so **URL:** \ **Category:** Extensions\ **Created:** [November 19, 2018, 6:28pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/game-and-in-game-sales-discontinued-and-so/18734 "2018-11-19T18:28:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![BarryCarlyon](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/barrycarlyon/32/253_2.png) [@BarryCarlyon](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/BarryCarlyon)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 9:59pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/game-and-in-game-sales-discontinued-and-so/18734/4 "2018-11-19T21:59:20Z")
Also as posted here: > [@Game and In-game Sales Discontinued](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/game-and-in-game-sales-discontinued/18661): > > Effective November 27, 2018 we are discontinuing the sale of games and in-game items via the “Buy Now” buttons shown on a streamer’s channel page. All game publishers participating in this program will be notified. Why are we making this change? While our goal was to provide viewers a way to easily support streamers by purchasing games and in-game items directly from Twitch, we found that this feature as implemented did not provide most streamers with significant additional revenue. We are disc… > While our goal was to provide viewers a way to easily support streamers by purchasing games and in-game items directly from Twitch, we found that this feature as implemented did not provide most streamers with significant additional revenue. We are discontinuing this feature to invest in other ways to help viewers obtain games and in-game items directly on Twitch while supporting streamers – including through Extensions 6 on Twitch like Amazon Blacksmith 10, which allows viewers to support streamers through purchases of games and other item Most of it is moving to Blacksmith --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/game-and-in-game-sales-discontinued-and-so/18734)._