EPTWCS AM Lack of Viewers - Page 3
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r00ty
Germany1070 Posts
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clipzu
Germany156 Posts
and the pauses between matches just felt so long for me, the downtime was unbearable and the casters (axeltoss axslav ) somewhat bored me ( which could be because of the late time, but still they didnt fell as entertaining as the eu casters ) | ||
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StarVe
Germany13591 Posts
There wasn't enough to remind me that this wasn't a replay cast or at least something bigger than an MLG qualifier stream. I watched it, but I can't say I felt thoroughly entertained. I just wanted to know what it was going to be like, so I sat through it, and the lack of any kind of audience probably greatly contributed to that feeling. I stuck around because I had nothing better to do, not because anything compelled me to stick around. MLG got pretty unlucky with the players in the Ro8/Ro4, you gotta give them that, and I don't think they did a subpar job or anything. I just felt like they were doing what they have always been doing, and while that is certainly adequate, I think this won't necessarily allow them to retain their viewer numbers if they stick with that formula. They got dealt a shitty hand, but they might need to look around to the other regions and take notes and try to implement new things, that simply change up stuff they haven't changed in a long time. Even if it's just changing things for the sake of it, people need to get a fresh perspective on MLG shows. I hope their WCS budget allows them to do something along those lines. | ||
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c0ldfusion
United States8293 Posts
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Shellshock
United States97276 Posts
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StarStruck
25339 Posts
How did MLG get unlucky with the players? If you ask me who would advance from that player pool it would be pretty much these guys qualifying. | ||
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Holo82
Austria107 Posts
Another factor, is that most Europeans cannot watch WCS America, it starts at midnight in central europe. | ||
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StarVe
Germany13591 Posts
On June 06 2013 01:10 StarStruck wrote: If I lived in Germany and I wouldn't stay up to watch it regardless of the players. Lots of people know how much I enjoy watching HerO play, but I definitely wouldn't stay up to watch him play in this one. I can only seeing myself stay up really late for a couple of Leagues/Tournaments now from my end. Which would include PL, some GSTL matches and GSL Korea. If I lived in Korea I might stay up a MLG lan tournament (Columbus; Anaheim; Dallas, Providence) as long as there were no delays *cough, cough*. In reality there aren't many tournaments in the Western Hemisphere that I could see myself staying up to watch. Especially when you have rebroadcasts running with some organizers like IPL and the NASL. I would have no reason to watch it live. How did MLG get unlucky with the players? If you ask me who would advance from that player pool it would be pretty much these guys qualifying. Less people care about the players. They're somewhat decent, but alive or Revival have much fewer fans than others. Imagine the Ro4 being HerO, Polt, Scarlett and viOlet. That would probably have brought out more people. Hell, even NesTea or someone like that making it far. | ||
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Kevin_Sorbo
Canada3217 Posts
The casters were half bad imo. Axslav? the one with the beard is pretty good imo. the other one is bad... Yes the downtime was annoying and the fact that the finals didnt have very good players played a role too. I watched GSL and WCS eu finals even though im in the eastern timezone ( NYC time ) but couldnt give more fucks than 0 for WCS AM because players didnt really appeal to me. | ||
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tokinho
United States792 Posts
would prefer to see NASL casters. Gretorp or bitterdam. I put up with it for the MVP matches mostly because he's very friendly to people. | ||
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hyshes
Belgium428 Posts
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EpiK
Korea (South)5757 Posts
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Micro_Jackson
Germany2002 Posts
On June 06 2013 01:10 StarStruck wrote: If I lived in Germany and I wouldn't stay up to watch it regardless of the players. Lots of people know how much I enjoy watching HerO play, but I definitely wouldn't stay up to watch him play in this one. I can only seeing myself stay up really late for a couple of Leagues/Tournaments now from my end. Which would include PL, some GSTL matches and GSL Korea. If I lived in Korea I might stay up a MLG lan tournament (Columbus; Anaheim; Dallas, Providence) as long as there were no delays *cough, cough*. In reality there aren't many tournaments in the Western Hemisphere that I could see myself staying up to watch. Especially when you have rebroadcasts running with some organizers like IPL and the NASL. I would have no reason to watch it live. How did MLG get unlucky with the players? If you ask me who would advance from that player pool it would be pretty much these guys qualifying. I think the slow pace with lots of pauses hurts the fans living in different timezones a lot. I see me stay up late for GSL not only for the higher level of play but for the better pace of the show. Even the finals were at a nice pace or the bo5 semi´s are ok here are the players and the sponsors but now we focus on the games. Watching MLG events in general and WCS NA feels more like the super bowl. There are commercials. And waiting. Interrupted by gameplay. | ||
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sitromit
7051 Posts
The production and atmosphere was obviously not great but overall the players themselves weren't the best and that was the main reason it wasn't too interesting for me. | ||
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Schelim
Austria11528 Posts
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Butterednuts
United States859 Posts
I can watch other streams just fine, but the WCS AM stream always lags. Plain and simple. | ||
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namste
Finland2292 Posts
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Adebisi
Canada1637 Posts
MLG has put on live events which has had Korean versus Korean finals before and the viewer numbers have been much better at those tournaments. I think when WCS AM has Korean domination it is very different than when MLG Anaheim has Korean domination. WCS AM felt like GSL Lite, not WCS AM. The biggest problem to me is there is no X factor that draws people in, everything was basically just passable, its hard to have any BIG complaints, but nothing stood out as raising the bar. Level of gameplay was good but not world class, entertainment value was moderate, venue was average at best, broadcast talent pull/popularity moderate at best as well, pre tournament hype felt very lacking. Generally we see tournaments really blow it out of the park in at least one of these areas, generally in the past MLG has done this with big name players, in a way they used to bring in Tastosis and every big name caster they could, they replaced that with KeSPA players, and it worked, but here there was no X factor that made anyone really think "Damn, I need to watch this". I had it on and watched it all, but I never felt pulled in to the show and tournament whatsoever. | ||
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Lunchador
United States776 Posts
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Kitai
United States880 Posts
However, I really do appreciate the fact that it brought out some pretty entertaining games and that it was all free. It just wasn't enough for me to rearrange my schedule to watch it live. | ||
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