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B-royal
Profile Joined May 2015
Belgium1330 Posts
July 12 2017 01:29 GMT
#201
What are you guys complaining about? All this money will probably be invested into stacraft remastered tournaments /sarcasm
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K.H.J
Profile Blog Joined January 2017
Korea (South)769 Posts
July 12 2017 01:35 GMT
#202
On July 12 2017 10:29 B-royal wrote:
What are you guys complaining about? All this money will probably be invested into stacraft remastered tournaments /sarcasm


Yeah, i hope so.

Blizzard has much power than pc bangs, so we cant touch it.

Also, we cant blame blizzard. It is just company which want to generate more profit.

So only one thing we can anticipate is more support in league.

OGN starleague, SSL classic S2, ASL S4... and so on..
Trozz
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada3457 Posts
July 12 2017 01:55 GMT
#203
wtf
An hourly rate is too much.
Bangs won't stand for this.
A build is not a guess, an estimation or a hunch, a feeling, or a foolish intuition. A build is a dependable, unwavering, unarguably accurate, portrayer of your ambition.
BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
July 12 2017 01:56 GMT
#204
This move by Blizzard is questionable, really questionable...
Former BW EiC"Watch Bakemonogatari or I will kill you." -Toad, April 18th, 2017
opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
July 12 2017 02:57 GMT
#205
I don't really understand how this works legally. Whichever government set up laws so that the PC bangs ownerz can't just install buy a copy for each PC and install it deserve to be thrown out of the window. Seriously, this is not the time to shit on Blizzard, they are a corporation which is almost obligated to use a way to make money when such gets so openly offered, this is the time to realize how stupid IP laws are all around the world.
"Jeez, that's far from ideal." - Serral, the king of mild trashtalk
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r.Evo
Profile Joined August 2006
Germany14081 Posts
July 12 2017 04:29 GMT
#206
On July 12 2017 10:35 K.H.J wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 12 2017 10:29 B-royal wrote:
What are you guys complaining about? All this money will probably be invested into stacraft remastered tournaments /sarcasm


Yeah, i hope so.

Blizzard has much power than pc bangs, so we cant touch it.

Also, we cant blame blizzard. It is just company which want to generate more profit.

So only one thing we can anticipate is more support in league.

OGN starleague, SSL classic S2, ASL S4... and so on..

If their way of "generating profit" leads to PC bangs not going along with it then they might have to kiss quite a bit of profit goodbye.
"We don't make mistakes here, we call it happy little accidents." ~Bob Ross
merz
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Sweden2760 Posts
July 12 2017 06:42 GMT
#207
Probably a licensing issue? I'm guessing Blizzards EULA doesn't allow an unlimited amount of different users on each copy (license), hence they are forcing PC Bangs to pay an additional fee if they are to allow unlimited players to use their game. (This is pretty much what the Music industry does).

The PC Bangs could cover this fee by charging 1.3 USD per hour instead (which is still a pretty reasonable price) but yeah, that's a 30 % price increase by the hour. Ouch.
Winners never quit, quitters never win.
Deleted User 26513
Profile Joined February 2007
2376 Posts
July 12 2017 06:44 GMT
#208
On July 12 2017 11:57 opisska wrote:
I don't really understand how this works legally. Whichever government set up laws so that the PC bangs ownerz can't just install buy a copy for each PC and install it deserve to be thrown out of the window. Seriously, this is not the time to shit on Blizzard, they are a corporation which is almost obligated to use a way to make money when such gets so openly offered, this is the time to realize how stupid IP laws are all around the world.

It's simple these institutions are generating profit off of the product that Blizzard created, so Blizzard demands a portion of that profit. The same way a composer is receiving money when his songs are being played on the radio/TV/Club. Saying " Whichever government set up laws so that the PC bangs ownerz can't just install buy a copy for each PC and install it " is like saying "Why can't radio owners buy an album of X artist and just play it"... It doesn't work that way.
endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
July 12 2017 07:08 GMT
#209
On July 12 2017 15:44 Pr0wler wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 12 2017 11:57 opisska wrote:
I don't really understand how this works legally. Whichever government set up laws so that the PC bangs ownerz can't just install buy a copy for each PC and install it deserve to be thrown out of the window. Seriously, this is not the time to shit on Blizzard, they are a corporation which is almost obligated to use a way to make money when such gets so openly offered, this is the time to realize how stupid IP laws are all around the world.

It's simple these institutions are generating profit off of the product that Blizzard created, so Blizzard demands a portion of that profit. The same way a composer is receiving money when his songs are being played on the radio/TV/Club. Saying " Whiczhever government set up laws so that the PC bangs ownerz can't just install buy a copy for each PC and install it " is like saying "Why can't radio owners buy an album of X artist and just play it"... It doesn't work that way.


Except that:
- they already make the PC bangs pay for a fixed fee package
- 22% is a gigantic fee
- if PC bangs are outraged by this, it certainly isn't a common practice.
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opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
July 12 2017 07:18 GMT
#210
On July 12 2017 15:44 Pr0wler wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 12 2017 11:57 opisska wrote:
I don't really understand how this works legally. Whichever government set up laws so that the PC bangs ownerz can't just install buy a copy for each PC and install it deserve to be thrown out of the window. Seriously, this is not the time to shit on Blizzard, they are a corporation which is almost obligated to use a way to make money when such gets so openly offered, this is the time to realize how stupid IP laws are all around the world.

It's simple these institutions are generating profit off of the product that Blizzard created, so Blizzard demands a portion of that profit. The same way a composer is receiving money when his songs are being played on the radio/TV/Club. Saying " Whichever government set up laws so that the PC bangs ownerz can't just install buy a copy for each PC and install it " is like saying "Why can't radio owners buy an album of X artist and just play it"... It doesn't work that way.


Indeed it doesn't, that's true. It's also monstrously absurd, but people got so accustomed to it that they will jump up and defend it. This special status of anything that can be conceivably labelled as "creative work" needs to end as soon as possible. I can choose from an enormous gamut of products that I can buy, for a one-off fee, and generate profit from them, as long as they are physical items, so why suddenly it "makes sense" that it is so different for "intelectual property".

TL;DR: if you country has a pirate party, vote for it
"Jeez, that's far from ideal." - Serral, the king of mild trashtalk
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Deleted User 26513
Profile Joined February 2007
2376 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-07-12 09:00:01
July 12 2017 07:26 GMT
#211
On July 12 2017 16:08 endy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 12 2017 15:44 Pr0wler wrote:
On July 12 2017 11:57 opisska wrote:
I don't really understand how this works legally. Whichever government set up laws so that the PC bangs ownerz can't just install buy a copy for each PC and install it deserve to be thrown out of the window. Seriously, this is not the time to shit on Blizzard, they are a corporation which is almost obligated to use a way to make money when such gets so openly offered, this is the time to realize how stupid IP laws are all around the world.

It's simple these institutions are generating profit off of the product that Blizzard created, so Blizzard demands a portion of that profit. The same way a composer is receiving money when his songs are being played on the radio/TV/Club. Saying " Whiczhever government set up laws so that the PC bangs ownerz can't just install buy a copy for each PC and install it " is like saying "Why can't radio owners buy an album of X artist and just play it"... It doesn't work that way.


Except that:
- they already make the PC bangs pay for a fixed fee package
- 22% is a gigantic fee
- if PC bangs are outraged by this, it certainly isn't a common practice.

The amount of the fee is a product of negotiations, I don't think that we know enough to make a decision, whether 22% is gigantic or not. For me it's just an arbitrary number. The "PC bangs" are leveraging their position to get better deal. This is why they are "outraged"(To be fair, Blizzard is doing the same.)... These are all common practices during negotiations.

On July 12 2017 16:18 opisska wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 12 2017 15:44 Pr0wler wrote:
On July 12 2017 11:57 opisska wrote:
I don't really understand how this works legally. Whichever government set up laws so that the PC bangs ownerz can't just install buy a copy for each PC and install it deserve to be thrown out of the window. Seriously, this is not the time to shit on Blizzard, they are a corporation which is almost obligated to use a way to make money when such gets so openly offered, this is the time to realize how stupid IP laws are all around the world.

It's simple these institutions are generating profit off of the product that Blizzard created, so Blizzard demands a portion of that profit. The same way a composer is receiving money when his songs are being played on the radio/TV/Club. Saying " Whichever government set up laws so that the PC bangs ownerz can't just install buy a copy for each PC and install it " is like saying "Why can't radio owners buy an album of X artist and just play it"... It doesn't work that way.


Indeed it doesn't, that's true. It's also monstrously absurd, but people got so accustomed to it that they will jump up and defend it. This special status of anything that can be conceivably labelled as "creative work" needs to end as soon as possible. I can choose from an enormous gamut of products that I can buy, for a one-off fee, and generate profit from them, as long as they are physical items, so why suddenly it "makes sense" that it is so different for "intelectual property".

TL;DR: if you country has a pirate party, vote for it


Umm, I don't agree with that so I won't vote for any such party
Ej_
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
47656 Posts
July 12 2017 07:36 GMT
#212
Haha, wouldn't be Blizzard if they didn't jump onto the opportunity to milk BW all the way up until it dies and they move onto HotS/OW/WoW.
"Technically the dictionary has zero authority on the meaning or words" - Rodya
onlystar
Profile Joined March 2015
United States971 Posts
July 12 2017 08:16 GMT
#213
Greedy move fromblizzard asking hourly rages from pc bangs, this shows what they are capable of
F*ck you blizzard
iPlaY.NettleS
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Australia4462 Posts
July 12 2017 08:16 GMT
#214
A lot of PC Bangs will just stick with 1.18
If koreans play on fish theres no need for blizzard matchmaking
The move will backfire on Blizz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7PvoI6gvQs
Bakuryu
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Germany1065 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-07-12 09:07:22
July 12 2017 09:04 GMT
#215
On July 12 2017 15:44 Pr0wler wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 12 2017 11:57 opisska wrote:
I don't really understand how this works legally. Whichever government set up laws so that the PC bangs ownerz can't just install buy a copy for each PC and install it deserve to be thrown out of the window. Seriously, this is not the time to shit on Blizzard, they are a corporation which is almost obligated to use a way to make money when such gets so openly offered, this is the time to realize how stupid IP laws are all around the world.

It's simple these institutions are generating profit off of the product that Blizzard created, so Blizzard demands a portion of that profit. The same way a composer is receiving money when his songs are being played on the radio/TV/Club. Saying " Whichever government set up laws so that the PC bangs ownerz can't just install buy a copy for each PC and install it " is like saying "Why can't radio owners buy an album of X artist and just play it"... It doesn't work that way.


so why arent streamers, who generate donations by playing a Blizzard product, are not getting a Blizzard email telling them to give them 22% of their income or else getting sued? this sounds like the youtube let`s play - monetization incident.
although i dont know Blizzard EULA good enough to know if that is legal, or Blizzard is just too nice by still allowing us to do it.
739
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Bearded Elder29905 Posts
July 12 2017 09:06 GMT
#216
I feel like I'm an old man.

I remember in the old, good BW days I used to play 1v1/2v2 only.

Now I've installed SC:BW again, waiting for Remastered and keep playing 3v3/4v4 games with friends on Hunters only :D
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GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51712 Posts
July 12 2017 09:28 GMT
#217
This drama reeks of Steam/Valve trying to enter the PC bang market back around the turn of the century.
Guess how that turned out.
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K.H.J
Profile Blog Joined January 2017
Korea (South)769 Posts
July 12 2017 09:31 GMT
#218
Umm... How about other countries' PC Bang?

Is there same policy?
739
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Bearded Elder29905 Posts
July 12 2017 09:32 GMT
#219
Doubt there are more countries with PC Bang.

PC Bangs in Poland died like 10 years ago or something.
WriterSalty oldboy that loves memes | One and only back-to-back Liquibet Winner
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51712 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-07-12 09:46:46
July 12 2017 09:34 GMT
#220
Waxangel clarified the article for me.



So TL:DR - from what I understand, this isn't something specific with the release of SC:R but rather a trend consistent with Blizzard games at PC bangs in general. I guess the Korean PC Bang Association figured this was a perfect time to push their agenda once again.
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