EPTSaying Goodbye to ASL English - Page 9
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atrox_
United Kingdom1711 Posts
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Gak2
Canada418 Posts
You can say that it makes sense from a business perspective but i’d argue that that’s short sighted logic. To use a business analogy, does it make sense for Google, which owns the Android OS, to release their apps like Gmail and Chrome on iPhones? Same arguments apply here - on the surface the answer is no because why would they encourage competing platforms? But the reality is simple - there is a huge number of iPhone users and nothing Google does with Android will change that, so they have to embrace that reality. AfreecaTV will not beat Twitch in the non-korean market. Period. Even if their product miraculously became on par with twitch, the first mover advantage is way too big. Not to mention they are competing with one of the biggest companies in the world that owns a mind blowing amount of the internet’s infrastructure. So why not embrace that? What’s the harm in even trying? They had 10 seasons to try and monetize and grow their foreign audience but they did absolutely nothing. And where is blizzard in all of this? Last I heard they were supporting ASL monetarily, they even supported the foreign BSL tournament. If I’m wrong and they are still charging money for licensing a starcraft 1 tournament that’s the biggest joke I’ve heard all year. This is basically gonna kill foreign interest in korean brood war. I’ve watched nearly every ASL game, and almost no ASTL games because of the lack of english casts. I’m sure there are many like me. | ||
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BinarySecond
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MM-yingxiong
Serbia26 Posts
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kogeT
Poland2041 Posts
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sixfour
England11061 Posts
On March 03 2021 12:44 Ikirouta wrote: Oh come on, this is just dumb. I remember having to use VLC to watch a laggy stream of some korean pointing a camera at his TV just to be able to watch the game live in 144p. Boycott is not the answer. Its literally the opposite, if there were 250k foreigners watching the games, they would obviously put more effort into the international broadcast. If you truly love BW you will watch the games and support whatever tournament, doesn't matter who is casting. It's this. It sucks for Artosis and Tasteless on a personal level, but: a) the way to show to Afreeca that there is foreign interest is not to reduce foreign viewership b) without Afreeca there wouldn't be an ASL in the first place, and it's pretty doubtful that we have a Korean BW scene to the extent we have right now c) this is not the end of the world, if you're interested in BW you'll either watch in Korean, or through someone else restreaming in English. This is still way, way better from the Justin.tv days or earlier like the guy in the quote mentions, where if you got a stream at all, it was Korean, and if you wanted English you waited for Moletrap or someone to dub it afterwards. | ||
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Neneu
Norway492 Posts
Honestly guys? I first heard about something happening with ASL through reading Ret's tweet, and like a lot of you, he was acting like the tournament was cancelled, come on now Technically for me as a viewer, it is basically cancelled. It's not strange why people in my situation are upset. | ||
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JustPassingBy
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M3t4PhYzX
Poland4235 Posts
Absolutely awful. I will watch the korean cast, but.. yeah.. idk why would you do this? I thought it got good numbers? Damn shame. | ||
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Szinkler
Hungary394 Posts
 I'd be willing to pay to watch the cast and I think many others. I wonder if there is any chance that if community collects money we could change afreeca's mind. | ||
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Timebon3s
Norway764 Posts
This is so stupid we could easily pay for this if they put up some paywall or whatever | ||
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bovienchien
Vietnam1152 Posts
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Qikz
United Kingdom12025 Posts
There's no revenue for them to be gained by spending money for foreign casters. I'm sure there's plenty of people who would like to cast, you just need to cast on Afreeca. Heck, I'm not a twitch partner and I'd probably cast if I wasn't working. | ||
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heynes
Germany201 Posts
Thank you for all the fun times and good memories @ Tastosis. | ||
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psyCrowe
Scotland197 Posts
The alternative imo is to create such a massive bottleneck during their live cast that it crashes the stream and they have no choice but to improve infrastructure to foreign community! | ||
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KameZerg
Sweden1767 Posts
On March 03 2021 11:11 AfreecaTVGlobal wrote: Dear Fans, It’s unfortunate for us today to announce that the ASL will no longer be supported in English. It has been the most exciting adventure for us to share the ASL with fans all over the world. We thank you for all of your love and support over the years. The ASL will continue and can be watched at afreecatv.com/afstar1. Communities and English casters are still allowed, and encouraged, to broadcast the ASL to their own fans through our clean feed on their AfreecaTV Channels. If you are interested, please contact us here! Thank you, AfreecaTV I have a request, is it possible to please make a ASL stream with no commentary just game sound, thanks. | ||
Ziggy
South Korea2106 Posts
On March 03 2021 17:53 kogeT wrote: Would be amazing to understand a wider context behind that decision, e.g is it just the cost of hiring them, or no revenue from ads running on foreign stream, or...? AfreecaTV, please give us some insights, I am sure that foreigners scene can fix that easily. same reason no respectable teams have a bw roster m o n e y | ||
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InmateNextdoor
43 Posts
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fazek42
Hungary438 Posts
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InmateNextdoor
43 Posts
https://afreecatvglobal.wordpress.com/contact/ | ||
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