Good choice by them really to at least make changes, before too much damage was done. Now they only need to change the 'HD' subscription to $9,99 - $19,99 for a season and they'll be set.

Doso

Germany769 Posts

March 30 2009 15:42 GMT

#85

Can't use their "HD" stream as my internet connection is too slow for HD.
I am dowloading the VoDs anyways as their VoD server is very slow.
The premium service seems to be not working as intended at the moment.

Wouldn't mind paying for it, but i see no benefits of doing it. A warm fuzzy feeling isn't worth 35 Euros.

Puosu

6984 Posts

March 30 2009 15:57 GMT

#86

On March 30 2009 23:52 StarBrift wrote:
Confirmed that the vods are viewable now by everyone.

I guess they listened to the criticism. Kudos to GOM for that.

I think the only vods not available to non paying customers are the premium ones and I think the ones on the site right now are just "standard" quality.

theqat

United States2856 Posts

March 30 2009 16:43 GMT

#87

Now, if they could just get their shit together and let the people who DID pay actually save the VODs to disk like we're supposed to be able to . . .

StarBrift

Sweden1761 Posts

March 30 2009 16:55 GMT

#88

On March 31 2009 00:57 Puosu wrote:

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I think the only vods not available to non paying customers are the premium ones and I think the ones on the site right now are just "standard" quality.

4 or so hours ago no one could watch the vods if they hadn't paid the premium price. The vods were up and running but only for premium users. The rest of us had to wait three days for them to become available. They changed that though so we can now watch the vods without paying.

rockman255

Canada58 Posts

April 08 2009 22:35 GMT

#89

i paid the $50 and all i got is confirmation from paypal that i paid, nothing back from gom yet, cant find any support email address or any forum on gom site, been 24 hours now.

TheFoReveRwaR

United States10657 Posts

April 09 2009 01:55 GMT

#90

I really don't understand what the hell gom is thinking with this one.

It's like some corporate guy thought "How much can we charge them so that there's absolutely no chance any of them will buy it..then we don't have to deal with this shit anymore....50 dollars a month should do it (evil laughter)".

50 dollars a month is literally twice the amount you're going to pay a month at the VERY BEST porn sites in the whole world. And sorry GOM, quasi HD english vods can't compete with primal urges

Fire the guy who thought of this business model asap.

Edit- Looks like I'm too late lol..but still.

rockman255

Canada58 Posts

April 09 2009 03:47 GMT

#91

On April 09 2009 10:55 TheFoReveRwaR wrote:
I really don't understand what the hell gom is thinking with this one.

It's like some corporate guy thought "How much can we charge them so that there's absolutely no chance any of them will buy it..then we don't have to deal with this shit anymore....50 dollars a month should do it (evil laughter)".

50 dollars a month is literally twice the amount you're going to pay a month at the VERY BEST porn sites in the whole world. And sorry GOM, quasi HD english vods can't compete with primal urges

Fire the guy who thought of this business model asap.

Edit- Looks like I'm too late lol..but still.

thought it was $50 1 shot for entire season? which would be more like, $10/month?

i would think its nice to be able to support this sort of thing

rockman255

Canada58 Posts

April 09 2009 03:59 GMT

#92

i dont get you guys like, i guess relative to other internet services it is expensive? but $50? i've been in cab rides that cost that much. i am a broke college graduate, and i do recall spending double or triple that on nights at pubs.

NeverGG

United Kingdom5399 Posts

April 09 2009 04:02 GMT

#93

Seconded Kennigit on this one - it's behaviour like this (without warning or an attempt to get feedback to see if the target audience will recieve their new changes well.) that is pretty damaging for a company's reputation. Especially in a field like esports where there is only a limited amount of Korea-based leagues (and only one full time English commentated one.) so it's something of an attention grabber for the community. The issues might be fixed now/soon, but the very notion that GOM is trying to limit access for a price that is out of a lot of peoples' budgets/undesirable to certain consumers doesn't paint them in a good light right now.

Carnac

Germany / USA16648 Posts

April 09 2009 04:03 GMT

#94

On March 30 2009 23:11 Khenra wrote:

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Through Google I found 'Digital Rights Management'. So it's the whole deal with getting people to pay for their content..

As a fun fact, I googled 'DMR' first (misspelled from DRM) and I got 'Department of Mental Retardation' as a hit.. How fitting.

DRM doesn't mean getting people to pay for content. It's a way of controlling (restricting) how files can be used (digital restrictions management would be a better term -.-). The publisher can for example define how many times a file may be played or copied. Or he can set an expiration date, etc....

I suggest reading the following paragraphs, gives you a good idea of why DRM is horrible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management#Controversy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management#Obsolescence

rockman255

Canada58 Posts

April 13 2009 02:39 GMT

#95

did anyone besides me actually buy a ticket? because it shows up on my credit card as

7 Apr 2009 PAYPAL *GRETECHCORP 4029357733 ON 63.38

but i never got an email back, tried emailing gomsupport@gmail.com and gomsupport@gomlab.com but neither any reply in days..

just curious if anyone else got it to work, because apparently you have to confirm your email address, but i've tried every damn link on the website and if i cant get them to email me something, i certainly can't confirm my email.