Oh wow that's ridiculous. No-one is going to pay $50 to watch this.
They are just going to watch it on Youtube like me.

You guys should do some research because I'm pretty sure you've got it terribly wrong charging $50.
For a start you lose all donations, and then 97%+ of your customer base won't pay.

If the price was $8 you need 20%+ of your users to pay and you end up with more money overall. If Steam is anything to go by your sales would rocket.
http://www.edge-online.com/features/valve-are-games-too-expensive

floor exercise

Canada5847 Posts

May 30 2009 19:28 GMT

#324

I don't know why but I find the price of their premium service insulting. I wouldn't consider spending that for a service as limited as theirs. It's like they don't want to foster any good will with the foreign fans, they just want to rake in as much money in as short time as they can. The price is just so ridiculous for what they offer. Is there a premium service for Korean viewers? I can't imagine that there is, and if there is I doubt it's anywhere near as expensive.

When they announced this tournament I was like "well atleast some of the money is going to go into the cash prize for Valor" it didn't cross my mind that they would attempt to use this tournament to push their premium service in such an aggressive manner.

I would donate $50 to TL in a second, but I'm quickly losing what little faith I had in gom. It can either be greed or stupidity on their part that makes them think anything they offer is worth $50 to me. I know it's a dead horse by now but this tournament has just reminded me how little I understand Gom

Danka

Peru1018 Posts

June 01 2009 06:25 GMT

#325

i dont get it.. are they really asking for premium service membership (50$) to watch the tastelss/sdm casted vods? I'm sure I'm mistaken and this is not true.

If it is though, its stupid imo. I don't believe people would actually pay for this, and like the above poster points out, it creates negative feelings towards gom

Lipton

United States168 Posts

June 01 2009 06:48 GMT

#326

Starting June 5th, match series from the Valor Tournament Round of 16 will be broadcasted on GOMTV.net in premium quality for premium subscribers. Following a wait period standard quality VODs will also appear on GOMTVas well as Starfeeder.

Round of 16 is best of 3, starting map: Outsider

Loser chooses next map, map selection:
Destination, Neo Medusa, Colosseum II, Heartbreak Ridge, Outsider

The first four matches to be cast are:

Idra vs Tarson
Mondragon vs LzGaMer
DiNot vs Strelok
BRAT_OK vs CrayOn

PhilGood2DaY

Germany7424 Posts

June 01 2009 08:19 GMT

#327

so the normal user cant watch this for free ?

or only later ( would be fine, too.. ) ?

iNcontroL

USA29055 Posts

June 01 2009 08:24 GMT

#328

terrible fucking idea.. holy shit. 50$? tl.net coulda asked for half of that for TSL (a tourney that is 10x bigger) and THEY would get no prescribers.. what the fuck is gom thinking?

Lipton

United States168 Posts

June 01 2009 08:31 GMT

#329

@MaGic~PhiL and @iNcontroL

Yes the regular quality VODs will be free to watch just like the GOM season 3

Klive5ive

United Kingdom6056 Posts

June 01 2009 11:07 GMT

#330

On June 01 2009 17:31 Lipton wrote:
@MaGic~PhiL and @iNcontroL

Yes the regular quality VODs will be free to watch just like the GOM season 3

Wow, I'm struggling to hold back on the insults.

Obviously they know you can watch the VoDs, they're not stupid?
But people wanna watch it Live, that's the whole point. JUST LIKE GOM SEASON 3.

Klive5ive

United Kingdom6056 Posts

June 01 2009 11:10 GMT

#331

Edit: probably the wrong place for a rant, needless to say... not happy.

Shikyo

Finland33997 Posts

June 01 2009 11:19 GMT

#332

Aren't they casting replays anyway? Live would be cool, though, yes. It doesn't matter that much in the end, except that proving that GOMTV are a bunch of greedy assholes.

EDIT: Maybe that's a little harsh, but looking at some tournaments like TSL(with like 5 times the prize), or even SC2GG(Staff pays for prizes, free commentary), this just seems... yeah.

kiendudu

Netherlands273 Posts

June 01 2009 11:22 GMT

#333

I think the quality of freeview is ok, no need to buy premier account. however i will be happy to donate $5 to have premier account for a month

Pyrthas

United States3196 Posts

June 01 2009 14:55 GMT

#334

Yeah, I understand that gom needs to make money, but this is a stupid way to do it.

Lipton

United States168 Posts

June 01 2009 15:03 GMT

#335

On June 01 2009 20:07 Klive5ive wrote:

Show nested quote +

Wow, I'm struggling to hold back on the insults.

Obviously they know you can watch the VoDs, they're not stupid?
But people wanna watch it Live, that's the whole point. JUST LIKE GOM SEASON 3.

I understand the frustration a lot of gamers are feeling about this, this brings up a great topic for a new Blog post hmmz...

Due to timezones, I'm unable to really watch a lot of the "Live" castings on GOMTV, but as a premium subscriber I still will download the 2nd game in 'high quality' in a series while watching the first game in regular quality. By the time the first game is done I'll have the premium video downloaded, that's how I use GOM myself anyways...

I think with StarCraft 2, premium real HD quality will be an even much more better buy.

FaCE_1

Canada6172 Posts

June 01 2009 16:33 GMT

#336

I got No problems waiting 3 day.

Chill

Calgary25980 Posts

June 01 2009 16:39 GMT

#337

On June 01 2009 17:24 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
terrible fucking idea.. holy shit. 50$? tl.net coulda asked for half of that for TSL (a tourney that is 10x bigger) and THEY would get no prescribers.. what the fuck is gom thinking?

Unfortunately I feel the same way. GOM just seems to be a money vacuum lately and have definately alienated me as a fan with their ask for donations, and now these premium shenanigans.

alexpnd

Canada1857 Posts

June 01 2009 16:42 GMT

#338

The delay period is really vain imo. If people are willing to pay they will be willing to pay I doubt it has any sort of productive repercussion for GOM by annoying its majority viewers.