EPTThe biggest broadcaster buying up the biggest team contractor?
And somehow this is "good"? Uhm... Strange world.
Twitch acquires Good Game / EG - Page 10
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Velr
Switzerland10884 Posts
The biggest broadcaster buying up the biggest team contractor? And somehow this is "good"? Uhm... Strange world. | ||
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Arevall
Sweden1133 Posts
On December 10 2014 18:54 Velr wrote: More monopolisation in E-Sports? The biggest broadcaster buying up the biggest team contractor? And somehow this is "good"? Uhm... Strange world. My thought exactly. This seems like bad news to me, at least I can't understand how it would be good for any 3rd party. | ||
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Furikawari
France2522 Posts
On December 10 2014 18:27 G3CKO wrote: Wait SC2 is still alive and people still pay attention to it? That's what I found the most amazing in this thread, how SC2 fans think everything turn around SC2... On topic, I really dunno what to think about this. Can we now say that Team Tinker is officially Team Twitch? Disasterino... | ||
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zdfgucker
China594 Posts
As for Amazon not making money - it's because they reinvest huge portions of their profit, much more than most other companies do (see: Google and Apple). | ||
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maartendq
Belgium3115 Posts
On December 10 2014 17:53 govie wrote: I think Incontrols statement shows why twitch bought goodgame, i believe that EG and Alliance are not that important in the whole deal. Esports doesnt exist without sponsorships and GGA is the best at getting them. Streamingplatforms are popping up everywhere at the moment, but twitch just crushed the competition by buying GGA. They can now secure topquality streams through the sponsorshipcontracts. Because without sponsors less high quality playerstreams & no tournaments, etcetc This looks like a defensive aquisition so that twitch can protect the marketshare it allready has. Good luck finding topquality streams as a up and comming streamingplatform, in the western scene they probably wont find to many. Valve might give them a run for their money if they get serious about their streaming platform. Valve has way deeper pockets and depends less on sponsors for financing. In fact, the amount of commercials I have to sit through just to watch some starcraft is sometimes driving me insane. I am absolutely not interested in buying a so-called gaming main board, so-called gaming ram, a so-called gaming monitor or overly expensive gaming peripherals. | ||
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ahswtini
Northern Ireland22212 Posts
On December 10 2014 17:24 Madars wrote: I think most things that matter can't be bought with money. Like time or freedom. thats because u spend time to acquire money, time is the ultimate currency because its the only thing we can have a limited amount of | ||
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Jarree
Finland1004 Posts
That being said, it's awesome that EG players are getting a chunk of the money. Even the potentially soon to be gone sc2 team will benefit from it. No doubt EG is and has been the best organization from player's point of view. | ||
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Dysisa
Sweden2376 Posts
On December 10 2014 18:54 Velr wrote: More monopolisation in E-Sports? The biggest broadcaster buying up the biggest team contractor? And somehow this is "good"? Uhm... Strange world. Finally some voice of reason in here. I was starting to think I had died and gone to hell from seeing all these people excited by these news. | ||
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Erasme
Bahamas15899 Posts
On December 10 2014 17:24 Madars wrote: I think most things that matter can't be bought with money. Like time or freedom. everytime you go to work, your time is bought money can buy pretty much everything and you'd be dumb to believe something else | ||
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govie
9334 Posts
On December 10 2014 20:19 Jarree wrote: With games like cs:go bringing 300k+ viewers on twitch (dreamhack), it makes sense for geoff to get in to other games (casting / hosting what ever). SC2 is doing very poorly in terms of growth compared to other games. It's almost a miracle EG hasn't dropped their sc2 yet, they must really like the game / fans etc revolving around it. But with Twitch in the picture, I think viewership becomes a more dominant figure in the equation. I don't think LOTV will change anything in the long term. That being said, it's awesome that EG players are getting a chunk of the money. Even the potentially soon to be gone sc2 team will benefit from it. No doubt EG is and has been the best organization from player's point of view. Look at blizzard games for jeoff, I think that new dotalike game will be something he could do. Many gaming personalities mostly stick the their brands. | ||
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Chillidawg
Norway50 Posts
On December 10 2014 20:19 Jarree wrote: With games like cs:go bringing 300k+ viewers on twitch (dreamhack), it makes sense for geoff to get in to other games (casting / hosting what ever). SC2 is doing very poorly in terms of growth compared to other games. It's almost a miracle EG hasn't dropped their sc2 yet, they must really like the game / fans etc revolving around it. But with Twitch in the picture, I think viewership becomes a more dominant figure in the equation. I don't think LOTV will change anything in the long term. That being said, it's awesome that EG players are getting a chunk of the money. Even the potentially soon to be gone sc2 team will benefit from it. No doubt EG is and has been the best organization from player's point of view. EG has a pretty good and well known Dota 2 team you know. | ||
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Qikz
United Kingdom12041 Posts
On December 10 2014 17:24 Madars wrote: I think most things that matter can't be bought with money. Like time or freedom. As much as I agree with you about time (even then that's debatable, as once you're rich you don't slave away 10 hours a day for someone who doesn't care about you so you can get money to afford to buy a house from someone else who doesn't care about you in order to not die), look at all the rich people who get off scott free for doing bad things purely because they have money. Money can buy you infinite amounts of freedom if you have enough. | ||
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FeyFey
Germany10114 Posts
On December 10 2014 20:33 Dysisa wrote: Finally some voice of reason in here. I was starting to think I had died and gone to hell from seeing all these people excited by these news. Shouldn't be a surprise that people are happy about it if they are fans of the side that gets the benefits from something like this. | ||
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Jarree
Finland1004 Posts
On December 10 2014 21:25 Chillidawg wrote: EG has a pretty good and well known Dota 2 team you know. Yeah sure. I was just making a point about new games that have overtaken sc2, and in an industry like this you seek growth in most cases. Mobas cs:go heartstone etc are growing while sc2 is declining. I didn't mean geoff is going to cast cs:go, but I'd be surprised if EG (or is it called what now?) doesn't get in to it also at some point. And it would make sense to drop sc2 at the same time. | ||
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Dil3mma
China33 Posts
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Rikudou
Germany151 Posts
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45925 Posts
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johnbongham
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Paragleiber
413 Posts
On December 10 2014 06:29 Qikz wrote: As someone who doesn't like the contracts twitch give out which locks people into their service I'm not seeing this as a good thing. Wow, I never knew that twitch has shitty contracts like that. That is very disappointing. I wouldn't have expected that from them. :/ | ||
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Invoker
Belgium686 Posts
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