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On March 07 2015 01:51 beesinyoface wrote:
Why have this when the game isn't even in public beta yet? New teams/whatever have roughly 20 days to 'train' and be able to compete against people who have been in the game since it's early development. Although I guess when you have a braindead game such as HoTS it doesn't require too much prep, still seems like a weird choice to me.
I'm sure the many viewers of ESPN 3 are going to be thrilled to watch it.
Tournaments I think are very effective marketing, Not many people are going to talk about the ad you ran on television, but if you spend your thousands and thousands of dollars on tournaments, then the playerbase are going to talk it up, and that hubbub is going to get interest when you have threads on TL, reddit, talking about and mainstream journalist sites/ esports journalist sites talking about every match. It makes sense to me why tournaments are going to be a huge part of marketing budget for upcoming games.
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So Blizzard wants to show HotS on live TV but does not do something similar for SC2?!
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On March 07 2015 02:27 lestye wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2015 01:51 beesinyoface wrote:
Why have this when the game isn't even in public beta yet? New teams/whatever have roughly 20 days to 'train' and be able to compete against people who have been in the game since it's early development. Although I guess when you have a braindead game such as HoTS it doesn't require too much prep, still seems like a weird choice to me.
I'm sure the many viewers of ESPN 3 are going to be thrilled to watch it. Tournaments I think are very effective marketing, Not many people are going to talk about the ad you ran on television, but if you spend your thousands and thousands of dollars on tournaments, then the playerbase are going to talk it up, and that hubbub is going to get interest when you have threads on TL, reddit, talking about and mainstream journalist sites/ esports journalist sites talking about every match. It makes sense to me why tournaments are going to be a huge part of marketing budget for upcoming games.
Don't get me wrong - I think tournaments are great, I just think that if they pushed this game into open beta and gave the general population more than 2 weeks to compete it'd make for a greater impact but what do I know.
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On March 07 2015 02:29 -Archangel- wrote:
So Blizzard wants to show HotS on live TV but does not do something similar for SC2?!
heroes is clearly a superior alternative to broadcasted starcraft 2 and broodwar.
yes sarcasm
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On March 07 2015 02:39 Endymion wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2015 02:29 -Archangel- wrote:
So Blizzard wants to show HotS on live TV but does not do something similar for SC2?! heroes is clearly a superior alternative to broadcasted starcraft 2 and broodwar. yes sarcasm
Technically, it is.
MOBA/ARTS market is far bigger than RTS market and has a lot more potential. Good business invests in the market and product with more potential to generate more revenues to them. Nothing is wrong with that.
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On March 07 2015 02:57 Veldril wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2015 02:39 Endymion wrote:On March 07 2015 02:29 -Archangel- wrote:
So Blizzard wants to show HotS on live TV but does not do something similar for SC2?! heroes is clearly a superior alternative to broadcasted starcraft 2 and broodwar. yes sarcasm Technically, it is. MOBA/ARTS market is far bigger than RTS market and has a lot more potential. Good business invests in the market and product with more potential to generate more revenues to them. Nothing is wrong with that.
Ummmm Dota 2 and LOL are far bigger than other RTS games. The other dota clones don't come anywhere near those two, like five years ago making a 500k tournament was a huge deal and brought you massive coverage. Now... meh. A company like Blizzard should be pushing boundaries and innovating instead of playing a half-ass kind of catch-up.
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I'm actually kind of unsure how blizz came to this prize-pool figure since they are paying out between $125,000 and $375,000. And thats only if ur tuition is at least $25,000 per year, which is not a universal thing.
Then there's $25,000 fantasy prizing and i guess the last $50,000 is in "gaming pc's"? seems like very big a stretch lol.
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On March 07 2015 03:58 Sn0_Man wrote:
I'm actually kind of unsure how blizz came to this prize-pool figure since they are paying out between $125,000 and $375,000. And thats only if ur tuition is at least $25,000 per year, which is not a universal thing.
Then there's $25,000 fantasy prizing and i guess the last $50,000 is in "gaming pc's"? seems like very big a stretch lol.
PCs + acessories for 20 people can eat up a good portion of 50k depending on what they go for
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It'll be sponsored shit from like ibp or w/e and cost them half the "value"
if they end up paying more than half the $450,000 towards just prizing i'd be surprised.
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well, sure, but that allows them to add the full value to the prize pool. Like if they add Bnet money or Hots hats. It's not that hard to inflate it by a few thousand dollars by doing that kind of stuff.
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i guess i'm just too used to tournaments actually giving players the actual money value that they announce don't mind me then
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One can only guess as to the types of hats we'll find
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On March 07 2015 03:31 zeo wrote:
Now... meh. A company like Blizzard should be pushing boundaries and innovating instead of playing a half-ass kind of catch-up.
Mind me, but Blizzard has never been about innovation, but polishing gameplay aspects of already existent genres.
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On March 07 2015 01:55 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:
Will pros go back to being in college in order to get it paid for? Will the college students that win this quit their education to pursue being pros?
Lol, my thoughts exactly. This is amazing though, makes me want to install Heroes now :O
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Awesome news
I might even try to get a team together :D
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On March 07 2015 02:29 -Archangel- wrote:
So Blizzard wants to show HotS on live TV but does not do something similar for SC2?!
I have a hunch that it's probably going to be on the ESPN3 online streaming thing like what they did last Blizzcon with WCS and other stuff.
Is Idra still going to school and playing Heroes?
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So this is restricted to U.S. and CA players? 
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I need to go to college now ASAP! Does this count for online colleges? :-p
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Dang, my time's already passed, but I'll be rootin' for ye Trojans! 
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On March 07 2015 02:20 Beirut wrote:
Wow they must expect to make a LOT of money from this game.
Seeing the pricing model I can totally understand why. This game will be a gold mine for them.
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