Will you pay for GOM's GSL stream? - Page 5
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							eyeEX
							
							
						 
						
						United States64 Posts
						 
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							HeaDStrong
							
							
						 
						
						Scotland785 Posts
						 
					On September 02 2010 06:36 etheovermind wrote: so you would watch a pirated stream and hurt a fragile sport that your supposed to be a fan of (because your on this website). nice going. how do you expect them to offer so much money as a prize? by not paying for this your hurting the starcraft 2 community. "fragile sport", "supposed to be" and "because your on this website" as you put it being fan of esports is some annoying chore... and i'm here mainly for the korean broodwar leagues, so in all honesty i probably wouldn't watch it for free, but i still find it an outrage that the poor company that is blizzard is making people pay to watch sc2.... when blizzard made an obvious step to create a sc2 proscene, i assumed the business model would be provide some entertainment to a wide audience and make esports attractive so people would buy the game and participate or be progamer "wannabes".... i thought that the esports would be more like a interactive advert to popularize their product and maybe leech some sponsor money. i, however, never thought that they would try to milk the spectators... that is just greedy and short-sighted... EDIT: also a small reminder: your != you are, not being picky but as a non native english speaker it irritates me because i find it very hard to read and have to re-read it couple of times before i get it. ![]()  | ||
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							Grobyc
							
							
						 
						
						Canada18410 Posts
						 
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						Greece538 Posts
						 
					how much u have to pay for basic needs Having to pay another $hitload to have quality internet - least in my country- all other expenses like gym , going out , rapidshare etc or having a high maintenance girlfriend - for some - having to pay to watch some e sport tourneys as well is ridiculus Maybe in ideally build society whereas wealth flurish and every1 was happy with their ferraris leaving in a hawain Suburb , in that case yea i would pay but not now  | ||
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							HazMat
							
							
						 
						
						United States17077 Posts
						 
					ughhhhhh  | ||
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							Fdragon
							
							
						 
						
						United States96 Posts
						 
					Why pay for something that should be free? Edit: Also those saying we who want our free streams are "hurting" the SC2 community are stupid (Nicely put) as tournies should get there money from sponsor companies and live arena spectators much like the NFL/NHL/And other Pro Sports Leagues.  | ||
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							Kishkumen
							
							
						 
						
						United States650 Posts
						 
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							HeaDStrong
							
							
						 
						
						Scotland785 Posts
						 
					On September 02 2010 07:09 Kishkumen wrote: Nope. Too poor to spend money to watch other people play SC2. that's a good point. what's the main audience for esports? kids, students and young people in general. not the demographics with a bunch of cash burning in their pockets.  | ||
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							Snowfield
							
							
						 
						
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							snoopadizzle
							
							
						 
						
						Norway7 Posts
						 
					Want a good stream? pay for it. Want a crap stream? get it for free.  | ||
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							Blitzkrieg0
							
							
						 
						
						United States13132 Posts
						 
					Maybe one day we'll have channel 9054. Live starcraft all day.  | ||
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							Apex
							
							
						 
						
						United States7227 Posts
						 
					It's a recession, I don't have that much money to dole out. What does ACTIVISION-Bizzard think I am? An automated cash dispenser?  | ||
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						United States7927 Posts
						 
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						Canada1000 Posts
						 
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							fabiano
							
							
						 
						
						Brazil4644 Posts
						 
					Shameful move from them.  | ||
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						Canada1420 Posts
						 
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							Zombee
							
							
						 
						
						Germany69 Posts
						 
					I see how they came to think, hey maybe someone is going to pay us money for that. I hope they fail miserably, but if not, this could end up like soccer in europe. People who care pay to watch and follow all theire favorite teams, players - rest of us has a look at the Worldchampionship and is happy if they recognise the name of some topplayers after 4 years again. Thats so strange - a lot of people won't get huge fanbases. Maybe torch is a fucking great player, may we will never find out. And I am sad I am going to miss Tasteless and Artosis  . And without the covering for the masses, theire won't be sponsors for teams - players  in the future - as noone will know theire names - thus making players  depend on Gretech.bad discision - No, NO and nO.  | ||
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							Frapes
							
							
						 
						
						Greece9 Posts
						 
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. And without the covering for the masses, theire won't be sponsors for teams - players  in the future - as noone will know theire names - thus making players  depend on Gretech.