EPTThey have to prove that it's worth my money before I'll blindly give it to them
How do you feel about MLG's new PPV model? - Page 9
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common_cider
342 Posts
They have to prove that it's worth my money before I'll blindly give it to them | ||
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qntmCHARM
Canada4 Posts
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Areon
United States273 Posts
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raf3776
United States1904 Posts
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Zikeman
United States10 Posts
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jackdaniels
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imre
France9263 Posts
On February 19 2012 02:51 Zikeman wrote: $20 isnt that much. Everyone is just use to everything being free. Go get a job, work 2 hours and you have paid for the whole weekend worth of MLG SC2. Stop paying for a month of Swtor, or WoW and support SC2 and esports. People are overreacting to the price. I dont know about everyone else but i will be paying for it to support MLG, and im going to invite a few friends over allow them to buy/bring food and we'll just chill and watch it all weekend. Stop overreacting, go get jobs and support MLG. support + enterprise in the same sentence ... oh TL | ||
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Night Eyes
433 Posts
On February 19 2012 00:27 qntmCHARM wrote: ill never pay to watch sc, just like ill never pay to watch a hockey game on tv Unless the hockey games are on public TV then you do pay for them by paying your cable company. | ||
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Cpadolf
Sweden1199 Posts
On February 19 2012 02:53 jackdaniels wrote: I don't think there is a market for it. Right now $20 is a lot, especially for Europe which is going through a big recession. Depends largely on which part of Europe you are talking about. We're relatively fine over here (certainly better than the U.S, as far as I know). | ||
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slammered
United States56 Posts
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CinnaBuns
United States34 Posts
That said, I can understand MLG wanting to try out some different business models just to see if it's viable. I'm sure they've done some demographics research and understand that most of their viewers are in NA. And, secondly, while it's understandable that $20 means a whole lot more in other parts of the world and to high school / college students, that doesn't really mean a whole lot to tournament organizers and advertisers at the end of the day. It is a business, and they absolutely need to target people with a good amount of disposable income to pay for events and to pay for the crap that advertisers are trying to sell you. The Super Bowl generates a ton of ad revenue because a large part of its target audience (including "casual" fans) happen to be in the age group to have lots of disposable income. I'm pretty sure all the funny beer and car commercials are not targetted at broke teenagers. Obviously a lot of folks here don't agree with the pricing model, and personally I doubt I would buy a ticket as I already paid for a full year of GSL, but only time will tell if this works out for MLG or not (and I doubt they'd publicly announce their profits/losses). Enthusiasm is great, but money makes the world go around. If there's not more money going into the system, it's unreasonable to think that events will just magically get bigger and better. | ||
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CinnaBuns
United States34 Posts
On February 19 2012 08:03 Cpadolf wrote: Don't really mind at all that they are charging money for it, they are a business and are simply trying to make things go around. But I won't buy since I'll probably only have time to watch a fraction of the games anyway, plus ASUS ROG looks pretty good as well. Depends largely on which part of Europe you are talking about. We're relatively fine over here (certainly better than the U.S, as far as I know). Don't worry about us in the US just yet  We have similar unemployment rates. Sweden has higher GDP per capita. US has higher purchasing power per capita (PPP). All in all I'd say we're pretty similar. | ||
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peekn
United States1152 Posts
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mint_julep
United States254 Posts
On February 16 2012 17:38 iEatWoofers wrote: 20 $ isn't that much... cheap bastards. Yeah,well... everything's relative. + Show Spoiler + (Also, your math sucks, but that's a story for the end of this logic based rant.) Some people have already pointed out, reasonably, that much of the pro SC2 fan base is high school and college students who don't have a lot of cash laying around. A lot of others happen to live in a fucked economy. A few other people have pointed out, reasonably, that the GSL costs less in terms of $/content, while the production values and level of competition (at the very least least for code S) is generally higher. (There's also the frustrating-ass-annoyance of already being a gold member and then being told to cough up more cash, event by event, to keep watching while not knowing if or when they might jack up the prices again on a whim.) Actually, there's a precise total of zero "cheap bastard"-ish things about not wanting to spend more money for an inferior product. EoL. But especially when someone may or may not have the resources at their disposal that another (possibly snide-assed, condescending) individual happens to. ... That being said, 20 bucks ain't shit to me either - but I wouldn't pay this on principle. I get more kick ass content than I have time to watch on the GSL anyway. As much as $20 doesn't hurt my personal pockets, $20 every single event when I'm already MLG Gold, AND spending hundreds on (better) yearly GSL/GSTL pass content is money I'd rather spend on a few decent bottles of scotch to sip while I watch the real championship.  TL;DR: MLG: Wait until you have a better product than your competition before charge more than them in a less convenient way. | ||
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Jisall
United States2054 Posts
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laharl23
United States582 Posts
wouldn't having 250,000 viewers and running like 4-5 long ads (like any real television show) be a lot more money than having people pay 20 dollars to watch it? | ||
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NhcErco
Norway3 Posts
They are ADDING PPV's.. not changing the tourneys they have had before.. | ||
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CCa1ss1e
Canada3231 Posts
Go MLG!! XD | ||
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Kahuna.
Canada196 Posts
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mastergriggy
United States1312 Posts
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