EPTyes, if you hack english clients so they work on korean servers - I've always wondered that blizzard hasn't intervened on this point....probably they've concluded some form of agreement
[GSL] About GSL Streams and VODs - Page 10
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sleepingdog
Austria6145 Posts
yes, if you hack english clients so they work on korean servers - I've always wondered that blizzard hasn't intervened on this point....probably they've concluded some form of agreement | ||
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JimmyHollow
United Kingdom249 Posts
On September 01 2010 19:52 Kishkumen wrote: We need more people posting in the GOM forums. Junkka said complaining here won't do any good towards fixing it. Do they have any forums ? Somehow I cannot find it on gomtv.net | ||
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poilord
Germany3252 Posts
/bitter | ||
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Kishkumen
United States650 Posts
On September 01 2010 20:16 JimmyHollow wrote: Do they have any forums ? Somehow I cannot find it on gomtv.net http://www.gomtv.net/2010gslopens1/forum/ You do have to register, but it takes like 30 seconds. | ||
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Frankon
3054 Posts
HDH finals = 30k west viewers GSL finals (GOM TV plans) 30k west viewers so thats 1.500.000 $ income for a 170.000$ priced tournament ;P And we said that Activision-Blizzard was bad.... | ||
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Awesomeness
Germany1361 Posts
BUT: If I pay, I wanne be able to see the damn HQ-Stream and it appears this is just impossible in Europe. If they don't fix that, I don't see the point in paying extra just to hear Tasteless talk. | ||
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s.a.y
Croatia3840 Posts
or not watching at all. The view count will be terrible, at least outside of Korea. Go TLO, we can't watch you, but be fabulous anyway | ||
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sleepingdog
Austria6145 Posts
so when is HDH2 starting again? | ||
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Angra
United States2652 Posts
And here I thought SC2 would make it big in Korea with this tournament. What a joke. | ||
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Ouga
Finland645 Posts
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yomi
United States773 Posts
nm its at the top | ||
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Kishkumen
United States650 Posts
On September 01 2010 20:21 Frankon wrote: Hmmm simple math... HDH finals = 30k west viewers GSL finals (GOM TV plans) 30k west viewers so thats 1.500.000 $ income for a 170.000$ priced tournament ;P And we said that Activision-Blizzard was bad.... Simple economics. HDH finals = free, 30k west viewers GSL finals = $20+, price is too high for demand, far less than 30k west viewers, income is far less than optimal Supply and demand, my friend, supply and demand. | ||
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shannn
Netherlands2891 Posts
On September 01 2010 20:10 Frankon wrote: Right now it looks like their stay in korea will be short if GOM doesnt change their stance Technically if they re-stream the TV broadcast and not the GOM stream i think Blizzard wouldnt be able to do anything. Not sure about that. You do see live tv events being re-streamed and some of them are not taken down on popular streaming sites but others are (wc 2010 matches for example). But in the end it will go down on the competence of the viewer to find a re-stream. Most people wouldn't be able to find a stream if TL were to remove all posts regarding re-streams. It'll be hard but not impossible and then you'd consider paying the stream (if you have money). I'd probably find a stream since I do watch a lot of shows through streaming sites (and I actually watch different tv shows consisting of Chinese/Japanese/Dutch/German/English/Vietnamese language so I don't have a problem with finding a stream). However I do pay for most of those streams since it'll be too much time to spent on which I have better uses for. My point is that neither Gretech, TL or Blizzard can stop people from finding a way to watch GSL free regardless of difficulty of finding them. Edit: Also I wanted to point out that the more people are actually paying for the stream it means they'll more likely be able to cover their expenses/expand their business means in essence you're paying to make E-Sports grow. Which is what we all want but most people don't want to pay for their services yet want it to grow which is contradictfull. | ||
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JonnyLaw
United States3482 Posts
On September 01 2010 19:42 bRuTaL!! wrote:In summary, TL dont expect this scope of a tournament to be free. Dont be greedy. You dont expect to go into movietheaters for free or U2 concert to be free either. Well, yes actually I would a expect a U2 concert to be free. Similar to the GSL I cannot see myself paying either at any price. So if Bono wants fans, he gives free concerts. If GSL wants viewers they provide a free stream. And yes, we have became that accustomed to free streams since, well you know, every other tournament in the world for every other game provides free streams to its customers and fans. | ||
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potatomash3r
Australia417 Posts
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bRuTaL!!
Finland588 Posts
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zul
Germany5427 Posts
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CTStalker
Canada9720 Posts
As it stands, I unfortunately won't be watching. | ||
resilve
United Kingdom678 Posts
I can't be angry at the fee, its a business after all, I just would rather 'pay' by sitting through 5 mins of adverts every 30 mins than with actual cash - surely to the company there isn't much difference. | ||
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SteeJanS
Canada111 Posts
This almost certainly means no advertisements on the stream. It also means much higher stream quality for those of us who will pay, because there will be not be thousands of leechers on the free stream. I admit it sucks for students or people on a fixed income, but I guarantee you there will be pirate re-streams and people who transcode the HD stream into VODs, like what happened for MLG Raleigh. | ||
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