EPTthey can't be serious with different fees for vods and live and also monthly fee of total 50 bucks. and that wont even let you see the vods after the month has passed. lol
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papaz
Sweden4149 Posts
they can't be serious with different fees for vods and live and also monthly fee of total 50 bucks. and that wont even let you see the vods after the month has passed. lol | ||
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Midj
Canada253 Posts
On September 02 2010 07:23 thopol wrote: After sleeping on it I think the worst thing is how they think they can treat us. If it costs a fucking penny I'm not going to pay it. I'll support them by watching their ads but that is it. They sprung this on us and then flat out lied about being in dire financial straits with the Kpop event of the year booked and exclusive SC2 rights from Blizzard still warm in their portfolio. This is not the way to court an audience, it's trying to strongarm money away from people without much, just like they're doing to Kespa. I see right through the bastards. I can't believe that they would even try this shit... EDIT: I also woke up to find this in my inbox Nothing particularly new except the same things he did post on the forum. It seems like this fellow is very responsive, so if you have specific queries you might send him an email. EDIT2: If they are actually in the red and need to make a certain amount from this there are so many better ways to do it than gouging foreigners. A 50 cents per replay download from US and Korea could make more money. A 2 dollar pass from US and KOR would make more. Making more from advertisers would probably make more. Cutting costs would increase profits, meaning cut one of the kpop acts or something. Even if everything they are saying is true it still is a slap in the face to foreigners. The honesty is refreshing. However this also says that OGN has been banned from broadcasting the GSL. So no freebies for the koreans? | ||
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sleepingdog
Austria6145 Posts
The choice left to us was to either not broadcast at all outside Korea or charge them. this is just a huge pile of BS there would have been another option: not to provide english streaming but NOT BLOCK IPs FROM OUTSIDE; if providing a service in the US is too expensive - fair enough; but actively preventing people from accessing the korean source adds a whole new dimension to this | ||
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EleanorRIgby
Canada3923 Posts
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Nokeboy
United States1009 Posts
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Kenny
United States678 Posts
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Cade
Canada1420 Posts
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Gumbeez
United States9 Posts
I seriously and truly hope that not a single person pays for this. ( Very far fetched hope, considering how stupid the general gaming society is and would shell out the money for this) This is just sad. | ||
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checo
Mexico1364 Posts
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InToTheWannaB
United States4770 Posts
On September 02 2010 07:23 thopol wrote: After sleeping on it I think the worst thing is how they think they can treat us. If it costs a fucking penny I'm not going to pay it. I'll support them by watching their ads but that is it. They sprung this on us and then flat out lied about being in dire financial straits with the Kpop event of the year booked and exclusive SC2 rights from Blizzard still warm in their portfolio. This is not the way to court an audience, it's trying to strongarm money away from people without much, just like they're doing to Kespa. I see right through the bastards. I can't believe that they would even try this shit... EDIT: I also woke up to find this in my inbox Nothing particularly new except the same things he did post on the forum. It seems like this fellow is very responsive, so if you have specific queries you might send him an email. EDIT2: If they are actually in the red and need to make a certain amount from this there are so many better ways to do it than gouging foreigners. A 50 cents per replay download from US and Korea could make more money. A 2 dollar pass from US and KOR would make more. Making more from advertisers would probably make more. Cutting costs would increase profits, meaning cut one of the kpop acts or something. Even if everything they are saying is true it still is a slap in the face to foreigners. ...maybe a less ambitious broadcasting schedule, maybe cutting back on the prize pool for future tournaments, maybe selling broadcasting rights for the tournament to MBC... If that email is real that helps explain alot. I wish they just say shit like that in there orginal post as being blunt helps understand the situation alot more. I guess they don't want to look weak, or whatever. Also plz you or a mod edit that guys name out. I think its pretty clear he did not want that geting out in the public. | ||
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Clipped
France122 Posts
On September 02 2010 07:23 thopol wrote: Surely there are Koreans outside Korea using Gom. I guess we'll see it's only a few days. | ||
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thopol
Japan4560 Posts
On September 02 2010 07:47 InToTheWannaB wrote: If that email is real that helps explain alot. I wish they just say shit like that in there orginal post as being blunt helps understand the situation alot more. I guess they don't want to look weak, or whatever. Also plz you or a mod edit that guys name out. I think its pretty clear he did not want that geting out in the public. If he asks to have his name removed I will remove it. I don't see what is wrong with it and I told him I would be posting the email in the response I sent him. Maybe I told him at too short of notice, but there's no problem with that right? | ||
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Al Bundy
7257 Posts
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Alphaes
United States651 Posts
On September 02 2010 07:23 thopol wrote: After sleeping on it I think the worst thing is how they think they can treat us. If it costs a fucking penny I'm not going to pay it. I'll support them by watching their ads but that is it. They sprung this on us and then flat out lied about being in dire financial straits with the Kpop event of the year booked and exclusive SC2 rights from Blizzard still warm in their portfolio. This is not the way to court an audience, it's trying to strongarm money away from people without much, just like they're doing to Kespa. I see right through the bastards. I can't believe that they would even try this shit... EDIT: I also woke up to find this in my inbox Nothing particularly new except the same things he did post on the forum. It seems like this fellow is very responsive, so if you have specific queries you might send him an email. EDIT2: If they are actually in the red and need to make a certain amount from this there are so many better ways to do it than gouging foreigners. A 50 cents per replay download from US and Korea could make more money. A 2 dollar pass from US and KOR would make more. Making more from advertisers would probably make more. Cutting costs would increase profits, meaning cut one of the kpop acts or something. Even if everything they are saying is true it still is a slap in the face to foreigners. ...maybe a less ambitious broadcasting schedule, maybe cutting back on the prize pool for future tournaments, maybe selling broadcasting rights for the tournament to MBC... The first paragraph sounds more like a threat than anything. And like I said before, if they were really so far in the red already, then by expanding blindly like this only shows them to be either very greedy or very stupid. Or both (baby's first monopoly and all). I hope they will be able to clean up their mess, cause I highly doubt the community will be sympathetic enough to do it for them. | ||
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love.less
United Kingdom293 Posts
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Saekar
Germany28 Posts
Some of these informations, I was not allowed to mention on the post at TL. I trust you with this information because you have made a polite request despite your frustration and anger. I think he might have a problem with this mail + his name on TL.  | ||
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Chronald
United States619 Posts
85% of the people WILL NOT PAY for your matches. Have fun running yourselves into the ground Gretech... | ||
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Kishkumen
United States650 Posts
Yeah, it just seems to me like they mismanaged their funds and have decided to take it out on the foreigners. If the cost of running a server in America is the issue, why would they not allow people to restream the Korean stream? As far as I know, it would cost them nothing, other than any potential lost funds they're trying to squeeze out of us. The more I look at this email, the more convinced I am that they just want to squeeze all of the money out of us that they can. I don't particularly care for financing GOM's poor decision making. They could have pretty easily cut some money from other parts of their budget (like the gigantic prize pool) in order to provide access for foreigners. Instead, they chose to disrespect us by treating us as just an easy source of capital rather than a potential market for the future. I also still don't understand the price point. It seems like such a high price will earn them less money than they would get if they just lowered the price. The more I look at the whole thing, the more it looks like GOM is being run by completely clueless people. Case in point: Edit: Quote removed by request of original poster. | ||
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koOma
Norway462 Posts
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diehilde
Germany1596 Posts
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