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On September 02 2010 08:57 FindingPride wrote:I feel sorry for Artosis and tasteless. I'm sure they are furious right now. and respectively so.. korea in 2 years for this to happen to them. I hope it works out at least. I'm sure they can't really regret it either. They seemed to have had lots of fun 
i wouldnt be so sure if those two are upset about this.
on-topic: not everything in the interwebs is for free, i have no problem to pay something to watch tournaments. to be honest i rather pay something and have good quality, support the company behind it before i pay nothing and get laggy, low quality streams, no garantee that it will be streamed in the first place etc...
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On September 02 2010 10:19 Donner wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2010 08:57 FindingPride wrote:I feel sorry for Artosis and tasteless. I'm sure they are furious right now. and respectively so.. korea in 2 years for this to happen to them. I hope it works out at least. I'm sure they can't really regret it either. They seemed to have had lots of fun i wouldnt be so sure if those two are upset about this. on-topic: not everything in the interwebs is for free, i have no problem to pay something to watch tournaments. to be honest i rather pay something and have good quality, support the company behind it before i pay nothing and get laggy, low quality streams, no garantee that it will be streamed in the first place etc...
gom has had issues with lag and low quality in the past, don't assume that just because they're charging it means the issues are fixed
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i cant believe im going to say this but i think kespa should be running this since they atleast allow us to watch without paying..........
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gomtv in the right path to make sc2 esport biiiiiiiiig worldwide lol
we'll watch it for free anyway (as we always did)
its too bad artosis and tasteless will be casting only to a few rich dudes
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On September 02 2010 04:34 Myles wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2010 04:33 GenoZStriker wrote:On September 02 2010 04:26 Ome wrote:Okay if this is the truth 50$ is outrageous, laughably so. They didn't say it was free. Don't think they ever did. The only time "free" is used in that post is for the KBS 88 Stadium. Did you read the post? "Well I guess another big question everyone has is "How the hell do we watch the games?!" We will upload them on http://www.gomtv.net. It is NOT in Korean and you do NOT need to pay." There's no reading between the lines or anything.
On August 30 2010 18:06 JunkkaGom wrote:Hello, me again. I'm sorry that I haven't been very active, but we are really busy down here at GomTV. We have just finnished making brackets for RO64. I know many of you are very curious about it, but all I can say is that it will be confidential for now. As for the opening match, I mentioned before that there will be 16 players playing. It seems I was misinformed. There will be 4 selected players from RO64, which means there will be 2 matches(3 games per match, the best two wins). Well I guess another big question everyone has is "How the hell do we watch the games?!" We will upload them on http://www.gomtv.net. It is NOT in Korean and you do NOT need to pay. "What about commentaries?! Do we have to watch it listening to Korean jibberish?" Not to worry. Dan(Artosis) and Nick(Tasteless) are going to provide English commentaries. If by any chance some of you already live in Korea or are planning to come to Korea this week. The opening match will be held at KBS 88 Stadium at 7pm KST on 4th of September. It's free and all the players that participated in the preliminaries will be given VIP seats and presents. For further information do not hesitate to email me : junkka@gretech.com
Wow, so 2 days ago they say the VODs of the GSL will be free. Now they are going to charge 30 dollars for just one season of VODs that they can remove at their discretion. Now that is some serious BS!
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On September 02 2010 10:24 hYdrA-MeNo wrote:
i cant believe im going to say this but i think kespa should be running this since they atleast allow us to watch without paying..........
actually its was more like they didnt give a sh1t about us, what in fact would be even better than what gomtv is doing now...
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some hacker will restream it... 1$ to watch... GG
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On September 02 2010 10:17 Shikyo wrote:
They actually would make much more profit if it cost something like 5 dollars
This. If it costs less a lot more people will buy it. But right now only a few people would buy it and it would encourage pirated streams.
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I can't wait for the streams to start and GOM realizes that 20 people are paying/watching instead of the hundreds/thousands they had hoped for.
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On September 02 2010 10:29 Jokey665 wrote:
I can't wait for the streams to start and GOM realizes that 20 people are paying/watching instead of the hundreds/thousands they had hoped for.
there would be well over 30k im sure. and if it was at a good time for the west there could easilly be 100k+ assuming it was free.
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Unfortunately, it's too late for them to lower or remove the price. I'm sure a lot of people have already purchased tickets and the hassle of refunds would be too much.
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On September 02 2010 10:17 Shikyo wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2010 10:04 Rider wrote:
I don't believe charging for streams and/or VODs is in the best interest of E-sports. It may be in the best interest of the involved party's wallets however. Y'know how other sports get big? Availability. If you stream it, they will come and they'll keep coming. You can't take something with limited demand outside a certain region (read: Korea), charge for it, and expect it to grow big like that.
I sincerely hope GOM backs off on their current terms. They actually would make much more profit if it cost something like 5 dollars
How do you know that?.. Do you even know what it cost them to stream to one person?
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has any started an open letter to gomtv discussing the issue at hand were we would appreciate a free stream?
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Is this a joke?
Do we know for sure that 1 season=1 tourney? Or 1 year.
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On September 01 2010 18:13 boesthius wrote:Show nested quote +On September 01 2010 18:11 GOMTV wrote:On September 01 2010 18:09 boesthius wrote:However, for GSL all streams and VODs will be charged This is very unfortunate, I was really hoping that this wouldn't turn out this way. However, I'm okay with the stream having a fee, but I'd like some clarification here. We're going to have to pay to watch the vods as well, not just the stream? If so, that's really, really, really, really bad news  Live stream tickets and VOD tickets are sold seperately. If that's so then it looks like I'm not watching the GSL =/. GL, thanks for the speedy reply.
Yeah. I"m in the same spot as boesthius..
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On September 01 2010 19:11 Sqq wrote:
The price for the quality is shit, but the money for tournaments etc has to come frome somewhere. 30$ to watch the entire season isnt that bad, and ist 2$ to watch 1 day. So decent price if you ask me.
you don't think that there will be sponsors for the league?
acitivision/blizzard/gom are trying to milk the system with no regard for the growth of e-sports.
they will make every fucking penny at every avenue possible, even if it alienates the fans.
you don't see BW charging fans for watching VODS, watching their live streams, or harass TL for uploading VODS.
i sure as hell suspect blizzard will get on their ass quick on trying to shut down streamers or ppl who post VODS on youtube.
UGH
BLIZZARD
FUCK YOU
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I can't believe this.. I was looking forward to GSL more than any event but this is absurd.
I will have more than enough to watch with MLG WCG etc. etc. sorry GSL this is just a BAD move. Way too much money, and not even total access.
All you did with these prices and stipulations was invite piracy.
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this is not some PPV event that happens every year... its a tournament for a game that just came out a month ago... hell theres only 2-4 people i wanna see on the tournament... LQ stream for 20$ is obviously ridiculous... get ready to get bankrupt...GG GSL
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On September 02 2010 10:38 FindingPride wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2010 10:29 Jokey665 wrote:
I can't wait for the streams to start and GOM realizes that 20 people are paying/watching instead of the hundreds/thousands they had hoped for. there would be well over 30k im sure. and if it was at a good time for the west there could easilly be 100k+ assuming it was free.
...serious?
E-sports isn't as popular as you think it is.
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No thanks, I'll pass on GSL, especially since GomTV quality is notoriously terrible. Even if GomTV had a history of good quality I'd still pass.
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