EPTIf this wasn't so ridiculous, I would be a little sad.
[GSL] About GSL Streams and VODs - Page 56
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Antisocialmunky
United States5913 Posts
If this wasn't so ridiculous, I would be a little sad. | ||
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super_toast
United States269 Posts
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LagT_T
Argentina535 Posts
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Ordained
United States779 Posts
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Nub4ever
Canada1981 Posts
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Trozz
Canada3457 Posts
I hoped they wouldn't do this. I'll watch it some how. | ||
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RifleCow
Canada637 Posts
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Frozzen
Sweden73 Posts
Thoose vods better be 1080p! | ||
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RifleCow
Canada637 Posts
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FPSKeNz
91 Posts
To the point. It was never about promoting any game or e-Sports. The world is driven by money. GOMTV will still benefit and Korean SCII will still benefit from this event because since it is streamed for free in Korea, it is not hurting GOMTV's position which is to handle SCII in Korea, not outside of it. If anything, this is just another way to get a side revenue from everything. It doesn't matter whether you pay or you don't, because this is just added income, not their main revenue stream. The same ads will be played to the Koreans as the ones that will be played for you people who payed to watch the stream from Artosis and Tasteless. This is never going to go to the point where it is going to kill SCII as an e-Sport. SCII is still big in all states of the world, regardless of what is going to happen here. This is about the Korean scene, so anything relation that it has to the international scene (be it you being from US/EU) is an added bonus. The main difference between this and all the theories everyone has come up with to go against GOMTV's decision is that it is inapplicable to e-Sports as it is to anything else in the world. How many people said that they will boycott SCII because of the whole Battle.net, no cross-realm play, no chat servers etc etc thingy? And look at the situation now, Blizzard still sold over 3 million copies. We all say we won't do anything now and not pay etc etc. But at the end of the day, at least 20-30% of the idiots who post here will fold and still end up paying for it. In the real world, tell me where can you find such manipulation of consumer demand? This situation is equivalent to Blizzard/GOMTV being able to manipulate the market and its demand for its products and yet get away with it despite not satisfying the entire population. Maybe one company has so far been able to get away with it, Apple. The iPad. Bigger version of the iPod Touch, no? | ||
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Sebudai
United States5 Posts
There should be a free, low quality, advertisement-laden stream as well as an option to pay for a higher-quality and/or advertisement-free stream. Likewise for the VODs. I'd be more than happy to pay a reasonable price for say a yearly subscription fee to gain access to high-quality, 1080p VODs. Do I expect newer players to share my willingness to shell out money to watch other people play Starcraft 2? Haha, no, and neither should GOMTV. You need free coverage for something like this to grow. I will not be paying $50 to watch a single "season's" worth of coverage. This is a terrible business decision, and very disappointing. | ||
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c0rn1
Germany146 Posts
And you want to chage $50 for a tournament of 200 games max in a niche sport like sc2? Are you out of your mind or is that activision policy you just support with that? not 1 cent will move from my pocket into your bank account. over and out | ||
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Ownos
United States2147 Posts
On September 01 2010 18:13 RifleCow wrote: Well, I guess there goes the hope of eSports and starcraft 2. T__T Yup, it's apparent even the most hardcore SC2 fans won't even pay to see epic matches between the best players in the world. While traditional sports fans dole out wads of cash to see their favorite players/teams. On September 01 2010 18:19 Puosu wrote: Limiting your userbase to only the hardcore fans who will be paying for the stream will be detrimental in the long run. A large part of the first tournaments audience consisted of people who hadn't even heard of Brood War progaming before the tournament, the streams spread around the internet and people become aware of StarCraft and thus the community grew as did the amount of spectators you got. Ah well, I am sure you're aware of all the pros and cons of the road you took and made a well calculated choice. Seriously? No GSL for me then. =( But Puosu makes a great point. It seems to me that gretech is unable to secure enough sponsers since they've basically made themselves + Blizzard the enemy of every BW-related organization. | ||
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Go0g3n
Russian Federation410 Posts
I'd like to remind everyone that it isn't the year 2000, the community is no longer made of 13 year olds who could barely scrap $60 to purchase the game (or couldn't and were playing on FSGS, Lurker, Gamei, PGT, Abyss, - iCCup). Like any other sports cable channel (Wrestling, Golf, whatever) - Gretech's goal is to form a solid commercial client-base, the goal they are going to achieve by having exclusive broadcasting rights over arguably the most perspective e-sports strategy game in the business. | ||
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Talic_Zealot
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Kal_rA
United States2925 Posts
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Donner
Germany91 Posts
On September 02 2010 14:31 Go0g3n wrote: I'd like to remind everyone that it isn't the year 2000, the community is no longer made of 13 year olds who could barely scrap $60 to purchase the game (or couldn't and were playing on FSGS, Lurker, Gamei, PGT, Abyss, - iCCup) no, they're 24 year old now and still have no 50$ left :-O seriously though, i wasnt shocked by this news until i saw the prize. i'm willing to pay but not this amount, i think its too high for this quality/service. the speed test on this site gave me a 140k (although i have a 6mbit connection), that stopped me from purchasing anyway. | ||
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Ownos
United States2147 Posts
On September 02 2010 14:36 Donner wrote: no, they're 24 year old now and still have no 50$ left :-O seriously though, i wasnt shocked by this news until i saw the prize. i'm willing to pay but not this amount, i think its too high for this quality/service. the speed test on this site gave me a 140k (although i have a 6mbit connection), that stopped me from purchasing anyway. Nah, it's half and half if the last age poll means anything. Penniless kids and penniless tweens.  The price is a bit too high though especially the VODs pass. -_- | ||
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Go0g3n
Russian Federation410 Posts
On September 02 2010 14:36 Donner wrote: no, they're 24 year old now and still have no 50$ left :-O seriously though, i wasnt shocked by this news until i saw the prize. i'm willing to pay but not this amount, i think its too high for this quality/service. the speed test on this site gave me a 140k (although i have a 6mbit connection), that stopped me from purchasing anyway. Gave me a 330k speed, while I'm running @ unlimited 100mbit with ~8mb/s download speed. Good stuff. | ||
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zsm
Sweden11 Posts
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