What cracks me up is that this is free for Korea, and Korea doesn't want anything to do with this game. Gom is trying to force them into watching this but charging the people who ACTUALlY WANT TO WATCH IT.

And these bastards had the balls to call this the "GLOBAL star league" What a fucking joke.

CebusFinest

Philippines210 Posts

September 03 2010 01:29 GMT

#1382

im tell'n yah... its all blizz/act's plan... goodbye KeSPA GG

its now blizz/act/gomtv vs KeSPA

G3nXsiS

United States656 Posts

September 03 2010 01:35 GMT

#1383

Yeah after this crap I would rather choose Kespa than blizzard!

Socram

Mexico46 Posts

September 03 2010 01:45 GMT

#1384

I believe the reason in Korea its free (makes money through advertisement to be exact) and here they charge is because they already have the software and advertisers ready in Korea, while here they did not have the time to get all that ready. Hopefully in the future they will move to an adds based model here like in Korea.

TaKemE

Denmark1045 Posts

September 03 2010 01:48 GMT

#1385

On September 03 2010 10:27 Ordained wrote:
What cracks me up is that this is free for Korea, and Korea doesn't want anything to do with this game. Gom is trying to force them into watching this but charging the people who ACTUALlY WANT TO WATCH IT.

And these bastards had the balls to call this the "GLOBAL star league" What a fucking joke.

Your post makes no sense at all... you complain they are charging people who wants to watch it? You cant charge people who dont want to watch it. o.O

And global star league got nothing to do with viewers but people who can participate in it.

TheDoK666

France179 Posts

September 03 2010 01:57 GMT

#1386

btw something to think about to , they talk about the fact that they thrown a relay server in the US and so that's why foreigner need to pay BUT if you are in europe, you got no relay , nothing and btw it's 3 am for the US and 10 am for europe so .... it's easier for europe ....

machinebloodprogram

United States245 Posts

September 03 2010 02:02 GMT

#1387

On September 03 2010 10:48 TaKemE wrote:

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I think his point is, why charge your small fan base when it is steadily growing? It would make sense to charge in Korea, but as Ordained said, they aren't interested. So why would you start charging the small foreign fan base when it obviously will hinder their viewership?

blabber

United States4448 Posts

September 03 2010 02:03 GMT

#1388

On September 03 2010 10:57 TheDoK666 wrote:
btw something to think about to , they talk about the fact that they thrown a relay server in the US and so that's why foreigner need to pay BUT if you are in europe, you got no relay , nothing and btw it's 3 am for the US and 10 am for europe so .... it's easier for europe ....

definitely. Even if there was a free live stream I wouldn't watch it because it's at 3 AM for me!

regerstreen

Canada57 Posts

September 03 2010 02:08 GMT

#1389

lol gomtv is shooting themselves at the foot here. Or maybe they are confident that they have complete control over esports scene already and are beginning the milking process

rezoacken

Canada2719 Posts

September 03 2010 02:27 GMT

#1390

Well let some Koreans affiliated with TL record it, encode, make a torrent and here we are : happy but with korean commentaries though, TL people are honest and most of them seed it. And make free stream during live, this will happen surely.

Dox

Australia1199 Posts

September 03 2010 02:27 GMT

#1391

Korean stream is free? Bargain! I would have expected to have to pay for STOOOOOOOOOOORMUUUUUU and PLAGUUUUUUUUUUU. Much more entertaining. :D

TheDoK666

France179 Posts

September 03 2010 02:29 GMT

#1392

korean commentaries are best :p btw anyone got news from the epic wheat or torch?

dew

United States59 Posts

September 03 2010 02:46 GMT

#1393

The unfortunate thing is that when this fails, instead of lowering the price and increasing their subscriber count they will simply terminate the English cast.

TyPsi5

United States204 Posts

September 03 2010 02:56 GMT

#1394

wayyyyyy over priced. have fun being pirated

P00RKID

United States424 Posts

September 03 2010 03:03 GMT

#1395

No way am I going to be paying that kind of cash for that. Gomtv is what got me interested in korean e-sports. I think the only thing I would be willing to pay for is a finals stream. But not if they monetize EVERY thing.

Reptile_ro

Romania26 Posts

September 03 2010 03:07 GMT

#1396

20$ lol what a joke of a tournament. u can watch it yourself gomtv.

ChessWhiz

United States260 Posts

September 03 2010 03:10 GMT

#1397

Sorry, I'm not going to pay for this when I can get so much other SC2 media for free. The GSL is really missing out on a huge viewership with this charge.

Ordained

United States779 Posts

September 03 2010 03:21 GMT

#1398

On September 03 2010 10:48 TaKemE wrote:

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Touche, but what I meant is that it is hilarious that they are forcing this down Korea's throat by not allowing Proleague to broadcast at the same time. It is free for the people who do not want to watch it. Meanwhile, every other country in the world has to pay.

Gom is trying to win people over from Broodwar but they are charging for it. The $1 broadcasting deal they signed with Blizzard is really going to their heads.

Cedstick

Canada3336 Posts

September 03 2010 03:37 GMT

#1399

Ordained, I don't think you understand the complete backstory. You'd have a lot less sympathy for KeSPA and related affairs if you knew how big a jackass KeSPA was being about Brood War rights.

Yes, this fee is kind of ridiculous, but at the same time they need to fund this "foreign" side of their venture somehow, and it looks like they're trying to accomodate us anyway. As for the "people who don't want to watch it," they do want to watch it. They just aren't being charged because of how mainstream and stable competitive gaming is in Korea -- it's got huge advertisers and is on two network TV stations devoted to gaming -- they don't have to charge. It's a lot smaller an audience with "foreigners," and they don't have the same corporate backing on that side of the project is my guess.

jarlelin

Norway31 Posts

September 03 2010 03:44 GMT

#1400

On September 01 2010 18:20 GOMTV wrote:
I appreciate your fast feedbacks, but like I said, complaining here will not help.
There is a Forum at www.gomtv.net if you press league on the menu

I would have posted on your forums, except I don't trust it will help anything.
You are the ones expanding into a new market and you should respect the community and opinions of the veterans there. Or you can ignore the advice of those that want the best for the game and just go with whaetever your market analysts tell you.