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love.less
United Kingdom293 Posts
Integra Sweden. September 03 2010 21:35. Posts 1137 PM Profile Blog Quote # Seriously people need to stop complaining and making stuff up. BE HAPPY. YOU HAVE YOUR FREE STREAM AND A REASONABLE PRICE FOR THE VODS AND HQ STREAM. STOP BITCHING people are never satisfied it seems | ||
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VForce
Germany90 Posts
I was going to pay myself cause 20$ seemed to be a bargain on first glance (and after what was the initial offer). But after checking the "sample vods" that show you the quality you can expect I am not so sure anymore. Even the HQ stream is a pain to watch on any decent monitor . The english commentary you get for free now so just run a muted korean stream at the same time for the Video. That leaves you with paying 20$ for VOD's in a not so good quality that are only availible for a season and most likely to be distributed illegaly? I still support rather paying then getting illegal content but we know how stuff on the internet (still) works. I think I will wait with my purchase for a few days to check wheter you can run a korean stream wih english commentary cause if they are clever they wont distribute them in sync. and to hear whether the vod's are realy the same quality as the HQ stream. If the streams are in sync and the vods have the same quality (not to mention the problem of piracy) I dont expect many people to pay. Edit: The idea that all of this was planned makes some sense to me and if it was I applaude GOM for pulling it off. Imagine a few days ago they would have announced that the free stream is 300k (or even less) and for the HQ (lol) stream you had to pay 20$ on top of that no Vod's are free but HEY if you pay that 20$ you can watch them for the ongoing season. I could so imagine a shirtstom of an epic size going off, but now it is just: how nice of them to listen to their customers. Well played GOM Edit#2: apparently you can watch the VODs for an unlimited time. Changes things a bit but still not considerably in my point of view | ||
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Nightbiscuit
Sweden179 Posts
On September 03 2010 21:38 zeox wrote: really. People make mistakes. not everything that happens like this is part of some evil money-making scheme :/ Normally I don't believe in that companies don't care about anything else than money and have an "evil money-making scheme", but the GSL Stream is brought to you by the same people who's killing the starcraft 1 scene so they can make more money off of SC 2. | ||
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Integra
Sweden5626 Posts
On September 03 2010 21:42 Nightbiscuit wrote: Normally I don't believe in that companies don't care about anything else than money and have an "evil money-making scheme", but the GSL Stream is brought to you by the same people who's killing the starcraft 1 scene so they can make more money off of SC 2. Please, don't turn this into a yet another Sc1 vs SCII thread. just don't  | ||
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babumbel
Germany12 Posts
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Greggor
Sweden119 Posts
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beat
Germany11 Posts
It seems like GOM is listening to the community. I just received the following e-mail (I added bold for emphasis): It looks like still no free vods, but free LQ stream. So fking nice to read this! The quality of both streams seem to be kinda horrible, but they listened and change something very fast. very nice tho they also change the prices. this seems fair to me now. thank you TL, thank you gom. made my day! | ||
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Lambast
Canada15 Posts
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N.geNuity
United States5112 Posts
On September 03 2010 21:41 VForce wrote: blah blah blah That leaves you with paying 20$ for VOD's in a not so good quality that are only availible for a season and most likely to be distributed illegaly? blah blah blah orignally posted on (nonupdated) website VOD ticket will be valid even the season over (Once you buy it, you can watch VODs whenever you want.) Also, remember that for the US market the games at 18:00 KST is 5 am eastern standard time. 2 am west coast of US. Not many people will be able to watch all the games live for free. Sure, you can pirate it or w/e, but honestly, maybe since GOM listened to complaints, made it fair to people who already purcahsed a ticket, and is actually trying to reach out to foreigners, $20 for the first tournament isn't too terrible to show you support GOM. If you pay for the first tournament and GOM makes a profit, they may get better sponsors or next tournament will be run better. And you may either have to a) pay less or b)just go ahead and pirate stuff then. | ||
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Archerofaiur
United States4101 Posts
On September 03 2010 20:46 pettter wrote: That's the second best news I had all day! Granted, the best news I had was my engagement to my fiancee (such a fancy word :D), so second best is still awesome :D Props to Gretech for going through with this! Congratulations  | ||
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Nightbiscuit
Sweden179 Posts
On September 03 2010 21:44 Integra wrote: Please, don't turn this into a yet another Sc1 vs SCII thread. just don't I've never cared for SC 1 so I don't see why the SC vs SC 2 discussion would concern me. | ||
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Integra
Sweden5626 Posts
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Highways
Australia6106 Posts
But LQ VODs should be free though | ||
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f0rk
England172 Posts
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Ritchstorm
United Kingdom36 Posts
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FortuneSyn
1826 Posts
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Jaug
Sweden249 Posts
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onlinerobbe
Germany547 Posts
The IEM free stream quality was pretty sh*tty too. They've done what we asked for - I'm satisfied | ||
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GGTeMpLaR
United States7226 Posts
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Jukebox Joe
United Kingdom358 Posts
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