EPT[GSL] About GSL Streams and VODs - Page 9
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UberThing
Great Britain410 Posts
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Terrakin
United States1440 Posts
On September 01 2010 19:55 Mortis wrote: You also don't expect to pay more for a recording of the concert than actually seeing it live. I think its about the same price for a ticket, as is a live DVD (depending on band of course) | ||
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mrblue182
United States151 Posts
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Kishkumen
United States650 Posts
On September 01 2010 19:59 Phisk wrote: I dont think people going there saying "I want this for free!" will help more than if all customers at a store suddenly wanted everything for free. Its a shame its something you have to pay for, when there is no guarantee that it will work properly and their terms of agreement basically is "whatever happens and whatever we do you will never get any money back". Hopefully its watchable on that OGN thingy, too bad I won't get to see artosis / tasteless, they are so awesome. But if almost all of the potential shoppers in a store told them their prices were too expensive and showed them the amount of business they were losing, there's a good chance that store would listen. | ||
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ChaosSmurf
United Kingdom175 Posts
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Wysp
Canada2299 Posts
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Aikin
Austria532 Posts
Because if they do thats a free tv channel as far as I know so they can´t stop anyone from restreaming that? Also would you pay money for a stream if you could just watch it on tv for free? | ||
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{ToT}ColmA
Japan3260 Posts
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a11
Germany300 Posts
On September 01 2010 19:41 shannn wrote: TL is not the only sc2 site. It is the most popular and the biggest one so they'll prevent the majority watching ogn streams but that won't mean they'll be able to prevent the streams since TL is not the only sc2 site. This is an inevitable problem for gomtv and in the end the only possible solution would be making sure all korean internet cannot be restreamed/accessed to outside of korea which is undoable or costly. It's as hard for GOMtv as it is for you to find the restream. The only good way I could see is to spread the links through IRC, given they can't contact livestream/ustream/etc to take the streams offline. Otherwise, TL will hardly have any choice than to bend over and erase every post containing a restream. Otherwise, they'll be up against Blizzard. On September 01 2010 19:46 sleepingdog wrote: what bothers me the most is that they try to charge for VODs; I mean this is just ridiculous, will they try to prevent SC2-VODs from being uploaded on youtube afterwards? Record companies do it all the time. | ||
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Frankon
3054 Posts
On September 01 2010 20:09 {ToT}ColmA wrote: tasteless and artosis will be casting for a lot of people i assume O.< Right now it looks like their stay in korea will be short if GOM doesnt change their stance It's as hard for GOMtv as it is for you to find the restream. The only good way I could see is to spread the links through IRC, given they can't contact livestream/ustream/etc to take the streams offline. Otherwise, TL will hardly have any choice than to bend over and erase every post containing a restream. Otherwise, they'll be up against Blizzard. Technically if they re-stream the TV broadcast and not the GOM stream i think Blizzard wouldnt be able to do anything. | ||
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Goatlust
Australia131 Posts
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yomi
United States773 Posts
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lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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dvide
United Kingdom287 Posts
I'm also worried that it's also going to create bad relationships between foreigners and GomTV / Blizzard as we will all likely just watch free re-streams. Either with the English commentary or OGN version; wont matter to us. | ||
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bRuTaL!!
Finland588 Posts
On September 01 2010 19:55 Mortis wrote: You also don't expect to pay more for a recording of the concert than actually seeing it live. Thats true ^^. I was trying to make apoint about some people's principle of not paying for any Esport coverage. | ||
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village_idiot
2436 Posts
zeloshi... choguling... mariin... | ||
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sleepingdog
Austria6145 Posts
Record companies do it all the time. you mean they try and fail? but this is what I've meant; they are acting like they are selling a highly valuable thing - but seriously, that's just a couple of games of starcraft when you think about it: one month livestream + VOD and you could afford another copy of starcraft 2 itself - wtf? | ||
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gavss
Turkey94 Posts
They will use English SC2 client to observe the plays. is this possible? | ||
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leonardus
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cerebralz
United States443 Posts
That being said, the pricing is high for what you are getting. It doesn't seem like they did a lot of research of how to price it. Something akin to xboxlive or psnplus is more the standard in the west. $5 per month, with VOD's for free albeit delayed by a few days. That way they would sell a whole lot more subs than it will be right now. Maybe 10% of TL'ers will buy this (those who can afford it) and the rest will leech off other people's streams. It's just the nature of what happens. It seems like this decision is purely an executive "far-away-from-the-street" one, based purely on numbers. I understand that GOM is a company for profit and can't put out stuff constantly for free. A bad income statement from Gretech is a bad sign to future companies who might consider sponsoring SC2. We really don't know what the financials of GOM is right now, and we have to consider that they do provide a lot of korean content for free. We also know Tasteless and Artosis won't be working for peanuts, so in fact, our money will be supporting them, as they support esports. The fact that we have to pay is a natural thing. People have to grow up and get used to it. The pricing plan though in this instance sucks, and should be reworked for the next season or it will get disappointing numbers. | ||
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