Stay on-topic please. Off-topic arguments derailing the thread will not be tolerated. Next spam post about eagles = ban. We get it, you're funny Take the eagle stuff here stop with the bw vs wc3 bullshit please
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On April 04 2011 01:03 AlfredGA wrote: Think about this everyone.
You have three events taking place.SC2, Black Ops, and Halo Reach, you have open brackets for PC with hundreds of players playing non-stop, additionally you have connection on both consoles putting even more stress on the ISP. Now to top it all of you're streaming all of this data. Now they accounted for all of this, but what they didn't account for is 128 countries watching additionally and the sudden surge of players onto the stream and website causing it to fail.
You're all being insensitive to the facts, and YOU yourself are shaming e-sports. You've managed to completely discredit the top industry in gaming because you failed to account for internet stability. What MLG needs right now is your support not for you to sit around here and rage because the stream goes offline. Think about it everyone thousands of people connecting to a single source for 3 separate channels of content. Stop crying, and just go take a break check back routinely. Go watch a Broodwar stream or something else.
I could run a better stream from home using ustream or justintv. The only reason they refuse to do that is because they don't want to lose ad revenue. MLG doesn't deserve anyone's support AT ALL. If they can't provide a decent service, they should crash and burn.
On April 04 2011 01:08 aruken wrote:i disagree greatly, mlg is rich still they make thing like it is there first covered event. its 2011 fgs. i am sorry but this event does not deliver at all and i pity thoses who lost 10$
No one lost $10, MLG offers a refund or an opportunity to transfer the HQ pass to a later event.
On April 04 2011 00:53 Seohce wrote: Oh god, it's TotalBiscuit, I cannot stand this guy. -_-
TotalBiscuit is about as awesome as Day9. It's hard to say who is more awesome. Imo, we just make Day9 and TotalBiscuit the 2 permanent casters for all SC2 events from now on.
No he's not. He's some random guy in it for the money with a horribly annoying voice. On top of that he says some really stupid shit. Cannot wtch a game if he is casting it.
Ok now I know you're trolling.
I agree that totalbiscuit lack knowledge, but hey if he brings more attention to sc2, thats not a bad thing
His voice is annoying, his personality is annoying, his lack of SC2 knowledge is annoying. I'd rather watch a week old replay than him casting a live game.
On April 04 2011 01:03 AlfredGA wrote: Think about this everyone.
You have three events taking place.SC2, Black Ops, and Halo Reach, you have open brackets for PC with hundreds of players playing non-stop, additionally you have connection on both consoles putting even more stress on the ISP. Now to top it all of you're streaming all of this data. Now they accounted for all of this, but what they didn't account for is 128 countries watching additionally and the sudden surge of players onto the stream and website causing it to fail.
You're all being insensitive to the facts, and YOU yourself are shaming e-sports. You've managed to completely discredit the top industry in gaming because you failed to account for internet stability. What MLG needs right now is your support not for you to sit around here and rage because the stream goes offline. Think about it everyone thousands of people connecting to a single source for 3 separate channels of content. Stop crying, and just go take a break check back routinely. Go watch a Broodwar stream or something else.
How could they NOT expect at least 50k viewers when that's how much people TSL have watching their streams?
And wow, they have Halo, Black Ops and SC2... Sick, that's almost like 100 connections... sick. (lold)
You can't organize an event thinking you're gonna have 10k viewers, and not be prepared for 50k, that's just how MUCH YOU SHOULD BE PREPARED.
On April 04 2011 01:03 AlfredGA wrote: Think about this everyone.
You have three events taking place.SC2, Black Ops, and Halo Reach, you have open brackets for PC with hundreds of players playing non-stop, additionally you have connection on both consoles putting even more stress on the ISP. Now to top it all of you're streaming all of this data. Now they accounted for all of this, but what they didn't account for is 128 countries watching additionally and the sudden surge of players onto the stream and website causing it to fail.
You're all being insensitive to the facts, and YOU yourself are shaming e-sports. You've managed to completely discredit the top industry in gaming because you failed to account for internet stability. What MLG needs right now is your support not for you to sit around here and rage because the stream goes offline. Think about it everyone thousands of people connecting to a single source for 3 separate channels of content. Stop crying, and just go take a break check back routinely. Go watch a Broodwar stream or something else.
u act like mlg didnt know this beforehand. they know exactly what the strain will be, its there job to prepare for it and TEST IT.
u people acting like "aww shucks, cut them a break" are even worse. you shouldn't accept shit service like this, u have every right to rage and u should
You can't account for 100,000+ people instantly connecting to your stream. 128 countries additionally, streaming high quality. Have you ever streamed before? You know how much bandwidth that is? This is textbook overload. This is how hackers shut down websites, they send massive amounts of user connections causing server overload and failure. It's what happened here at MLG but it was the gamers this time that ended the website. You can't test your servers for something of this proportion