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neversleeping
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TheDougler
Canada8305 Posts
On April 22 2013 10:28 Shellshock1122 wrote: ... That might actually be the most ridiculous part of all of this. WCS EU is having regular code A qualifiers similar to their code S qualifiers right? | ||
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chrissummers
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Shellshock
United States97276 Posts
On April 22 2013 10:43 TheDougler wrote: ... That might actually be the most ridiculous part of all of this. WCS EU is having regular code A qualifiers similar to their code S qualifiers right? I'm pretty sure that's the plan. I feel like if anything should be completely open it should be the Challenger League qualifiers since that's the gateway to WCS the rest of the year | ||
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Bowzar
Sweden741 Posts
On April 22 2013 10:40 SnoLys wrote: I find it funny how Slasher is so quiet while this whole mess is going on... He is usually quite vocal when tournaments screw up. All the community figures are quiet. Criticizing MLG/WCS doesnt benefit them at all. | ||
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s3rp
Germany3192 Posts
On April 22 2013 10:43 TheDougler wrote: ... That might actually be the most ridiculous part of all of this. WCS EU is having regular code A qualifiers similar to their code S qualifiers right? From what i've heard yes. If you placed well in the 4 premiere qualifiers you'll get better seeds but thats about it from what i've heard. | ||
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Branman
United States203 Posts
On April 22 2013 10:40 neversleeping wrote: Seriously, MLG is actually punishing fans who watched all weekend / got invested / were hyped to cheer their remaining favorites on to the LB finals tonight. 'Oh you've been watching for hours or two days aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand it's gone. Tune in this week for replay casts, muahha!' Basically. Here's the thing. If Demuslim beats Revival, then the casting from replays just completely deflates that storyline, and that would be the biggest storyline in Starcraft for a few days-- we'll likely just get a "he won, meh, it was from replays, that happened a few days ago." | ||
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SnoLys
149 Posts
On April 22 2013 10:45 Bowzar wrote: All the community figures are quiet. Criticizing MLG/WCS doesnt benefit them at all. The only person I saw criticizing MLG, besides the Koreans, was Scarlett on Twitter. | ||
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j4vz
Canada976 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + Demuslim vs Revival Alive vs Macsed Heart vs Top Congrat to quantic Apoc for securing the 5th spot  | ||
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Mambo
Denmark1338 Posts
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Dodgin
Canada39254 Posts
On April 22 2013 10:48 SnoLys wrote: The only person I saw criticizing MLG, besides the Koreans, was Scarlett on Twitter. She deleted the tweet almost immediately. | ||
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Bagration
United States18282 Posts
On April 22 2013 10:40 neversleeping wrote: Seriously, MLG is actually punishing fans who watched all weekend / got invested / were hyped to cheer their remaining favorites on to the LB finals tonight. 'Oh you've been watching for hours or two days aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand it's gone. Tune in this week for replay casts, muahha!' MLG doesn't care about the fans. MLG doesn't care about the scene. MLG only cares about it's bottom line, and if it can milk this qualifier out for a few more days on replays, it's more revenue to them. That's the way MLG operates. Get shady backroom deals to get exclusivity, then leverage that monopoly power to maximize profits. It's a pretty common business practice, but MLG has really underestimated the value of community goodwill. This fiasco has lost MLG a ton of goodwill among the community, and in the long run, goodwill has a lot of economic and monetary value. | ||
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Shellshock
United States97276 Posts
her tweet got DQ'd | ||
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Branman
United States203 Posts
On April 22 2013 10:49 Bagration wrote: MLG doesn't care about the fans. MLG doesn't care about the scene. MLG only cares about it's bottom line, and if it can milk this qualifier out for a few more days on replays, it's more revenue to them. That's the way MLG operates. Get shady backroom deals to get exclusivity, then leverage that monopoly power to maximize profits. It's a pretty common business practice, but MLG has really underestimated the value of community goodwill. This fiasco has lost MLG a ton of goodwill among the community, and in the long run, goodwill has a lot of economic and monetary value. The winner will be NASL when everyone tunes in to their next season out of spite (and out of love for Rotterdam and Bitter). | ||
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EpiK
Korea (South)5757 Posts
On April 22 2013 10:49 Bagration wrote: MLG doesn't care about the fans. MLG doesn't care about the scene. MLG only cares about it's bottom line, and if it can milk this qualifier out for a few more days on replays, it's more revenue to them. That's the way MLG operates. Get shady backroom deals to get exclusivity, then leverage that monopoly power to maximize profits. It's a pretty common business practice, but MLG has really underestimated the value of community goodwill. This fiasco has lost MLG a ton of goodwill among the community, and in the long run, goodwill has a lot of economic and monetary value. As long as they get a high viewer count, they don't really care about community "goodwill." Despite all the issues with today's qualifiers, I'm guessing you and most people didn't stop watching right? That's all they care about really. | ||
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AgentW
United States7725 Posts
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Cayn
Germany173 Posts
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Dodgin
Canada39254 Posts
On April 22 2013 10:52 EpiK wrote: As long as they get a high viewer count, they don't really care about community "goodwill." Despite all the issues with today's qualifiers, I'm guessing you and most people didn't stop watching right? That's all they care about really. Lots of people stopped watching, they went from 30k to less than 20k. | ||
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farvacola
United States18834 Posts
On April 22 2013 10:53 Cayn wrote: welcome to the land of free speech german pros don't give a fuck when esl is going nutz and neither is bad blood after doing so but viewing twitter of the vocal community figures overseas complete silence Come on now, we can be pissed at mlg without hyperbolic nationalism. | ||
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Bagration
United States18282 Posts
On April 22 2013 10:51 Branman wrote: The winner will be NASL when everyone tunes in to their next season out of spite (and out of love for Rotterdam and Bitter). I hope. But the community (as a collective) has a very short memory, and there has been the overriding sentiment of unconditional support to "help eSports grow". But that's unsustainable. In any other market, when a company puts out a bad product, they are "punished" by the market through lower future sales, damaged brand value, etc. But if everyone forgets about this in a few days, MLG will continue to pull this shit because the "market" let them get away with an inferior product. | ||
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