GOM TV/Blizzard Sign Exclusive Broadcast Agreement - Page 25

On May 27 2010 19:38 KlaCkoN wrote:
The way I understand it is that the companies making up kespa currently are the ones paying for the entire progaming scene. Rent for team houses, food, transportation, _salaries_ etc. If they are forced out of the picture by this then that means that progaming is thrown back to 2000? With the gamers living in crappy basements eating cheap ramen and competing for prize money as their only way to survive?
So blizzard essentially just killed _brood war_ progaming? Please someone tell me I am wrong >_<.

I can't see this ending well for Star2 either, To my understanding Gom was extremly unpopular in korea and who's going to sponsor them anyway since they just said fuck off to all the major companies intrested in investing in gaming?
Also I am quite sure I read somewhere on this site that OGN/MBC bought the rights to broadcast starcraft indefinetly from blizzard ages ago, what's up with that?

On May 27 2010 19:32 Garrl wrote:


Because KesPA is a corporation, GOM is a company - GOM wants to knock out it's competitors, which is why they won't license OSL/MSL.

On May 27 2010 19:45 teamsolid wrote:

That's the dumbest thing I've read in this thread so far. Why would GOM kill off all the BW leagues... they would be the most hated company in E-Sports if they did that. No one would watch their leagues with all the bad press, fan outrage, etc. Obviously... they would just negotiate a deal with KeSPA for broadcasting rights of PL/MSL/OSL.

On May 27 2010 19:43 mahnini wrote:

why would this change the situation with sponsors? according to some people kespa didn't make money from progaming at all so GOMTV bearing the cost of running the tournaments should be a load off kespa's back. since kespa wasn't sponsoring / running the leagues for profit they'd have no problem switching over to GOMTV right?

that is, unless kespa isn't just in it for the sake of esports.

On May 27 2010 19:47 Boonbag wrote:


Because they are stupid and at war with Kespa since their Gomtv starleague. That's the reason.

On May 27 2010 19:45 teamsolid wrote:

That's the dumbest thing I've read in this thread so far. Why would GOM kill off all the BW leagues... they would be the most hated company in E-Sports if they did that. No one would watch their leagues with all the bad press, fan outrage, etc. Obviously... they would just negotiate a deal with KeSPA for broadcasting rights of PL/MSL/OSL.

On May 27 2010 19:48 T.O.P. wrote:

The reason why progamers are able to live in team houses (Free food, maids, living quarters, and practice area) and earn a salary is because of the corporate sponsors that are behind Kespa. Without these sponsors. Korean "progamers" will be playing SC2 like foreigners, which is to try to win 1st place in tournaments for the prize money.

On May 27 2010 19:49 Garrl wrote:


They might not kill them off, but they'll charge a lot of money for the right to broadcast games - meaning that, like last year's MSL, you get tiny turnouts and laggy streams because they had to spend their whole budget on licensing their tournaments.

On May 27 2010 19:53 teamsolid wrote:

And you know this how? These are KOREAN companies, so clearly they know how much money there really is in E-Sports. They're not dumb, they won't charge outrageous fees if it's simply not feasible. Just like how KeSPa "sold off broadcasting rights" to the TV channels... that didn't kill off E-Sports did it? Don't be ridiculous.

On May 27 2010 19:42 Scarecrow wrote:

If blizz goes through with this I hope they cop a serious player backlash. Such a greedy company, they don't give a fuck about esports. SC2 will just be another WC3 and this will be a huge step backwards.

All these low post sc2 idiots slanting the poll

On May 27 2010 19:51 mahnini wrote:

oh i know that. i'm just saying if kespa's motivation were as pure as they'd claimed this would only affect them positively. they don't have to worry about paying for broadcasting rights, they don't have to worry about running tournaments, all they have to do is sponsor the teams which they seemed to have no problem doing before. so what's changed that would want to make kespa pull out?