Instead of exposing this tournament to the community and its potential viewers to generate interest for feature endeavors; they are making us pay to watch artosis/tasteless commentate in English only 1 month after sc2s retail release.

ya'll dropped the ball with this

papaz

Sweden4149 Posts

September 01 2010 14:07 GMT

#23

they are dreaming if they think they will get a lot of viewers out of that deal.

Adila

United States874 Posts

September 01 2010 14:07 GMT

#24

This pricing is pretty ridiculous.

theqat

United States2856 Posts

September 01 2010 14:08 GMT

#25

Once more for the new page: I hope you all will bump my thread or JWD's thead regarding this issue at http://www.gomtv.net/2010gslopens1/forum/

We need to make plenty of noise on GOM's site, not just on TL. The people who can influence pricing decisions are not reading TL.

Gnabgib

United States381 Posts

September 01 2010 14:09 GMT

#26

9 yes- Way to make $180 blizz.

**facepalm**

TheAngelofDeath

United States2033 Posts

September 01 2010 14:10 GMT

#27

Not a chance. The OGN stream won't be paid(hopefully,) and I like the Korean commentators more anyway.

cive

Canada370 Posts

September 01 2010 14:11 GMT

#28

These guys are amateurs. Who the hell pays to watch amateurs when I can watch the Pros play for free?

papaz

Sweden4149 Posts

September 01 2010 14:14 GMT

#29

On September 01 2010 23:10 TheAngelofDeath wrote:
Not a chance. The OGN stream won't be paid(hopefully,) and I like the Korean commentators more anyway.

can u post a link to where that is?

TheAngelofDeath

United States2033 Posts

September 01 2010 14:17 GMT

#30

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=100219

That's how I got there.

Godstorm

Romania845 Posts

September 01 2010 14:20 GMT

#31

free lq, paid hq. Anything else -> gtfo with your money

Ichabod

United States1659 Posts

September 01 2010 14:23 GMT

#32

Well, crap, this news makes me sad, I suppose they need to pay for the prize money, but I'd prefer commercials, I guess we just have to wait and see how this all turns out.

Cofo

United States1388 Posts

September 01 2010 14:24 GMT

#33

Probably not, but maybe in a few years when the GSL gets bigger and SC2 gets really competitive. The first GSL will probably be a little less exciting than ones in the future, just because the game is so new and nobody is really really good yet. If it gets to be anything like the MSL/OSL, I would most likely buy tickets.

GogoKodo

Canada1785 Posts

September 01 2010 14:27 GMT

#34

I can sort of see where some business guy came up with the pricing. MLG priced $10USD for a single weekend. So someone that deals with money and doesn't deal with Starcraft sees that and figures $20 for a whole season of GSL is a great price. However that $10 for MLG included streams for Halo, Tekken, Smash Bros., SC2 and WoW. It also added a feature for rewinding the live stream which some people enjoyed.

That $20 price would be OK with me if they had a free alternative so I could at least check out the stream first like MLG had. I could see if the amount of content and the stability of the stream could justify the price.

I have no idea how they came up with the VOD pricing though, seems like a number someone just thought up out of nowhere.

kGold

Canada66 Posts

September 01 2010 14:27 GMT

#35

Why are people saying this is Blizzard's decision? Isn't it GomTV's broadcast?

Thats a shameful amount of money by the way. How long does that last? Just this tournament this weekend? I would pay $20 bucks a YEAR if there were monthly, high quality streams of GS2L tournaments.. but not just for this first Ro64...

Do they realize you can get an entire TV show series on DVD for 30 bucks? Thats with like, millions of dollars into the show and you own a hardcopy for viewing pleasure at any time...

Posting this on the Gom forums as well.

NuKedUFirst

Canada3139 Posts

September 01 2010 14:27 GMT

#36

VODS will also cost $30 USD to purchase and is also watchable only during the current season.

?? That's crazy. I'll just watch the pirated streams / VODs, as much as I respect GOM and kinda Blizzard but that is just crazy.

pechkin

158 Posts

September 01 2010 14:28 GMT

#37

FU blizz, greedy bastards, they want us to pay for their bajilion investments in korean scene...

Telcontar

United Kingdom16710 Posts

September 01 2010 14:30 GMT

#38

there's bound to be someone out there who will restream it on their channel no matter how illegal it may be. i shall use the full might of my search powers to find it!

Yurie

12175 Posts

September 01 2010 14:30 GMT

#39

Sorry, wrongish time zone. So no chance for live when I can just catch a few games due to other commitments.

As for vods, I don't watch sc2 vods (exception being day9 daily). I watch it live or skip it, don't know why. ^^

Edit, I also have had a lot of lag when watching things on GOMTV in the past. :/