On September 02 2010 19:20 dybydx wrote:
i wonder if jon747, who usually upload MBC and OGN matches to youtube, will be able to upload the korean version of the GSL. my guess is that Gom is gonna ask youtube to take it down.

He can upload them to blip

Or-a

Canada66 Posts

September 02 2010 10:40 GMT

#402

On September 02 2010 08:01 st3roids wrote:
Consider sc2 is one of the most - if not the most expensive game in pc plus u need a good pc to run it all adds within the cost.

blizzard making millions as profit , they want a popular sc2 sponsor the good tournaments.

Even a million a year for tournament prices for a company as big as blizzard. is pocket change.

Even if a million is "pocket change", its still a buisness you never want to run in the negative of ANY investment regardless of how much that negative is.

Regardless of what people are saying $2 a day is pretty cheap. Considering most won't want to watch EVERY player in their matches. I personally only care to watch TLO, IntoTheRainbow, Tester and Fruitseller/Cool. Even if all their days are different that is what $8? Not much of an investment.

I still think they're a bit overpriced but if the prices don't change I'll pay.

Daigomi

South Africa4316 Posts

September 02 2010 10:55 GMT

#403

To me, the issue isn't with whether it will be money worth spent. I can buy a bottle of water for about 2USD in South Africa, but since our tap water is completely fine, I refuse to buy a bottle of water. If Gom was the only organisation that had large Starcraft 2 broadcasts, I would consider paying for the service. However, I refuse to pay for their stream because there are other organisations like MLG and ESL who have shown that it is possible to present a good free stream. To add to this, their premium streams were both much cheaper, of a higher quality, and more reliable than Gom's (from past experience).

Gom is trying to ask a lot of money for an inferior service that most people get for free, and I refuse to support that. I agree with Chill that if a free stream was offered, and this was a HD service that we had to pay more for, more people would be willing to pay. Perhaps Gom would make slightly less money by offering a free stream, but they wouldn't alienate the entire foreign community with a single tournament.

Aborash

65 Posts

September 02 2010 11:02 GMT

#404

IMHO, if people start paying 20$, next year, (or may be when Heart Of The Swarm gets out) the price will be 30$, and next one 40$, etc...

Time and history has show us that the greedy of the sector is a bottomless pit, they wont stop unless none purchase their streams.

And that doesnt means they are gonna think people lost interest on Sc2, and give up casting in english, or something, cause they know Sc2 is becoming bigger and bigger everyday, and if they want to grow larger with Sc2, they must do the right things, not try to milk customers.

So, basically if someone is thinking in purchase a vod or the stream (at those prices), he is making us more harm than good.

mikado

Australia407 Posts

September 02 2010 11:07 GMT

#405

What's with charging for VODs? Ridiculous.

Straife

United States36 Posts

September 02 2010 19:40 GMT

#406

This is rediculous.

My friends and I enjoyed staying up till 1-2am to watch starcaft on GomTV. But if we were tired we would just say screw it and watch it in the morning on VODS.

Now we'll HAVE to stay up since we're paying for it, or we'll have to buy vods :/

Cider

United States198 Posts

September 02 2010 19:53 GMT

#407

On September 02 2010 18:11 myIRE wrote:
20 bucks for stream, well that's alot but GSL is how long? 1 month right? You pay 10 bucks for MLG weekend stream, so looking at it again it might not be 2bad of a deal at all.

When I paid for the MLG premium stream, i did it knowing that it was a weekend long tournament and thus i made time to watch the whole thing. There's no way i'll be able to catch every single game in GSL however, there are just too many. Not to mention the fact that it's being broadcast from korea so the time zone difference will make it even worse. Or the fact that the stream quality is evidently much worse and the ToS is pretty sketchy.

Sure, if you're looking at it from a $/game watched standpoint, $20 is cheap. If you watch every game, and if the stream is up and the quality is decent. But how many people will watch every game? I watch GSL it's going to be to watch the 5-8 people in the tournament i've actually heard of, I'm not going to watch all the other people until the semifinals.

Teken

United Kingdom35 Posts

September 02 2010 21:45 GMT

#408

so the games are stating soon do we have any words from GSL guys saying anything about the stream ?

and still just 2000 votes and i though this forum is much much more popular...

SuperNothing

United States76 Posts

September 02 2010 22:30 GMT

#409

Honestly, a fair price to me would be like $60 a YEAR. What is this month by month shit? I don't think GOMtv understands anything about America right now. I don't think they understand their target audience, and I am starting to have doubts they understand how much $50 dollars is to 18-26 year old people. Maybe they got their unit conversions wrong? Maybe they mean $50 Korean?

50.00 KRW = 0.0423776 USD

Yeah, that seems to make sense to me ): ^ )

dybydx

Canada1764 Posts

September 02 2010 23:02 GMT

#410

dude, i was in south korea and the smallest change i've seen is a 100 Won coin. i wonder how do you even pay 50 Won in real life.

Onlinejaguar

Australia2823 Posts

September 02 2010 23:13 GMT

#411

No way im paying for this. I was interested to see this but the prices are too steep.

Redmark

Canada2129 Posts

September 02 2010 23:15 GMT

#412

It'll be interesting to see how many people do buy the stream/VODs. Hopefully not many people do and they're forced to switch to a different model, but who knows?

Draconicfire

Canada2562 Posts

September 02 2010 23:19 GMT

#413

On September 03 2010 06:45 Teken wrote:
so the games are stating soon do we have any words from GSL guys saying anything about the stream ?

and still just 2000 votes and i though this forum is much much more popular...

Theres over 7000 votes in the right side poll.

Williowa

129 Posts

September 03 2010 01:03 GMT

#414

No, I will not buy either. Seriously, there's other games to watch, lots of other games. It would be like if ESPN started charging for the games they air, considering it's not my teams playing on their network, I'll just watch the people still paying for it with advertising.

Plus, how much better of a deal is it to secure advertisements for everyone. Like the HDH, I never knew what IRIP was until their tournament, and that's a product I see the use for.

Gentso

United States2218 Posts

September 03 2010 01:23 GMT

#415

I can't help but think they would make the same amount of money offering a free stream + HD upgrade, like everyone else. The number of people who are actually going to pay for those streams has to be very few, no?

Craton

United States17303 Posts

September 03 2010 01:46 GMT

#416

I think the poll answers that question.

Zonel

United States100 Posts

September 03 2010 01:48 GMT

#417

Will not pay for Live ticket and wasn't going to because it happens at like 6 am were i am. I am willing to pay for a VOD ticket if they reduce the price to under 10 bucks. I

CScythe

Canada810 Posts

September 03 2010 03:24 GMT

#418

I think I understand GOM's mentality here. They decided that what they would do is figure out what the most sensible course of action would be, and then do the opposite.

Wicelo

45 Posts

September 06 2010 17:03 GMT

#419

I won't pay for this. They are free to organize their tournament and make people pay to watch this but I won't participe to this. Btw if there is no pro scene watchable for free I won't buy the next 2 starcraft extension and I'll just forget this game.

251

United States1401 Posts

September 07 2010 19:23 GMT

#420

welp, really happy I'm in Korea. There's no way I'd pay to watch it, but its great that because they're trying to make it catch on in Korea its free for everyone here.