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[D] GSL Stream/Vod Pricing - Will you buy? - Page 3
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Chronald
United States619 Posts
That is the person who I want to know, and who will get 10 times the viewers that the paid GSL stream gets... | ||
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ltortoise
633 Posts
On September 01 2010 23:23 Ichabod wrote: 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. This is such crap. The prize money is NOTIHNG to Gretech. 170,000 USD? Absolutely nothing. http://www.gretech.com/eng/ir_finance.html In 2003 they had a NET PROFIT of 5 million USD. I can understand them trying to make a profit on this event, but they should be thinking more long term. This is doomed to fail. | ||
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revoN
Japan804 Posts
SC2 is too young and imbalanced of a game to be taken seriously (not to mention the coming patch that will shift the balance). There's just too many unknowns at this point and it was announced on too short of a notice really. This kind of decisions make me vouch for KeSPA even more - they at least provide a quality product and whats more important you can get it for free. | ||
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Dinosaur
Denmark112 Posts
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Klive5ive
United Kingdom6056 Posts
I hope very few people pay and we all watch the restreams. This tournament had so much hype and momentum now it's just going to fail as no-one can watch it. | ||
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scottyyy
United Kingdom796 Posts
Also, what's the 1st place prize for this first tournament? I can't remember - I've heard $80k and $170k mentioned. | ||
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I_Love_Bacon
United States5765 Posts
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temps
Canada62 Posts
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kGold
Canada66 Posts
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theqat
United States2856 Posts
On September 01 2010 23:45 kGold wrote: I really hope there is less banter in this thread than the amount we should all be writing on the GomTV forums...... http://www.gomtv.net/2010gslopens1/forum/ there's the link. There are several good threads by TL members like myself, motbob, and JWD that you can bump, or create your own! | ||
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Boblion
France8043 Posts
I was highly suspicious about their business model for day one anyway so i'm not really surprised  | ||
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GogoKodo
Canada1785 Posts
On September 01 2010 23:32 ltortoise wrote: This is such crap. The prize money is NOTIHNG to Gretech. 170,000 USD? Absolutely nothing. http://www.gretech.com/eng/ir_finance.html In 2003 they had a NET PROFIT of 5 million USD. I can understand them trying to make a profit on this event, but they should be thinking more long term. This is doomed to fail. No, 170k USD still matters. They are a business and to be honest 170k from 5 million is actually a pretty good chunk of money. | ||
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Wargizmo
Australia1237 Posts
While I think $20 is reasonable if it's in HD and the stream doesn't lag, I won't be buying it on principle because I feel that not having some kind of free stream is a huge step backwards in trying to grow e-sports for the international community. If they made a low quality stream available for free I'd probably pay the $20 to upgrade to HD. Regarding the VODs, I might buy it if you could download and save it, but if you have to view it online and it stops working after one season then fuck that, not worth $30 to buy something you can't even keep. | ||
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piegasm
United States266 Posts
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Fadetowhite
Korea (South)302 Posts
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VanGarde
Sweden755 Posts
The pricing and business model for this is bad though, 20 for both live and vods would be reasonable. | ||
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ltortoise
633 Posts
On September 01 2010 23:50 GogoKodo wrote: No, 170k USD still matters. They are a business and to be honest 170k from 5 million is actually a pretty good chunk of money. Not when you can just as easily make a ton of it back due to advertising revenue alone just to the Koreans. Not many people are going to pay to watch this. | ||
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Cofo
United States1388 Posts
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CScythe
Canada810 Posts
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Polis
Poland1292 Posts
On September 01 2010 23:56 VanGarde wrote: Obviously there should be a fee, anyone who claims they want e-sports to grow and then expect to get free streams and vods all the time should rethink if they actually want to help e-sports. Lack of free stream damages eports, how do you get new spectators? They should charge for HD stream, free stream give them advertising for they league/e-sport, and advertising money. Maybe they couldn't provide HD stream from Korea so they had decide to just charge for LQ stream. | ||
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