EPTDid you buy a GSL S3 ticket? - Page 16
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Piy
Scotland3152 Posts
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Craton
United States17263 Posts
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Rflcrx
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Zaka
Netherlands372 Posts
On November 22 2010 21:29 crappen wrote: Europeans, are we getting better support on our lagfest that s1 and s2 has been? How is live HD for europeans now in s3? Would love some feedback on it. It's still completely shit. I bought it though. Supporting esports and all that crap... >< | ||
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-Strider-
Mexico1605 Posts
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Frozenzen
Sweden97 Posts
On November 22 2010 21:31 Craton wrote: I wont buy one until they price it reasonably. $240 a year is not acceptable (nor is $185 with a -$5 discount for previous purchases.) It should be like $50 a year, tops. Spread over a whole year that's pretty good considering you get a ton of content, they do have to make some money after all since we're not getting ads. If they manage to get some sponsors running commercials in the breaks the price might be able to go down. But in general people today aren't ready to pay what things actually cost I suppose. And honestly, 15$ per month is pretty much no money at all for me. And I got a minimum wage job working ~100 hours per month. Comes down to principles in the end I suppose. The hq streaming isn't worth it at all here in sweden, I mainly get it for the VODs, as well as supporting esports. So I understand people who don't want to pay for it because of that. But whining over the price is just stupid, You could get 1.5 fast food lunches for it here in sweden, and I rather have GOM vods  . | ||
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tyme
Canada26 Posts
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intrigue
Washington, D.C9934 Posts
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Craton
United States17263 Posts
On November 22 2010 22:10 Frozenzen wrote: Spread over a whole year that's pretty good considering you get a ton of content, they do have to make some money after all since we're not getting ads. If they manage to get some sponsors running commercials in the breaks the price might be able to go down. But in general people today aren't ready to pay what things actually cost I suppose. And honestly, 15$ per month is pretty much no money at all for me. And I got a minimum wage job working ~100 hours per month. Comes down to principles in the end I suppose. The hq streaming isn't worth it at all here in sweden, I mainly get it for the VODs, as well as supporting esports. So I understand people who don't want to pay for it because of that. But whining over the price is just stupid, You could get 1.5 fast food lunches for it here in sweden, and I rather have GOM vods .It's not a good deal. The "tons of content" thing is thrown around all the time and sounds like a cop-out. The problem with the comparisons people like to make (e.g. movie ticket prices) is that the things being compared aren't good deals whatsoever. I could play an MMO like WoW and get several times the amount of "hours of content" for less money. I could play just about any Steam game online and get an unlimited amount of "hours of content" for no additional fee. Hell, I could get 20 meals for that same $15-20 because I don't blow ridiculous amounts on fast food. You can get an HQ stream or VoDs pretty much anywhere without buying a ticket when it comes right down to it. The only reason to even buy one is to support the tournament, but the price is completely prohibitive. Oh, and being able to afford it is hardly an issue. It's simply just not worth its cost. Marginally better video quality and slightly faster VoDs will never be worth $200+ to me. I also take exception to someone calling a 650kbps stream HQ, but that's for another day. | ||
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MasterJack
Canada215 Posts
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Frozenzen
Sweden97 Posts
.And the 15$ I drop on WoW is certainly worth less than GSL at the moment, although that might change in a few weeks. You keep saying the comparasions aren't good deals. Which is bloody stupid, things cost money, that's the way the world works. I could get a movie ticket for the GSL price as well, and I consider VODs for the games I can't catch to be worth more than that. Saying a movie ticket is a bad deal is an opinion I guess, but that doesn't change the cost of it. And how is the price prohibitive to supporting the tournament if you can afford it? Unless you don't feel it's worth your time to support it that is. | ||
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exitusnow1
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ActionStarTV
United States31 Posts
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Snuggles
United States1865 Posts
It's just like how for something that you would think would be well-worth your money, wouldn't be the same worth as another person. For example, you would think that buying a month of WoW would be a good purchase considering you could basically play 24/7, so you would have loads of content on your hands. Logically it's a very sound statement, but to some people they would much rather spend that $15 on balloons, fill them up with water and throw them around at their friends. I think this was some really basic thing I learned in economics... I'm not really going against your argument of what the worth of a season ticket is, just making sure to make this point clear so no one else has a silly misunderstanding. | ||
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nomel
115 Posts
Either way, I can't watch the live casts nearly every time, so I guess the HQ VODs justify the season ticket for me. Good entertainment! | ||
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reki-
Netherlands327 Posts
Theres also an "OK" button now that says you might have problems with streaming and vod's if you're not in the server area but i hope their effort to reduce the lag don't end at that button lol | ||
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itsMAHVELbaybee
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Prime`Rib
United States613 Posts
On November 22 2010 22:46 Craton wrote: It's not a good deal. The "tons of content" thing is thrown around all the time and sounds like a cop-out. The problem with the comparisons people like to make (e.g. movie ticket prices) is that the things being compared aren't good deals whatsoever. I could play an MMO like WoW and get several times the amount of "hours of content" for less money. I could play just about any Steam game online and get an unlimited amount of "hours of content" for no additional fee. Hell, I could get 20 meals for that same $15-20 because I don't blow ridiculous amounts on fast food. You can get an HQ stream or VoDs pretty much anywhere without buying a ticket when it comes right down to it. The only reason to even buy one is to support the tournament, but the price is completely prohibitive. Oh, and being able to afford it is hardly an issue. It's simply just not worth its cost. Marginally better video quality and slightly faster VoDs will never be worth $200+ to me. I also take exception to someone calling a 650kbps stream HQ, but that's for another day. Your comparison is totally wrong. Watching GOM VoDs is an non-interactive activities. You are doing nothing except watching the game like watching the NBA. Paying for WoW or Steam games are interactive activities. The content do not come to you. You yourself create your own content. So comparing between the two activities is like comparing apple and orange. | ||
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jeremycafe
United States354 Posts
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lowercase
Canada1047 Posts
My only complaints are that there is no native streaming support for non-Windows platforms. It's kind of a pain to have to look at page source code to find the link for the live video to paste into VLC. At least in VLC I was able to increase the buffer cache to prevent stuttering, though. The high-def VODs look great, they're what I will normally watch because the live doesn't start until 6 AM for me, so it's kind of weird waking up to watch it. Surreal, actually. Tastosis is still great, but I think GOM needs to mix up the commentating a bit, I think Tasteless is getting a bit fatigued and doesn't contribute too much other than "oh my god, this is so high level." | ||
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