EPTPaying to watch GSL matches... Is it a good idea? - Page 10
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Gao Xi
Hong Kong5178 Posts
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Befree
695 Posts
Games being streamed for free at other times of the day, or free access to SQ VODs would help me (and many others I'm sure) be able to actually encourage people to watch this. As it stands, I'm just demanding way too much from someone if I want them to watch the GSL. Is there any chance they can cut advertising deals with foreign/international companies to be displayed on the foreign stream? There's gotta be a large amount of people out there who would watch the GSL, but don't want to them at ridiculous times or pay for them. Wouldn't you think we would be the minority? | ||
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Tachion
Canada8573 Posts
I know nothing about advertising but that seems like a troublesome thing to do. Who is going to want to advertise GLOBALLY on a video game stream? The English stream provides content to what, over 100 countries? That is a pretty damn broad audience to try to reach, There has to be a pretty damn small number of companies that want to advertise to GOM's demographic on such a large scale. There is a small production team going into the English stream, so there has to be some revenue coming in to cover the costs. I'm sure GOM has examined their options and found that a subscription fee would better fund the English casting than advertising. It might be difficult to take their word for it, but the BW scene is only just breaking even for the broadcasters, and they have a bigger following than GSL. I'm of the opinion that whatever GOM has to do to sustain a reasonable profit to cover their expenses and keep doing what they're doing, they should without a doubt do. I love watching the GSL. | ||
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GP
United States1056 Posts
On January 31 2011 08:48 Befree wrote: I have a really hard time encouraging people to watch this. I mean what am I supposed to say to them? Just tell them to wake up at 4 AM? Or just tell them to pay for the VODs? You tell them to watch some of the matches' opening games and see if they like them, and if they like them, then they can pay. The same way you tell someone to watch a movie trailer and if they like it, they'll pay ten dollars for a ticket to see the movie. | ||
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mcmartini
Australia1972 Posts
On January 31 2011 08:52 GP wrote: You tell them to watch some of the matches' opening games and see if they like them, and if they like them, then they can pay. The same way you tell someone to watch a movie trailer and if they like it, they'll pay ten dollars for a ticket to see the movie. Herein lies the problem though, if someone watches a movie trailer they go to a torrent site and download it, and then complain when quality of movies drops (as it has in the past decade). | ||
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StUfF
Australia1437 Posts
GOM seems to be actively pursuing the foreign market, they are bringing in incentives for foreign players, english casting, official stream. All this points towards trying to establish themselves and maybe someday you'll see foreign advertising allowing them to stream high quality free streams. GOM is a fairly small company and they need to do things in a way thats both profitable and sustainable. We don't really want SC2 to be like BW where after 10 years the only way to watch is via 3rd party restreams (provided by some very dedicated people) with only korean commentary? | ||
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OverZero
United States271 Posts
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m4cho
Norway29 Posts
So they do give newcomers a chance to get hooked. I watched first set of every match in s2 and bought ticket for s3 and s4 after.. | ||
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Mr.Minionman
United States164 Posts
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doomed
Australia420 Posts
My only concern is if they try to push it too much, eg. raising the price because they will very quickly hit a level where people can't be borthered, right now its still a small enough amount that people don't really care. | ||
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BetterFasterStronger
United States604 Posts
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Myrtroll
139 Posts
 ) And as said the stream is free, so I don't really see the issue. They vary times a bit, so you should at least be able to pick up some games, if not in the week then in the weekend. And for people saying watch other tournaments/husky etc., do you really believe those things comes even close to the quality GSL offers? I've stopped watching husky etc. because they seem to be a month behind GSL in everything, and the games seems low quality in comparison, I just can't go back after watching GSL. The maps are getting better, the stream is better, the players will be better, next season of GSL should be a blast really. And as for viewers, it seems to be growing so who knows if the hype is really dying down? It's all about money essentially, and for now it works, with ad's in place it might even be free at some point. HoTS will launch soon, so we will get some release hype again, with the foundation in place. It still has huge potential. | ||
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Anomarad
Canada565 Posts
Problem solved. | ||
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heishe
Germany2284 Posts
On January 31 2011 07:52 beat farm wrote: if some rich dude bought tv time on espn and put starcraft on it people would evinchly watch it. Learn to read? | ||
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Charger
United States2405 Posts
On January 31 2011 08:48 Befree wrote: I have a really hard time encouraging people to watch this. I mean what am I supposed to say to them? Just tell them to wake up at 4 AM? Or just tell them to pay for the VODs? Games being streamed for free at other times of the day, or free access to SQ VODs would help me (and many others I'm sure) be able to actually encourage people to watch this. As it stands, I'm just demanding way too much from someone if I want them to watch the GSL. Is there any chance they can cut advertising deals with foreign/international companies to be displayed on the foreign stream? There's gotta be a large amount of people out there who would watch the GSL, but don't want to them at ridiculous times or pay for them. Wouldn't you think we would be the minority? Get them involved in other ways first. GSL isn't the only tournament in the world for great SC 2 action. Hell, give them a top streamer or two to watch. When they get into it more, then revisit the paying for GSL issue. I understand the time difference issue and if I was new to Starcraft, I wouldn't pay for it. But the solution I mentioned is why I do now pay for it now. GOM has to cater to the timing of Korea because, well, they're in Korea lol. It wouldn't make much sense to cater to us and screw over the people in Korea and make them stream at weird times. | ||
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Tachion
Canada8573 Posts
On January 31 2011 08:58 Mr.Minionman wrote: Not paying for it. Attempted to get a ticket, but the format is confusing, and it's extremely hard to tell what they are selling. I'll just stick to watching free casters and streams, thx. Go to gomtv.net. Click the top banner, starcraft 2 team league February. Click the banner that says tickets now on sale. Read about what the premium servers offer, click buy a season ticket. Scroll to bottom, click purchase. Fill in payment information. Congratulations you just bought yourself access to the HQ stream and VODs for the month. | ||
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Logarythm
United States264 Posts
Free low quality VODs would be great though. | ||
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mcmartini
Australia1972 Posts
On January 31 2011 09:02 Anomarad wrote: They should just play a recorded stream of the last matches every 6 hours or something (like normal TV plays recordings everyday till the next weeks episode). Both parties would win, it would still be beneficial to pay to watch the VODs when you want and which one you want but still allows people who don't want to pull out their CC to watch at appropriate hours in the day. Problem solved. Absolutely lets restream every 6 hrs content that is already hosted on their site for what will mostly be a net loss; You win, not gomtv and you must remember gomtv is a company out to deliver a good product and make a profit. This will not be a win-win so why market it as such? | ||
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lowkontrast
United States855 Posts
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BleaK_
Norway593 Posts
On January 31 2011 06:31 Thurokiir wrote: I paid, shits so worth it. Same | ||
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