NASL Season 1 Passes - $25 - Page 41

On April 03 2011 01:17 Nausea wrote:
Gonna watch for free for a week or so, if it is good production then i will pay for it. Im just glad i wont have to struggle with the stupid GOMplayer that never wants to work.

On April 03 2011 01:02 BackTrack wrote:
Just Paid for it and subscribed

And just to note...my god, what cheap buggers we have on TL...20 bucks? you honestly don't have 20 bucks for the guys putting hundreds of thousands of dollars into AT MINIMUM 3 seasons of NASL.TV? Wtf's the matter with you? do you have any idea how much time the average TL'er spends with starcraft in a single day? well neither do i, but if i take myself as an example it's a whole fuck of a lot of time a week, you're getting what you pay for

On April 03 2011 01:22 Oceaniax wrote:


That's a pretty spurious argument. It's not necessarily about the price and whether or not you have the money to spend, at least to me. My concern stems from the fact that we're continuing to see more premium starcraft 2 services with monthly fees.

How many of these do you think can possibly be sustained? The starcraft 2 community is already a small (but growing) subset of the gaming population, how many people are going to be willing to plunk down monthly fees to support them all? The bottom line for alot of people is:

1) They don't have the time to watch all this content anyway, so why subscribe to multiple services?

2) They have an aversion to spending more than a set amount of money on vods per month.


Now I personally hope the NASL is successful with its business venture and all, but I can see a potential future where none of these big tournaments are economically viable because the viewers are spread just too thin across them.

On April 03 2011 01:14 niteReloaded wrote:
*bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch*

just fucking pay the money, stfu, and admit you'll love it.

If you like watching SC2, $20 is nothing for so much action.
If you don't like watching SC2, you probly wouldn't buy it if it was $10.

I'm still undecided, mainly because I'm not a die-hard SC2 fan, but I still think this should be good value for money.

On April 03 2011 00:25 arb wrote:
Not paying for something i watch online ever.

And im not paying for anything with commercials either

On April 03 2011 00:30 Sapphire.lux wrote:
Ok, here is my opinion on the hole thing, western eSports and all.

GSL established a precedent with the pay per view for HQ live and for VODS. This was controvercial at first and maybe it still is. The thing is though, GSL has a frekin TV company behind them. True professionals, the best casters in the world, the best players in the world, a every day lan/ live event. Even so, there have been problems here and there particularly in the first seasons. Is it free in Korea by any chance?

Now, in the west, the same model is being copied. Unfortunately, amateurs are doing this things (compared to professional TV people), the end product, even for a company with somewhat experience like MLG, the resulting product is ... very bad. Completely untested venues, line NASL, that had a very ugly start (the show match) start of with the same "demands" from their costumers as a very professional/ blizzard backed

On April 03 2011 01:33 LittLeD wrote:

Everything will be online in the future (If it ain't already)

You're gonna miss out. What's the difference between buying a ticket to a sport stadium to watch matches than to buy an online ticket to watch eSport matches?

I don't get it

On April 03 2011 01:35 Defacer wrote:


I think this is a legitimate criticism. If anything, it sees like the NASL is investing too much in a large prize pool and technology and not enough in professional services.

They really need an experienced graphic designer and web developer, for instance.

On April 03 2011 01:35 Defacer wrote:


I think this is a legitimate criticism. If anything, it sees like the NASL is investing too much in a large prize pool and technology and not enough in professional services.

They really need an experienced graphic designer and web developer, for instance.

On April 03 2011 01:39 ColonelSeitan wrote:
Did a search for this, but haven't found an answer. Where exactly do you enter the coupon code to get it down to $20? I got to the screen where you enter your credit card and it says "subscribe" and hadn't seen a box to enter the code.

On April 03 2011 01:25 reneg wrote:


just curious: what other services are popping up? what have monthly fees? almost everything i've seen is either 1) free, or 2) you pay only for vods (like this one). and 2, being primarily GOM.

i literally cannot think of anything aside from GOM and MLG HQ that cost money. MLG doesn't happen enough to make me want to buy a pass, and GOM i've never been as interested in their players, which is why i've decided to support NASL, for only 20 bucks.

On April 03 2011 01:43 Oceaniax wrote:


GOM, MLG & NASL are the three that come to mind, as you've mentioned. If you're one of the people who isn't interested in MLG and/or GOM, then NASL is probably a good fit for you, but I don't necessarily think you're the norm. Most people who aren't averse to paying for premium sc2 content are likely subscribed to one or both (I personally am).

It's those very same people that NASL is appealing to subscribe to their premium services as well, and I can't speak for everyone, but I know it's made me at least sit down and think "how much money am i really willing to spend on this hobby a month?" and "Do I really have time to watch this even if I subscribe?".

If NASL thinks they have the players & the production to make consumers choose it over the other options I wish them the very best, and hope they're right. However if they're hoping to share concurrent paying customers with other leagues, I think it's a dicey business model.