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rickybobby
United States405 Posts
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mufin
United States616 Posts
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nttea
Sweden4353 Posts
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Trashie
Norway131 Posts
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Ayush_SCtoss
India3051 Posts
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Ketch
Netherlands7285 Posts
On April 22 2011 16:32 mufin wrote: ooook... so its 3 am, just finished a huge project for my class, the VODs are up for the IPL and I must say I am SUPER impressed by the infastructure of the VODs. I absolutely love the IGN player, i love how everything is so easy and accessible. and the best part is that you click on a series and once the first match is done, it autoloads up into the 2nd match. Absolutely no way to get accidentally spoiled in any way shape or form. NASL is gonna have their hands full if they wish to compete with this. Oh, for me it shows a "Play again" button to go to the next VOD, also I have some strange framing issues with the video player... anyone else as well? | ||
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moltenlead
Canada866 Posts
I think Idra also tweeted about this. Keep going strong, since I really don't have anything else to say o.O | ||
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jmbthirteen
United States10734 Posts
On April 22 2011 16:51 Ketch wrote: Oh, for me it shows a "Play again" button to go to the next VOD, also I have some strange framing issues with the video player... anyone else as well? I have this problem with the HD VODs, but the SD ones work perfectly fine. | ||
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mcc
Czech Republic4646 Posts
On April 22 2011 16:21 adeezy wrote: I don't know about you but im very particular about quality and frame rate. If it's more attractive to the eye, I'll watch it. And if it's pleasing to the ears in quality, I'll listen to it. This is what the iPL has done that NASL needs to do if it wants to gain viewers. And as for the casters, people criticize casters without much more substance than : I want more analysis. I bet you if you put InControl saying the same exact things say djwheat was saying but incontrol just read it out, you would consider the analysis to be fine. People just want faces behind credibility and I think it's silly. I on the other hand do not care about video and sound quality beyond the basic watchable one. So NASL 480p is ok for me, sound is not, so hopefully they will fix it. On the other hand I care about quality of gameplay and I want more analysis. Which has all the substance necessary, for me the excitement is not in exploding visual things but in strategical subtleties, but since I am not top level player I won't catch all of them and for that you need knowledgeable caster. And no I do not judge by faces, but by their words. If they make sense and are right they gain credibility for the future. But as I said I am not their target audience so ... | ||
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Ketch
Netherlands7285 Posts
On April 22 2011 16:56 jmbthirteen wrote: I have this problem with the HD VODs, but the SD ones work perfectly fine. Yeah, SD works better in that respect. If I select HD it seems to open the webpage again in the video player with the player embedded in that. Don't know what exactly happens though  | ||
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edward.IGN
47 Posts
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Moonwrath
United States9568 Posts
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Executor1
1353 Posts
On April 22 2011 14:33 Dommk wrote: I agree with the sentiment that IPL is doing what NASL wanted to do. But as it is, NASL has a long road ahead of them. What they are doing is much bigger of a task than IPL. The way IPL has done it is much smater though, started small without a lot of hype then grow it. It isn't like NASL is terrible, but IPL, IMO, will have greater success, just due to quality alone. Although I'm quite content watching just the games, a lot of people need more to draw them in, especially those who aren't enthusiasts already. But the internet has a thing for quality, make great content and people will come. NASL already has a large following, if they take community feedback seriously then they are only going to get bigger. In the future I think NASL will have to adopt the IGN approach, of free Vods w/ advertising and better production quality. But for now just fixing the video/sound issues and improving the casting will go a long way For most of the IPL it had double the viewers of the NASL, 7 k viewers for a majority of the day is not a large following and they will not succeed with those numbers or even get by. I dont think they will succeed with 20k viewers either they were expecting to probably get more than TSL (40-50k at times) but aside from the first day were they had 20 something this just isnt happening people are turning away from the NASL in large numbers as there are better tournaments with better casters higher production value and very few errors. NASL is riddled with errors and terrible production, I wish there was a point where i could say it was okay during the NASL but they have yet to fix the framerate or the sound yet and those things just make it blaringly obvious how much work the NASL needs. Not to mention their caster room is the most bland thing i have ever seen, i would prefer cool graphics and no view of the casters at all, then just a grey room that looks like its in somebody's basement, it literally is just completely grey and says NASL behind it, cant really get anymore bland than that, without having 2 guys just sitting in chairs in a black room with nothing in front of them, thats pretty much as bland as it gets. IPL has done a fantastic job with production quality,and is an absolute joy to watch, i applaud them. NASL well they have alot of work to do, seems like everything is going wrong for them, i feel like i wasted 25 bucks, id prefer to just give my 25 bucks to IGN even though its free just because they have done such a fantastic job and seem more deserving of my money. NASL is just another example of a really ambitious esports league failing (at least so far they are going to have to really step it up to turn peoples oppinions around) honestly the owners of NASL must feel like they are having their worst nightmare come true right now , all this money has to be given away for a tournament that isnt even pulling in 10k viewers most of time, uh oh. | ||
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edward.IGN
47 Posts
Let us know if you have any other questions! | ||
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Joedaddy
United States1948 Posts
On April 22 2011 17:28 edward.IGN wrote: Alright guys, for those of you that have been asking to jump to a specific match - you should be able to do this from the individual match pages found on the brackets page here - http://www.ign.com/ipl/starcraft2/tournaments/best-of-the-west Let us know if you have any other questions! I was really quite shocked to see that you could go straight to a specific match vod from the bracket. Ign is really raising the bar for NA SC2. | ||
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KevinIX
United States2472 Posts
On April 22 2011 17:28 edward.IGN wrote: Alright guys, for those of you that have been asking to jump to a specific match - you should be able to do this from the individual match pages found on the brackets page here - http://www.ign.com/ipl/starcraft2/tournaments/best-of-the-west Let us know if you have any other questions! ah. But if you link it from the brackets, you'll get spoilers. | ||
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edward.IGN
47 Posts
On April 22 2011 17:33 KevinIX wrote: ah. But if you link it from the brackets, you'll get spoilers. The age old Catch-22  - the idea is if you're looking for a specific match you're not as concerned as the end-result, because otherwise you'd just watch directly from the videos page | ||
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noproblem
United Kingdom161 Posts
What I really like is there no loooooooong play intros, you are straight into the game which is really refreshing and much needed for time scarce people like myself. NASL and to a certain extent the MLG have a quite a way to catch up imho. Competition is great and it will only push all three to out do each other and up their quality. Great job to those guys at WellPlayed and IGN. | ||
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Koshi
Belgium38799 Posts
On April 22 2011 17:28 edward.IGN wrote: Alright guys, for those of you that have been asking to jump to a specific match - you should be able to do this from the individual match pages found on the brackets page here - http://www.ign.com/ipl/starcraft2/tournaments/best-of-the-west Let us know if you have any other questions! Ahhhhh SPOLIER alert, Luckily I didnt see the outcome of the 2 matches I still have to watch . | ||
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gulati
United States2241 Posts
On another note: I fully agree with the rest of the community- this league ate NASL alive. Superior quality, superior casters (yes, I think TotalBiscuit is the best caster in the industry, feel free to dissent, I could care less), superior animations, no need to pay, no 'no-shows'. Sure, the players may not be as huge names are they are in the NASL, however the superior production value easily makes up for that. Excellent work IGN. Very, very proud of your work. Not to flame NASL, but you desperately need to adopt their business model. It is simply more polished and well-rounded.  | ||
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