EPTMLG Potential Prize Pool Increase - Page 5
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Disquiet
Australia628 Posts
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TheDougler
Canada8310 Posts
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Neverplay
Austria532 Posts
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zaii
Guam2611 Posts
On July 29 2011 16:18 Disquiet wrote: MLG gives out way more prize money to the COD and halo scene, and is probably not breaking even in those areas(maybe halo). The sc2 prizepool is small by comparison, yet it is their most popular event. I'd like to see some rebalancing. No they don't give out more money to Halo/Cod, SC2 actually gets more of the prize money in total. Also is everyone forgetting that MLG is gonna expand to South America? A lot of the 50 million investment could be for that. | ||
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lightrise
United States1355 Posts
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OsoVega
926 Posts
On July 29 2011 16:06 KiF1rE wrote: the thing is, the prize pool should be atleast always what the players put into. If the players put in 19 grand worth of money, the prize pool should be 19 grand... just think about it. That is how much the players put in for entry fees right now. Yet the prize pool is around 14 grand meaning that mlg is already making roughly 5 grand off of the gamers buying into the tournament alone. Why should that be so? What is wrong with making 5 grand off of buy ins? I trust the people who run MLG know more about it's inner workings than we do and they would be more qualified than people on TL to decide if investing another 5 grand into the prize pool will make them more money in the short or long run. Personally, I really don't see increasing the prize pool by 5 grand making, MLG more than an extra 5 grand in profits or any significant impact on the long term success of the company. Maybe I'm wrong but even if I am that still doesn't have anything to do with buy ins. | ||
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ZuesSc2
United States35 Posts
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HeavOnEarth
United States7087 Posts
On July 29 2011 14:20 iNcontroL wrote: Uhhh if you give me a million dollars I will raise the prizepool??? Wow! That is amazing! im sure they're not at 0 subscribers haha . but his statement is pretty silly | ||
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Velr
Switzerland10908 Posts
On July 29 2011 14:20 iNcontroL wrote: Uhhh if you give me a million dollars I will raise the prizepool??? Wow! That is amazing! It's really funny... I just came up with a business plan. Everybody send me money, I will use some of it to create a tourney with a pricepool depending on how much money you give me... Before you decline, think twice. Not sending me money, is hurting ESPORTS! On July 29 2011 16:23 ZuesSc2 wrote: Lets not forget MLG gave out free HD streams i think i saw a comment saying that was a $500,000 loss. I do agree the prize pool should be increased but I'm fully confident MLG has all the numbers and will do their very best to reward the players. <3 After the major fuckups on the events before Dallas, this was not really a "gift". | ||
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Blurzz
United States33 Posts
On July 29 2011 14:21 MisterFred wrote: No. No it is not. Yes, MLG needs to increase their prize pools to be considered a genuine major in the line up of SC2 tournaments. No, more memberships are not going to give them the desperately needed cash to do that. Prize pools are probably less than 1% of their budget. Miniscule. That tweet is the kind of cynical shit that makes me NOT want to throw money MLG's way. I'd buy a second NASL pass before I'd pay for their stream upgrade. Edit: what InControl said. I'll go further and address Sundance myself: dick move. Pretty much agree 100% with this. MLG will be getting none of my money. | ||
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Pleiades
United States472 Posts
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Jamial
Denmark1289 Posts
On July 29 2011 14:20 iNcontroL wrote: Uhhh if you give me a million dollars I will raise the prizepool??? Wow! That is amazing! On July 29 2011 14:21 MisterFred wrote: No. No it is not. Yes, MLG needs to increase their prize pools to be considered a genuine major in the line up of SC2 tournaments. No, more memberships are not going to give them the desperately needed cash to do that. Prize pools are probably less than 1% of their budget. Miniscule. That tweet is the kind of cynical shit that makes me NOT want to throw money MLG's way. I'd buy a second NASL pass before I'd pay for their stream upgrade. Edit: what InControl said. I'll go further and address Sundance myself: dick move. I hope you actually weren't being sarcastic, iNcontrol. If you were, I completely, and utterly disagree with you. I believe it's fine that MLG is saying the community should pitch in. No other sport has free viewing without ads. If you want to watch SC2 with no ads, you pay a little money. How in the world is that going to hurt eSports? I want to support this statement. His remark with the number being too low meaning slashing prize pools is obviously sarcasm. The number is NOT too low, and what does it matter if there aren't 100K unique live viewers. People pay to watch the VOD's because they can't watch it live. Subscribers has nothing to do with live viewers. Get behind MLG, get behind eSports. I don't see how either can hurt us. | ||
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justinpal
United States3810 Posts
On July 29 2011 16:24 Velr wrote: It's really funny... I just came up with a business plan. Everybody send me money, I will use some of it to create a tourney with a pricepool depending on how much money you give me... Before you decline, think twice. Not sending me money, is hurting ESPORTS! This is what TB is doing (granted he's not just asking for most of the money). I love him for that. | ||
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Mioraka
Canada1353 Posts
5K is not enough for our heros that bring us 3 days of solid entertainment. | ||
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SilentShout
686 Posts
Has the stream quality increased at all since last MLG? I thought Columbus was a great event, but the HD stream quality left a lot to be desired for me. Maybe it;s just that DreamHack, NASL, and other major tournaments spoiled me with their stream qualities | ||
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10373 Posts
this time we're "guaranteed" to benefit since he said he would raise the prize pools, but no promise i guess o.o | ||
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Disquiet
Australia628 Posts
On July 29 2011 16:20 zaii wrote: No they don't give out more money to Halo/Cod, SC2 actually gets more of the prize money in total. Also is everyone forgetting that MLG is gonna expand to South America? A lot of the 50 million investment could be for that. Please don't spout absolute bullshit, Halo has a 50k prizepool, cod ~30k, sc2 has 14k. | ||
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justinpal
United States3810 Posts
On July 29 2011 16:37 Disquiet wrote: Please don't spout absolute bullshit, Halo has a 50k prizepool, cod ~30k, sc2 has 14k. Halo teams are made up of 4 people, CoD is 4 too or 5? I don't really know. I'm pretty sure per person the prizes are the same. | ||
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Disquiet
Australia628 Posts
On July 29 2011 16:40 justinpal wrote: Halo teams are made up of 4 people, CoD is 4 too or 5? I don't really know. I'm pretty sure per person the prizes are the same. Maybe, but they still give out much more money to halo and cod. | ||
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Archvil3
Denmark989 Posts
If he can push the amount of paying members he can push the prizes for the last MLG's this season as well, makes sence from a financial and business point of view. Kind of a controversial way to put it out though with a tweet like that, making it a target for trolls and haters: OMG you will raise prize pool if you have enough room in your budget to do so!?!?!? NO way im gonna pay now!! The reasonable response is just to ignore it, if you want HQ stream and VODS, then pay if that was your intention either way and if you didnt plan to do so dont let this tweet change your opinion. | ||
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