MLG Potential Prize Pool Increase - Page 8

On July 29 2011 17:13 Velr wrote:



In short: NO.

In long: Not at all

TB is using the money he gets from his streaming (and probably donations, if he gets some) to fund his tournament.
MLG is asking to send them money/buy their product so they can increase the price pool and make more money themselves.

TB is essentially "giving back" something (even if he makes profit with it, which I doubt).
MLG is begging to send them money so they can use it in a future event to raise the pricepool (and earn more money in general).

How is this the same?

On July 29 2011 19:50 Koshi wrote:
They will raise the prizepool, I am certain of it. Even if they sell 0 memberships.
I got the gold membership already for a month. It is ridiculous cheap. Everybody should buy it.

On July 29 2011 19:48 Jiddra wrote:
I'm already a gold member, got a deal as a old HQ pass customer.

15 bucks for a HQ, no ads stream the whole season? Yes, please. There are a lot of perks, but I don't care about anything else.

The dollar is low, so it is just win win.

And about the millions, camaros etc. 52 millions in total funds, 10 million extra Q1 from Legion and Oak investement Partners (Legion is run by MLGs co-founder/Chairman). MLG also owns Agora games, so I bet that the 52 million is not only going into running the events. Just look at the exec team, people like that doesn't work for free

http://www.majorleaguegaming.com/mlg/executive

I hope they reach 100 000 members, silver and gold. The prize money should go up anyway.

On July 29 2011 19:56 hjkim1304 wrote:
im little wary of his attitude saying that if we don't buy it, they'll decrease it? it just seems as though he's indirectly threatening us to buy the membership... Last time I heard, sc2 and its community brought mlg out of deficit....

On July 29 2011 18:29 JoFritzMD wrote:
My favourite part is that it doesn't matter what the prize pool is. They could be playing for free and we would all still watch and the pro's would still go.

Why will we watch? Because it's a great event. All of the worlds top players are there. It is THE competition to win.

Why will the pros go? Because it is great publicity for their sponsors and it has, as I mentioned above, the greatest competition in terms of who is there.

I looked at the Championship Bracket this year and in half of the groups there is no one player who is above the rest. In the groups that you do have a player who is clearly better, the second spot is a toss up between everyone in the group.

Then you look at the Open Bracket and I cry when I think about how many great players aren't able to get through just because of how few open spots there are.

I couldn't care less what Sundance did. He could drive through the streets of LA in a lamborghini throwing money out of the window as he laughed at the people who spent 30$ so they didn't have to see ads and could make out the supply count. I would still watch it. I would still pay my 30$ and I'm pretty sure 90% of the other people who pay for the HD stream would do the same.

On July 29 2011 20:45 Jamial wrote:


You have absolutely no clue how these things work. The prizepool is EVERYTHING. The reason Dreamhack is big? The prizepool. The reason GSL is big? The prizepool.

The prizepool says all about an event's class. The bigger sponsors -> the bigger prizepool -> the bigger the event. Players (Like MMA, DRG, IdrA, HuK, Naniwa) wouldn't show up to MLG like this if the prizes were 1 dollar for 1st place, 0 for second. Even if the event was as big as now.

Yes, it's a chance for sponsors to show up, but we as spectators get even more into the tournaments, when the prizes are big. And so do the players.

Even with their salaries, it's still a nice catch that you make 5K extra pocketmoney for winning. Or even a % as that amount if some such is contracted.

Talking about eSports exisiting without prizemoney, is like saying you could have huge pokertournaments without prizemoney.

On July 29 2011 20:55 KeksX wrote:

Seriously? I really want to know what thoughts went through your head making that decision.

"Whaaaaaat ? They give more money to the players when they get more money? They should sell their houses to give the players all the money!!!11" ... I hope it's nothing like this, but this comes to my mind when I read your post.

I really don't understand how people can think negative about this.
It's perfect business sense that we experience here.

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 20:58 Theo wrote:


What a hypocrite, he cried so much about people flaming NASL and then comes right back does it to another organization.