Can no longer have 2 hq streams open for mlg....

On July 30 2011 07:24 ZAiNs wrote:
Different browsers?

Because of new security procedures within our livestream player, you will not be able to have two HQ streams open at once during MLG Anaheim. Between now and Raleigh, we will look into incorporating this functionality into our security procedures, but taking steps to address the issue while the tournament is live runs a high risk of interfering with the broadcasts. Therefore, if you want to watch more than one stream at once, only one can run in HQ; the other(s) can run in Medium or Low quality. You can easily swap which stream you’re watching in HQ by lowering the quality on one, and signing in to the other with your Membership code.

Thank you for your patience, and enjoy the tournament!

On July 30 2011 07:25 pallad wrote:
Hmm i read that you can't open 2 streams whit free low q , but if you buy pass i think you can , if not that really sux , for someone that support e-sports

And not only can you not have two open at once, but if you switch streams you have to sit through extra commercials each time, right?

Last MLG they gave us HD free for the weekend and now people are bitching about this? Let them make their money

On July 30 2011 07:39 ShivaN wrote:
So where do I get my voucher to upgrade my stream to HQ? I paid for the silver membership.

On July 30 2011 07:33 nvs. wrote:
LOLZ I was about to go buy an HD pass too, was looking forward to having one on each monitor in HQ.

Fuck dat.

On July 30 2011 07:40 ProxyKnoxy wrote:
Link

Try that - WP seem to have a solution.

And to the post above me there should be an email in your inbox.

On July 30 2011 07:25 AltF4Gate wrote:
It's to "stop account sharing" for the HD Access, pretty shitty that it stops you watching both streams at once.

On July 30 2011 07:36 DeepElemBlues wrote:


They already are making money from selling HQ passes, now they're just being greedy about it.

On July 30 2011 07:47 moltenlead wrote:
It's rough but MLG would lose so much revenue from account sharing. As I see it now, most of this community wants everything for free, and have someone else foot the bill, which is pretty sad.

Can't have everything.

EDIT: If you can watch HQ, you can watch the VODS. Not like anyway can truly appreciate 2 games happening at the same time.

On July 30 2011 07:51 BroOd wrote:
Hmm. Couldn't they issue a 2nd code to people who've paid for the other stream?

On July 30 2011 07:50 DerekJCEX wrote:


I don't think that's fair. They are a business, they don't want a ton of people sharing HD access. I wouldn't call that greedy.

I actually don't think they handled it all that well either, but I understand where they are coming from. They should allow each HD pass to have two streams active and no more than that. It does suck for the people who already bought the pass and now they aren't getting what they expected. I will still be getting one.

On July 30 2011 07:55 CyberPitz wrote:
So quick are people to grab their pitchforks and torches....

You can't watch 2 on their HQ because of the way the keys work. They are going to work on resolving that in the future, but for now you have one in HQ and the other in LQ. No need to hang MLG for this....

On July 30 2011 07:50 DerekJCEX wrote:


I don't think that's fair. They are a business, they don't want a ton of people sharing HD access. I wouldn't call that greedy.

I actually don't think they handled it all that well either, but I understand where they are coming from. They should allow each HD pass to have two streams active and no more than that. It does suck for the people who already bought the pass and now they aren't getting what they expected. I will still be getting one.

On July 30 2011 07:55 NATO wrote:
Why not just limit the number of HQ streams per unique stream instead? So one account can have all the streams open, but not duplicates.

On July 30 2011 07:47 moltenlead wrote:
It's rough but MLG would lose so much revenue from account sharing. As I see it now, most of this community wants everything for free, and have someone else foot the bill, which is pretty sad.

Can't have everything.

EDIT: If you can watch HQ, you can watch the VODS. Not like anyway can truly appreciate 2 games happening at the same time.

On July 30 2011 07:57 Assirra wrote:
Its pretty obvious while you can only watch 1HQ.

Let's give an example.
me and my friend both want to watch MLG.
We buy 1ticket and use the same account.

On July 30 2011 07:59 PhiliBiRD wrote:
you cant really blame them, i mean alot of ppl do share and that is technically against the point of buying a ticket to support MLG.

unfortunate but understandable

On July 30 2011 07:59 Charger wrote:
Can anyone else with a HQ pass verify that they can't watch 2 streams at all, even if the other is LQ? I'm getting real pissed real fast.

On July 30 2011 07:59 PhiliBiRD wrote:
you cant really blame them, i mean alot of ppl do share and that is technically against the point of buying a ticket to support MLG.

unfortunate but understandable

On July 30 2011 07:59 Charger wrote:
Can anyone else with a HQ pass verify that they can't watch 2 streams at all, even if the other is LQ? I'm getting real pissed real fast.

On July 30 2011 08:01 nV wrote:
I have a HQ pass and you can watch one on ultra and the other one on low. You just cant watch both on HQ

On July 30 2011 08:04 Mars.DreaM wrote:
The problem is that some people like me spent 30 dollars on a year of MLG membership for what they have done and now I can't even watch both starcraft streams at once? Seems a little ridiculous.

On July 30 2011 08:06 rasnj wrote:

But will the low-quality one keep interrupting you with goat commercials (or gum or whatever) while you try to enjoy the other one? And why should this be necessary. I'm tired of everyone being so lenient on tournaments. This is not some rookie 100$ KOTH online by a passionate community member, this is done by a large corporation with significant funding. Newbie mistakes like these really should not happen at this scale. BNet problems, weather affecting Internet, etc. are mistakes that are hard and possibly impossible to deal with adequately, but the issues presented to us now are the type you might ask a 2nd year CS undergraduate student to solve as a minor project in a web development class.

On July 30 2011 07:59 Charger wrote:
Can anyone else with a HQ pass verify that they can't watch 2 streams at all, even if the other is LQ? I'm getting real pissed real fast.

On July 30 2011 08:05 DyEnasTy wrote:
People complain so much.

On July 30 2011 08:07 DyEnasTy wrote:



Why cant people just simply sit back and enjoy the event?

On July 30 2011 08:07 DyEnasTy wrote:



Why cant people just simply sit back and enjoy the event?

On July 30 2011 07:58 Karak wrote:
I was honestly buying an HQ pass until I saw this. Why are they doing this? Just dealing with it via IP seems like a more competent way to do it. I'm tired of every SC2 tournament issuing apologies for oversights they should have thought of before the date and promising to fix things in the future. If they are bumps in the road as the broadcast scene fixes it, fine, but how does no one think of this?

I think MLG does the best job, but they should just do what they did in Ohio (letting everyone have access when they messed something up) and just let us access 2 streams here, integrating the "fix" for the next tournament.

On July 30 2011 07:57 Plansix wrote:
I can't even get my voucher from MGL to watch the HQ stream. My paypal says I paid for it, but I haven't gotten the email after 7 hours.

On July 30 2011 08:13 rRod wrote:
I don't think its that big of a deal, if you can still have LQ + HQ at the same time.

You can't pay full attention to 2 streams at the same time, so just set the current most interesting match do HQ and have the other one open on LQ just to kinda see whats going on.

On July 30 2011 07:25 alexhard wrote:
Classic MLG. People tend to have short memories regarding these events; Columbus was a clear outlier for MLG events.

On July 30 2011 08:12 MrDudeMan wrote:
Lol, no they shouldn't. The amount of free shit that people expect is outrageous.

On July 30 2011 08:07 DyEnasTy wrote:



Why cant people just simply sit back and enjoy the event?

Between now and Raleigh, we will look into incorporating this functionality into our security procedures, but taking steps to address the issue while the tournament is live runs a high risk of interfering with the broadcasts.

On July 30 2011 08:19 vindKtiv wrote:

I agree. Wait, you can't watch both streams in HD? Wow, this event is worst than the MLG where you couldn't watch at all! I'm gonna go to TeamLiquid and cry my heart out! Watch in one stream in LQ? Why would I ever watch in LQ? I would rather kill myself then do that! Who cares about the fact that Boxer, MMA, and DRG are playing? I can't watch two streams in HD, so I'm just gonna cry a river.

Seriously, they said they were already going to look into it for next MLG:


And to everyone crying: what are you gonna do? Not watch MLG? Guess everyone will miss you watching MLG then. I know I have probably induced the rage of many people for my opinions, but seriously: there are worst things in life than having only on stream on HD. Your gonna get your two-stream HD next event, and there is nothing you can do for this event, so your complaining is pointless. It's one thing when you politely point out when something is wrong or unjustified so it comes to the attention of MLG, but it is a completely different thing when you start whining like a 6-year old over a problem that MLG knows about and are trying to fix.

On July 30 2011 08:15 DyEnasTy wrote:



this. the time of free shit is over.

On July 30 2011 07:39 Nimic wrote:
If I pay for HQ, I expect it on all their streams. This is pretty similar to "that wasn't an ad, that was a sponsor" from NASL.

On July 30 2011 08:01 EnSky wrote:
I'm just wondering. I haven't bought any GSL tickets. How does GOM handle account sharing?

On July 30 2011 08:25 nV wrote:
People are obviously upset, but they just need to take a second to chill out. You can still watch a stream in HQ, its not like you cant even view one in HQ at all. People just need to stop blowing this out of proportion.

On July 30 2011 08:32 DyEnasTy wrote:



instead of bitching to mlg about it, why not go after the dumbass's who are abusing? this is a result of their actions.

On July 30 2011 08:32 DyEnasTy wrote:



instead of bitching to mlg about it, why not go after the dumbass's who are abusing? this is a result of their actions.

On July 30 2011 08:14 Jiddra wrote:


I had my code written down on the website, but that is maybe only for members.

On July 30 2011 08:37 Aldehyde wrote:


Where? Can't find it anywhere.

On July 30 2011 08:33 DyEnasTy wrote:



can you watch your HQ stream? YES. Can you watch multiple HQ streams? NO. You can thank the people who abuse things.

On July 30 2011 08:38 Finrod1 wrote:
Personally this really sucks. I love to spend my money for this awesome event but i want to watch both streams. I switch often and don't want to see ad's everytime i switch the hq streams...
And other companies can make this work. ESL has a paysystem for year and you can watch xxx number of streams in hd (if you paid) with no problems.
Seems like a really bad system on mlg's side

On July 30 2011 08:40 Mattchew wrote:
WTF I cant mute commercials on the low quality even? fml this makes it so annoying to watch an ultra and a low... they need to fix this shit immediatly

On July 30 2011 08:39 Aldehyde wrote:


I am watching but see nothing. Only says what I get from my gold membership, how I am paying for it and when it expires and so on.

What am I looking for?

On July 30 2011 08:40 Mattchew wrote:
WTF I cant mute commercials on the low quality even? fml this makes it so annoying to watch an ultra and a low... they need to fix this shit immediatly

On July 30 2011 08:39 Aldehyde wrote:


I am watching but see nothing. Only says what I get from my gold membership, how I am paying for it and when it expires and so on.

What am I looking for?

On July 30 2011 08:43 nV wrote:

If you have ad blocker enabled remember to disable it. I was able to see my code after I disabled it.

On July 30 2011 08:55 foen wrote:
First the prizepool threats, then the replays not being released, and now this shit? It's going downhill fast at this rate.

On July 30 2011 08:55 foen wrote:
First the prizepool threats, then the replays not being released, and now this shit? It's going downhill fast at this rate.

On July 30 2011 09:05 justinpal wrote:
who watches two streams at once?

On July 30 2011 09:15 Highways wrote:
I bought the HD pass, but where do I get my HD code from?

On July 30 2011 09:18 LegendaryZ wrote:


I'm having this issue too. I bought my weekend pass, but never received any code in the email. Just opened a ticket about it and sent them an email... I hope they send me the code before too many games pass.

On July 30 2011 09:15 Highways wrote:
I bought the HD pass, but where do I get my HD code from?

On July 30 2011 09:20 noezke wrote:


Pretty sure you get your code on your profile page on the mlg site, atleast thats where mine was (make sure you have adblock off) or am i misunderstanding what you're saying? :o

On July 30 2011 09:26 Jamial wrote:
I am starting to enjoy, and laugh at, just how many bad excuses people find for not coughing up 10(!!!) scrappy dollars to watch 20+ (more? 40?) hours of constant great games of SC2.

On July 30 2011 09:36 Oh.Canada wrote:
Ok. plz Help. I bought a silver pass and when I go to change stream to hq its says I need to buy a pass

On July 30 2011 09:19 Smaug.GR wrote:
Logged in, entered the voucher given by email and IT DOESNT STOP SAYING ITS BEEN USED BY ANOTHER PERSON. ASDFW%#$@%@#%$^t

On July 30 2011 09:38 Koshi wrote:

You need to log in and search for your activation code on the MLG site. You probably also received a mail with a link to your activation code.
Then when you are watching the stream just change it to Ultra and you will be able to give in that activation code.

On July 30 2011 09:42 Seiniyta wrote:
on a positive note, one thing I'm really happy about is that we can now change the volume when ads are playing

On July 30 2011 09:57 RonNation wrote:
Having to input this code every time I switch streams is infuriating.



Edit: In addition it forces me to watch an ad before I can even set it to Ultra. What a fucking joke.

On July 30 2011 08:53 nvs. wrote:
I'm all for not complaining about free stuff.
I'm all for complaining about dissatisfaction with the services I pay money for.

There's a difference.

On July 30 2011 09:57 RonNation wrote:
Having to input this code every time I switch streams is infuriating.



Edit: In addition it forces me to watch an ad before I can even set it to Ultra. What a fucking joke.

On July 30 2011 21:19 tl55555 wrote:
For people who are complaining about ads, firefox + adblock, or edit your hosts file, or point to a dns server that blocks ad domains.

Really you guys shouldn't be complaining about ads.

On July 30 2011 21:54 Navichi wrote:


If you have Adblock enabled the stream doesn't return after the ads, it just stays black and you have to manually reload every time.

On July 30 2011 21:54 Navichi wrote:


If you have Adblock enabled the stream doesn't return after the ads, it just stays black and you have to manually reload every time.