On December 20 2011 07:07 Silidons wrote:
SotG generates too much traffic. Probably had a threshold the other shows needed to come to but could not, so they got pulled.

Not to mention it has a very loyal and vocal fanbase

arQ

1033 Posts

December 19 2011 22:16 GMT

#245

I have heard enough from Sundance to be very confident in his decisions when it comes to MLG's Business Model. They need to focus on core activities in order to grow, sounds reasonable to me.

GL in 2012 MLG and thanks for a great 2011.

Duravi

United States1205 Posts

December 19 2011 22:16 GMT

#246

FSlasher was good but these last few weeks you could really tell MLG had him by the balls on some issues like Naniwa and the GSL Code S spot from Providence. I hope he can get the funding to do his own show (maybe on onemoregame? weapon of choice has been dead for awhile...).

Deleted User 183001

2939 Posts

December 19 2011 22:16 GMT

#247

Wow, crazy they would cancel these shows. They better not touch SotG though, because then they'd be going too far. That's silly. Was it even costing MLG money to produce the shows?

Balgrog

United States1221 Posts

December 19 2011 22:16 GMT

#248

Will people please shut up about SOTG? That show is not going anywhere, if MLG DID drop it for some fucking retarded reason, then JP would continue it on his own stream, and nothing would change!

Now that that's out of my system onto the matter at hand. I believe losing these shows is terrible, but necessary for MLG as a TOURNAMENT COMPANY. Of course they want stuff to be biased, they want to look good, that is nothing against them what so ever, just smart business. They realized that the can't really host "un-objectionable" shows that potentially say bad things about them, not smart business. While I am sad these shows are not going to be happening, this allows chobopeon to hopefully work with or start his own independent E-Sports news, and same with slasher. I hope everyone the best in the future, but stop bashing MLG, this is a smart move for them to look professional.

polaris415

United States158 Posts

December 19 2011 22:16 GMT

#249

On December 20 2011 07:14 GuiltyJerk wrote:

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Not to mention it has a very loyal and vocal fanbase

Quite true. I think they'd be shooting themselves in their foot if they cancelled SotG. I never really watched the shows they canceled often, but did watch SC Report once and a while. It's too bad it's cancelled.

Duka08

3391 Posts

December 19 2011 22:17 GMT

#250

This is really... random? I don't know what else to say than that, since I'm quite positive the shows that care will make it on their own. Everything has scrubbed up a strong fanbase already.

Just confused really... Looking for more info

Viciousvx

United States83 Posts

December 19 2011 22:17 GMT

#251

It shouldnt be up to Mlg to produce shows.
User Content.
Fuck Slasher should continue if he really wanted it to., but The Community should step in and Provide content that people obviously want to watch and talk about.

A lot of people joke about who the fuck is this JP guy
but he was someone who wanted to talk about starcraft and starcraft 2 events, and u fuckers loved his show.

Go out there an Innovate.

Torpedo.Vegas

United States1890 Posts

December 19 2011 22:17 GMT

#252

I could see JP continuing SOTG with or without MLG.

Perhaps DJwheats OneMoreGame network might pick up a few of these people/shows if they want to keep them going on the side.

AceOfDeath

1 Post

December 19 2011 22:20 GMT

#253

cannot understand why they did this... makes no sense to me. F slasher pulled huge numbers everyday. Must not have been making enough money to support the studio probably

brad1031

United States7 Posts

December 19 2011 22:21 GMT

#254

Wise to cancel these shows. They lose money by producing them....

aderum

Sweden1459 Posts

December 19 2011 22:22 GMT

#255

Probably just putting everything they can into the tournament, and that is great. New shows from independent sources will probably pop up!

Gl to everybody and hope noone goes jobless.

StarVe

Germany13591 Posts

December 19 2011 22:22 GMT

#256

Stop arguing about SOTG, it will continue, the guys who made the shows obviously knew about the cancellations beforehand and JP didn't hint at going off air at all, he rather said how much he was looking forward to coming back in 2012 and so on.

Even if that was no sign at all, just look at the fanbase. They would deprive themselves of such a great marketing instrument...

The other shows being canceled is the real topic.

brad1031

United States7 Posts

December 19 2011 22:23 GMT

#257

On December 20 2011 07:20 AceOfDeath wrote:
cannot understand why they did this... makes no sense to me. F slasher pulled huge numbers everyday. Must not have been making enough money to support the studio probably

Huge numbers? yeah 2-3k is a lot they make no money what so ever with any of these shows they lose money. Why would the keep producing them? To lose more and more money?

Pandalorum

United States16 Posts

December 19 2011 22:23 GMT

#258

if SOTG is gone, i will stop supporting MLG

TwitchTV

59 Posts

December 19 2011 22:23 GMT

#259

We'll miss you, !@#$ Slasher

Xidious

United States29 Posts

December 19 2011 22:23 GMT

#260

Imho, they should have gave shows that aren't too bad like Slasher's an announcement to the public that if things don't go well for a one full month and turn over then they will pull it, this would give fans an ample amount of time to support the show if they felt they wanted it to stick around.

Instead they just rug pulled the whole thing.. o.o...