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I don't have much to say about the players and casters, since they're all so great.
Overall, the broadcast is excellent. MLG's layout works really well, and it's actually worth it for $20 if I can switch streams so easily without an annoying ad pop up. The video quality is excellent - 1080p plays without lag.
The production is the best attempt ever for a non-korean tournament. The graphical overlays look great, the video and audio mixing is seamless for the most part. The lighting is pretty good, but is far from perfect. Still, you guys could for sure do a better job with the production for next time. The streams besides the arena stream are choppy and have poor audio. Even the framing is just terrible on some of your shots on the alternate streams. With such a nice looking arena stream, it just looks cheesy having to watch alternate streams with interviews that look like they're done on a webcam. For the Arena stream, the backdrop of NYC is very cool, since it really gives you the feeling of being in the city. But you guys skimped on the production for the main stage for sure. I would have liked to see more open shots of the arena. If you're going to call it arena, at least make it look like one. Then you don't need to hide your production with tight shots. The lighting is so dim. I know you want people to be able to see new york, but you should have adjustable lights that can cut out if you want to show the city. For those who can only stream lower quality, the blacks just come out like garbage.
The Dr. Pepper Ultimate Access Stream is a great edition. Some feedback I have though is that you should have dressed up the room a little bit more. Light it with LED strips or something. The overhead shot of the room just kind of looks like some bro's basement.
The look and feel of the event justifies the $20 ticket, but I know what MLG is capable of, and they are skimping on the small details to bring the event up to GSL level.
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Ah! It should also be noted that my login problems began when I clicked on the Dr.Pepper free stream and started watching it. Anybody else have that happen?
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On February 25 2012 12:35 BeefNugget101 wrote:
Is anyone else having trouble accessing VODs? When I click on them it doesn't do anything...
My Understanding was that they werent going to be available for a week.. that may have changed since though.
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United States123 Posts
Hey guys,
I believe I may have found a temporary workaround for the login issues. If someone could try this and let us know if it works, It'd be great to get some more testers. If you are constantly being logged out or being bumped, please try the following:
- Open Incognito or Private Browsing Mode
- Go to Live Site
- Load Overview
- Login to each stream individually
- Swap around as you choose
Again, sorry for the inconvenience - but I hope this temporary work around works for you as it has been for me. Please let me know what kind of success you're having, if any, with this method.
Thanks
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Logging in individually has worked for me, it's just a bit frustrating, especially when Flash occasionally decides to commit suicide because of the 5 720p streams.
Other than that though, I've been very happy with everything. I was worried about some of the casting but everyone's been at least above average, and sometimes much more. I especially like when you bring in players to cast such as Grubby, Axslav and Catz, so more of that would be appreciated. And of course the interviews are good.
The Dr. Pepper cam has been mostly useless so far, aside from HB teaching Shibby how to cannon rush, but it's not that big of a deal. You should place hidden mics in the room and provide lots of free alcohol, and then call it the VIP stream and charge an extra $40. Extra bonus if there's silly string and random banana cream pies and full Gatorade coolers lying around. Or invite all of IdrA's groupies into the room with him and see what unfolds.
I was worried that the 4 streams would be too much and I'd be anxious that I was missing something (sort of why they do the NFL Red Zone and special March Madness channels), and while it's happened a bit, it hasn't been as bad as I thought it'd be. For the most part, the dead times have overlapped well.
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Having the small preview up in the right corner of a secondary stream, and the main one up... is awesome. I love the customizable layout. The quality. Everything seems to work really nice. I'm having a good time, glad I got this.
The interface is very intuitive and simple, and its easy to bounce between streams or watch 2 or 3 at once. Surprising given the MLG website, but this is nice.
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Great production. The inclusion of the mysterious Rob (is he the Blizz Esports guy?) is fantastic and getting some of the players in on the games (Grubby and Catz were great) is entertaining too. The four streams definitely seemed like a lot, wasn't in the end, but it feels like the amount of games played today are sort of being crammed in. I guess I'm a little too used to the pool/bracket combo from the Pro Circuit.
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Great streams so far aside from the log in issue which I've been able to resolve. However, I wished you had a player cam for each stream. I really wanted to see NesTea's reaction when he lost to Demuslim 
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On February 25 2012 12:38 pr0bez wrote:
The Dr. Pepper Ultimate Access Stream is a great edition. Some feedback I have though is that you should have dressed up the room a little bit more. Light it with LED strips or something. The overhead shot of the room just kind of looks like some bro's basement.
Just want to touch on this as a non-paying viewer. I wanted to check out the production value of MLG to see if I missed out on a good show but when I tuned in to the only stream that is available to those not paying i get a boring interview where Slahser is just talking about what is happening in a game. I see players just sleeping on couches lounging around. I see somebody's basement. Come on... compared to IPL's stream where Lani runs about getting interviews the whole day, MLG seriously failed with the DR Pepper ULTIMATE access stream.
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Sorry to see some people are having log in issues. No problems here and I'm fucking loving it. This is infinitely better than just watching an embedded stream on TL.
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Does everyone else have the problem of having to re-type user and password everytime you switch streams? Really annoying. Otherwise, awesome awesome production and games.
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On February 25 2012 13:27 Jibba wrote:
Logging in individually has worked for me, it's just a bit frustrating, especially when Flash occasionally decides to commit suicide because of the 5 720p streams.
Other than that though, I've been very happy with everything. I was worried about some of the casting but everyone's been at least above average, and sometimes much more. I especially like when you bring in players to cast such as Grubby, Axslav and Catz, so more of that would be appreciated. And of course the interviews are good.
The Dr. Pepper cam has been mostly useless so far, aside from HB teaching Shibby how to cannon rush, but it's not that big of a deal. You should place hidden mics in the room and provide lots of free alcohol, and then call it the VIP stream and charge an extra $40. Extra bonus if there's silly string and random banana cream pies and full Gatorade coolers lying around. Or invite all of IdrA's groupies into the room with him and see what unfolds.
I was worried that the 4 streams would be too much and I'd be anxious that I was missing something (sort of why they do the NFL Red Zone and special March Madness channels), and while it's happened a bit, it hasn't been as bad as I thought it'd be. For the most part, the dead times have overlapped well.
Pretty much agree with this. Havent really had the log in troubles some people are experiencing, just what Jibba posted.
Overall I am very happy and think its worth $20. There is polishing to be done, but I really like the set up. One thing I would like to see is the casting area of the non main stream casters needs to be improved. It looks way too bland and boring. White walls with an MLG poster, eh, not cutting it.
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First off I want to say that I'm glad I payed for this and it's very good and entertaining. I do have a few things I personally dislike though.
I sometimes get the stream interrupted by the "log in or purchase a ticket" stream which is kind of annoying, but I'm not sure if it's something on MLGs side or just on mine, not really a big deal overall. It kind of seems like there aren't really enough casters to make all 4 of the streams absolute top notch. Like I know 1 or 2 of the streams just have solo casters, but I can also understand that getting 8 top notch casters is expensive and also quite hard. Other than that, I'd just be happier if it was a bit cheaper than $20, but so far still a very good broadcast.
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Here's a thing that i really miss and would improve things for a lot of people. I live in Sweden and as you may know Sweden is in a different timezone. Converting timezones can be a pain in the ass and leaves you to ask silly questions in the chat. This could be easily fixed if you would include a clock that shows the local time. It could be placed in the top bar in the Twitch UI.
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Well I was at a friends house, some really good games (upset with ret/mvp) but I'm curious, is MLG doing its post VOD for free still? Where they release all vod's from an event free? I was wondering because I wanna watch some series that I definatly missed.
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Just wanna give props to the "other" casters as well, Tumba, Adebisi, and Robin doing a very professional casting job.
Good job guys keep it up!
Also, the VODs look amazing, great job production crew!
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On February 25 2012 15:08 NeMeSiS3 wrote:
Well I was at a friends house, some really good games (upset with ret/mvp) but I'm curious, is MLG doing its post VOD for free still? Where they release all vod's from an event free? I was wondering because I wanna watch some series that I definatly missed.
VODs are free a week after the event, if you have a pass, you can go watch VODs now. i don't think all are up yet because they were delayed since there were pay wall difficulties.
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