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On February 10 2012 06:28 Robin_thewonder wrote:
I for one, thought it was great. Really glad MLG let Tumba on to cast with you. He deserves the attention and in my opinion did fantastic. If possible, maybe less breaks in between games...I understand you gotta get replays setup and what not but I found myself losing interest.
Other than that, amazing work and I can't wait to see more in the coming days.
i think there were some tech issues with a few games might of been why they had so many long breaks
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Isn't there any way to reduce the VOD quality?
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On February 25 2012 19:02 ShuttingFromTheSky wrote:
Isn't there any way to reduce the VOD quality?
Of course there is.
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I am just sad that even if MLG might be worth the 20$ it's just on a such bad time for EU hence make it a clearly bad decision to buy it. EUs with jobs have no way of seeing it live so it's really bad businesses for us.
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On February 25 2012 18:55 ki11z0ne wrote:Show nested quote +On February 10 2012 06:22 Ingebrigtsen wrote:
I really liked the part were the broadcast was on when all the europeans were sleeping eh.... loveing how Assembly is starts when Westerns are sleeping ^_^ you cant please ever one dude...
Do you even understand he was talking about the *european* qualifiers starting in the middle of the night in Europe and not the main MLG Arena ? (europe are westerns fyi, too :D)
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On February 25 2012 18:51 CursedRich wrote:
why no rebroadcast? id rather that than vods
totally agree.. ive been waiting for leenock vs thorzain, game one, for 15 min and its halfway done.. this is stupid. im on 100mb down so this shouldnt really be a problem.
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On February 25 2012 19:18 Dundron2000 wrote:Show nested quote +On February 25 2012 18:51 CursedRich wrote:
why no rebroadcast? id rather that than vods totally agree.. ive been waiting for leenock vs thorzain, game one, for 15 min and its halfway done.. this is stupid. im on 100mb down so this shouldnt really be a problem.
Sundance knows the website sucks. He gets it. :D
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I watched till 5am CET last night before I could not stay awake anymore and crashed so I got a bit of feedback for you.
First of all I have to commend you for daring to be the first to make it PPV. It is a huge move and a very important one for the e-sports scene. Not that I dont want everything for free like everyone else but you are the first to make it clear for everyone that e-sports need to generate money and you are putting yourself in the line of fire doing so. You legitimize making profit, something that every other tournament organizer should thank you for, and its not just great it is needed for the longterm sustainability of the e-sports.
So far my 15 dollars as a gold member has been absolutely worth it. It is without a doubt the best foreign tournament and rivals the GSL in value. I do have a few things to point out that could be improved in the future.
Maps. Safe, borring and outdated are the words that comes to mind when I look at your map pool. New maps are not just creating variety for the viewers to get a different experience, many new maps are just better designed to create better, more interesting and more fair games. While your map pool is reasonably balanced, they are generally straight forward without positional features and technical terrain that allows a player to play from behind and for better players to utilize the map to gain an advantage. Your current map pool is likely balanced in winrates but many maps released in the last 6 months are designed to give advantages to the better players. You have always been extremely conservative about your map pool but it is not a moment too late to change that.
Dedicated observers. In one area GSL is lightyears ahead of every other tournament. They have a dedicated observer. Go watch a GSL match, then watch one of your own. Focus solely on the camerawork. Everything is so much smoother, so much more comfortable to watch and so few battles or drops are missed. In comparison the GSL looks like a studioproduction while yours looks like a guy with a handheld camera running across a bumpy field. Given your budget and what you charge for the event you should consider adding dedicated observers to your payroll. Yes they are performing a job that is already being taken of by a caster so it may seem like you are just throwing around money by doing so but the difference is incredible. It is probally the easiest areas to improve upon and the difference is going to be huge.
Staying logged in. I probally logged in 2 dozen times last night due to your otherwise excellent site being unable to remember me as logged in. Not gonna adress this any further, probally a ton of ppl complained about this already.
1080 lag. Your 1080 looks crisp, really outstanding quality but I would get a small lagspike every 5 seconds or so, so I watched in 720 all night. I read that many others had the similair problem. Tell TheGunRun to fix.
Overall it was really great, absolutely worth the bucks and I will support it in the future. Not perfect though, there is still room for improvement.
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Help a noob out, how do you reduce the vod quality? The sound is great here, but the picture is studder stepping.
I saw some matches before I fell asleep, the matches were good, tournament quality is good imo. 
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On February 25 2012 19:20 ceaRshaf wrote:Show nested quote +On February 25 2012 19:18 Dundron2000 wrote:On February 25 2012 18:51 CursedRich wrote:
why no rebroadcast? id rather that than vods totally agree.. ive been waiting for leenock vs thorzain, game one, for 15 min and its halfway done.. this is stupid. im on 100mb down so this shouldnt really be a problem. Sundance knows the website sucks. He gets it. :D
haha yea, well he gets something, i think its to early to say that that something is infact "it". small comfort anyways when i spend 20 bucks to navigate a frustrating pile of steaming shit. i thought they were going to loop the stream  oh god why MLG..
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There seems to be bug on MLG Website. I could nearly watch without breaks and I didn't pay. I was only asked to subscribe once in an hour or so and when I switched streams I could watch again. I use firefox with adblock.
Edit: Stream quality and layout was awesome btw but I wouldnt buy because it's far too late for me to watch everything.
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Everything has been great apart from the lag europe seems to have been getting, at first it lagged on all qualities, then it only lagged on the 1080p option. The same problem doesn't seem to apply to people in the US, I'm sure you've heard this before but I'm just adding to the others who have spoken up about it.
Other than that a fantastic tournament, I'm glad I paid for it.
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Usually I dont like to complain.
However as I could not watch the first round yesterday I went ahead and try to use the VOD system.
As the video are really high def and my internet not great, I did what I do for GSL without any trouble : pause the video so that it load a little bit, to avoid lag. Does work at all with this MLG VOD system.
Thus i just switched to watch assembly.
Needless to say i'm hugely disapointed, as it's a paying service.
If anyone can MP me the place where I can send this to MLG/Twitch support, that would be helpful.
Thanks.
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There needs to be an option to switch VOD between quality settings.
I can't load the 1080p super quick on my basic comcast internet and it makes watching the vods very taxing/annoying.
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totally unwatchable VODs .. sounds is great but picture is just a screenshot every 30 seconds.. so all VODs are messed up..
since we all are paying for this, that needs to be fixed..
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I couldn't watch the streams in 1080p either, the pictures froze every ~20 seconds for ~5 seconds, this is not a bandwidth issue for me or a twitch issue for that matter, I can usually watch multiple streams of similar quality/bitrate without problems, kinda disappointing that the payed service isn't working properly.
I just finished watching the VODs, it surprised me that there was no rebroadcast on demand since MLG usually does it this way, I missed all the fun/banter between games. Really takes away from the experience. :/
Another thing that mildly annoyed me that you could fix on the fly was balance between sound feeds, sometimes one caster is way too low while you can hear every breath of the other one, sometimes the game sound is too loud.
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The vods are just slideshows with some games still missing (idra vs oz for example) as a european who couldnt stay up all night id appreciate if you could fix this issue, watching a slideshow with perfect sound is really annoying.
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Ugh I just want to watch the vods in a lower quality setting but it doesn't show up for me on either of my browsers... wtf
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The amount of games MLG provided with the multiple stream layouts made the $20 worth it, but that's only for the SC2 fanatic. All of my other friends refused to buy it =(.
1080p had some lag issues, not sure if it was my computer being incapable of handling a 1080 stream or MLG's fault.
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