EPThello age of disgusting profiteering.
MLG Winter Arena to be PPV - Page 204
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shizna
United Kingdom803 Posts
hello age of disgusting profiteering. | ||
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silentsod
United States198 Posts
On February 25 2012 09:28 shizna wrote: okay am i understanding this right.... only the first series is free? man, i thought there would be at least a low quality stream available for free... hello age of disgusting profiteering. It really is disgusting that they're adding events to test a new payment model to see if they can make MLG sustainable long term instead of continuing to bleed money. How dare they! | ||
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zachMEISTER
United States625 Posts
On February 25 2012 09:29 silentsod wrote: It really is disgusting that they're adding events to test a new payment model to see if they can make MLG sustainable long term instead of continuing to bleed money. How dare they! "They get it." HAHAHAH SOTG quote. | ||
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Sub40APM
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freetgy
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ODKStevez
Ireland1225 Posts
On February 25 2012 03:58 Dyno. wrote: This is ridiculous for people who won't be able to watch the whole event. If I had the whole weekend off and knew I'd be able to commit to watching this, I would definitely consider paying for this. However, I have work all weekend and would only be able to catch a few games anyway. Under the old MLG stream, I'd watch them in low quality and with ads, but it was nice to have the option. Unforunately, now I won't be able to catch any of the games even between my shifts. This is similar for me except I do not plan on staying up all night 2 nights in a row. I'll just wait the week. If it was on a time suited for me, i'd probably pay. | ||
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ntssauce
Germany750 Posts
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Abort Retry Fail
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On February 25 2012 09:36 dTox wrote: So will i have to pay them $15 again the next time they host one of these Winter Arena's? In which case how often will these occur? This. Exactly. Maybe all events covereg by gold will turn into this kind of PPV. I want my gold refund please. | ||
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shizna
United Kingdom803 Posts
On February 25 2012 09:29 silentsod wrote: It really is disgusting that they're adding events to test a new payment model to see if they can make MLG sustainable long term instead of continuing to bleed money. How dare they! from where i'm standing, it looks like dreamhack, assembly and iem etc seem to manage fine without a PPV system. either that's an incorrect assumption, and dreamhack, assembly and iem etc are going to fold OR mlg are doing something wrong. anyway it's fine, i'll just watch some pro streams instead... i was just shocked to discover that you can't watch ANY games. i thought PPV meant there was a PPV package available with 234234234 bonus streams and higher resolution... not that every minute of every match (aside from preview) would be PPV. i think that could have been cleared up in the first sentence of the announcement to be honest, to avoid this confusion. | ||
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TI020
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cameronkrazie86
United States296 Posts
On February 25 2012 09:29 silentsod wrote: It really is disgusting that they're adding events to test a new payment model to see if they can make MLG sustainable long term instead of continuing to bleed money. How dare they! Last year - 6 MLG pro circuit events. This year - 4 MLG pro circuit events. Gold membership gets access to all pro circuit events. Then these "new" PPV events take the place of the other pro circuit events that were cut. Gold membership doesn't cover these "new" events despite their own graphics saying "pro circuit arena". So I paid $30 for my gold membership being told it would cover all MLG events in 2012. Now I need to pay an additional $15 to watch these "new" pro circuit events. I'm glad I can be a "test" subject to their "new payment model" which consists of double-dipping on the people that already paid for all of the MLG content months in advance. But hey, at least Sundance fired the person in charge of the old gold membership, that really satisifies me the paying customer. It's fun being a paying customer of a bait & switch business practice. /end rant. | ||
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Adreme
United States5574 Posts
On February 25 2012 09:41 shizna wrote: from where i'm standing, it looks like dreamhack, assembly and iem etc seem to manage fine without a PPV system. either that's an incorrect assumption, and dreamhack, assembly and iem etc are going to fold OR mlg are doing something wrong. anyway it's fine, i'll just watch some pro streams instead... i was just shocked to discover that you can't watch ANY games. i thought PPV meant there was a PPV package available with 234234234 bonus streams and higher resolution... not that every minute of every match (aside from preview) would be PPV. i think that could have been cleared up in the first sentence of the announcement to be honest, to avoid this confusion. The second 2 dont make money but Dreamhack might because of all the stuff that goes on there. | ||
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SlaTe87
Germany35 Posts
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shizna
United Kingdom803 Posts
if you want to watch it live, it's full price to stay up until 5am? and who the **** wants to watch non-live PPV? | ||
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LuckoftheIrish
United States4791 Posts
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IMoperator
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Sluggy
United States128 Posts
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Dhalphir
Australia1305 Posts
On February 25 2012 09:38 ntssauce wrote: what about the people that fucking don't have the money to pay for this... OCCUPY MLG :!!! then they don't get it, just like the people who don't have the money to buy a big house don't get a big house i dont know whats so hard to understand about this. there are other free MLG events throughout the year. you are not automatically entitled to see everything for free. | ||
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zezamer
Finland5701 Posts
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