MLG Winter Arena to be PPV - Page 235

On February 27 2012 07:37 StarStruck wrote:


Not the right place to be posting that man. That belongs in the LR.

On February 27 2012 07:23 esotericc wrote:
I don't fully understand where this idea that we have to pay to keep having tournaments and support growth.

A TV station doesn't make money solely off viewers they support themselves fully off of advertisement money, why are tournaments like MLG not being supported off advertisement money? Is it because it's not popular enough? I'm not even talking about stream ad revenue, I am litterally talking about a company paying X amount of money to advertise during MLG almost like commercials work on TV.

How is this not working and PPV is the only choice? seems strange.

On February 27 2012 07:31 StarStruck wrote:
Right now it isn't self-sustainable. They need the sponsor money and the numbers aren't there yet.

I would not depend on a base that is only 100K on a good showing. That rating is way too small and when you're only reaching 5-10% of that. -_-

Needs to keep growing.

On February 27 2012 07:54 XRaDiiX wrote:



How is the scene going to grow when Most of the held tournaments in NA by MLG are going to be restricted access so that seems counter intuitive. Noons outside of SC2 is going to Pay for that and or find about it because it's PPV.

Way Less exposure of SC2 is hurtfulI think and the whole thing is counterintuitive

On February 27 2012 08:11 Nizzy wrote:
@Mod, I'm going to make my post in BOLD because I want to ensure that someone from MLG reads it.

Not sure if this is a bug or not. I did not get to watch this MLG event Friday (working) or Saturday (sleeping) and today I've watched most of the "final 6" games for free. I've just consistently loaded up multiple tabs of streams from the MLG website and then going to twitch.tv and searching MLG. I would try to open them up at the same time so maybe it would bug out, and I don't know if MLG set some of the streams to free or not for trial views or not. Maybe because I opened like 3-4 at the same time it would go through on one of them... However I've been watching a lot of games all day for free by just constantly opening new pages when one craps out. By crapping out I mean getting the "pay 20 bucks screen."

I wasn't trying to steal or anything. To be honest I was totally down to pay 10 bucks just for the 6 hours today but no response from MLG's twitter or anything. Not sure if this is a bug or intended. However somehow I was able to sneak through. I watched all of the DRG-Parting extended series. Now all of DRG-HuK. Some DRG-Oz.

EDIT: and in addition I was a former silver member last year and gold this year. So maybe they are giving me some access on the final day? Not sure but they're still getting money from me so <3

On February 27 2012 08:30 LuckoftheIrish wrote:
Sundance says on stream that the event was successful and that two similar events will take place in the spring. Those events will seed into the second MLG championship event of the year. No pricing details or anything yet.

On February 27 2012 08:30 LuckoftheIrish wrote:
Sundance says on stream that the event was successful and that two similar events will take place in the spring. Those events will seed into the second MLG championship event of the year. No pricing details or anything yet.

On February 27 2012 08:30 LuckoftheIrish wrote:
Sundance says on stream that the event was successful and that two similar events will take place in the spring. Those events will seed into the second MLG championship event of the year. No pricing details or anything yet.