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WilDMousE
Chile1335 Posts
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Dodgin
Canada39254 Posts
On February 14 2012 09:17 Klonere wrote: I like this post. John Clark @csn_johnclark @MLGSundance Its possible that your statement about your investment will fall on deaf ears. Most do not have a clue of the costs to orgs.. James Lampkin @Kennigit To give a better picture of online ad serving, The NFL was selling their online stream ads (3.1 mill viewers) for mid six figures. Sundance DiGiovanni @MLGSundance Again. You're awesome as a community but there aren't enough of you for advertising to be enough. That's the truth. Just a few tidbits from Twitter. Concerning Sundance's tweet, in my opinion if that is true then mlg won't be putting on sc2 tournaments much longer, Plexa said earlier in the thread that there may be an over saturation of tournaments and if MLG bites it then that's just how it will be. Not like we don't have other tournaments to follow. | ||
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CryMore
United States497 Posts
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LeFroMaGe
United States628 Posts
On February 14 2012 09:18 Scottyrica wrote: and the thing that's awful is even with probably 60% of the people not doing it, they'll still make more money than usual and continue to do it. It's not awful, it's Supply and Demand. They are taking all the good storylines/Amazing players, and the people with the money to watch it will, at a fair price. | ||
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Dalnor
Australia68 Posts
Not because I think $20 is too much money, but because I hope PPV is not the future of 'esports'. I hope that the future of esports is more of a mix or free and premium content. Instead of making this event PPV, I'd suggest making this event AND the online qualifiers a mix of free and premium content. (ie During the qualifiers making the HD paid) Also I think PPV gives nothing the to growth of esports. | ||
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ChuCky.Ca
Canada2497 Posts
On February 14 2012 09:20 babylon wrote: There aren't enough viewers to make it profitable. 240 thousand isnt enough viewers? | ||
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zefreak
United States2731 Posts
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chestnutcc
India429 Posts
On February 14 2012 09:20 babylon wrote: There aren't enough viewers to make it profitable. Hmmm, true, I tuned into a LoL stream by mistake once and was shocked at the 200k people there. | ||
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Arcanne
United States1519 Posts
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ChuCky.Ca
Canada2497 Posts
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A Wet Shamwow
United States1590 Posts
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wunsun
Canada622 Posts
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casualman
United States1198 Posts
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archonOOid
1983 Posts
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Pingu242
Canada18 Posts
 Ah wells at least their live events are still free. | ||
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BoxedLunch
United States387 Posts
forcing people to pay for something that once was free is retarded, plain and simple. this move will hurt MLGs bottom line and they will regret ever doing it | ||
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Full.tilt
United Kingdom1709 Posts
On February 14 2012 08:46 MHT wrote: Don't care if Flash was in this tournament, not paying $20 to watch anything. Assembly will do just fine for me. Woah, let's not go crazy here  | ||
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Atlare
Australia893 Posts
On February 14 2012 09:22 Dodgin wrote: Concerning Sundance's tweet, in my opinion if that is true then mlg won't be putting on sc2 tournaments much longer, Plexa said earlier in the thread that there may be an over saturation of tournaments and if MLG bites it then that's just how it will be. Not like we don't have other tournaments to follow. Doubtful, MLG have made it pretty clear just how much of a boost starcraft gave to MLG, even if he says there isnt enough for us to make it proftiable ad wise, I imagine its sure as shit better than what it was before, much like blizzcon last year inc omparison to years before. | ||
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jmbthirteen
United States10734 Posts
Oh wait, you mean the korean scene is incredibly small, players don't get salaries, teams need more sponsorship and are making deals with foreign teams to get money? And they can only play in tournaments outside of GSL if their trip gets paid for? So GOMs format isn't really growing the scene much is it? | ||
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babylon
8765 Posts
Definitely not enough to be self-sustainable. They're not making money. At worst they're losing it. | ||
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