EPTThere's no way they can hope to continue to grow and produce good stuff if they don't ask for money to see it live. You will have the option of viewing for free a week after the fact... but who wants that?
MLG Winter Arena to be PPV - Page 83
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Xiandelle
Canada117 Posts
There's no way they can hope to continue to grow and produce good stuff if they don't ask for money to see it live. You will have the option of viewing for free a week after the fact... but who wants that? | ||
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ES_JohnClark
United States1121 Posts
On February 14 2012 13:40 Whatson wrote: Is it because of the nonexistent crowd thats gonna be at Winter Arena, so no spectators?  Ha.. oddly enough.. I missed that part. So ya.. that too  Its the first sentence about their goal 'always' being to give aspiring gamers a platform. The only thing MLG has close to that is Gamebattles and that's just meaningless ladders where if you are 1st place you get to call yourself a 'Pro'. MLG events are specifically set up to make sure that the top 'view getters' will always be there. There is nothing aspiring about their format. | ||
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Parcelleus
Australia1662 Posts
1) We cannot run MLG properly so we need to charge $20 for one event and stop free streams even though no other tournament does this. 2) We are greedy human beings by nature. What did you expect. Talk about being in lalala land. Sc2 community is exactly that, a community, so when we get ripped off, dont expect us to line up, we are not stupid. | ||
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GARO
United States2255 Posts
On February 14 2012 13:52 dnld12 wrote: As has always been the case, our live Championship Events will continue to have a free standard-quality broadcast. This is good That has nothing to do with the 7(?) arena events that they're planning. | ||
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ES_JohnClark
United States1121 Posts
On February 14 2012 13:54 Xiandelle wrote: I'm not at all concerned with paying for it. Especially considering I'll be hosting a BarCraft for it. I don't mind paying a bit extra for awesome content and the privilege to view it live with 200+ other sc2 fans in the local scene. There's no way they can hope to continue to grow and produce good stuff if they don't ask for money to see it live. You will have the option of viewing for free a week after the fact... but who wants that? You may want to confirm that you are allowed to stream it to a crowd... in most cases of ppv.. public establishments must pay a higher fee to stream the event to the public. Opps.. I hope I did not remind MLG of that option. Sorry bro. | ||
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Neurosis
United States893 Posts
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Swampsteel
United States94 Posts
Also, if you have checked out the overlay preview and interface, you can load quad streams and more, but a big problem was that this would lag every stream on the screen. Does anyone know if this will be the same, or is this a localized problem and I'm being internet-stupid. | ||
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Hrrrrm
United States2081 Posts
On February 14 2012 13:47 Stiver wrote: I don't get people on the internet who feel so entitled to get everything for free. I've supported GSL this year (after dropping the last few seasons last year), and it's been the best games since release. If MLG can increase even greater quality than they have alread for a few more bucks, it is worth the money. Suck it up, and help actually support the game. You must not have read a single opinion here. Plenty of people who support GSL are entirely against paying $20 for a 3 day event. The Value is not worth the cost to them. Add to another free event taking place the same weekend and the VOD's for MLG being available a week after for free and you basically have no reason to pay UNLESS you really need to see the matches LIVE. Don't make the mistake of saying that you are supporting the game by supporting MLG. MLG could give two shits about SC2 if it didn't bring the viewers it did. | ||
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Sweeper8
United States25 Posts
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Kvz
United States463 Posts
Personally I will not be purchasing a ticket. | ||
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Prplppleatr
United States1518 Posts
On February 14 2012 13:56 csn_JohnClark wrote: You may want to confirm that you are allowed to stream it to a crowd... in most cases of ppv.. public establishments must pay a higher fee to stream the event to the public. Opps.. I hope I did not remind MLG of that option. Sorry bro. LOL, so true...MLG come get some more money..how they regulate that though (or find out), who knows. | ||
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Erik.TheRed
United States1655 Posts
On February 14 2012 13:55 Parcelleus wrote: It's almost like Sundance is saying : 1) We cannot run MLG properly so we need to charge $20 for one event and stop free streams even though no other tournament does this. 2) We are greedy human beings by nature. What did you expect. Talk about being in lalala land. Sc2 community is exactly that, a community, so when we get ripped off, dont expect us to line up, we are not stupid. Go big or go home! People Want 5 streams! People Need HD! The folks will Love seeing 6 casters! And nobody wants to HURT ESPORTS + Show Spoiler + i don't know about you, but I'd tune in for free even if it was an online, low quality stream with 2 casters. $20? Sorry, I'll see Assembly instead. Or is supporting a European organization hurting esports now too? | ||
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Integra
Sweden5626 Posts
On February 14 2012 13:55 GARO wrote: That has nothing to do with the 7(?) arena events that they're planning. 7 arena events and they are going to charge 20 bucks for each event? Interesting. | ||
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ki11z0ne
United States427 Posts
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LoLAdriankat
United States4307 Posts
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tdt
United States3179 Posts
1. length, one weekend vs almost 2 months 2. As I've said before I don't like seeing adults beat on children. Meaning there is massive blowouts whenever Koreans are teamed with foreigners. Not competitive. Similarly I don't like watching children fight. Foreigner vs foreigner. 3. The GSL offers the tippy top vs the tippy top, no exceptions. While MLG only offers a couple tippy top players so you can take nothing substantive away from it. | ||
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Bayyne
United States1967 Posts
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Dodgin
Canada39254 Posts
On February 14 2012 14:02 tdt wrote: $20 seems like s poor value proposition in comparison to similarly priced GSL for a few reasons. 1. length, one weekend vs almost 2 months 2. As I've said before I don't like seeing adults beat on children. Meaning there is massive blowouts whenever Koreans are teamed with foreigners. Not competitive. Similarly I don't like watching children fight. Foreigner vs foreigner. 3. The GSL offers the tippy top vs the tippy top, no exceptions. While MLG only offers a couple tippy top players so you can take nothing substantive away from it. I'll also add that the MLG weekend tournament format allows for little to no preparation so we will see worse games for sure compared to Code S. | ||
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Rockafella
United Kingdom291 Posts
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WombaT
Northern Ireland25339 Posts
On February 14 2012 14:04 Dodgin wrote: I'll also add that the MLG weekend tournament format allows for little to no preparation so we will see worse games for sure compared to Code S. I think it also lets latent skill shine through and sees less weird snipey builds on the other side of the coin. Pluses and minuses to each of the formats for sure. | ||
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