Questions about the MLG Winter Arena and PPV? - Page 11

On February 23 2012 10:21 roymarthyup wrote:
i have a slight question about this MLG PPV event



i know when someone orders UFC on PPV, the PPV cable TV company gets a large cut of the money (sometimes a 55% cut) and UFC doesnt get all of it


however i bet since this is online PPV through MLG's website, MLG should be receiving 100% of the money that the PPV plan generates, correct?


or is there someone else that is taking a cut of MLG's PPV money?

crap, just remembered maybe blizzard is taking a cut. hope its no more than 10% or that would be stupid

On February 23 2012 10:23 Spaceneil8 wrote:

Twitchtv is taking a cut as well afaik.

On February 23 2012 09:24 Aunvilgod wrote:


For exactly this reason. Aside from my disgust about the PPV I really do not like advertisements like this in this section. And, seriously, this is obviously an advertisement.

On February 23 2012 10:25 roymarthyup wrote:


dunno why MLG would do that when they have streams on their own website and they could get 100% of the money by just running their streams?

man this seems so crazy. why wouldnt mlg just use their streams to make all the money off their own event so they dont have to pay any leeches

or i guess maybe twitch is working with them to run the streams or something so this is MLG's way of paying twitch to do the streamwork while MLG no longer needs to hire people to do streamwork. if thats the case i understand it.

On February 23 2012 10:25 Manifesto7 wrote:


You are right, this thread isn't ideal. We talked about this as the staff, and decided that if GOM was rolling out a new model and people had questions about it, they would have a thread too. People want to know how they can watch, so it is important to have that information out there. And no, TL is not getting any cut.

On February 23 2012 12:40 Devolved wrote:

Didn't everyone know about it from the initial announcement? If people want to learn more about it or have questions then they can head over to the MLG website. I dunno if I'd be so kind as to let an outside company come into my place of business and profit off of my popularity. It'd be like Verizon setting up a kiosk inside of Best Buy and selling their phones at their own kiosk instead at the Best Buy checkout and doing this without paying any type of fees whatsoever. They'd increase their profits solely based on the work/reputation of another establishment, the exact same as MLG is doing through this thread on TL.

On top of MLG taking advantage of TL's popularity for their own gain, I think TL should be asking themselves if they really want to promote PPV-only SC2 events. Does it fall in line with TL's views of the future of SC2? If this somehow ends up working for MLG, other companies will follow this model. Is this something TL wants to be a part of? Can we expect the next TSL to be pay-per-view-only?

I'll stop talking about it now since y'all have obviously already discussed it and came to a different conclusion than I have drawn.