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nihlon
Sweden5581 Posts
Will any part of the Arena be free? The Dr Pepper MLG Ultimate Access stream will be completely free all weekend. The first match aired on each of the four other streams, on both Friday and Saturday, will also be free to everyone. Will it turn up in the calender? | ||
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Mambo
Denmark1338 Posts
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0kz
Italy1118 Posts
On February 23 2012 20:30 nihlon wrote: What about the MLG stream that would be free and run with ads? Will it turn up in the calender? answered On February 23 2012 12:57 Hot_Bid wrote: This isn't a gameplay channel, its a stream of players in a lounge. While there isn't a clear line of what percentage a tournament has to be free to be counted as a "free stream" I would say at least the gameplay portions must be free. | ||
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eRhoSheep
United States10 Posts
The decision was a rational one. TL could have given into this emotional ride MLG has taken us on, and said "blah blah blah support eSports blah blah grow blah sustain blah blah blah blah." They did not. Yet, I still found the occasional post that seemed to question TL's support in eSports, whom they choose to support, or how they should be supporting. Sigh. I am glad some of us have corrected vision otherwise it would be the blind leading the blind here. | ||
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Geo.Rion
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Joseph123
Bulgaria1144 Posts
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Mekare
Germany393 Posts
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Drigger
254 Posts
Putting the monetization of esports above everything else (I am looking at you MLG) is a mistake. | ||
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Maziu
51 Posts
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17682 Posts
its seems equitable for TL.Net to "monetize all the pay per view streams" while we're all busy running around monetizing stuff.. i hope the game remains just as much fun. | ||
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Youtakenocandle
543 Posts
On February 23 2012 20:47 Drigger wrote: Very good decision. Putting the monetization of esports above everything else (I am looking at you MLG) is a mistake. If you live in a dreamworld maybe. But that's another discussion. | ||
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Derez
Netherlands6068 Posts
Plus, I don't think TL is in a place where it can make judgements about how tournaments should monetize. | ||
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Tarotis
Germany1931 Posts
On February 23 2012 20:54 Derez wrote: I think GSL AoL PPV tournaments have been part of the tournament tracker in the past. I'd say TL's role is to provide information (including easy acces to streams), so I'm not a fan of this decision. It seems a little petty not to list winter arena, a major tournament, while listing every (close to) amateur tournament prominently on the sidebar. Plus, I don't think TL is in a place where it can make judgements about how tournaments should monetize. So was GSTL. Got to keep the rules straight for all tournaments... | ||
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VoirDire
Sweden1923 Posts
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ExoStarcraft
Romania33 Posts
But also: Fine, give the premium users extra features, higher resolutions, vods, whatever fancy shmancy stuff you want, but let the people who love the game but can't afford it at least see the basic game and run adds for them to increase your revenue, while the premium one has no adds. The people who can afford it will still pay for it rather than watching in 240p with adds, and also benefit from all the extra features. That's exactly what gom is doing, you get a better stream and access to vods for the premium, and a very low quality and basic stream for free as well. So many people are paying for it even if the premium stream is by far inferior to the streams of most tournaments, since they are in 720 or 1080 and the gom stream is like 480. The gom stream is 480 and there are TONS of people paying for it, and there's no backstage passes, there's no extra streams / alternative commentators yet people pay for it. MLG can just leave the free stream at 240 instead of 480, there is a huge quality difference between 240 and 480. If the free streams in the normal tournaments would be 240 and filled with adds you'd see A LOT more people paying for it. | ||
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Talin
Montenegro10532 Posts
On February 23 2012 20:58 VoirDire wrote: From a utility standpoint I would actually like to have it in the calendar just for the wiki-link, so that I can check the updated tournament results with one click from the front page (while I'm watching assembly^^). I agree with this. | ||
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nihlon
Sweden5581 Posts
Well, this I disagree with. You have other shows where it's nothing but players, casters, whomever sitting and talking about stuff about starcraft that are featured (sometimes not that close to starcraft even). Just because this stream is tied to a tournament why should it be judged differently? At least I hope it will show up in the stream list if not under a tournament topic. Watching as hotbid put it "players in a lounge" is more interesting than many featured streams atm. | ||
Fionn
United States23455 Posts
On February 23 2012 20:56 Tarotis wrote: So was GSTL. Got to keep the rules straight for all tournaments... GSTL has always been free to view live. | ||
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acrimoneyius
United States983 Posts
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TLsc3
Australia11 Posts
 with u this time. I don't care what will happen this time I'am not watching it unless u come up with something better. | ||
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