EPTTl,s decission to ban them from the calendar has been rather symbolical lol
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Rassy
Netherlands2308 Posts
Tl,s decission to ban them from the calendar has been rather symbolical lol | ||
nimdil
Poland3750 Posts
While I admit I hate PPV business model and I hope that MLG won't see reasonable profit in it, I believe calendar should include the information somehow. Maybe it should be unclickable and without links in description but still. This way - calendar does not include complete inforamtion about significant events and IMHO that's the main purpose of it. | ||
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OpticalPhonon
Canada72 Posts
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Mesha
Bosnia-Herzegovina439 Posts
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zul
Germany5427 Posts
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tnud
Sweden2233 Posts
On April 21 2012 08:03 OpticalPhonon wrote: Has this policy changed? Yea.. why is this in the calendar at all? Don't get me wrong I have nothing against MLG doing what they do but seeing them in the calendar is kinda inconsistent no? o_O EDIT: It seems only day 1 is in the calendar which is the only day with a bit of free stream. I get it now. | ||
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OpticalPhonon
Canada72 Posts
On April 21 2012 08:35 tnud wrote: Yea.. why is this in the calendar at all? Don't get me wrong I have nothing against MLG doing what they do but seeing them in the calendar is kinda inconsistent no? o_O EDIT: It seems only day 1 is in the calendar which is the only day with a bit of free stream. I get it now. The last Arena had a similar free preview. I don't see the difference here. | ||
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vrok
Sweden2541 Posts
We believe that a PPV-only stream listing is advertising that outweighs the contribution and utility to our calendar. While MLG understood our viewpoint, they disagreed with our decision to charge for PPV stream calendar advertising. There is no mystery sadly. TL wanted money, and this time they got it. Nevertheless, we simply cannot treat PPV-only listings the same as events with free options, just as we can't treat Sponsored Threads the same as normal threads. This line, however, was pure bullshit. | ||
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Jinsho
United Kingdom3101 Posts
On April 21 2012 08:35 tnud wrote: EDIT: It seems only day 1 is in the calendar which is the only day with a bit of free stream. I get it now. Quoting so people can read this instead of whining. | ||
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Hall0wed
United States8486 Posts
On April 21 2012 13:01 Jinsho wrote: Quoting so people can read this instead of whining. But it is wrong. It is on the calendar this time because MLG payed TL whatever the fee was to get it advertised on the website. | ||
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Bidj
France98 Posts
On April 21 2012 08:07 Mesha wrote: Paying for content that is free 24 hours a day from top different pros of the world. This is retarded. There should be a low quality FREE stream! As always, nobody force you to watch. Feel free to not pay for this and go watch the free content elsewhere. This line, however, was pure bullshit. Nope, you probably didn't understand it. They don't treat PPV-only listings the same as events with free options, i.e. PPV-only has to pay to be listed while free content is listed for free. Their policy has not changed, first time MLG refused to pay, so no listing. This time they finally decided to pay, so got listed. | ||
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vrok
Sweden2541 Posts
On April 21 2012 13:10 Bidj wrote: As always, nobody force you to watch. Feel free to not pay for this and go watch the free content elsewhere. Nope, you probably didn't understand it. They don't treat PPV-only listings the same as events with free options, i.e. PPV-only has to pay to be listed while free content is listed for free. Their policy has not changed, first time MLG refused to pay, so no listing. This time they finally decided to pay, so got listed. Actually it's you that didn't understand it. Read it again. Especially the part about sponsored threads vs normal threads. Take your time. What you're talking about was covered in the first line I quoted. This line started with "nevertheless" for a reason. | ||
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UmiNotsuki
United States633 Posts
Hopefully they'll return to an SQ free stream. | ||
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zul
Germany5427 Posts
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Yamulo
United States2096 Posts
On April 22 2012 09:04 zul wrote: still no forum response by TL officials. I guess actions speak louder than words. Actually most of TL is either at MLG or at DH right now... Give them some time, I mean the TL hq building is in NY. | ||
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ChuCky.Ca
Canada2497 Posts
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resilve
United Kingdom678 Posts
Not explaining your decision is not. | ||
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MonkSEA
Australia1227 Posts
On February 23 2012 12:37 Hot_Bid wrote: Conclusion We believe that a PPV-only stream listing is advertising that outweighs the contribution and utility to our calendar. While MLG understood our viewpoint, they disagreed with our decision to charge for PPV stream calendar advertising. Nevertheless, we simply cannot treat PPV-only listings the same as events with free options, just as we can't treat Sponsored Threads the same as normal threads. We hope you understand why the event is not on our calendar, and we apologize in advance for any inconvenience it causes for those paying for and watching the Winter Arena. We will still cover the event in news because we believe the function of our news section is also to show people something they couldn't or didn't watch, while the function of the calendar is to show something users can watch. We owe it to our users to cover an event with such an elite player pool and production value as MLG. It's arguably even more important for people to read news coverage of this event because some won't even be watching it. To be clear, we are still in a close and open relationship with MLG, we communicate with their staff daily. In the end, we TL staff are fans too, and some of the best experiences we've had have been watching and attending MLGs. We hope that MLG finds a revenue model that allows them to keep running successful events. Are you guys all dumb? I bolded the part in the OP. Obviously MLG bought the the calendar advertisement. I don't see what's so hard to understand, or what is so wrong about it. Why is it a big fuss any ways? | ||
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Kira__
Sweden2672 Posts
On April 22 2012 09:22 resilve wrote: Taking a stand on PPV content is admirable, as the OP said for the last event. Changing your mind is also understandable, this is a business (etc etc). Not explaining your decision is not. Why would they bother responding to people who didn't read/understand the OP? | ||
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dcemuser
United States3248 Posts
On April 22 2012 09:22 resilve wrote: Taking a stand on PPV content is admirable, as the OP said for the last event. Changing your mind is also understandable, this is a business (etc etc). Not explaining your decision is not. They probably didn't change their mind. MLG just bought the calendar spot, like TL originally offered them for Winter Arena. | ||
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