I neither paid nor watched. I didn't want to pay $20 for it, and I told them of this fact.
I mentioned that I would be more willing to pay $10 for a weekend of Starcraft, but then only if there are no other tournaments on at the same time (especially ones that are more in my timezone).
After that I wasn't going to either inflate their viewing numbers or get around what they had set up. I wouldn't advocate that kind of thing. They made their decision so I made mine.

Asturas

Finland587 Posts

February 27 2012 11:05 GMT

#702

Didn't pay or watch. I waited for MLG, but then when I didn't see it in TL calendar I thought that it is some other date.
When I realized that it is on and I would have to pay to watch it I was like: "Whatever, I can just check scores on Liquidpedia."

Why didn't I pay? I don't like "regular" MLGs. Too many "everything" and only some games streamed. I could pay to watch Dreamhack or ROG but absolutely never, ever to watch MLG.

BTW, awesome that MKP won :D

FuzzyJAM

Scotland9300 Posts

February 27 2012 11:07 GMT

#703

I didn't pay or watch. I might have paid if I was free the whole weekend, but probably not even then. I'll watch whatever games are recommended when the VoDs come out next week, however.

Pretty disappointed by the amount of people "stealing" content. To be expected, I guess, but not good anyway.

Tobberoth

Sweden6375 Posts

February 27 2012 11:10 GMT

#704

Didn't pay, only watched a few games at a party on the first day. Good games, hardly worth 20 dollars though.

Sacro

Norway237 Posts

February 27 2012 11:10 GMT

#705

last year any mlg event was a big thing and i was stuck watching from start till end even though it fucked up my sleep ruitine for school mondays. also i did pay for 2-3 events the 10$ for higher quality, vods and for supporting them.

I don't know why it didn't catch any interest now at all, i think the ppv affected it, but more so the reaction from the community and negativity to it. If everyone was really excited for the tournament instead of all the arguing i think i would have watched as usual.
I don't really care too much about paying to watch anyways. I've spent well over 500$ on gsl so far

and i don't regret it at all. It's the best entertainment i've had in years.

Just please be excited in a good way for the next MLG so i can be as well and i wont miss out on another great tournament like i most likely did now!

An2quamaraN

Poland379 Posts

February 27 2012 11:10 GMT

#706

Watched using my friend's account. Who watched it too. Without a single problem. I guess twitch.tv has nothing against multiple simultaneous logins to the same account...

Therefore if You had X friends willing to see that MLG you could just pass the hat round...

emythrel

United Kingdom2599 Posts

February 27 2012 11:12 GMT

#707

On February 27 2012 19:27 USvBleakill wrote:
Only the future will say if it is worth it for mlg but i have the following question:

What are the teams saying about mlg ppv? Or better: What do their sponsors say? For example TLAF or Razor dont care if its better for mlg to get 20K PPV - Viewers instead of 100K for free, but its lesser range to see their players / brands.

Actually 20k paying viewers are worth more to sponsors than 100k free viewers. People who invest their own money to view something are more likely to buy a product via advertising. works the same way with TV, paying viewers are always more valuable than non paying.

firehand101

Australia3152 Posts

February 27 2012 11:13 GMT

#708

On February 27 2012 20:10 An2quamaraN wrote:
Watched using my friend's account. Who watched it too. Without a single problem. I guess twitch.tv has nothing against multiple simultaneous logins to the same account...

Therefore if You had X friends willing to see that MLG you could just pass the hat round...

hehehehe....
You know my secret!

Luftmensch

277 Posts

February 27 2012 11:14 GMT

#709

I hadn't paid but I watched the final day completely normally on the official website without any workarounds that were stated in the poll. For me it was just like watching a normal free stream.

Talic_Zealot

688 Posts

February 27 2012 11:15 GMT

#710

So allot of people would find any means to get their hands on the stream, and at the same time are saying that it is not wort the 20$? That is just hilariously hypocritical.

karpo

Sweden1998 Posts

February 27 2012 11:15 GMT

#711

Judging from the LR thread it seems like the tournament wasn't close to as popular as the regular MLG's. But it seems to me that the overall interest in SC2 is lower nowadays. Previous MLG's saw 10-20 pages of spam everytime a fan favorite won and keeping up with the LR threads was impossible. Now they kinda fill slowly page by page unlike 6 months ago.

Anyone else notice this or am i just imagining things?

On February 27 2012 20:15 Talic_Zealot wrote:
So allot of people would find any means to get their hands on the stream, and at the same time are saying that it is not wort the 20$? That is just hilariously hypocritical.

"Any means" was more or less checking reddit or 4chan for a restream link or a simple three click guide. Bypassing Twitch wasn't rocket science, man.

An2quamaraN

Poland379 Posts

February 27 2012 11:16 GMT

#712

On February 27 2012 19:10 TheG4Be wrote:
When I realised that $20 was about 130 in Swedish currency it didn't seem all that expensive to me.

So yeah, I paid for it.

Its not like you have a good currency. Your country is just freakin wealthy

dpL

Sweden571 Posts

February 27 2012 11:18 GMT

#713

I caught the last four hours or so of the event via the incognito mode bug out of curiosity. It seemed a bit weird and subdued due to the lack of an audience (something the casters seemed to struggle with, they could've used someone like Day9) and the audio seemed somewhat subpar on most streams. Definitively didn't look like something worth paying for. The TwitchTV stream acted very much like a TwitchTV stream with the worst possible timing on a couple of occasions.

I probably would consider paying for a normal MLG event, although of course I'd rather see them stay free.

malaan

365 Posts

February 27 2012 11:23 GMT

#714

There was well over 20k paying subscribers viewing the finals. I don't see how that can be viewed as a 'failure'

20,000 x 20 = $400000.

Frankon

3054 Posts

February 27 2012 11:25 GMT

#715

On February 27 2012 20:23 malaan wrote:
There was well over 20k paying subscribers viewing the finals. I don't see how that can be viewed as a 'failure'

20,000 x 20 = $400000.

I hope you know that Twitch was registering both subscribers and those who got around the paywall as stream viewers.

dartoo

India2889 Posts

February 27 2012 11:26 GMT

#716

I watched a little bit during each day the free hour till the message came up. The video quality seemed pretty good, and tastosis as usual were awesome. But I was surprised that there was no day9, and also the quality of casting the other streams. they might have been okay when your watching for free, but for a ppv event I expected a slightly better cast(day9/husky, and rob simpson with players rotating would've been an quite good).

But then I guess there were difficulties/other engagements otherwise mlg would've got them. But overall for some reason I felt the quality of casting was better in asus rog.

I liked the interface a lot, with the overview, that was pretty sweet, the doctor pepper stream didnt seem to have much going on it. It seemed like a very decent event, but worth paying..I'm not sure...I was happy enough to watch the rog and didnt really feel like I was missing something special.

dpL

Sweden571 Posts

February 27 2012 11:26 GMT

#717

On February 27 2012 20:23 malaan wrote:
There was well over 20k paying subscribers viewing the finals.

Source?

GeorgeyBeats

United Kingdom338 Posts

February 27 2012 11:26 GMT

#718

You ought to add barcrafts as one of the options! As thats where I watched it! ^^