On April 18 2012 07:02 kkiller wrote:
Why the fuk starcraft 2 is not mentioned in the article:
"Twitch.tv, which streams competitive multiplayer games around the world, will provide live streams of hugely popular games like Dota 2, World of Warcraft and Call of Duty to GameSpot's audience base, with CBS selling ads around the new content."

what the hell is this. The reason twitch tv is where it is is because of starcraft 2 and (league of legend ) everyone should go to the article and tell them the role of starcraft 2. This the link
http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/cbs-interactive-games-links-twitchtv-gamespot-partners-pro-gamer-orgs-139640?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

I don't think that's quite necessary.

I'm sure that article was written with someone who had more experience on the advertising/broadcasting side of things than they did the game world, and just grabbed names of titles abritrarily from the Twitch.tv landing page to fill out their article.

jmbthirteen

United States10734 Posts

April 17 2012 22:22 GMT

#202

On April 18 2012 07:05 AndreiDaGiant wrote:
no this could also be bad because of the monetizing of a sport i loved for the fact it was not about the money... you can start to slowly kiss goodbye all the free content you are able to watch now

ummm actually we should see MORE free content because twitch's ads will actually be worth something now. Advertising just became much more real for twitch.

the_business_og

United States167 Posts

April 17 2012 22:25 GMT

#203

this is huge for esports

Zerothegreat

United States787 Posts

April 17 2012 23:00 GMT

#204

I feel as giddy as a school girl after reading this... ^_^

AlexWilhelm

United States143 Posts

April 17 2012 23:01 GMT

#205

Glad that everyone liked the TNW article. You guys should have seen what was cut from its first paragraph. I'll see if I can find a copy somewhere.

Edit
Found it: "As you read this I’m asleep, but it’s 10:30 p.m. last night here in Chicago right now, and I just spat whisky all over my monitor. This post was unexpected."

dannystarcraft

United States179 Posts

April 17 2012 23:53 GMT

#206

This is great news for Esports! Glad to see it happen.

Maybe with this MLG won't charge to see their tournaments... ^^

justL

3 Posts

April 18 2012 00:11 GMT

#207

no more MLG.tv.. what a good day

Edit: makes me wonder why they didn't buy up IPL rights as well and complete the NA circle

riderLyrae

United States45 Posts

April 18 2012 00:22 GMT

#208

I'm really happy, because this is good for eSports as a whole, but I haven't been blown away by Gamespot... But I realize that they are completely different entities for different purposes. I'm optimistic.

JiYan

United States3668 Posts

April 18 2012 01:05 GMT

#209

oo looking forward to the kind of actual changes thatll be taking place

jmbthirteen

United States10734 Posts

April 18 2012 01:36 GMT

#210

On April 18 2012 09:11 justL wrote:
no more MLG.tv.. what a good day

Edit: makes me wonder why they didn't buy up IPL rights as well and complete the NA circle

Do you know who owns IGN? That answers your question.

Ownos

United States2147 Posts

April 18 2012 01:41 GMT

#211

I didn't read the article, but I'm posting anyway.

Serpico

4285 Posts

April 18 2012 01:43 GMT

#212

MLG's Adam Apicella says MLG and CBSi will share a booth at E3, hints heavily at Heart of the Swarm being playable and BW pros in Anaheim.

from slasher's twitter

danbel1005

United States1319 Posts

April 18 2012 01:49 GMT

#213

So happy, so excited, this truly is great news.
e-Sports fighting ^^

zaii

Guam2611 Posts

April 18 2012 01:59 GMT

#214

On April 18 2012 10:43 Serpico wrote:
MLG's Adam Apicella says MLG and CBSi will share a booth at E3, hints heavily at Heart of the Swarm being playable and BW pros in Anaheim.

from slasher's twitter

also the 200+ computers for SC....

DreamChaser

1649 Posts

April 18 2012 02:18 GMT

#215

Hey this is awesome if MLG can do great things and show a profit for CBS i am sure other major networks will start gaining interest.

ChuCky.Ca

Canada2497 Posts

April 18 2012 02:19 GMT

#216

I got goosebumps

zaii

Guam2611 Posts

April 18 2012 02:21 GMT

#217

On April 18 2012 11:18 DreamChaser wrote:
Hey this is awesome if MLG can do great things and show a profit for CBS i am sure other major networks will start gaining interest.

News corp is already in it with IPL, unless IGN's plans to separate from Newscorp finally happens.

iiGreetings

Canada563 Posts

April 18 2012 02:25 GMT

#218

holy crap is awesome!

Naded

Canada174 Posts

April 18 2012 02:43 GMT

#219

Anaheim sounds insane this is an SC2 event you cannot afford to miss!

Belisarius

Australia6214 Posts

April 18 2012 03:20 GMT

#220

If this means Australian twitch streams have a chance of not showing the same freaking ad seventeen hundred times every freaking day, I'm a happy man.