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MLG Arenas now free - Page 12
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Fanek
Poland344 Posts
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dubRa
2165 Posts
If they would spend less on players and casters and somehow made the audience happen... freemium would bring insane numbers which would translate into a great ppv event. Let's say every two would be a ppv event. They would swim in ca$h. Nonetheless I am happy they make it free and everybody should be. | ||
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Schelim
Austria11528 Posts
wait wut? i mean i'm happy of course but MLG's business decisions remain weird. | ||
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RageBot
Israel1530 Posts
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andropopp
United States88 Posts
On June 23 2012 18:35 Schelim wrote: "oh yeah that worked out so well that we'll stop doing it" wait wut? i mean i'm happy of course but MLG's business decisions remain weird. the sponser paying for the next arena's wants them to be free for higher viewer numbers viewing the sponsers seems right to me | ||
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Masvidal
Korea (South)213 Posts
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26083 Posts
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Noonius
Estonia17413 Posts
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seekfried
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TheSir
1830 Posts
Right and so one event turns the hole 'i get it' drama we had around? Cause we know the passes aren't doing that good and it's not that MLG is new or anything. They couldn't get that sponsor just 4 months earlier? This explanation doesn't make any sense, well i guess it does from a 'we messed up' perceptive and we are now just talking out of our asses to make it sound good. | ||
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Hardigan
Switzerland1297 Posts
On June 23 2012 18:44 Noonius wrote: they saw that DH and Assembly way was the right way. They're not going to admit it but that's what it feels like. Not enough paid viewers and whole lot of restreams, so going free was logical. i have the strange feeling that mlg Arena did bring way more money in than DH. | ||
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Tendoi
Romania62 Posts
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NeMeSiS3
Canada2972 Posts
On June 23 2012 12:18 Weird wrote: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY ANGRY POSTS ABOUT GOOD NEWS YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY SC2 COMMUNITY!!! chuckle chuckle I will be buying the gold pass again, stopped buying it before because I didn't agree with the decision but they've got me this time! : D On June 23 2012 18:49 Hardigan wrote: i have the strange feeling that mlg Arena did bring way more money in than DH. Yes, they did better than they ever hoped (quoted on a SOTG) and that it really opened doors, hell if you think about it say a around 100 or so thousand watch periodically in a weekend if you just get 40% (they said they got around 30-50% of average viewbase) that's 20x40,000 : P 800,000/ Say they slim that down and only 20,000 people watched... 400,000 still a good chucnk of cash : P | ||
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birchman
Sweden393 Posts
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dubRa
2165 Posts
On June 23 2012 18:49 Hardigan wrote: i have the strange feeling that mlg Arena did bring way more money in than DH. As long as you make profit and the growth of the audience is not limited in any way there is a much greater potential to grow the industry as well. | ||
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neurosx
Luxembourg1096 Posts
On June 23 2012 18:29 Fanek wrote: How many people watch last MLG Arena , 5000 ? Sundance is a smart guy And those 5000 people were probably more profitable than the 400k watching anahein for free with ads =) | ||
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Warzone
United States31 Posts
This has absolutely nothing to do with the the success/failure (Believe what you want, but they have publicly declared that the previous arenas were successes) of the Winter and Spring arenas. You have to understand that each business is run differently and on a different set of sponsors and a different sized budget with a different sized viewer base. For some tournaments freemium is practical, and for others it simply is not. MLG has gotten to the point where it now makes sense for them to offer their arenas for free because the benefits they receive from their sponsor are now more significant than the money they would receive from PPV. | ||
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slytown
Korea (South)1411 Posts
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Sinedd
Poland7052 Posts
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StreetWise
United States594 Posts
On June 23 2012 18:47 TheSir wrote: Sorry but this sounds all bullshit to me. Off course they make the arena's freemin, they only get 4k viewers on those arena's now and who's gonna put money as a sponsor in a expensive event like that only gets that amount of viewers? Right and so one event turns the hole 'i get it' drama we had around? Cause we know the passes aren't doing that good and it's not that MLG is new or anything. They couldn't get that sponsor just 4 months earlier? This explanation doesn't make any sense, well i guess it does from a 'we messed up' perceptive and we are now just talking out of our asses to make it sound good. Its free because they have a sponsor for it. The sponsor saw they had ~4-5k people willing to pay 20$ just to watch a small online tournament(meaning no spectators). Since the number of people out of a demographic willing to pay is usually just a small portion of an interested audience the sponsor figured at least ~50k would watch a free stream. I guess they were willing to pay more than 100,000$ to have that kind of exposure. | ||
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