MLG Arenas now free - Page 16

On June 23 2012 22:23 Stanlot wrote:
Wow, were the Anaheim numbers so big that it changed their entire business outlook? @_@

On June 23 2012 19:56 FrogOfWar wrote:


It is also possible that something is needed at one time (when your company is dying for example) and no longer needed at another. He says season pass sales were part of what made this possible.

(Why does MLG get shit on so much when they've always allowed watching their biggest events for free in good quality with convenient stream switching and so on while what GSL offers for free is and always has been a bad joke?)

I've got an MLG season pass. While I do think the price could have been lower, I'm very happy with what I got for it. Offering two free and two premium streams for the championships is a good, reasonable solution to let everyone watch and still make some money aside from sponsoring. But if sponsoring carries it alone, that is even better. (However, I hope it doesn't mean too many ads, or rather, too many repetitions of the same ad over and over. I enjoyed the ad-free championship quite a bit.)

On June 23 2012 22:35 busbarn wrote:
Too bad their arenas are all korean and few watches anyway, except the die hard fans who paid last time.

On June 23 2012 22:59 Kuni wrote:


You are of course right. It is entirely possible. But I don't think you should confuse one thing with the other. Their biggest event has always been free, because it has at the same time also always been the lifeblood of MLG drawing in viewers. If there was only the PPV arena and nothing else, no one would bother to buy the PPV pass, as there would be no hype, no interest, no nothing, just another event.

But the possibility alone doesn't automatically mean that it's fact. MLG gets so much shit for a reason. Sometimes they do shady decisions, the next day Sundance tweets about something and is the hero of the world. One day later they fuck something up again only to be the heroes the following day, after Sundance has tweeted something cool again.
It feels as if they're just testing how far the can fuck with us and what it takes to make us happy again. I don't like that and many others think the same.



It's cool that the arenas are now free, no matter the reason, but all those Sundance praises by community members are just as dishonest as half the MLG PR announcements they give us.