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AzureHath
Profile Joined October 2011
Bulgaria154 Posts
June 23 2012 15:40 GMT
#341
thank you sundance! <3
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Profile Joined August 2011
Sweden882 Posts
June 23 2012 15:41 GMT
#342
CHEEEEEEEEEERS!!
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Aber
Profile Joined March 2012
Sweden332 Posts
June 23 2012 15:44 GMT
#343
epic news tbh not everyone has the money and others like myself simply cant pay due to not living in america and having cards to pay over internet etc, so yes. Very good news
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MooMooMugi
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States10531 Posts
June 23 2012 15:50 GMT
#344
Yay nobody has to get banned over posting restreams now :D
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BraveProbe
Profile Joined October 2011
36 Posts
June 23 2012 15:54 GMT
#345
Sensible decision. Was never going to PPV when the GSL provides much, much more content/$ at equal or higher quality.
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Roachu
Profile Joined June 2011
Sweden692 Posts
June 23 2012 15:57 GMT
#346
I'm reading that as hints of things to come. Next MLG will be hype as hell!
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mememolly
Profile Joined December 2011
4765 Posts
June 23 2012 15:58 GMT
#347
ok, I don't think you should get congratulations though, DH offer a free HD stream etc

also, I thought MLG were saying that PPV was the only way to make this business profitable and the future?
Hnnngg
Profile Joined June 2011
United States1101 Posts
June 23 2012 16:06 GMT
#348
On June 24 2012 00:58 mememolly wrote:
ok, I don't think you should get congratulations though, DH offer a free HD stream etc

also, I thought MLG were saying that PPV was the only way to make this business profitable and the future?


Until a sponsor comes in and fucks that up.

Obviously some sponsor changed the rules on how much money MLG gets. The sponsors they had with the money they got lead to the Arenas being PPV or not existent at all. This new sponsor money just gives them more money than we can give MLG through PPV.
Danglars
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States12133 Posts
June 23 2012 16:09 GMT
#349
Glad MLG is doing well enough to be able to offer this! Good news for eSports.
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monitor
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States2409 Posts
June 23 2012 16:11 GMT
#350
Yay! I have to admit, I didn't pay for the Arenas so far But now I can watch for free!! ty!
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Coolness53
Profile Joined April 2010
United States668 Posts
June 23 2012 16:14 GMT
#351
I am excited to see how this works out.
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Sableyeah
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Netherlands2119 Posts
June 23 2012 16:24 GMT
#352
That marketing so stronk, what a bigs amount of bullshit. First they announce that things will all need to be paid for and then everyone buys Gold and now they just drop it... I doubt Gold members will have a lot of extras. Realz...
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Catatonic
Profile Joined August 2011
United States699 Posts
June 23 2012 16:33 GMT
#353
On June 23 2012 12:36 SimDawg wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 23 2012 12:32 jmbthirteen wrote:
On June 23 2012 12:30 SimDawg wrote:
This means LoL will not have to stand on its own two feet as a PPV event, which upsets me a bit.

I don't think they have the engaged viewership that SC2 has, and I was very very curious and eager to find out how the LoL PPV arena was going to go.

LoL wasn't gonna be PPV. Its quite possible that this sponsor that is footing the bill is doing so because of the LoL arena is happening too.


Oh...yeah I don't believe the second half of that, either.

Why not? Generally speaking where both SC2 and LoL are going on at the same tournament LoL has far superior numbers then that of SC2. I love both games dearly though to deny that fact is just ignorance. I remember at I believe IEM Hanover or the one in Eastern Europe can't remember the city name LoL had over 100k viewers while SC2 had about 35-45k which is less then half. It is actually quite possible that the reason a sponsor with the amount of money to make Summer Arena free or freemium I guess jumped on board after seeing the outstanding numbers that LoL draws towards a tournament. This is in no way a bash on SC2 seeing as how the game has thrived for 2 years already and I see no reason to believe that it won't continue to but the sheer number of viewers LoL can bring to a tournament is likely enough to get almost any sponsor on board to pay a boatload.
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Fyrn
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany62 Posts
June 23 2012 16:39 GMT
#354
I will pay for the Arena.

The fact that it gets free streams only makes me want to pay even more. Why?

a) They'll eventually have to work harder to make premium content for people paying, so it'll be more awesome
b) More importantly, the fact that they pass on any growth they see directly to the community.

So because of b), if you have the bucks - keep giving them to MLG. Keep growing esports and SC2!

<3 MLG
"I mean I could always win MLG Providence next year.." - The Little One
Vandrad
Profile Joined November 2011
Germany951 Posts
June 23 2012 16:49 GMT
#355
Great news!
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Alpino
Profile Joined June 2011
Brazil4390 Posts
June 23 2012 16:49 GMT
#356
Free MLG arenas make me believe in humanity's future as a whole.
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Femari
Profile Joined June 2011
United States2900 Posts
June 23 2012 17:29 GMT
#357
I wonder where the additional money came from cause the Arenas weren't cheap by any means
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TenJin`Lucian
Profile Joined August 2011
Costa Rica158 Posts
June 23 2012 17:33 GMT
#358
Free streams mean I will watch, thank you.
MHT
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden1026 Posts
June 23 2012 17:43 GMT
#359
Also nice not to shovel your way through 4chan for some shitty restreams, that place is like a fucking toilet.
JiYan
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States3668 Posts
June 23 2012 17:48 GMT
#360
finally i can watch arenas, praise God
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