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Kammalleri
Canada613 Posts
Or does it mean MLG would make less money by selling PPV then they would get for making it free and selling advertisement with 50k people watching over 1k? When you find something that works so well why not stick with it over consistenly changing it? | ||
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Hnnngg
United States1101 Posts
On June 25 2012 13:16 Kammalleri wrote: It's really awesome that the arenas will be free, but I just don't get it... Basically the arenas were too profitable and brought so much money to the company that they will be free from now on? Or does it mean MLG would make less money by selling PPV then they would get for making it free and selling advertisement with 50k people watching over 1k? When you find something that works so well why not stick with it over consistenly changing it? Some new sponsor money came in and gave them more money than we could with Arenas, that sponsor obviously wants advertisements. With the sponsors they had, like a week ago, the PPV was more profitable. | ||
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Joan_of_Arc
Australia66 Posts
I'm very much looking forward to getting to watch the next Arena event, since I can afford to now. MLG is always a good excuse to spend the weekend watching starcraft, if I ever need one  | ||
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Kammalleri
Canada613 Posts
On June 25 2012 13:18 Hnnngg wrote: Some new sponsor money came in and gave them more money than we could with Arenas, that sponsor obviously wants advertisements. With the sponsors they had, like a week ago, the PPV was more profitable. Thats for sure, but in the best scenario there will be both freemium and PPV. The issue with MLG is theit main event will always be free and as exciting as the arenas are they are still qualifiers. They can't really hype a huge event and make it PPV and get a sick turn out for the event to please the sponsors and make the PPV selling profitable as well. | ||
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jmbthirteen
United States10734 Posts
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Raven068
United States90 Posts
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Diabulus
Bolivia105 Posts
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ThomasR
764 Posts
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BIGInTokyo
Australia18 Posts
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MrMercuG
Netherlands2389 Posts
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fumikey
Canada58 Posts
New sponsors would enable the possibility, but from Sundance's glory from PPV in the past it did not seem like he would even consider the idea of free viewership. | ||
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FinBenton
Finland870 Posts
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kheldorin
Singapore539 Posts
On June 25 2012 18:41 fumikey wrote: Is it possible they are making streams free to keep up with DreamHack? New sponsors would enable the possibility, but from Sundance's glory from PPV in the past it did not seem like he would even consider the idea of free viewership. He even said that he went the PPV route because for "e-Sports to grow, we should not be relying on sponsors'. I personally believe Sundance is full of BS. | ||
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Koshi
Belgium38799 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + Free fucking Arena's Thx Sundance. | ||
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Full.tilt
United Kingdom1709 Posts
On June 25 2012 16:45 ThomasR wrote: not enough people paying the premium to watch these mlgs = mlg make more money from ads + allowing people to watch for free? I'd guess it's more to do with what sponsors want (more viewers) than how much MLG makes or doesn't make. | ||
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ogrebutcher
United Kingdom11 Posts
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SupLilSon
Malaysia4123 Posts
On June 25 2012 13:18 Hnnngg wrote: Some new sponsor money came in and gave them more money than we could with Arenas, that sponsor obviously wants advertisements. With the sponsors they had, like a week ago, the PPV was more profitable. If PPV was making them more money than free stream + advertisements it would still be PPV. You don't make so much money that you don't need to make more, like Sundance said, he is trying to run a business. It's in his best interest for you to think this was all done for the hugznkizzes. | ||
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Technique
Netherlands1542 Posts
On June 25 2012 13:16 Kammalleri wrote: It's really awesome that the arenas will be free, but I just don't get it... Basically the arenas were too profitable and brought so much money to the company that they will be free from now on? Or does it mean MLG would make less money by selling PPV then they would get for making it free and selling advertisement with 50k people watching over 1k? When you find something that works so well why not stick with it over consistenly changing it? Obviously Arenas where doing bad and they now made it ''free'' with some excuse to not lose face. | ||
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Icky
Denmark95 Posts
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Schelim
Austria11528 Posts
On June 25 2012 21:05 Icky wrote: Too late for me, to be honest. When they changed the streaming to all P2V, I stopped watching SC2, and the flame is gone. Good for everyone else, of course. Good on you, MLG. you completely stopped watching starcraft 2 because one tournament out of the dozens that are happening all the time made some of their events PPV? | ||
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