EPT'Auction' to sponsor SC2 OSL - Page 3
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Gamegene
United States8308 Posts
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xmungam
United States1050 Posts
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opterown
Australia54784 Posts
On August 05 2012 13:55 whirlpool wrote: we should thank them, any website or facebook of sponsor? http://www.auction.co.kr/ i guess you could order some stuff? haha no idea how to navigate though | ||
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TommyP
United States6231 Posts
On August 05 2012 13:36 BrosephBrostar wrote: But that doesn't make sense. If you're a company why would you invest in something that might have viewers in 6 months instead of something you know has viewers right now? Even if SC2 does become more popular next year this sponsor won't benefit from it. It's not like they're getting some kind of discount because it's SC2 either. If you bought a lot of stock in Starbucks 10-15 years ago, you made a lot of money and it probably wasnt the most expensive to buy, but its was still a risk. Theyre taking a risk and it could make them a lot of money. | ||
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Dodgin
Canada39254 Posts
On August 05 2012 13:37 canikizu wrote: Switch to SC2 Immediately got sponsors Profit. I imagine they have had this sponsor lined up for a while now, would they have sponsored even if it was still BW OSL? Who knows. | ||
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6NR
United States1472 Posts
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Spec
Taiwan931 Posts
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Gamegene
United States8308 Posts
On August 05 2012 14:07 Spec wrote: Dayum excellent move by Auction. No one knew who they were, but this sponsorship gave instant 10k+ nerd recognition. except that's 10K foreign fans which means nothing for a Korean company who's market is domestic. face it no one here is going to be using this site. | ||
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Veldril
Thailand1817 Posts
On August 05 2012 14:09 Gamegene wrote: except that's 10K foreign fans which means nothing for a Korean company who's market is domestic. face it no one here is going to be using this site. It's kinda depends on them though. If they plan to market outward to international audience/market, then they should have some follow up plan in their marketing. | ||
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BrosephBrostar
United States445 Posts
On August 05 2012 13:58 TommyP wrote: If you bought a lot of stock in Starbucks 10-15 years ago, you made a lot of money and it probably wasnt the most expensive to buy, but its was still a risk. Theyre taking a risk and it could make them a lot of money. How are they supposed to make the money? This isn't speculation. Any money they get will be from the viewers right now. Even if SC2 has 100 million fans in 10 years it won't help them at all because they're only the sponsor for this season. | ||
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Gamegene
United States8308 Posts
it says to me that it's a test on whether or not Koreans will support SC2. If domestic companies determine that there's no return in sponsoring an OSL, then OGN might question whether they should have one in the first place. | ||
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oxxo
988 Posts
On August 05 2012 14:23 BrosephBrostar wrote: How are they supposed to make the money? This isn't speculation. Any money they get will be from the viewers right now. Even if SC2 has 100 million fans in 10 years it won't help them at all because they're only the sponsor for this season. It is speculation. They are taking a risk based on the possibility that SC2 will be more popular in Korea now that BW is done. | ||
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Ruscour
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Wegandi
United States2455 Posts
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imallinson
United Kingdom3482 Posts
On August 05 2012 12:59 Dodgin wrote: Reading the title alone I thought OGN was holding an auction to raise money to sponsor the next OSL or something ridiculous like that. That's cool that we have a brand new sponsor though, hopefully sc2 OSL means no more charity sponsorships from kespa teams. That's what I thought when I saw it on the front page. I was very confused for a minute there. It's good to see they got a sponsor now they have switched to SC2 it should hopefully make the business end of the switch a bit smoother. | ||
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NHY
1013 Posts
On August 05 2012 13:36 BrosephBrostar wrote: But that doesn't make sense. If you're a company why would you invest in something that might have viewers in 6 months instead of something you know has viewers right now? Even if SC2 does become more popular next year this sponsor won't benefit from it. It's not like they're getting some kind of discount because it's SC2 either. SC2 isn't very popular in Korea compared to when BW was the only esports out there. In that sense, BW isn't that popular in Korea either. The main reason why this starleague was so successful is because it was the last one and that appealed to people's emotions. You can't repeat that. | ||
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NoGasfOu
United States1117 Posts
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Waxangel
United States33592 Posts
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ShiroKaisen
United States1082 Posts
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snafoo
New Zealand1615 Posts
On August 05 2012 14:49 Waxangel wrote: auction's a pretty big deal, kinda like the Ebay of Korea :O Pretty sure they're actually owned by eBay arn't they? | ||
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