EPTOwn3D TV Shutting Down Next Week - Page 4
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jayt88
Singapore97 Posts
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ControlMonkey
Australia3109 Posts
On January 25 2013 10:43 NPF wrote: Well I hope the players can get some type of compensation from the company. Hopefully there contract with there adverts comes through and they can pay out there players partially. Edit: Basically I hope the advertisers pay and Own3d will be forced to obligate their contract. I have no real sympathy for them, or at least pay out all there capital, even if its only 10% of what they owe each individual they should be obligated to do it. I don't know what the laws are like in their home country, but essentially if they declare bankruptcy, their assets are liquidated and divided among their creditors. But it sounds like they don't have any assets, so I think at most people will be getting cents on the dollar. | ||
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zhurai
United States5660 Posts
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BoxingKangaroo
Japan955 Posts
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Cel.erity
United States4890 Posts
On January 25 2013 11:56 BoxingKangaroo wrote: A johnny-come-lately... You do know that Own3d was the first streaming service dedicated to gaming, right? They may have even been around since before justin.tv, I don't know. | ||
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ineversmile
United States583 Posts
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RiceAgainst
United States1849 Posts
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Fuchsteufelswild
Australia2028 Posts
On January 25 2013 07:46 wptlzkwjd wrote: Yeah same. Whenever I watched ForGG's stream, it always overlapped without another image for like the first 30 seconds which was annoying. Not sure if that was Own3d or just my computer though... That seemed to be a problem globally. I don't mean that absolutely everyone I came across complained about it, but I think a lot of people just got used to it. It wasn't such a big deal unless you were trying to test out the appearance of different quality settings, when it became most vexing! This is terrible news, partly for competition and partly because it's outrageous that any company could get away with not paying what they owe. They should be forced to pay everything as soon as they can afford to. If that means the CEO or whoever has to pay it out of their own pocket, that should happen then, even if it must be paid off gradually. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45267 Posts
1. I feel really bad for any streamer who's not getting paid. 2. It was never as good as Twitch. 3. I wonder if a lack of competition for streaming will change anything. Twitch is far-and-away monopolizing this now, right? (I guess they were pretty much #1 beforehand, but now there's not even a relevant second place, right?) | ||
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Traceback
United States469 Posts
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Endall
United States66 Posts
On January 25 2013 13:13 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: My feelings and opinions on this: 1. I feel really bad for any streamer who's not getting paid. 2. It was never as good as Twitch. 3. I wonder if a lack of competition for streaming will change anything. Twitch is far-and-away monopolizing this now, right? (I guess they were pretty much #1 beforehand, but now there's not even a relevant second place, right?) I believe Azubu is putting a stream service together, so lets hope that makes its way outside of Korea and gives Twitch a reason to continue to get better. | ||
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ETisME
12680 Posts
On January 25 2013 11:42 jayt88 wrote: Competition is almost always good, sad to see one source fade away even though I prefer twitch in almost every way. Hopefully twitch doesn't act like a monopoly after this.. if streaming company is really difficult to establish financially, a monopoly would not be too bad. | ||
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MysteryMeat1
United States3292 Posts
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felisconcolori
United States6168 Posts
On January 25 2013 13:37 ETisME wrote: if streaming company is really difficult to establish financially, a monopoly would not be too bad. Creating a streaming company isn't difficult, or expensive. You can stream from your own computer if you want to, and call it a company. Creating a GOOD streaming service provider with distributed delivery infrastructure and the ability to deliver content to anywhere between 1 and 100,000+ viewers... THAT is difficult, and expensive. Hardware, bandwidth, and competent people (like, say, Gunrun) to make it all work don't come cheap. That being said, there are still people trying to compete with Google and it's assorted properties, which often hold the top spot. There will always be a place for a contender, and investors into a contender, to make money. But I don't think Twitch will have any serious competition for a while to come - if they ever do. (More likely - a larger company (like a Google or Apple) decides they want to buy rather than develop technology that is in Twitch's portfolio, and then gives Justin a boatload of money for the company.) | ||
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Fearest
854 Posts
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trGKakarot
United States129 Posts
Twitch is unbearably laggy at times, but otherwise is reasonably a pretty good platform (minus not having streaming apps on PS3/360). | ||
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1Focus
United States409 Posts
On January 25 2013 14:07 Fearest wrote: Maybe the government will step in to bail them out. and then after they get bailed out, they will sue the govt like ungrateful pigs | ||
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Mauldo
United States750 Posts
Completely unrealistic, but it would be fucking awesome. It'd be the first good news I've seen from an ESPORTS company in a long time. | ||
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Zerg.Zilla
Hungary5029 Posts
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SupLilSon
Malaysia4123 Posts
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