Own3D TV Shutting Down Next Week - Page 6

On January 25 2013 17:00 Type|NarutO wrote:
First of all, this is and should be sad news to everyone. I don't want to go into much detail about gamers not being paid, because I don't think that should happen, but in the real world, it also does happen which obviously is no excuse but it shows that its not always a fault of a badly run company or concept.

Own3d TV was an eSports orientated company and you guys are happy it shuts down? Own3d TV means there was competition for Twitch which now you could say has an absolute monopoly which is never good. Competition means advertising, fighting for customers, growing of eSports. Even though own3d was not perfect, it was a good attempt and didn't seem to purposely screw anyone over.

In my opinion this is sad news to everyone who is a gamer and wants eSport to grow




Cant believe comments like that, really no though put into it. Did you ever work in any business thats build on being liquid in the real world? Payment issues arise, even for the best running companies sometimes. If own3d did struggle to begin with, don't you think they tried to pay as much as they can?



Youtube is owned by Google and let me tell you, if Google wants to step in they win right away. They have the money for it, hell they could buy twitch and I think it would be a good thing. Best buy Twitch + their staff and put money into it because I think the Twitch staff is good and driven, but if Google wants to compete, Twitch will be gone I think-_-

On January 25 2013 15:40 NoobSkills wrote:


You know why Own3D kept their site online for so long despite not paying the players right? So, a few people at the very top of the company could steal all ad revenue for ~6 months. They made a killing in stolen revenue.

On January 25 2013 19:16 figq wrote:
That probably means all VODs hosted on own3D by various esports organizations would be gone... that's a huge blow to the history preservation of many games and events.

On January 25 2013 17:00 Type|NarutO wrote:



Cant believe comments like that, really no though put into it. Did you ever work in any business thats build on being liquid in the real world? Payment issues arise, even for the best running companies sometimes. If own3d did struggle to begin with, don't you think they tried to pay as much as they can?

On January 25 2013 17:00 Type|NarutO wrote:
Cant believe comments like that, really no though put into it. Did you ever work in any business thats build on being liquid in the real world? Payment issues arise, even for the best running companies sometimes. If own3d did struggle to begin with, don't you think they tried to pay as much as they can?

On January 25 2013 21:21 schaf wrote:



So... it's alright and just nobody's fault?

Of course payment issues can arise, but you cannot drag that on and on and on and not realize that you don't have a viable concept. This problem is not new to them, I read that payment problems appeared some months ago. They should have told their freelancing employees (I mean streamers who generate views which generates ad money. without streamers there is no stream and thus no money) and try to work something out.

On January 25 2013 21:33 Cel.erity wrote:


If word gets out that Own3d is having issues, then everybody moves to Twitch and hope is lost for them. The way Own3d handled this situation IMO is completely justified, and they did nothing wrong. This is a frontier economy, businesses are very unstable, it's really wrong to say negative things about the executives at Own3d when all they were doing was banking their livelihood on eSports.

The situation sucks, but it is nobody's fault.