EPTBlizzard Buys IGN Pro League - Page 15
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Spacekyod
United States818 Posts
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Asturas
Finland587 Posts
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
On April 09 2013 10:52 Carlin wrote: Axslav does. He enunciates badly (He sounds like he is latin-American with a bad stereotyped "geek"-manner of speaking), has slurred speech and a lisp. Three really bad qualities when your profession is related to public speaking. I don't mean to personally attack him, but I really can't stand it. As a analyst etc., I don't mind him at all -- As he does a great job in that regard. It's just as a caster, there's literally 15 other people I'd rather watch. Rotterdam isn't a native English speaker, and has somewhat of a bad accent, which might be bothersome to North-American watchers, as well as non-English speakers might find him difficult to understand, but as an individual he brings a lot more to the table than Axslav. Edit: I realize that I'm shitting on Axslav quite badly, but hopefully it's done in a constructive way (?).. I don't hate the guy, I just don't want him to be potentially casting 5 days a week, because I would simply not watch that at all. It was kind of funny to hear you tell us that you don't like Axslav's natural way of talking, and that someone with a different way of talking shouldn't do public speaking, then admit that many people might not like Rotti's natural way of talking, but you like Rotti "as an individual" so it's okay. Just wanted it to be clear to everyone that this guy gave his subjective preference only rather than giving any objective criticism of Axslav's casting ability or reasons not to use him as a WCS caster. /SC2 community caster debates | ||
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roachra
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Champi
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I hope they do a good job, and dont fuck it up, but since theyre hiring a whole bunch of the IPL guys im confident they'll do well, and i'll give them the benefit of the doubt  | ||
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FlyingBanana
Australia43 Posts
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Radicalness
United States271 Posts
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Carlin
Norway52 Posts
On April 09 2013 13:24 Doodsmack wrote: It was kind of funny to hear you tell us that you don't like Axslav's natural way of talking, and that someone with a different way of talking shouldn't do public speaking, then admit that many people might not like Rotti's natural way of talking, but you like Rotti "as an individual" so it's okay. Just wanted it to be clear to everyone that this guy gave his subjective preference only rather than giving any objective criticism of Axslav's casting ability or reasons not to use him as a WCS caster. /SC2 community caster debates You are belittling what I wrote. The impression of Axslav that I have is maybe 70% self-preference (Subjective, biased and very opinionated thoughts...), and 30% of what I've seen others say, both on here, twitter, friends, reddit and chats. When I said that I like Rotti more as an "individual", I meant as in his complete character and connection to the scene. He is way more popular, he is more relevant, is A LOT (!!!) more out-going and likeable, and is generally an easier person to connect to. Axslav is rather boring and unenthusiastic, over-the-top tryhard professional, and on top of that he has the speech thingy. He lacks any identity. My bottom-line objective stance on Axslav is basically that he is a pick from the bottom of the barrel when you compare him to basically any other caster that can be deemed suitable for WCS. If you asked most people what they think about Axslav, they'd respond with "Who the fuck is Axslav?". I think I'm going wildly off-topic here now. | ||
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
On April 09 2013 13:50 Carlin wrote: My bottom-line objective stance on Axslav is basically that he is a pick from the bottom of the barrel when you compare him to basically any other caster that can be deemed suitable for WCS.. Yeahhhh... Pretty sure all I need to do is quote that lol. | ||
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Seanly
Canada73 Posts
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Seanly
Canada73 Posts
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felisconcolori
United States6168 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + Which is to say, I miss having a 24/7 stream I know will have content I want to watch, even if it's my 6th trip through Hyun's reign on Fight Club. Dammit, Kevin, get that stuff started back up. Though I guess it'll be "Blizzard Fight Club!" | ||
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DonKey_
Liechtenstein1356 Posts
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Zidane
United States1692 Posts
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Lysanias
Netherlands8351 Posts
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Wildmoon
Thailand4189 Posts
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Canucklehead
Canada5074 Posts
On April 09 2013 10:12 Cababel wrote: They will probably pick up COD but I doubt they will drop league because of how profitable it is. they could use the LOL stream to try and direct people to the SC stream and also LOL gets lots of viewers so if they make somthing worth watching, then it will make money. Just getting rid of the LOL stream causes blizzard to lose potential money and also possible viewers that they can re direct to SC. The only reason I can see to cut league would be if riot makes unreasonable demands for the rights to broadcast their game. They won't do LoL because it's a competitor and they're not running tournaments anymore besides WCS. I think the headline blizzard buys IPL is largely semantics. I don't believe they bought "IPL" because since they won't be using any of the IPL branding, IPL was dead and worthless. I would guess blizzard paid $0 for "IPL" but it looks sexy as a headline to say they bought IPL. What they did do is hire 23 jobless people and bought the IPL equipment they wanted to bring along. I could be totally wrong on that, but I don't see how the IPL brand would have any monetary value if they didn't plan on using any the branding which would make it worth something. | ||
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EpiK
Korea (South)5757 Posts
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felisconcolori
United States6168 Posts
On April 09 2013 14:15 Canucklehead wrote: They won't do LoL because it's a competitor and they're not running tournaments anymore besides WCS. I think the headline blizzard buys IPL is largely semantics. I don't believe they bought "IPL" because since they won't be using any of the IPL branding, IPL was dead and worthless. I would guess blizzard paid $0 for "IPL" but it looks sexy as a headline to say they bought IPL. What they did do is hire 23 jobless people and bought the IPL equipment they wanted to bring along. I could be totally wrong on that, but I don't see how the IPL brand would have any monetary value if they didn't plan on using any the branding which would make it worth something. You missed the part where it said Blizzard picked up all of IPL's personnel and assets. IPL still has a lot of equipment and the IP (including past broadcasts) are still worth money. The name itself is still worth money, because of the trademarks, reputation, and intangibles. A straight hire wouldn't have brought all of the things they can pick up in a sale. Plus, yeah, they get to be Good Guy Blizzard saving some cat's pajamas from an uncaring IGN. | ||
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Canucklehead
Canada5074 Posts
On April 09 2013 14:26 felisconcolori wrote: You missed the part where it said Blizzard picked up all of IPL's personnel and assets. IPL still has a lot of equipment and the IP (including past broadcasts) are still worth money. The name itself is still worth money, because of the trademarks, reputation, and intangibles. A straight hire wouldn't have brought all of the things they can pick up in a sale. Plus, yeah, they get to be Good Guy Blizzard saving some cat's pajamas from an uncaring IGN. I dunno. I just see them as buying all the equipment as just straight equipment sales, otherwise IGN would try to send those to auction or something to get money for it. Instead they just sold it to blizzard. What trademarks, reputation are they buying? The IPL name is dead. Blizzard won't be using the name IPL in anything they do. If they planned to use the IPL brand somehow, then yeah I could see it having value. Basically, I just see it as 23 employees got laid off. 23 employees sent their resumes to blizzard. Blizzard hired 23 people. That's part 1. Part 2 is IGN had equipment to sell. IGN sold this equipment to blizzard. Therefore, I see blizzard spent money on parts 1 and 2. Why would they spend additional money on part 3, which would be the value of the IPL brandname itself if they don't plan on using any of that branding which gave it value? Seems like it would be a waste of money. Again, I'm no expert on this stuff though. Just thinking about it logically, so I could be totally wrong. | ||
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