GSL Global Championship partially crowd-funded by subscrip…

On January 16 2014 06:18 ffadicted wrote:


lol nobody pays $90 for lunch on a regular basis. There just isn't a restaurant market for it

On January 17 2014 06:38 SoFrOsTy wrote:
Does the $79.95 I spent on December 25th count towards this pool? Or is it only new subscriptions going forward?

On January 17 2014 07:08 Zealously wrote:
While I think the idea is good, I think selling some cheaper variant and bumping up the percentage would sell them more tickets in the long run.

On January 17 2014 07:42 MCXD wrote:


But then the company itself would get a lot less of the money. [?]

On January 17 2014 07:53 Zealously wrote:


Spontaneous number spitting: If you sell 500 tickets for an average of $70 (some standard yearly, some Premium), $3500 goes to the prize pool. If you sell 3000 tickets for an average of $15 but with a higher percentage (say 20-30%) going to the prize pool (somewhere in the vicinity of $7500-$10000), Gom would not only still make more money than they do with these tickets, but the prize pool would grow as well.

Now, obviously it's not exactly that simple and a lot more number crunching would have to be done, but I feel a lot of people forgo getting tickets today because the prize tag is still quite big. I also have almost zero historical basis for my statement other than 3 DotA tournaments, but attempting cooperation with Blizzard - maybe a decal or a portrait to go along with the ticket purchase, but right now I see the comparatively high price deterring many from buying a ticket and thus in the end ending up with a sub-par prize pool.

Of course, someone at Gom has likely considered this already, but it's how I see it. Viewers are often cheap.

On January 22 2014 01:01 thezanursic wrote:
2700$, I don't think this went well...