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On October 15 2014 21:41 SinCitta wrote:Show nested quote +On October 15 2014 03:25 Ovid wrote:
I couldn't agree more with Rotti on the inbuilt tournaments for SC2, have varying entrance fees from free to £15 make them 32 players each blizzard take 10% or other small percentage and then the rest gets spread for top 3.
My only fear is that this will dilute ladder a bit because the good players will do tournaments. I guess that would fall into online gambling in many countries, making it illegal.
It might work if they let you use money from your B.net balance, similar to how the Steam Wallet is set up. However they would then need to have more stuff you could do with that balance, such as a skins economy a la DOTA2/TF2/CS:GO.
Having the ability to bet skins on tournaments and such would also be a big boon for viewership (just take a look at CS:GO's numbers this year). And since the money stays in your battle.net account I don't think the same gambling laws apply -- not 100% sure about that though.
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Lycan thinks they will make compeittive multiplayer F2P??? 90% probability according to his estimate.
Why on earth would Blizzard do that without any monetization model. And why would they increase infastructure costs in order to develop a monetization model to a game that casuals don't enjoy and has limited potential anyway... I give it less than 1% probability of occuring as it makes no sense whatsoever.
Blizzard is going to milk the last money out of LOTV, and then reduce costs and focus on genres with more earnings potential.
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Northern Ireland26802 Posts
Such a shame the way gaming is going 
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On October 15 2014 22:07 Hider wrote:
Lycan thinks they will make compeittive multiplayer F2P??? 90% probability according to his estimate.
Why on earth would Blizzard do that without any monetization model. And why would they increase infastructure costs in order to develop a monetization model to a game that casuals don't enjoy and has limited potential anyway... I give it less than 1% probability of occuring as it makes no sense whatsoever.
Blizzard is going to milk the last money out of LOTV, and then reduce costs and focus on genres with more earnings potential.
Next Blizz rts will be a F2P, do you want a single player campaign? Pay 20 bucks, do you want an aiur chef skin for your zealots? Pay 10 bucks.. and so on.
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On October 15 2014 23:25 FrozenProbe wrote:Show nested quote +On October 15 2014 22:07 Hider wrote:
Lycan thinks they will make compeittive multiplayer F2P??? 90% probability according to his estimate.
Why on earth would Blizzard do that without any monetization model. And why would they increase infastructure costs in order to develop a monetization model to a game that casuals don't enjoy and has limited potential anyway... I give it less than 1% probability of occuring as it makes no sense whatsoever.
Blizzard is going to milk the last money out of LOTV, and then reduce costs and focus on genres with more earnings potential.
Next Blizz rts will be a F2P, do you want a single player campaign? Pay 20 bucks, do you want an aiur chef skin for your zealots? Pay 10 bucks.. and so on.
Probably 7-8 years into the future. The gaming market will be very different at that time so who knows.
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Northern Ireland281 Posts
Listened to a couple of these today, good listening. Look forward to seeing more Lycan!
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Loved the last episode, should definetely try and bring QXC on the show as much as possible :D
Liking his whole attitude towards the game.
I never understood why we didnt get microtransaction in sc2, surprised none of the guests mentioned it but ANNOUNCER's would make me give Blizzard soooo much money.
I'd pay for Raynor telling me to mine more minerals.Kerrigan and Abathur telling me to spawn more overlords.
Or involing Community members, having Day9 tell me that i must "constuct additional Pylons".
Honestly each of these for like 5€ I'd buy several and spend so much on this.
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BTW the first part is cut off, the first VOD is 1h 11m long x)
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last week's episode was very good, I also liked qxc. Good to see that he's back this week.
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I'm really loving the show thus far. Kane and QXC are excellent additions to the show and add a lot of great discussion. Destiny is always good and you facilitate discussion well, Lycan.
Keep up the awesome work. 
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On October 22 2014 00:27 Zax19 wrote:BTW the first part is cut off, the first VOD is 1h 11m long x)
Wut?! Oh!
Thanks for the feedback! Appretiate it! Definitely a bug in my program which shoudl only appear on rare circumstances. But I'm going to look into it.
Reconverting the vod right now and should be up within an hour.
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I recognize that Darker than Black song in the first episode.
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That pizza guy had a lot of patience.
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Yeah, poor guy, that was some obvious trolling x).
Concerning Destiny I and Remax, you have to look at the context - They were talking about Madals' tournament, there were Feardragon and Rifkin on to talk about their tournaments so they mentioned Destiny. In theory, getting paid for your work is a necessity. The esports reality is that people build their brands, sacrifice their own income and maybe later profit – just compare the financial reports from Madals’ and Destiny’s tournaments.
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Freaking loved last weeks episode, its amazing seeing progamers re-play games from other pro's trying out what could have been different/changed in order to win and Discuss the games themselves.
So much learning, so much entertainment and the guys had good chemistry together too.
Vod for anyone curious : http://www.twitch.tv/lycangtv/b/582590422
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Hey is there going to be a show today?
You mentioned on reddit about a show last week on wednesday but then I didn't hear anything else. You also said it would be back this week on monday so just curious what's up? Thanks and I really enjoy the show!
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Northern Ireland26802 Posts
On November 04 2014 07:30 Quateras wrote:Freaking loved last weeks episode, its amazing seeing progamers re-play games from other pro's trying out what could have been different/changed in order to win and Discuss the games themselves. So much learning, so much entertainment and the guys had good chemistry together too. Vod for anyone curious : http://www.twitch.tv/lycangtv/b/582590422
That sounds like a fantastic idea, are there VoDs on Youtube as well?
Due to a series of technical issues I can't watch Twitch VoDs at present
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