GSL Season 2 to be shown in Medium Quality! - Page 3

On March 13 2015 20:38 Keeemy wrote:
Yeeeesss

How do you people that STILL post this shit, haven't already learned that this doesn't affect GSL? Holy shit seriously.

On March 13 2015 19:58 Meffyx wrote:




Source:
http://opcdn.battle.net/static/wcs/public/downloads/wcs-player-handbook-v1.1.1.pdf

On March 13 2015 20:41 gillon wrote:


How do you know this?

On March 13 2015 20:45 Shuffleblade wrote:
People are not entitled to free 720p and that is not what people are saying, they are saying that this is working against the growth of SC2 and is just a cheap ass way of trying to coax people into giving them money. I wouldn't mind subbing GSL and I have before! But not this season when they fucked us over and only gave low quality for free.

Now when they stopped with that I will probably sub them just to show them what kind of decisions garners support and which doesn't. I don't mind paying for GSL but not when they treat their foriegn fans like shit while sucking up to the korean crowd.

On March 13 2015 20:50 graNite wrote:


count the people in chat with subscribtions and multiply with the costs
moreover, read about twitch streamers and their revenue. and then calculate a bit what they get alone from twitch.

then realize that it costs them nothing extra to have 720p for free

On March 13 2015 20:52 shid0x wrote:
This is just marketing bullshit, i know excatly what will GSL do :

They will only increase the stream resolution hence the "medium quality" but meanwhile they will not change the Bitrate, they will still run under a bilinear filter, the buffer size is not gonna change, the buffering time will not change either...There's also a fuckton of other little tweaks that they will not enable.

This is gonna look like shit, i could give you 1080p and it would still look like shit if i didn't change the setting accordingly and then i could make you buy the so called "source" mode where i actually enabled some option.

Screw ya marketing team.

On March 13 2015 20:54 SC2Toastie wrote:

Whining on every single forum you can find that you are angry people dare asking 15 bucks for (assuming 1 hour/series here) approx. 40+20+4+2+1 = 67 hours of Code S (excluding hype content/interview/swarm host games, it's close to double this in total broadcast time). Well... I simply don't understand that, sorry.

Medium quality is obviously good, but on the other hand, they give every first game of a series for free as well. The 'you're screwing newcomers' argument is rubbish. People that are new to the scene don't go to the highest level Korean competitive tournament without somebody pointing them that way. And even if they do, there's plenty of tournament Blizzards forces to be free.

Sad thing is, internet cheapskates would rather have a company go bankrupt than just pay a tiny amount of money for the best content they can get.

On March 13 2015 21:03 hfsrj wrote:


Yep no better. If they give high qual and VOD for free, they're not gonna make much dough - adds only go so far. There is therefore a cost to giving medium to high quality.

I'm paying GSL for like 2 or 3 years now, and the bang for the buck is real, though it was better before as they had the gom player. They need to make a better job at having a page like SC2casts but on the gsl, and rapidly updated. Overall still real good.

On March 13 2015 21:04 KatatoniK wrote:


That Korean crowd is where they get the most money from. GSL is a Korean league with Korean sponsors that operate in Korea. Advertising revenue/sponsor revenue is not going to be anywhere near as high if it's even in existence, GOM show around what? 2 ads for products and those ads are rather crappily translated versions of the Korean ones for the same product which are for hardware.

While I agree low quality was a kick in the nuts for fans, they're going back to free medium which isn't that bad. They need revenue from the foreign scene and the only way to do that is with the subscriptions because they sure as hell aren't getting enough from ads either from their in-stream ads or from twitch (chances are most people also use adblock on twitch.)

Also, before people start bringing up SpoTV and the fact they provide high quality streams. SpoTV are much larger than GOM, they're a sports network that also cover more conventional sports. They're going to have a lot more income/revenue to be able to provide a higher quality stream/free access to vods right after the matches.