Weren't they always pretty late, like a month after the event finished? Maybe that's influenced it, since IEM puts their replays up a few hours after the grand final and their numbers are great.

What's the point of releasing them so late anyway? I can see that pro players don't want their replays to be studied, but if ESL releases them immediately, I don't understand why Dreamhack shouldn't.

But I agree, it seems like the only reasonable explanation to the fact that the amount of downloads for DH replays is 100 times lower than for IEM.

Dingodile

4136 Posts

May 13 2015 12:26 GMT

#22

I have never watched a replay in sc2 but ~12k people are watching from replays? That is a small number if you consider that in that replay-pack are ALL games and some people dowloaded multiple times.

Gwavajuice

France1810 Posts

May 13 2015 12:30 GMT

#23

On May 13 2015 21:26 Dingodile wrote:
I have never watched a replay in sc2 but ~12k people are watching from replays? That is a small number if you consider that in that replay-pack are ALL games and some people dowloaded multiple times.

You don't usually download those big ass files mutiple times. And generally you don't want those replays to "watch" you want them to learn and analyse all the info that you're always missing when watching a stream...

baiesradu

Romania150 Posts

May 13 2015 12:50 GMT

#24

I can not speak for everyone else but from my part I downloaded all the replay packs that I found on TL .
Still it is not surprising from their part . It is a lot of work and no quick reward . Just the thanks of the ones like me who download their replays for free .
I can see how that is not enough incentive when you are trying to run a business.

I am so happy that TL has found a way to have their passion be their business. Because their passion is my passion too and when I can, I support them.

The only reason I attended Dreamhack events was to see my Starcraft favorite players,up close. And I did . And it was amazing.I even bought tickets when I could not attend.
When they stopped starcraft I stopped buying tickets. My choice , and I am aware that I am not part of the majority.

Good reaction from Adebisi , it is one thing to drop a game from DH, and a different one to alienate the people who love that game. That does not help them at all .

SC2Toastie

Netherlands5725 Posts

May 13 2015 12:52 GMT

#25

On May 13 2015 21:10 Adebisi wrote:
Hey guys,

This tweet was pretty poorly worded so I apologize for that.

Its a combination of lack of interest in the past (its often been a few hundred downloads if that) and limited resources and moreso time on our end that we did not collect replays this time. We couldn't recruit as many admins as we usually have and because of the nature of the tournament and event we need to get the PC area converted for other games and then tear it down (after the last finals ends at midnight we tear down the entire stage and are out of the venue by 3am). When there is 32 matches going at once, sorting through all replays to remove all ladder games and other warmup games even if we help automate some parts with SC2Gears is a lot of work.

We're going to make sure we have replay packs for the upcoming SC2 tournaments this year.

Put this in OP please

KatatoniK

United Kingdom978 Posts

May 13 2015 13:03 GMT

#26

Thanks for the clarification Adebisi, I personally enjoy having replays to watch as I find them better to analyse than vods so knowing you're going to work on getting replay packs for the rest of circuit is great to hear. Maybe you should kidnap messioso and clone him to do the dirty work for you