EPTGOM switches free quality of GSL back to low - Page 10
| Forum Index > SC2 General |
|
FueledUpAndReadyToGo
Netherlands30545 Posts
| ||
|
Penev
28440 Posts
| ||
|
marvellosity
United Kingdom36156 Posts
| ||
|
Sapphire.lux
Romania2620 Posts
| ||
|
The_Red_Viper
19533 Posts
BUT i feel like GOMTV doesn't produce a product which is worth the money anymore. It was worth it when we had a vod system which was excellent, when tastosis were on their a game and when there simply was no competitor. Now we have SSL and Proleague, both are far superior imo. So yeah, no thanks GOM  | ||
|
nickbalev
Bulgaria241 Posts
| ||
|
Rollora
2450 Posts
On June 10 2015 18:30 Averse wrote: GSL 2010: Buy the ticket and it will go toward making the show and the stream better. GSL 2015: Buy the ticket or we will downgrade your experience into oblivion. It is so annyoing how GSL turned out to be after years of support. Back in 2010, there was so much potential: A good player A VOD collection/gallery that just needed some fine tweaking for more usability (better finding them, tags, direct links in the liquipedia) a more usable organizer with all the important dates exportable to my google calender or so some minor tweaks every student can make for them within a week. 5 years later all of that is gone. Sometimes I have to search hard for videos if I ever find them. No real chronological order or whatever. If there wasn't the liquipedia, I wouldn't be able to watch the awesome VODs anymore. And you could check out the players and player stats back then. Now... I dunno, didn't go to site in years (does it still exist)? And what would have been awesome is: if you look up a player, see all his ever broadcasted games under his "profile". BTW quick suggestion: could VODs in the liquipedia also include a 1-5 star rating (depending on the votes in the LR thread) or is this too much work or too much spoiler. Just came into my mind. | ||
|
MadWorld
Canada11 Posts
| ||
|
Creager
Germany1884 Posts
On June 10 2015 17:43 swissman777 wrote: Or pay where the quality is due. If you like SSL more, then sure, let the competition rule out the winner. However, no one should be frugal and expect good quality. If GSL can't continue with the support it has, do you think that SSL can? SSL may be offering more in terms of higher free resolution stream, but how long could it last before SSL runs out of their initial revenue made to attract customers like it is for every new entreprises? Moreover, you must also know that once GSL goes out, a monopoly both in individual and team leagues is a terrible news for us. Spotv would then have the freedom to do whatever it pleases to a large extent. Well, as a continuous supporter/subscriber of GSL content throughout the years I remember times where GSL had the monopoly in korean SC2 and even back then stream quality (even for ticket holders) has been lower than that of comparable (western) content producers while still having ads. We were complaining back then, the adjustments GOM did was moving to a new studio, cut GSTL, then killing off their own website with a truly priceworthy VOD system to cut costs and now chopping down quality again for possible interested audiences. I really don't see the viewers' lack of support at fault here, as you say, I pay for quality as it's due, with GSL pulling that move again, how can I justify further financial support when I receive less and less. We survived during the GSL-only era, we'll surely survive without GSL. | ||
|
yoshi245
United States2969 Posts
| ||
|
ZenithM
France15952 Posts
Medium was good enough so that I could drop by for the occasional game, with Low I just won't watch GSL anymore I guess. I don't want to sound too dramatic but that's the end of an era for me, because it seems they won't go back on this :/ | ||
|
TurboMaN
Germany925 Posts
If you don't change your business model you will have to deal with a smaller market share outside of Korea. | ||
|
aka_star
United Kingdom1546 Posts
| ||
|
TAMinator
Australia2706 Posts
On June 10 2015 18:46 yoshi245 wrote: What a dirtbag move, doing it mid season. If they actually cared about their twitch viewer stream base, they'd at least do it after this season of Code S is over, but nope. yeah doing it mid-season was a weird move. | ||
|
nkr
Sweden5451 Posts
On June 10 2015 18:46 yoshi245 wrote: What a dirtbag move, doing it mid season. If they actually cared about their twitch viewer stream base, they'd at least do it after this season of Code S is over, but nope. Why would they care about a leeching viewer base that is impossible to monetize? The adblock numbers are through the roof in esports. They don't help keeping the thing afloat. All that matters is how many that subscribe. And no, bringing new viewers to sc2 isn't a thing at this point. | ||
|
Superouman
France2195 Posts
| ||
|
Rollora
2450 Posts
On June 10 2015 18:58 Superouman wrote: That's certainly not a good move to retain viewership. well they don't get mine. I just WANTED to switch in, but it seems to not be working. And I should pay for that? Yeah sure. | ||
|
acccky1
37 Posts
| ||
|
Parcelleus
Australia1662 Posts
| ||
|
Rollora
2450 Posts
On June 10 2015 18:58 nkr wrote: Why would they care about a leeching viewer base that is impossible to monetize? The adblock numbers are through the roof in esports. They don't help keeping the thing afloat. All that matters is how many that subscribe. And no, bringing new viewers to sc2 isn't a thing at this point. well this is something of blizzards concern. Designing a game that is pure frustration in a lot of cases is blizzards fault. I know a lot of MP games, and I never felt so helpless after 1000s of hours of learning and investment, for instance in situations you just lead the game for the whole time and then you just get protossed, zerged or terraned. There have been 100s of Ideas how to prevent that, but Blizzard doesn't really want to listen. | ||
| ||
