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DeadByDawn
United Kingdom476 Posts
I want to watch GSL so I will pay - it's not a lot. I want HSC to happen so I donated $50. I want the StarCrafts mod to succeed so I have donated $115 so far. It is the reality of the situation that SC2 is in today, especially with sponsors. Fortunately for those who will not, or cannot, pay there are other sources of SC2 professional play. | ||
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UberNuB
United States365 Posts
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StimiLant
United States534 Posts
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Sogetsu
514 Posts
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Elentos
55593 Posts
On June 11 2015 00:36 Sogetsu wrote: Wait, what is Low Quality? 480p? 360p I think. And that's pretty watchable. | ||
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Rollora
2450 Posts
On June 11 2015 00:36 Sogetsu wrote: Wait, what is Low Quality? 480p? Source=1080p most of the times High=720P Med==480P Low=320P, sometimes below Mobile, I guess, is 144p On a Nokia 3310 maybe. I have a 27" and if i make the stream half the screen I cannot see clearly what's going on there. Plus the audio quality is terrible | ||
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midnight999
United States257 Posts
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HolydaKing
21254 Posts
On June 11 2015 00:43 midnight999 wrote: pffft, this is dumb. Get ready to lose viewers, gom. Unfortunately, people still prefer watching GSL over PL/SSL. At least if you go by numbers. | ||
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Deathstar
9150 Posts
On June 11 2015 00:43 midnight999 wrote: pffft, this is dumb. Get ready to lose viewers, gom. What good are viewers who don't contribute | ||
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StatixEx
United Kingdom779 Posts
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imre
France9263 Posts
On twitch you contribute a tiny bit even if you're not watching ads, a bit if you watch ads. Or you sub. Losing viewers means losing a bit of money even if it's adblockers. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20343 Posts
what a joke | ||
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Latham
9588 Posts
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Glioburd
France1911 Posts
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Jintoss
Hong Kong117 Posts
Adapt or close shop GSL. | ||
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caznitch
Canada645 Posts
On June 11 2015 00:32 DeadByDawn wrote: It's a business decision, so it is theirs to make. Watch or don't watch, that is your decision to make. I want to watch GSL so I will pay - it's not a lot. I want HSC to happen so I donated $50. I want the StarCrafts mod to succeed so I have donated $115 so far. It is the reality of the situation that SC2 is in today, especially with sponsors. Fortunately for those who will not, or cannot, pay there are other sources of SC2 professional play. This. Posters seem to forget that Gom is an organization with bills to pay and not a couple dudes having fun in their spare time. Unless you have deep insight into profitability in the esports world, you probably don't know what you're talking about when you say "this is a terrible move!" etc. Maybe this will succeed, maybe not. What you can be sure of is that many people far more qualified than you have spent a lot of time thinking about it. As for viewers somehow contributing via ad revenue - I think this was thoroughly debunked when Destiny posted his revenue breakdown. Extrapolating from his viewer numbers and ad revenue from Twitch, it's safe to say Gom makes a couple thousand dollars a month at most from ads. I don't know how you expect this to pay for the production that goes into GSL. Last I checked Tastosis aren't plants and need more than the sun to survive. | ||
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gsllowallveragain
1 Post
and my concerns are regarding the mass amount of dropping viewership, diddnt u gained more with providing medium? now u go back to low, u think any1 beside subscriber is gonna watch? ever1 gonna watch vods-looks at score, i dont mind personally paying for something to support, but after taking a closer look, i wouldnt invest a dime here thats for sure. from low - medium - low. a company should stick with their decisions at least give some solid reasons or make kickstarter lol, not ever1 can subscribe, ppl got familys, students and so on but hey enough other content who provide free source quality, rather watch that than. ps: providing higher production value, by giving every non sub, worse looking stream on twitch. its indeed a radio cast now. | ||
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Thax
Belgium1060 Posts
Every casual viewer brings in revenue from adds and viewers generate more viewers. I don't watch GSL enough to justify getting a subscription (due to both the broadcast time and my own lack of interest), but at the medium quality stream I managed to watch a few games here and there, generating revenue. Now that it's back to low quality I'll stop doing that again and just read the results on liquipedia. At least there I can make out the numbers on my screen. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17737 Posts
On June 10 2015 23:58 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: only the day 2 and 3 (sat and sun) tickets that are sold out, so I think that's more of an issue of local people who work or whatever who can't make it on friday but want to go saturday and sunday i'm probably only going on saturday and sunday , but i bought the $20 pass to support the event... its only $4 difference any way. 1 guy in the thread said he might not even attend , but he bought tickets just to support a local event. the dirt cheap ticket prices provide an insight into how careful SC2 esports fans are about spending even the smallest amount of cash. and we get the anger over GSL charging such a small fee noted by Deathstar. a single 3 hour UFC PPV is $60+ . | ||
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Thax
Belgium1060 Posts
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