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Sweden5451 Posts
On June 10 2015 16:19 ZigguratOfUr wrote: You mean the fact that having an English GSL stream isn't profitable to GOM with or without medium free? Most likely not enough people are subscribing when medium is free. Yes. Tastosis are probably not that cheap. | ||
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deacon.frost
Czech Republic12129 Posts
On June 10 2015 16:16 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: I prefer Proleague, GSL has 2 casters who wish they were casting other games and is equal in game quality to S2SL, so there's really no reason to watch anymore is there? And they are still the best casters by far, isn't that sad? If I compare it to Valdez/Wolf/Moonglade team or ESL casting teams, I still pick the GSL team. Professional team without any strong accent and without the "scream into the oblivion" syndrome when something is happening. Though I must say, that Tasteless Moonglade was really insanely good and entertaining casting duo. And the "A" team would be the best, but we don't have it on a regular basis  (A Team = Apollo Artosis) BTW Thanks to air time of this show I watch it on low all the time and everything is watchable usually  (maybe the Twitch player is bad, since I use VLC) | ||
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TheSayo182
Italy243 Posts
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TAMinator
Australia2706 Posts
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TKL
France33 Posts
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Noocta
France12578 Posts
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nkr
Sweden5451 Posts
On June 10 2015 16:24 Noocta wrote: If GOM is trying to make the english stream pay for itself through twitch adds, I think they're stupidly naive tho. No, they're trying to make subscribers pay for it. Pretty obvious with this move. If they wanted twitch adds to pay for it, they would have Source for free. | ||
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Taco87
Norway72 Posts
Sad but true :-/ Sometimes you have to make the unpopular decisions. | ||
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ThePastor
New Zealand380 Posts
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Noocta
France12578 Posts
On June 10 2015 16:26 nkr wrote: No, they're trying to make subscribers pay for it. Pretty obvious with this move. If they wanted twitch adds to pay for it, they would have Source for free. Of course, but seems to me they have no idea how to make people buy subscriptions other than by making the non subscribers experience worse. | ||
Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
Literally better option would be give 720p for free and spam adds 100x more. | ||
Heyoka
Katowice25012 Posts
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fenix404
United States305 Posts
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LaughNgamez
Canada525 Posts
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graNite
Germany4434 Posts
is this the racism khaldor was talking about? | ||
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Shinta)
United States1716 Posts
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Arceus
Vietnam8333 Posts
Still I dont see how streaming is such an issue that irritates both GOM and us spectators, especially on such crappy platform in Twitch. Hows about Youtube and Azubu? | ||
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Enigmasc
United Kingdom147 Posts
sad to see gom going this way, hoepfull lotv will bail them out and keep it going for a while wierd there struggling when all signs are pointing to sc2 being the most popular that its been in korea for a while, maybe they just cant adapt with the competition | ||
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
They try their best to earn money of their product, and they seem to think that they will earn more from the paying viewers than they will lose on advertisement from the leaving non-paying viewers. With ad-block and all, I really don't think a free viewer is worth much more than what they pay for the bandwidth. I think a paying viewer is worth a lot of free viewers at least, especially if you subtract the bandwidth costs, so even if they lose 100 free viewers for every new subscriber, I think they will gain from the switch. "But all the other tournaments are free!" Yeah, maybe they don't have the attraction to get many paying viewers. As a few posters have said, GSL is the most prestigious tournament (or so many think), so many people are ready to pay to see it, even with other "lesser" tournaments available for free. Which is why this move is an option for GSL, but probably not viable for any other tournament, as very few would actually pay for it. It's not a matter of the other tournaments being nice and passionate about SC2, it's just not a good move for them to shut out free views. | ||
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RolyPoly~
Austria9 Posts
Dear GSL fans i am a starcraft fan, not a gsl fan, i guess most ppl are.. careful, salt ahead + Show Spoiler + especially these days, where i seem to be getting more and more annoyed at tasteless 'casting'.. if you can call it that.. imo his voice is really unpleasant and he seems to be at a loss for words more often than not.. yes, he's done great things for starcarft&esports in general blablabla.. i get that, but the quality of casting i get in proleague or ssl is just so much higher every way i look at it.. so now gom tells me i can't see the details of what's happening anymore and i don't wanna listen to the guy who's supposed to tell me what's happening.. if gom hires someone else instead i will consider watching again.. i'll be reading the results on liquipedia, at least there i can see the numbers clearly.. | ||
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