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Penev
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eviltomahawk
United States10947 Posts
On October 05 2015 03:12 Paragleiber wrote: It will probably be abandoned. Nothing will happen to the existing vods but they won't add new ones anymore. Aren't there still a lot of old vods that haven't been uploaded yet? Would be a shame if those were lost forever. Fortunately, some of those seasons were torrented back in the day, and even I have some games downloaded from those torrents. Hopefully if GOM isn't willing to maintain the YouTube channel, they won't be willing to do any copyright strikes so the community can flesh out those uploads without worry. | ||
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MrCon
France23161 Posts
 Gom was like an old friend all these years, the GSTL memories, the open season when terran were nerfed because they could just stim and kill the protosses who didn't react fast enough to forcefield their own ramp and because zergs were droning till 70 pop without units. Naniwa Nestea incident, Tastosis... I feel like a familly member just died I hope tastosis will still cast and all the GOM employees will still have a job. | ||
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zelderan
United States157 Posts
Hopefully Afreeca keeps Tasteosis (not sure why they would replace them) and we can see a Brood War GSL in the future as well. Really looking forward to the future of StarCraft! | ||
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REyeM
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zelderan
United States157 Posts
On October 05 2015 03:22 eviltomahawk wrote: Aren't there still a lot of old vods that haven't been uploaded yet? Would be a shame if those were lost forever. Fortunately, some of those seasons were torrented back in the day, and even I have some games downloaded from those torrents. Hopefully if GOM isn't willing to maintain the YouTube channel, they won't be willing to do any copyright strikes so the community can flesh out those uploads without worry. I'm sure they exist in some form or another. Sad, really, that they might be gone forever | ||
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GGzerG
United States9416 Posts
On October 04 2015 18:33 machinus wrote: Cannot wait to see how hot NaDa's wife is I love how this was the only thing you posted haha...made my day :-p | ||
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[PkF] Wire
France20921 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + even with a meh expansion | ||
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lost_patrol
16 Posts
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deacon.frost
Czech Republic8459 Posts
On October 05 2015 05:30 lost_patrol wrote: So, what about everyone who defended GSL running the 240p quality as a good business decision? They ignored just foreign part of their streaming IIRC, the Korean stream had 720(or 1080? not sure now) and I am pretty sure free 1080p would not save them. The numbers were good with shit quality... Edit: Basically it is the other way around. Those who said that GOM has problems to keep GSL alive were right... Sadly | ||
Liquid`Zephyr
United States968 Posts
rip gom. thanks for all the awesome times | ||
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Creager
Germany1557 Posts
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada13244 Posts
On October 05 2015 03:22 eviltomahawk wrote: Aren't there still a lot of old vods that haven't been uploaded yet? Would be a shame if those were lost forever. Fortunately, some of those seasons were torrented back in the day, and even I have some games downloaded from those torrents. Hopefully if GOM isn't willing to maintain the YouTube channel, they won't be willing to do any copyright strikes so the community can flesh out those uploads without worry. pretty brutal if they don't put them up but then try to enforce their rights. GOMtv was heavily subsidized by Blizzard so hopefully they'll be good guys about it. | ||
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TheDougler
Canada8123 Posts
On October 05 2015 01:33 GGzerG wrote: Thats true and I understand that completely, I am hoping for some Tastosis myself. You guys are both awesome: LimitSea hit the nail on the head. You're right though GGzerG; this isn't the end of Starcraft, just a new chapter.  | ||
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Kofuku
31 Posts
GSTL is the first competitive SC2 I ever watched and was what made me fall in love with the game. I will miss Tastosis and the great production value.-- On October 05 2015 02:03 BronzeKnee wrote: How could this happen? I thought the free ultra-low quality stream meant people were buying subscriptions and it was such a great decision that it was keeping GOM afloat. I mean GOM was a business and they definitely knew what they were doing, right? How dare people like me question such business wisdom... oh well maybe if they had tried a different business model, as I suggested, they wouldn't have folded. gg Gom. Watch the replay. On October 05 2015 05:30 lost_patrol wrote: So, what about everyone who defended GSL running the 240p quality as a good business decision? As one of those people who thought (and still thinks) it was a good business decision, I don't know how you can link GOM shuttering its business with that. It's clear that it was only even done as a desperate attempt to make money by a struggling company, and it failed. From my perspective, without seeing any GOM financials, the sequence looks like this: 1. GOM is financially struggling. 2. GOM tries to create a new revenue stream from a previously loss-generating segment by making foreign viewers pay for 1080p quality. 3. GOM continues to financially struggle so it shuts down. Even if you take out number 2 above, numbers 1 and 3 would still have happened. Would they still be around today if they gave free HD streaming to foreigners, who generate almost no ad revenue and probably cause loss because of the extra production costs? Honestly, it's not possible to say without real data but I don't see how it's likely. | ||
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Fighter
Korea (South)1506 Posts
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TRaFFiC
Canada1440 Posts
So many good memories watching GOM. The original 2 am stream. I just hope Afreeca can live up to their name. There's a lot more than stream quality that went into that business. | ||
afreecaTV.Char
United States269 Posts
Edit: + Show Spoiler + OMG! Thank you for the Arti icon <3 | ||
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BronzeKnee
United States5043 Posts
On October 05 2015 10:34 afreecaTV.Char wrote: I wouldn't peg the blame on the GSL foreign stream as the primary cause. If you're dumb enough to make a business decision like that and have terrible stream quality, you're bound to make a whole bunch of other dumb business decisions. And that is why they folded. | ||
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GohgamX
Canada1054 Posts
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