Mike Morhaime steps down - Page 10

On December 04 2018 12:16 JimmyJRaynor wrote:

ESPN is as much gossip as substance in the era of the 20 second 140 character news cycle.
i trust what ATVI puts in their investor calls because if they lie about historical statements about their company they go to jail. When ESPN misleads people about Roberto Osuna's domestic violence "charge" ... what happens to them? nothing. its pretty obvious ESPN's people know zero about the Canadian legal system. That doesn't stop them from yapping away though.

This is why ATVI has provided zero revenue #s about OWL and continue to list it as a "strategic investment"... because its drowning in red ink.

On December 04 2018 07:15 Clbull wrote:


Back in 2011 or 2012, I would've told you that MLG was going to be huge. They already experienced a huge amount of growth and even their later PPV events did quite well to bring the company some much-needed revenue.

In my eyes, WCS and the rise of montage parodies killed MLG as a brand. The company's disastrous running of WCS America 2013 tarnished the brand and pretty much ostracised them from the StarCraft scene. Then there are spoof montages that turned MLG (and other terms associated with the Call of Duty community) into a running joke. Given MLG's later partnerships with Activision and their elevation of CoD, they became the laughing stock to the point where Acti-Blizzard were inevitably going to buy them out for their infrastructure.

I think if WCS didn't happen, MLG would have rivalled ESL and Dreamhack as an esports powerhouse by now. We would have seen a far greater presence in the Smash Bros and Dota 2 communities from them.