GSL vs. The World: Team World Vote (2019) - Page 25

On August 02 2019 21:25 BerserkSword wrote:
why are people salty about Elazer?

he won fair and square (ie no rules were broken)

his fan base came up to bat for him

On August 02 2019 21:46 IArako wrote:
The only thing i dont understand is why they wont make pure gsl vs world matches in the bracket, thats the whole point of this tourney. The voting stuff and everything else is fine.

On August 02 2019 23:21 z4kard wrote:
Why do we have to live with this bull***t every year? Sure TL enjoys the trafficboost and revenue from it, but why cant we make a voting system that it at least a bit protected from abusing the system?

Make voting only available from the Blizzard Launcher, no need to have SC2 installed, but at least "own" it. Not the free2play version, if you dont own the game you should not be able to vote. The game is now 9 years old, pretty much everyone that still love this game owns it, I have only played it in 2010 but watch it since years.
That would stop any bots, because they would have to buy sc2 for 15usd because they surely don't own the game, they probably dont even know what kind of game it is. And everyone else that still has not bought sc2 would support the game/developer by buying it..

On August 02 2019 23:21 z4kard wrote:
Why do we have to live with this bull***t every year? Sure TL enjoys the trafficboost and revenue from it, but why cant we make a voting system that it at least a bit protected from abusing the system?

Make voting only available from the Blizzard Launcher, no need to have SC2 installed, but at least "own" it. Not the free2play version, if you dont own the game you should not be able to vote. The game is now 9 years old, pretty much everyone that still love this game owns it, I have only played it in 2010 but watch it since years.
That would stop any bots, because they would have to buy sc2 for 15usd because they surely don't own the game, they probably dont even know what kind of game it is. And everyone else that still has not bought sc2 would support the game/developer by buying it..

On August 02 2019 23:42 Wombat_NI wrote:

But there is no reason to buy the games any more unless you want to play the campaigns.

Presumably many new fans are almost exclusively drawn in by the eSports/streamer side of things and want to give the competitive game a shot.

It was the entire point of going F2P in the first place, all restricting votes in this manner would do is drive a wedge between older fans and newer ones, and that’s rarely beneficial to any scene

On August 06 2019 23:03 z4kard wrote:


Well if everyone can vote the bots and Spamusers would just download the Blizzard launcher and create there an account, same as they do now with the TL website to abuse the system. So there is no protection from this abuse? We have this every year someone gaining votes by ppl that dont even know or watch the game.

So basically right now everyone can "buy" votes, Harstem could have won the vote if he paid for it, I am sure there are some influencal ppl on Youtube that could have made a video for a few bucks. So the message from TL is, if you pay for votes its OK as long as we gain new accounts on the website. Maybe someone could even make a website and sell GSL vs WORLD votes, same as they do for Youtube likes etc.