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Emporio
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States3069 Posts
January 25 2012 09:20 GMT
#21
Or just require all barcrafts to register with GOM, which allows them to estimate the number of people watching from bars for sponsors to see. They can even inflate the numbers if they want.
How does it feel knowing you wasted another 3 seconds of your life reading this again?
Kommander
Profile Joined March 2011
Philippines4950 Posts
January 25 2012 09:23 GMT
#22
Yes, how will GOM enforce this? Would they even be able to keep track of all the bars who're doing this? Do they have a secret police or something? LOL
Primadog
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States4411 Posts
January 25 2012 09:23 GMT
#23
If GOM wants to know BarCraft viewership. They should contact the organizers and beg for numbers. Demanding barcrafts to close is stupid and I will damn sure to make it a PR debacle for them to try it out.
Thank God and gunrun.
bokchoi
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Korea (South)9498 Posts
January 25 2012 09:34 GMT
#24
I dont get it... the korean stream is free... are they really concerned with losing the english listening audience??
Rekrul
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Korea (South)17174 Posts
January 25 2012 09:36 GMT
#25
it's really retarded cuz...

i guess they think 'people should all pay for their own subscriptions'

except its backwards logic because a. its not like theres a barcraft for every single day of games, ppl will still have to buy to watch...and b. it can potentially get them even more subscriptions because of newcomers to the bar or w/e deciding to subscribe...

wtf
why so 진지해?
KeksX
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Germany3634 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-25 09:38:52
January 25 2012 09:37 GMT
#26
On January 25 2012 18:34 bokchoi wrote:
I dont get it... the korean stream is free... are they really concerned with losing the english listening audience??

As I already said it's probably not about the audience itself but about the numbers.

If you want sponsors you can't say "Yea we think 50.000 people watched the show", you have to say:"Numbers say 50.00 people watched the show", and BarCrafts shrink these numbers.

But yea there should be a better way to deal with this, a registration for example seems good.. You register your bar and say how many people could possible be watching and GomTV could say "We have 50.000 unique viewers and 10 BarCrafts which will count as 1000 viewers extra" or something like that.
obsKura
Profile Joined March 2011
Ireland1061 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-25 09:38:33
January 25 2012 09:38 GMT
#27
please somebody talk to them... they can't be serious. GOM is interested to growing this business/scene. don't they realize Barcraft is one opportunity how to spread the word around non-starcraft lovers?
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Attunga
Profile Joined August 2010
Australia41 Posts
January 25 2012 09:39 GMT
#28
The way I see it, Barcraft is mostly for finals and larger events, not the weekly day to day matches that they cast. Most people have a season or yearly pass to see those day to day matches.

I really can't see how they would loose out, it is not like people pay only for the finals and not the rest of the season. Anything they loose out on ticket wise if that did happen they are going to catch up on by the amount of people that bring along friends and get them interested in the game.
garbodor
Profile Joined October 2011
269 Posts
January 25 2012 09:39 GMT
#29
meh, it's not really unreasonable that they don't want barcrafts happening if they're not making money from it directly imo
cost to license UFC in a sports bar is like 500-1500 depending on the fight :c
DwD
Profile Joined January 2010
Sweden8621 Posts
January 25 2012 09:44 GMT
#30
Why even care about that email? Just ignore it then can't stop you from gathering with friends and watching something you payed for. LOL Ridiculous by GOM, Mr Chae what the fuck man? As long as they are adults they can do whatever they want. Drinking is not illegal, not even in strict Korea.
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Ribbon
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States5278 Posts
January 25 2012 09:51 GMT
#31
On January 25 2012 18:18 KeksX wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 25 2012 18:14 OPL3SA2 wrote:
On January 25 2012 17:59 KeksX wrote:
On January 25 2012 15:08 Looms wrote:
On January 25 2012 04:23 yaletown wrote:
Believe it or not, I recently received an email from GOM TV asking me NOT to host Barcrafts anymore. I then asked for a refund on my 1 year pass, which I paid for if I'm not allowed to host them and they abliged.
Therefore I will no longer be PROMOTING Barcrafts. If you would like to informally gather and ask me to turn on the TV to your favourite programs under your account, I can accomodate that.

As for the reasoning behind GOM's email, I have NO Idea at all...


wtf GOMTV... is that really Mr. Chae's stance?

It's understandable.

If one barcraft gets 80 people to watch on one stream they lost 79 viewers, now imagine there were 10 barcrafts in korea. Roughly 700 "potential" viewers lost.

They have to fight for each viewer and barcrafts work against that. People don't realize that when there are thousands of people watching but they only generate like 100 views it's pretty dumb(for the event). Just think of the real numbers; people are always complaining about how sc2 gets less viewers than LoL, yet they forget that barcraft take away viewers. (Viewers as in numbers)


This should simply be taken into consideration when comparing stream numbers. .

But how do you do that?


I live in Boston, and there are tons of free local newpapers. They make money from ads, so they need to be able to estimate reasonably their readership, which isn't nearly as easy as "papers put in box - papers left in box"

Likewise, the super bowl here in America is going to be shown in every bar in the damn country. I assure you the NFL reports all that to their sponsors.

So it's not like it's some unprecedented challenge.
Crucius
Profile Joined May 2010
Australia299 Posts
January 25 2012 09:54 GMT
#32
Here's the thing though, I've been apart of the organisation that plans the Barcrafts for Sydney, Australia. GOM has been nothing but proactive and helpful in assisting us with scheduling and promotion... I don't see why they'd do a complete 180 on this and ban them...
ShloobeR
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Korea (South)3820 Posts
January 25 2012 09:55 GMT
#33
Ooh I'm interested, it'd give me a chance to meet some TLers around Sinchon (and playing league of legends, hell yeah!).

Please keep me posted about times dates : ) I'd love to come!
: o )
Primadog
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States4411 Posts
January 25 2012 09:56 GMT
#34
On January 25 2012 18:54 Crucius wrote:
Here's the thing though, I've been apart of the organisation that plans the Barcrafts for Sydney, Australia. GOM has been nothing but proactive and helpful in assisting us with scheduling and promotion... I don't see why they'd do a complete 180 on this and ban them...


It's shocking, but "yaletown" is legit. He's consistently the guy that hosts BarCraft Seoul and I do not doubt him if he post something as serious as that.
Thank God and gunrun.
Scarecrow
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Korea (South)9172 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-25 10:00:39
January 25 2012 09:59 GMT
#35
Seeing as this email was only directed at the Seoul venue it's probably about increasing the studio/finals audiences. Anything else doesn't make much sense.

Everyone needs to stop acting like this is a universal barcraft ban. It's not great for Seoul TL'ers but it doesn't affect anyone else.
Yhamm is the god of predictions
Rekrul
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Korea (South)17174 Posts
January 25 2012 10:00 GMT
#36
On January 25 2012 18:59 Scarecrow wrote:
Seeing as this email was only directed at the Seoul venue it's probably about increasing the studio/finals audiences. Anything else doesn't make much sense.


tru
why so 진지해?
Primadog
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States4411 Posts
January 25 2012 10:03 GMT
#37
On January 25 2012 18:59 Scarecrow wrote:
Seeing as this email was only directed at the Seoul venue it's probably about increasing the studio/finals audiences. Anything else doesn't make much sense.

Everyone needs to stop acting like this is a universal barcraft ban. It's not great for Seoul TL'ers but it doesn't affect anyone else.


GOM or any other tournament do not have jurisdiction over BarCraft. BarCraft is a community movement and should not cave in to bullying. I can't see other organizers ignoring this. I won't.
Thank God and gunrun.
schimmetje
Profile Joined August 2010
Netherlands1104 Posts
January 25 2012 10:26 GMT
#38
Oh good, we found something to pitchfork about again.

Perhaps it would be wiser for GOM to not be too strict about this, goodwill and all. Still you can't restream either and this isn't the LQ stream from the 1 year pass mention. Plus there's the studio/numbers thing, as mentioned above.

Sucks but are there *really* people surprised this could happen?
Change to MY nostalgia? UNACCEPTABLE! Monkey paaaw!
itsjustatank
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Hong Kong9169 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-25 10:35:53
January 25 2012 10:35 GMT
#39
On January 25 2012 19:26 schimmetje wrote:
Oh good, we found something to pitchfork about again.

Perhaps it would be wiser for GOM to not be too strict about this, goodwill and all. Still you can't restream either and this isn't the LQ stream from the 1 year pass mention. Plus there's the studio/numbers thing, as mentioned above.

Sucks but are there *really* people surprised this could happen?


Yeah considering they were lamenting the small number of SC2 supporters they have been enjoying in Korea, this is pretty surprising.

On January 23 2012 17:00 jellyjello wrote:
Coach Won>

...

Also, if KeSPA, Blizzard, or GOMTV wants an information about SC2 to be public, I think they must talk to the teams first before doing so. It's the same with the fans. They are all esports fans. There is no need to distinguish between BW fans and SC2 fans. We shouldn't be fighting for the already small market. We should all try to find a common ground and have discussions and gather opinions from fans, and SC2 association is a necessity tool for this to happen.


Straight up telling them to stop instead of trying to work out a deal or something destroys an avenue that they once had to garner support from the local community. Not very smart.
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DarKcS
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Australia1237 Posts
January 25 2012 10:52 GMT
#40
I can't find a single thing not broken with the world today
Except kittens.
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