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mmdmmd
722 Posts
YOU PAY WHAT WE SAY! CAUSE WE HAVE DA POWER!!!! Poll: Will you download a pirate version of the paid stream? Yes! (103) Not Sure. (9) No! (8) 120 total votes Your vote: Will you download a pirate version of the paid stream? | ||
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krazymunky
United States727 Posts
On September 02 2010 03:12 teamsolid wrote: Okay that's ridiculous lol. No way I'm gonna pay, I'll just watch the Korean stream or a restream of the English one. someone needs to restream the korean stream and then mute the sound and cast in english  free live english commentary :D | ||
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comis
United States333 Posts
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Adila
United States874 Posts
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jamesr12
United States1549 Posts
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krazymunky
United States727 Posts
On September 02 2010 03:15 Adila wrote: How long is a season? Apparently only one month, but that hasnt been confirmed yet. | ||
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Kryptix
United States138 Posts
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Ome
Canada157 Posts
30$ for the vods seems outrageous, I would hope they will drop the price considering it's only watchable for the current season. 5$ would be reasonable, or more if it was lifetime viewing. Obviously I'd like it to be free personally but it's very doubtful now, just like alacarte for tv, it won't happen.  | ||
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andeh
United States904 Posts
vote with your wallet! | ||
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krazymunky
United States727 Posts
On September 02 2010 03:15 Kryptix wrote: For a pay per view sporting event its not all that expensive if you think about it... MMA is what $70? NFL season pass is $250? I don't think its that expensive but my internet can't stream HD (Time Warner is very slow during primetime) and between work and school I don't think I have enough time to watch enough to be worth it. (NFL Season starting) yeah but thats HD quality on TV that is 99% of the time going to work well. Gom Stream. crap "high quality" stream and could have lag. | ||
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Competent
United States406 Posts
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Hot_Bid
Braavos36402 Posts
On September 02 2010 01:41 Nilaus wrote: Anyone else noticed the amount of threads being closed today dealing with restreaming of this event? I don't like the way TL is moving, by being the lapdogs of greedy organisations such as GOMTV. It seems quite ambigous to provide VODs and restreams of BW, but stomp down on any mentioning of the same measure for SC2. We close restreams for every organization that requests it, provided they own the rights to their broadcasts. We did it for IEM, MLG, and we'll do it for GOM if they request it. We allow restreams of BW because we haven't been told by OGN or MBC to take them down. Additionally, the BW streams have a free stream, it's not paid premium. | ||
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Postaldude
Sweden180 Posts
On September 02 2010 03:15 Kryptix wrote: For a pay per view sporting event its not all that expensive if you think about it... MMA is what $70? NFL season pass is $250? I don't think its that expensive but my internet can't stream HD (Time Warner is very slow during primetime) and between work and school I don't think I have enough time to watch enough to be worth it. (NFL Season starting) You forget that these kinds of events has like 100 games if not more | ||
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Jayme
United States5866 Posts
On September 02 2010 03:15 Kryptix wrote: For a pay per view sporting event its not all that expensive if you think about it... MMA is what $70? NFL season pass is $250? I don't think its that expensive but my internet can't stream HD (Time Warner is very slow during primetime) and between work and school I don't think I have enough time to watch enough to be worth it. (NFL Season starting) MMA also has a ton of free content to get people into the sport. That and when you pay 70 dollars you know you're getting something that works. This is not so with GomTV streams which are notorious for having issues..even the HQ stream had them | ||
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Shodaa
Canada404 Posts
On September 02 2010 03:15 Kryptix wrote: For a pay per view sporting event its not all that expensive if you think about it... MMA is what $70? NFL season pass is $250? I don't think its that expensive but my internet can't stream HD (Time Warner is very slow during primetime) and between work and school I don't think I have enough time to watch enough to be worth it. (NFL Season starting) During primetime ? GSL is live from Korea so the games are streamed at like 3 to 5am your time. I will definitely not pay for the live stream. Might pay for some games, like the semi-finals/finals. Might pay for VOD if they change their pricing, let us keep the VODs after the season or release a DVD or something. | ||
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Lysithea
Sweden204 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.speedtest.net/result/936711930.png) To a server in seoul ![[image loading]](http://www.speedtest.net/result/936723603.png) Their own http://www.gomtv.net/common/speedtest/check.php gives me ~200kb/sec Conlusion: I'll find a restream from someone closer who's connection doesn't blow to korea. Also, I bet they would earn more money if they lowered the price to sensible levels. | ||
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Art_of_Kill
Zaire1232 Posts
i would at max pay 5bucks for livestream and vods! and why pay when u can see it for free from restreamers | ||
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theqat
United States2856 Posts
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VorcePA
United States1102 Posts
On September 02 2010 03:32 theqat wrote: A GOM employee's post on these forums claimed that part of the reason they are charging is so that they can afford servers in the US. Hopefully that will eliminate some of the problems we've had with streaming from GOM in the past. Really, really don't care. Like, really extra super don't care. GOMTV was a nice service during the BW GSL 1, 2, and 3. I didn't mind the problems it had, because it was free. Now that there's no free option, I will not support it. Blizzard/GOM have to realize their biggest potential client base is a bunch of broke college students. Everyone else in other income brackets probably account for less than 50% of the total user base. With these prices, though, it doesn't even matter. Wealthier people than myself are already scoffing at the cost. | ||
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Neos
United States400 Posts
Looking back at the past Starcraft GOM Tourneys: Gom Classic Season 1: Everything was free (Fantastic) Season 2: Pay for a high quality stream (Whatever) Season 3: Wait a few days before you could watch a video unless you paid (Try not to get spoiled) Now: ... | ||
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