EPTGomTV 2012 GSL Tour Changes - Page 10
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Gojira621
United States374 Posts
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coolcor
520 Posts
On December 11 2011 02:16 Xeris wrote: You dont make those kinds of cuts unless you are losing money ... Hmm I wonder how much blizzard is charging them to lose money promoting their game. Maybe GOM needs to raise the subscription price even more. People on this forum need to support esports more if they want more prize money! The only other option is to try to try make more money from increased add revenue by making vods cheaper/free for more views. But I doubt that would work so they should definitely be focusing on getting as much money as possible from the smaller group of fans willing to stay up late or pay lots of money to watch. Hope increased competition from free foreign tournaments with lots of Koreans doesn't make them lose subscriptions! | ||
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price
United States297 Posts
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mrbamboo
United States415 Posts
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Duravi
United States1205 Posts
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Bio-Leera
United States65 Posts
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Falconpauunch
Korea (South)59 Posts
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andrea20
Canada441 Posts
Round-robin was great, as it meant that teams couldn't rely on just one lucky upset. It also gave a more accurate representation of a team's strength. Double-elimination means that some teams will never face each other, and some will get a free ride into later rounds. This definitely hurts the lower-skilled teams, as they'll go 0-2 and be eliminated, instead of playing 5 matches. EDIT: And get rid of the winner's league format. Having it as a diversion is nice, but basing the entire league around it only hurts the up-and-coming players. Imagine if proleague were all winner's league... Flash Flash Flash~ | ||
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StarStruck
25339 Posts
On December 10 2011 19:53 thezanursic wrote: And the prize pool is the same..n When I saw the mlg prov numbers and their promise of a larger prize pool I was like GSL has to step it up or the.best koreans will just go to the large prize pool foreigner events, I guess not tho. Not necessarily a bad thing if the other majors step up the prize pool because you will get more Koreans showing up to those events and qualifiers. They are cutting their costs back a little. Doesn't mean the future outlook is bad. On December 11 2011 01:10 The Final Boss wrote: Like everybody else here, I want GSTL to be more like PL. PL's format is so much fun to watch and it lends itself to being more team-oriented (you can't just have one player completely carry for the team). They need more sponsors for that. GSTL isn't anywhere near PL yet. On December 11 2011 01:56 BLinD-RawR wrote: LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL watch an OSL/MSL....hell watch how long it took TSL3 to finish.  | ||
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mrbamboo
United States415 Posts
compared to last season every team played five games, and there was a total of 30 matches. | ||
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WigglingSquid
5194 Posts
I wonder what are GomTV's revenues. Relatively poor quality, software-locked stream, average production (aside for the awesome voice-acted player announcements), normal prices... I think that mantaining a studio should not hinder their earnings so much; maybe they lack deep-pocketed sponsors? I am somewhat dubious about the GSTL format, however. We will see. | ||
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amazingoopah
United States1925 Posts
Getting rid of the WC and ST isn't that big a deal; they feel sort of tacked on haphazardly to the schedule as it is. The WC should be the Blizzard Cup and if the ST is going to be a once a year thing instead of a concurrent title (ala MSL/OSL running together before the MSL folded) then it's not a big deal anyways. | ||
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SgtPepper
United States568 Posts
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DailYLeet
Germany827 Posts
i think that was one of the best events of the year | ||
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chatuka
1351 Posts
I'm just so jealous of the other professional sports that get huge ratings, thus huge dollars. With time, i think Esports will be a multi-million dollar business, just like any other major sport | ||
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RacerX
United States168 Posts
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Asymmetric
Scotland1309 Posts
The GSTL was perfect the way it was. Winner stays on. Last man standing. No panzy double elimination, 2v2's or bloody ace matchs breaking it up. | ||
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Xeris
Iran17695 Posts
On December 11 2011 03:03 coolcor wrote: Hmm I wonder how much blizzard is charging them to lose money promoting their game. Maybe GOM needs to raise the subscription price even more. People on this forum need to support esports more if they want more prize money! The only other option is to try to try make more money from increased add revenue by making vods cheaper/free for more views. But I doubt that would work so they should definitely be focusing on getting as much money as possible from the smaller group of fans willing to stay up late or pay lots of money to watch. Hope increased competition from free foreign tournaments with lots of Koreans doesn't make them lose subscriptions! Blizzard doesn't charge them outside of some relatively small license fee. The problem is that these leagues don't make money. No esport league makes money. MLG is MAYBE the only league to make money in 2011, and I'm even dubious about that... but luckily they had $10 million in VC money to play with on the year, and I'm sure they have more long term plans so it doesn't matter if they don't make money this year... GOMTV doesn't seem to have that kind of backing, which means that their league is not being very successful (financially)... hence cutting about 1/2 million from their expenses. Seems like overall, Korea is having a very rough time leveraging SC2's popularity and their players' skill with sponsors the way Western companies / organizations / players are able to do. | ||
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Laneir
United States1160 Posts
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ArchDC
Malaysia1996 Posts
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