EPTThe whole story started quite normally. As a big buzz news reader, I visit my favorite websites and spend most of my time slacking off in front of useless, yet fun videos (well, some of them are still of a use).
Whilst browsing one of those websites (www.lesdebiles.com), I noticed that the Eclypsia's stream was embed on it, and hidden on top of that : the stream launches itself automatically and is muted when launched, thus giving them a lot of "zombie" (easy yet not alive) viewers. Even though I despise that team, I did not warn any one right off the bat.
When I saw, at noon, the freshly created topic about it on team aAa's boards, It just pushed me toward writing a blog about them, to make sure that everyone understand that, even in the eSports, there is some dirty money
So far, I've discovered three websites that use this "hidden embed" trick, which are :
http://www.lesdebiles.com
http://www.degourdi.com/ http://www.fluvore.com/
It's needless to say that many people visit those websites.From my point of view, eclypsia must have proposed them a rather simple deal : EC gives them money to get their stream embed in such way, but does it pays off? As a picture is worth a thousand words, here is a graph of the number of views on Eclypsia's stream.
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Judging by the graph, they managed to get 11 000 times more views on their channel in two weeks. The saddest part is that even the Dailymotion staff do not seem to be aware of that. If they keep up that pace, they will catch up to millenium in a few week (millenium's channel is actually around 30 million views)
The fact is that, thanks to that unfair method, Eclypsia's viewers tend to think that their favorite structure is know by thousands, if not more, which is obviously not the fact. Not to mention all the guys that just want to watch fun stuff, and end up downloading a heavy stream without even knowing about it.
On top of that, Eclypsia is getting money from those viewers, as ads are displayed every time an embed is loaded.
With that blog, I just wanted to reveal the truth about Eclypsia's methods, as they are one of the most dishonnest teams I've ever known about.
Whilst browsing one of those websites (www.lesdebiles.com), I noticed that the Eclypsia's stream was embed on it, and hidden on top of that : the stream launches itself automatically and is muted when launched, thus giving them a lot of "zombie" (easy yet not alive) viewers. Even though I despise that team, I did not warn any one right off the bat.
When I saw, at noon, the freshly created topic about it on team aAa's boards, It just pushed me toward writing a blog about them, to make sure that everyone understand that, even in the eSports, there is some dirty money
So far, I've discovered three websites that use this "hidden embed" trick, which are :
http://www.lesdebiles.com
http://www.degourdi.com/ http://www.fluvore.com/
It's needless to say that many people visit those websites.From my point of view, eclypsia must have proposed them a rather simple deal : EC gives them money to get their stream embed in such way, but does it pays off? As a picture is worth a thousand words, here is a graph of the number of views on Eclypsia's stream.
Judging by the graph, they managed to get 11 000 times more views on their channel in two weeks. The saddest part is that even the Dailymotion staff do not seem to be aware of that. If they keep up that pace, they will catch up to millenium in a few week (millenium's channel is actually around 30 million views)
The fact is that, thanks to that unfair method, Eclypsia's viewers tend to think that their favorite structure is know by thousands, if not more, which is obviously not the fact. Not to mention all the guys that just want to watch fun stuff, and end up downloading a heavy stream without even knowing about it.
On top of that, Eclypsia is getting money from those viewers, as ads are displayed every time an embed is loaded.
With that blog, I just wanted to reveal the truth about Eclypsia's methods, as they are one of the most dishonnest teams I've ever known about.
Translated from the french blog post available here : http://team-aaa.com/membre/blog/lapente/affiche-article-1033-0-.html
French teams aren't famous to be the most serious one (such as Virus who didn't paid their players, eSahara getting folled by fake players and stuff...).
Eclypsia was already known for bunch of dramas : april fool about players didn't got paid, weird marketing decision, all international players running away (some insights told refered to fake promises), most french players running away blaming head staff and abusive contracts (according to interviews on aAa), dota team's drama...
I'm not pretty sure that esports need this kind of teams who wants to "professionalize" and "revolutionize" the buisness in such shady ways...
PS: this isn't my real account, using a friend' smurf - thanks to him - i don't want any exposure or making dramas.
