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| shizna United Kingdom. February 25 2012 09:28. Posts 803 | Profile # |
okay am i understanding this right.... only the first series is free? man, i thought there would be at least a low quality stream available for free...
hello age of disgusting profiteering. |
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| silentsod United States. February 25 2012 09:29. Posts 175 | Profile # |
On February 25 2012 09:28 shizna wrote:
okay am i understanding this right.... only the first series is free? man, i thought there would be at least a low quality stream available for free...
hello age of disgusting profiteering.
It really is disgusting that they're adding events to test a new payment model to see if they can make MLG sustainable long term instead of continuing to bleed money.
How dare they! |
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| zachMEISTER United States. February 25 2012 09:32. Posts 573 | Profile # |
On February 25 2012 09:29 silentsod wrote:
Show nested quote +On February 25 2012 09:28 shizna wrote:
okay am i understanding this right.... only the first series is free? man, i thought there would be at least a low quality stream available for free...
hello age of disgusting profiteering.
It really is disgusting that they're adding events to test a new payment model to see if they can make MLG sustainable long term instead of continuing to bleed money. How dare they!
"They get it."
HAHAHAH SOTG quote. |
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| dTox United Kingdom. February 25 2012 09:36. Posts 231 | Profile # |
| So will i have to pay them $15 again the next time they host one of these Winter Arena's? In which case how often will these occur? |
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| Sub40APM February 25 2012 09:36. Posts 2064 | Profile # |
| Too bad MLG wont release the numbers on how much they made/lost on PPV. |
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| freetgy February 25 2012 09:37. Posts 1586 | Profile # |
| if you want e-sports to grow you need at least some way to watch cool games for free.. |
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| ODKStevez Ireland. February 25 2012 09:37. Posts 1176 | Profile # |
On February 25 2012 03:58 Dyno. wrote:
This is ridiculous for people who won't be able to watch the whole event. If I had the whole weekend off and knew I'd be able to commit to watching this, I would definitely consider paying for this. However, I have work all weekend and would only be able to catch a few games anyway. Under the old MLG stream, I'd watch them in low quality and with ads, but it was nice to have the option.
Unforunately, now I won't be able to catch any of the games even between my shifts.
This is similar for me except I do not plan on staying up all night 2 nights in a row. I'll just wait the week. If it was on a time suited for me, i'd probably pay. |
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| ntssauce Germany. February 25 2012 09:38. Posts 469 | Profile # |
| what about the people that fucking don't have the money to pay for this... OCCUPY MLG :!!! |
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| Abort Retry Fail February 25 2012 09:38. Posts 2627 | Profile # |
On February 25 2012 09:36 dTox wrote:
So will i have to pay them $15 again the next time they host one of these Winter Arena's? In which case how often will these occur?
This. Exactly. Maybe all events covereg by gold will turn into this kind of PPV.
I want my gold refund please. |
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| shizna United Kingdom. February 25 2012 09:41. Posts 803 | Profile # |
On February 25 2012 09:29 silentsod wrote:
Show nested quote +On February 25 2012 09:28 shizna wrote:
okay am i understanding this right.... only the first series is free? man, i thought there would be at least a low quality stream available for free...
hello age of disgusting profiteering.
It really is disgusting that they're adding events to test a new payment model to see if they can make MLG sustainable long term instead of continuing to bleed money. How dare they!
from where i'm standing, it looks like dreamhack, assembly and iem etc seem to manage fine without a PPV system.
either that's an incorrect assumption, and dreamhack, assembly and iem etc are going to fold OR mlg are doing something wrong.
anyway it's fine, i'll just watch some pro streams instead... i was just shocked to discover that you can't watch ANY games. i thought PPV meant there was a PPV package available with 234234234 bonus streams and higher resolution... not that every minute of every match (aside from preview) would be PPV.
i think that could have been cleared up in the first sentence of the announcement to be honest, to avoid this confusion.Last edit: 2012-02-25 09:47:20 |
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| cameronkrazie86 United States. February 25 2012 09:52. Posts 296 | Profile Blog # |
On February 25 2012 09:29 silentsod wrote:
Show nested quote +On February 25 2012 09:28 shizna wrote:
okay am i understanding this right.... only the first series is free? man, i thought there would be at least a low quality stream available for free...
hello age of disgusting profiteering.
It really is disgusting that they're adding events to test a new payment model to see if they can make MLG sustainable long term instead of continuing to bleed money. How dare they!
Last year - 6 MLG pro circuit events.
This year - 4 MLG pro circuit events.
Gold membership gets access to all pro circuit events. Then these "new" PPV events take the place of the other pro circuit events that were cut. Gold membership doesn't cover these "new" events despite their own graphics saying "pro circuit arena".
So I paid $30 for my gold membership being told it would cover all MLG events in 2012. Now I need to pay an additional $15 to watch these "new" pro circuit events. I'm glad I can be a "test" subject to their "new payment model" which consists of double-dipping on the people that already paid for all of the MLG content months in advance. But hey, at least Sundance fired the person in charge of the old gold membership, that really satisifies me the paying customer.
It's fun being a paying customer of a bait & switch business practice.
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| Adreme United States. February 25 2012 10:03. Posts 3949 | Profile # |
On February 25 2012 09:41 shizna wrote:
Show nested quote +On February 25 2012 09:29 silentsod wrote:
On February 25 2012 09:28 shizna wrote:
okay am i understanding this right.... only the first series is free? man, i thought there would be at least a low quality stream available for free...
hello age of disgusting profiteering.
It really is disgusting that they're adding events to test a new payment model to see if they can make MLG sustainable long term instead of continuing to bleed money. How dare they!
from where i'm standing, it looks like dreamhack, assembly and iem etc seem to manage fine without a PPV system. either that's an incorrect assumption, and dreamhack, assembly and iem etc are going to fold OR mlg are doing something wrong. anyway it's fine, i'll just watch some pro streams instead... i was just shocked to discover that you can't watch ANY games. i thought PPV meant there was a PPV package available with 234234234 bonus streams and higher resolution... not that every minute of every match (aside from preview) would be PPV. i think that could have been cleared up in the first sentence of the announcement to be honest, to avoid this confusion.
The second 2 dont make money but Dreamhack might because of all the stuff that goes on there. |
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| SlaTe87 Germany. February 25 2012 10:09. Posts 35 | Profile # |
| i can watch it for free without auto-refreshing or something...haha seems to be a failure. the good thing... i dont need to buy that s***. |
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| shizna United Kingdom. February 25 2012 10:13. Posts 803 | Profile # |
american PPV kinda sucks if you're in europe as well.
if you want to watch it live, it's full price to stay up until 5am?
and who the **** wants to watch non-live PPV? |
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| LuckoftheIrish United States. February 25 2012 10:14. Posts 1767 | Profile # |
| So far it's completely worth the money. Sick games, really good production. |
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| IMoperator February 25 2012 10:15. Posts 1654 | Profile # |
| I'm watching on a restream (won't post here obviously, don't pm me for it either) because it's ridiculous that there's no free stream. GOM is able to have one, why not MLG? |
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| Sluggy United States. February 25 2012 10:16. Posts 122 | Profile # |
| $20 is totally worth it to me...I don't think it's unreasonable for them to try and make some money. Jumping right to 20 might scare off people, but if they start low and keep ramping it up people will feel betrayed and call them money grubbing idiots, might as well go for it. |
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| Dhalphir Australia. February 25 2012 10:17. Posts 1305 | Profile Blog # |
On February 25 2012 09:38 ntssauce wrote:
what about the people that fucking don't have the money to pay for this... OCCUPY MLG :!!!
then they don't get it, just like the people who don't have the money to buy a big house don't get a big house
i dont know whats so hard to understand about this. there are other free MLG events throughout the year. you are not automatically entitled to see everything for free. |
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| zezamer Finland. February 25 2012 10:17. Posts 1805 | Profile # |
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