SearchOGN not to broadcast Global StarCraft 2 League
Posted by Karsten "pYRo" Haendly 1 year ago
GomTV announced on 3rd September 2010 that there will only be pay-per-view TV for this season's Global StarCraft 2 League as OGN will not broadcast the games.Although OnGameNet and GomTV reached an agreement last month, latest information say that OnGameNet will not stream the games of Global StarCraft 2 League for as of yet unknown reasons.
Yesterday, GosuGamers.net reported that Gretech - the company behind GomTV - and KeSPA did not reach an agreement for the continuation of the Proleague. As OnGameNet is a part of KeSPA it might be possible that they canceled the contract with GomTV.
GomTV announced earlier this week that spectators would need to buy a ticket to watch the provided stream. A season ticket costs $19.95, whereas a VOD ticket, which allows you to watch the VODs during the season, makes $29.95.
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| just ... no comment ... |
| actually this was predictable :) |
| so not gonna pay 29$ to watch , i'm sure my fellow pirates can walk around this pay-per-view :D |
| Seriously how can anybody fuck things up so badly? jeez... |
| this is the worst decision ever |
| That s why I play a craked version of SC2 ... GREED !!! |
| FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!! !!!! |
| I would prefer a few more foreigner players but I will probably pay Nevertheless. |
| sad |
| No, thanks |
| #1 +1 |
| god damn........ . :(((((((((((((((( Lets gather up some money so we can pay artosis to secretly rig up his own stream^^:) |
| 20-30$ ahaha those are sick people .. the game it self cost around dubble this price..never gonna pay |
| :( |
| omg.. Just like Shocker write ... no comments |
| On one hand i do understand their decision...seeing that Eurosport, ESPN and so on cost something to watch. On the other hand it is clear that most fans won't pay that much and i am one of them... Also, making the VODs cost so much is just ridiculous seeing that it is clear that someone will make them avalaible for free..they are just movies after all. At least now ESL, with it's low quality free stream, isn't the worst service anymore, seeing as at least you can watch it for free. |
| WTF is wrong with you people? $20 or $30 is NOTHING. This will be the biggest tournament ever and will do sick good things to e-sports and SC2, so this is a very small price to pay in order to contribute to the financing to ensure future tournament like this. Show some F... gratitude ! If not, then you dont deserve to watch! This is how the world works! |
"$20 or $30 is NOTHING. " Well it's nothing for you... You can't really make this assumption for everyone. |
| #17 Most of the spectators are students/pupils who don't earn money on their own. So it may seem nothing to you but a lot to others / the majority. |
| Having Activision directors holding esport's future into their hands is definately as relevant as having a grocer piloting an airliner. (With all due respect to grocers ofc.) |
even tho i'd have the money, i wouldn't pay it for watchin ppl play computer game  someone will stream it for free or at least VODs will be available later. gomtv is just so greedy! |
| #18 +1 |
| i wont pay money for streams lol All megatournaments in normal sport are shown on tv for free and GOOD quality. Fuck kespa and others |
| gom can suck it. |
| i dont see the greed, its a tv station, its like all other tv stations in the world you pay to watch things if gom is gonna have a major tour each month ofc its gonna have to get some money in from the outside besides sponsors, or atleast until its so populair that it can survive on sponsors alone. |
| -1 viewer |
| yep.. this was anticipated....... thumbs down |
| WTF at price -.- |
| What?!!! 20-30$ for season ticket? Nah, it's just too much. I would prefer to use that money for something else. -1 viewer |
| #25 You pay 30$ per month for 1 TV channel? -1 Viewer At least I hope that with those prices Tasteless and Artosis get paid well for this. |
| ok, nice joke |
| 20-30$ is nothing imo, for a season! |
| -1 viewer. |
| In Germany three TV stations offered free online stream for the World Cup in soccer... |
| What did you think it was going to cost with $170.000 in pricepool? Money doesn't appear out of thin air you know.. |
| Although the cost will anger some i believe of course this was a last resort. The prize pool is just too big. This is the biggest tournament in gaming history for single players in a game, in terms of prize pool. Think about UFC, pay per view is $59.99 and pple are willing to pay that. $30 is definately more worth it in my opinion, for an entire season. I think we've been very fortunate to watch free tournaments now so the next time we watch those we should be thankful for the organizers who put it out there. |
| "$20 or $30 is NOTHING. " but i will rather spend that nothing on something else than watching gomtvs broken streams or VODs that never work anyways |
| One season means only one tournament. |
| Its maybe not much cash but the stream quality is trash aswell 500 kbit/s.. Would've considered paying if quality was any good but this is a joke |
| fffffffffuuuuu :< |
| Chill guys, the VoDs will always be (pirated) uploaded and people might restream. |
| I would like to mention that for us Europeans we will probably not be able to see a lagfree stream. They use the same streaming process as they did in older events. I tried getting their client and so on. But couldn't watch it without getting buffers all the time. So that is why I am boycutting season 1. Until people tell me that their shit is working fine. |
| Funny thing that the internet-generation expect everything to be free. Well this is a pro tournament, and as in all sports you have to pay to watch it. If you dont want to pay to see it, then watch some other free tourneys instead. |
| GOMTV just changed their mind. The lower quality stream will be free. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=149897 You can check the quality here: http://www.gomtv.net/2010gslopens1 /premiumzone/VideoSpecs.php |
| ^ Aw, you beat me to it :( |
| #44 thank god well i guess they realized that they would lose 90% of the viewers if they stood by their retarded decision |
| either Blizzard or Gretech or Kespa , they do care only about money. Right now they're killing e-sport in korea because of money... |
| #47 lol drama much |
| I think its a super deal, you can chose to watch low kval if you dont have the means or if thats enough if you have the cash and want HD or you wanna support the tour / e-sports towards mainstream Should be awesome cant wait to see the games casted by tasteless and artosis, gogo gom give us more games! Been missing the action we got in broodwar from them |
| This sucks balls !!! Damn here in sweden we even get free UFC to watch on tv for everyone. This shud be for free i think we already payed 57Euro for the game (digital copy). Lower the prize pool to the point where you dont need to pay anything. I think mutch more people would appricite that. |
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