Sorry to answer your question I do play reptile still as much as I do kenshi but again low tier and mid tier are gonna eventually get to top 32 where your bracket becomes
plenty, as in almost all of the biggest streamers do not charge to archives, though they encourage subscriptions. TeamSpooky or Max for example... but pretty much all of them as they know that it is fans and followers that count. having 1000 people go "oh locked archives" and never coming back is not the same as getting a 1000 people becoming regulars and then a percentage of them donators. Forced subs for archives like reo and tom and FunkyP just drives people away and is hurting their cash intake and growth, not improving it. It is followers, and growth that makes the bucks,,, This is new media 101 guys... get with the program.
I agree, but at the same time, Pig and Inde both raised very valid points that I can't help but agree with now that they brought the aforementioned stuff to my attention.
This is 50% correct
People will take advantage
Most other broadcasters for events don't archive footage behind a paywall. They are doing it primarily as a labor of love. It's easy to say "support me so I can stream" but you're ignoring what actually happens. Vast majority of people won't subscribe because they don't value the content enough or getting the results is good enough or they'll wait for the matches later since watching them the next day or a week later is no difference. In turn, you're disengaging those people from the community making it less likely for them to show up to events, participate in the discussion about that game, or even be viewer. FunkyP didn't show up to that event banking on enough people to sub to him so he could afford a bus ticket home. Treating it as a donation for the sake of support is the best way to not cause that disengagement phenomenon to occur. Want proof of this? Watch a Spooky stream during Top 8s/16s whenever he has sub mode only on. Watch the numbers drop because people don't feel engaged.
Did a thesis paper on this exact subject. There are precisely zero examples of hard evidence to support the claim that piracy equates to direct revenue lost for these industries. Digital piracy is, and has always been, an accessibility issue. If you make it difficult for your customers to get what they want when they want it (buying and entire album for a single, buying a physical copy of a movie, etc.) then they will turn to easier methods. Netflix's and iTune's effect on the amount of piracy has been astronomical and the movie industry is having one of it's most profitable string of years (I hesitate to say decade because I don't know for sure) in it's entire history.
Spooky example may not be the best one seeing how he makes a lot off his stream and the way he does things
Movies are making more money now than ever in history. There are billion dollar movies every season, and not just one .. sometimes 3 or more. The film industry is going very well.
It was less about Spooky individually and more about the dynamic at play. If you're putting a paywall for people who can watch the event live to be part of the conversation, naturally you're going to push some people away which is the opposite of what we should be doing.
Not a very adequate analogy. The stream is free upon broadcast so the only people you're charging are those who aren't there to watch it live. He makes (or can make) ad revenue all the same on live and past broadcasts and presumably on youtube as well. Cable doesn't have/function on a "community" and they operate in a marketplace where I can shop providers. FunkyP is the ONLY source for CEO 2016 MKX footage short of those videos HoneyBee took with his phone.
You seriously lost me first hand first sentence
No.. your confusing the small US market with international ticket sales. If America wasn't charging a weeks wages for a dad to take the wife and kids out to the movies it would be a different story and why it is international sales (were prices are reasonable) that are fuelling the entire industry as record numbers are attending.
Enjoy it while it lasts from those who allow free viewing because changes are coming for this market
yeah.. just look at Warcraft rofl...
Ticket sales are not declining. Tickets are also only a part of the revenue generated by the film industry. The industry also makes their finances as convoluted and opaque as possible to make it seem like their margins are thin. Ever see the financing report that shows that Harry Potter hasn't turned a profit yet?
If you wanna kill the FGC as quick as possible then charging to view is the best way to do that.
music industry still has not adjusted at all
Eventually the bigger games will get TV rights and you and the world like the music world did in 1998 will have to just adjust also
yeah, the eventual end point of the eSports will be digital rights bought by corporations for cable or other paid streaming services. Eventually the free stream stuff will go away, it is really a remanent of the amateur scene.
Warcraft?
each to their own I guess. For myself I like it when films have actual narrative structure. I mean it wasn't as bad as Transformers 4, but it was the same kind of washing machine of interconnected sequences that makes anyone that enjoys storytelling die a little inside.
A huge cultural shift is gonna be required before eSports becomes viable cable broadcasting. ESPN has been flirting with it for what like half a decade now and it still hasn't managed to bring in the ratings. Any fighting game is far down the totem pole for being picked up by a network due to their current size and demographic appeal. I'd wager that the unbundling trend will come to full fruition before eSports becomes "cable sustainable" which puts it even farther behind because it would need a huge audience to opt into the "eSports channel" since ESPN wouldn't be able to bundle it with their other channels. But hey, if it leads to better production values, the ability to see ALL of the pools and not miss part of the handful pools scheduled to be broadcast because of MAHVEL going into infinite overtime, and presumably a bigger audience which translates to a bigger scene then I'll be happy to pay a reasonable fee for it.
I do agree on that point, there was no narrative in Warcraft coz by design it was assumed you played Warcraft games before you watched the movie. In that case it made sense. If somebody never really was into Warcraft games then the movie was confusing at best. And i agree with that.