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biosnake20

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• Nov 18, 2013

• #1

TechCrunch article

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E-sports programmer Major League Gaming has spent the last decade building an audience of video game enthusiasts, through events in which gamers go head-to-head with each other. Now it’s looking to bring those viewers to a an owned and operated premium sports network of its own, at MLG.TV.

Now, the e-sports broadcaster is ready to launch its own online gaming network, and it’s bringing along a couple of partners. For MLG, the launch of its own network is designed to help it better monetize its events online. User-generated platforms are great, DiGiovanni says, but they pose a challenge for a premium brand and content platform when they sell to advertisers online.

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Parallax Scroll

Banned

• Nov 18, 2013

• #2

Will it have Kappa face?

 

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SloaneRisette

Member

• Nov 18, 2013

• #3

Parallax Scroll said:

Will it have Kappa face?

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Of course not.

Kappa faces aren't allowed in eSports.

 

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Face it Tiger..

Banned

• Nov 18, 2013

• #4

but will it have Twitch emoticons?

 

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JakkuFurosu

Member

• Nov 18, 2013

• #5

Parallax Scroll said:

Will it have Kappa face?

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It better

hope this does well

 

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Cosmo Clock 21

Banned

• Nov 18, 2013

• #6

23 hours of dead air and 1 hour of ads

 

Ploid 3.0

Member

• Nov 18, 2013

• #7

Finally, I remember the days of those Championship Gaming Series or whatever, broadcasts on Directv, back when Halo 360 was just out, PGR, and DOA xbox. It also had draft picks the last time I saw it haha. Watching that stuff was fun since it seemed so weird that it was on tv. Now the internet is pretty much a better form of tv and this almost seem unnecessary, but it's still cool to see happen.

 

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Aaron

Member

• Nov 18, 2013

• #8

I expect a whole lot of LOL with a sprinkling of Dota2.

 

eot

Banned

• Nov 18, 2013

• #9

Pay to listen to royalty free metal!

 

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Snakeyes

Member

• Nov 18, 2013

• #10

Will fighters be on there or is it just FPS, SC2 and stuff like LoL?

 

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mrpeabody

Member

• Nov 18, 2013

• #11

It's like Twitch, except only MLG stuff, and the "chat" is a Twitter feed (ie there is no real irc-style chat).

Hard to see anybody tuning into this on a regular basis. It'll be good during their events I guess.

 

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Judderman

drawer by drawer

• Nov 18, 2013

• #12

Cosmo Clock 21 said:

23 hours of dead air and 1 hour of ads

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And we're done here.

 

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JuiceJones

Neo Member

• Nov 19, 2013

• #13

Anyone care to speculate on content to ad ratio...

 

Harlock

Member

• Nov 19, 2013

• #14

he main problem is being always the same ad. Unless they use youtube ads, with option to skip, like Twitch.