Karsticles
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I'd rather the game be fun to play again.
so how are these team owners going to recover the 20 mil?
i liked when esports had a buy-in based on talent, not money
Not sure if you've paid any attention at all to esports over the past few years, but it's going to be pretty huge. I don't pay much attention myself, but it's been pretty obvious that televised esports is on the verge of exploding here in the US. Glamor? Probably not. Financial gain? Absolutely. You can google search the amount of money being thrown around in esports overseas.Are they doing this purely for glamour? Otherwise I can't imagine the financials working out with such a high upfront fee.
How did they scrape the cash for Blizzard's huge fee?
so how are these team owners going to recover the 20 mil?
i liked when esports had a buy-in based on talent, not money
A sports league has to be valuable to two parties: those who own it and those who take part. Money is made from "media rights and consumer products" as ActiBlizz put it, plus sponsorships and in-game merchandise. The plan for splitting it between big blue and the teams is that, once marketing and production costs have been taken off, it'll be even.
On top of this the teams will have their own revenue streams, especially as the system develops. "The more traditional areas like ticket sales and concessions and local sponsorships and local merch sales" said Spencer Neumann in the Q2 earnings call, "but they'll also have more unique opportunities such as the ability to host certain nonprofessional Overwatch matches."
By negotiating down to a number much less than what Blizzard was hoping for is my guess. I wouldn't be surprised if Blizzard waved the fee entirely.
Nobody's going to pay $20 million to buy into Overwatch esports, lmao.
Blizzard Entertainment has finalized deals with its next two Overwatch League buyers, which includes rights to the cities of Houston and Philadelphia for $20 million per spot, sources close to the buyers and the game developer told ESPN.
In Philadelphia, Blizzard sealed the deal with Comcast Spectacor, the owner of the Philadelphia Flyers and sports branch of cable giant Comcast. OpTic Gaming and its new investor, a group led by Texas Rangers co-owner Neil Leibman, have purchased a spot in Houston
Bit surprised at a C9 team and a flyquest team but no TSM... yet? Wonder if that could be the last team.
Bit surprised at a C9 team and a flyquest team but no TSM... yet? Wonder if that could be the last team.
TSM has a "stream team"....which includes aimbotcalvin and GaleAdelade that I know of, who are two of the top players on the ranked ladder. Calvin is easily one of the more popular streamers now too and regularly gets 5-6k viewers per stream.
Wouldn't be surprised to see them officially make a move in to OWL if it becomes a success though.
Awesome. My girlfriend is ecstatic. Guess I have another team to be eternally disappointed in!!!Jacob Wolf hasn't gotten anything wrong about Overwatch League yet, so you're in luck!
I'd rather the game be fun to play again.
By negotiating down to a number much less than what Blizzard was hoping for is my guess. I wouldn't be surprised if Blizzard waved the fee entirely.
Nobody's going to pay $20 million to buy into Overwatch esports, lmao.
Don't mess with me OP! There needs to be a Houston Overwatch team!
I do get the disturbing feeling that e-sports Overwatch is going to end up killing the game for me.
On the contrary, it should make the game more balanced* and provide heroes that require greater skill.
*assuming Blizzard doesn't screw up their balancing like they have before.
For example, the D.Va and Mercy changes coming out next week are almost directly based on feedback from the pro scene.
I'd rather the game be fun to play again.
Why would I watch/support a London team that has zero connections to London and no British players? I'm guessing they're hoping for Cloud9 supporters to follow them because I can't see anyone who doesn't play or watch Overwatch wanting to support this team just because they have the London name.
Yeah, this was exactly my problem with the changes haha.
Yeah I stopped playing it a long time ago once they went full on the esports train.
I just checked twitch and Overwatch viewership is underwhelming. 1/10 the viewers of Lol and it's even behind Family Feud 2010 Edition lol
Why would I watch/support a London team that has zero connections to London and no British players? I'm guessing they're hoping for Cloud9 supporters to follow them because I can't see anyone who doesn't play or watch Overwatch wanting to support this team just because they have the London name.
I do get the disturbing feeling that e-sports Overwatch is going to end up killing the game for me.
Yeah, this was exactly my problem with the changes haha.
Yeah I stopped playing it a long time ago once they went full on the esports train.
so how are these team owners going to recover the 20 mil?
i liked when esports had a buy-in based on talent, not money
How long until that Robert Kraft team gets into a cheating scandal?
Lmfao
The game is in an absolute mess because they've spent the last 6 months catering to the casual experience which has driven so many pros away from OW. Blizzard up until this point have been shitting on the esport and pro scene.
Blizzard hasn't done anything for Overwatch yet that would suggest they were fully on the esports train. If anything they have pissed a lot of pro players off with their lack of commitment to the scene.
Literally every team paid $20 million to get in. It's been reported for every team.
I guess it just boggles my mind that somebody would fork over that much money for a scene with middling-at-best views in the west.
* PUBG Invitational had 400k viewers peak (avg. 200k) w.o Chinese numbers.
* Overwatch's peak was the World Cup 2016 with 233k viewers (avg. 77k) w.o Chinese numbers.
* Since then Overwatch tournaments are generally under 50k viewers outside of China in total for tournaments with 20-25h of streaming, the only exception being the 2017 qualifiers which peaked at a wholly unexceptional 122k (putting it about on par with Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3). Overwatch Contenders, the lead-in to OWL, has average 15k and peak 30k.
https://esc.watch/tournaments/ow?order=avg
I mean I wouldn't know I think I started the game up once and then quit it 30 minutes later to play PUBG. I don't bother with it.
I only assume they are going full eSports with all their none game related choices, but if this is the case they are handling this game very poorly.
This is all with no to very little advertising.
Every ow tournament outisde of contendors final and worldcup has no push from blizzard.
Blizzards advertising for games they do care about is a pannel on the bnet page and SOMETIMES a tweet.
The only time they consistentlt have tweeted and put out videos for an event is the world cup. This is mostly cause everything is currently a test run and they havent started fully pushing till what many people think will start at the beginning of OWL.
Numbers can improve with both proper incentives and actual exposer to the casual audience.
Like Rocket League is currently at 3.5k viewers but when the NARLCS is on that spikes to 60k and i saw more the finals.
In the end i like to think people investing have abit more knowledge than we do.