There’s a difference between ads for sponsors and Ustream ads. Ustream ads are going straight to their pocket, sponsor ads are what attract more sponsors. Showing a commercial in Spanish for soap does not attract more sponsors, it just gives the Evo staff more money.
This is definitely the most I’ve seen breaks for commercials happen on any tourney stream ever. I do wonder just how expensive it must be to run EVO. Didn’t the venue fee jump up sharply this year as well?
same here
I’ll just leave this here:
This is a blatant money grab that’s going straight into the Evo staff’s pockets. This is in addition to the money made from the DVD sales and subscriptions to archived stream footage, and so on. Defend it all you like, but don’t be dishonest about it.
thanks god
i hate those 60 secs adv
who cares? they arent running the event for free, if they want to cram ads they can do so
Lets make this simple. There are two advertisements. One by EVO and one by Ustream. When you load the player and it starts to play an advertisement. EVO gets money from that. It’s called partnership. When you have a small advertisement that keeps popping up is part of EVO as well. EVO will run an advertisement every x amount of matches (promoting other companies).
If you’re not happy with advertisement. Get over it. It’s part of the stream and always will be. Do you think they care what you have to say? The money they are making isn’t for EVO but for those who set up the equipment and the one that travel to set up a good quality for you to enjoy watching at your own house.
A note: Please do not suggest user(s) on how to block advertisement. This is a warning and you will receive infractions.
I use Firefox so no ads for me.
Nice now you want to turn this into a smear campaign. You’re giving yet another big fuck you to all the work Spooky and EVO staff did for the entire year. All you fucks are just complaining and complaining and complaining.
Can’t handle Yun? COMPLAIN!
OMFG AE is soooo broken. COMPLAIN!
This game is unbalanced. I don’t want to learn matchups. I want patches. COMPLAIN!
OMFG Advertisements on my free streams when people at EVO are doing all the work. They should work for free too because they’re doing all the work for me. What more advertisements? COMPLAIN!
Why have sponsors and advertisements? It’s all about the stream. Who cares about making the FGC bigger through more exposure. Oh a MadCatz plug by the commentators! WHY!?! COMPLAIN!
What!?! This is a free stream so everything should be free. These guys shouldn’t try to operate “for profit” or to make up the costs for running EVO. COMPLAIN!
Appreciate the work that IPW, Spooky, Offcast, etc. and the tourney organizers and commentators have done to run and stream a the pinnacle event of the fighting game community.
If you don’t like the advertising go to another f’n stream or close your browser.
I love you, no homo.
This. Except I’m not Mexican. I DO main T. Hawk however.
Died in 2008 for the most part.
A friend of mine in freaking South Carolina is getting the same spanish ads, he’s a white dude.
It’s just random as hell.
How about you read the entire fucking post and not open your mouth only to stuff a size 26 shoe into it?
Note that bold part.
Add Block? :X
I’m in Minnesota. Outside of the Twin Cities, there’s like 3 minorities in this state. If you include the Twin Cities, its about 10. Dozen, tops. >_>
I don’t have a problem with it. It’s kind of expected when you see how big the fighting community has grown in the past couple years. Why not take a breather while you wait for the ads to end? I choose to keep Adventure Time open on the side during ads or surf the internet. It’s not that hard.
Infractions for telling people how to not get flooded with pointless commercials? Really?
Why would you even do that? It doesn’t hurt the event organizers so…what? Have to keep those quarterly dividends rolling? It’s not exactly hard to understand why USA is getting squeezed by corporations when people actually go their way to protect them like this. That’s super sad.
ps. I don’t have anything against a commercial here or there. But when someone is telling me to “BUY BUY CONSUME CONSUME” every 5min or so it just rubs me the wrong way. Otherwise the stream has been great and I’ve enjoyed the matches.
I don’t see anything wrong in saying what the possible gripes are.
spooky was talking about this a while back. He was saying how he didn’t wanna ask for donations from people and would rather have adverts to get revenue instead. You don’t understand how much money goes into making streaming so you’d complain it’s alot of hard work, time, equipment needs to be bought, equipment needs to be re-bought when shit breaks down.
Cost of travel, everythings a factor, then there’s making sure the stream is top quality for YOU the stream monsters to watch, all of this requires money and these adverts give them the ability to do so. Sometimes the adverts can be annoying but when I see that it helps out streamers get their money then I’m all for it. Just deal with it and be happy you get to watch something free. Yeah it’s annoying for the adverts to be on frequently but if you think about how much it helps the streamers in the big way to get what they need I hope you can accept this and understand.
If not then fair dues, you are entitled to your opinion which I respect but I hope you understand the other side of things before you complain. By the way, if you think that people are going to stop watching this just because of adverts your wrong, fighting games are too hype, people won’t care about a couple of adverts that last a few seconds if they get to see hours of greatness from their favourite top players.