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Originally Posted by GreenTeaFrapp
Note the present tense. Either you're lying or you're too stupid to be able to understand what you wrote.
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What am I lying about. I rephrase what I was trying to communicate to you and your sitting here picking apart present tense past tense. If you have nothing to add to my last post, then you don't have to respond at all.
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Originally Posted by valo403
So tell me, why would anyone pay for a service that they can get for free? There's a small market that would be interested in the PVR and non-live games, but it's a fraction of the market. I don't know a sinlgle person who utilizes either of those capabilities on a regualr basis, and it certainly wasn't a motivating factor for any of them when it came to purchasing GC/CI. The motivating factor was watching live games, something you've now given them for free. If the argument is quality reduction you're not solving the intial issue you identified as a problem. A low quality free stream from the NHL will be trumped by a high quality pirated stream, so much for utilizing this to beat the piracy issue.
As for your sample argument, the NHL already gives away a ton of 'free samples'. Both Center Ice and Game Center have free preview periods every season, and the ultimate free sample is the local and national games that everyone gets to watch for, wait for it, free. There are multiple opportunities for people to be exposed to the gmae and the market expanded through free broadcasts. Giving away every game for free as opposed to the current system isn't going to suddenly create millions of new fans to drive the mass increase in revenues you'd require to offset the losses your plan brings to the table.
It is a terrible idea, there is absolutely nothing valuable to it.
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There's two main reasons why people use illegal streams, convenience and the cost. If it's just as convenient as the cost is the same, it's going to come down to the quality. It's not going to be hard for NHL beat them in terms of quality.
Only reason you think it's a terrible idea is that we're both working through different assumptions. My assumption is that advertisements can bring in enough revenue to offset the cost where as you don't think it's possible. Obviously it all comes down to that. It's no doubt a bad idea I'd NHL is losing more money but its a good idea if they can increase their revenue.