GSL starts Patreon to crowdfund prize pool

On April 26 2023 03:43 Vision_ wrote:
Crowfunding for prize pool make me sad.... I m too old for understand but isn t advertising which are supposed to pay prizepool ?

That was never the case, blizzard shelled up for most of the prize money.
Its possible that the situation was different in the brood war era but I dont know.

I look at it this way:

I have enjoyed watching free SC content for what seems like my whole life.

Now its still free, but I see this as a chance for me to give back and in a way say thanks for all the content which has filled my soul all these years. Every Tastosis joke and marine split over the years.

Considering that, I think I will give 5 - 10 dollars a year at least. I hope lots of others can do the same and it adds up.

SC is a community, not just a consumer base :D

Ps: I wish they didn't said the 100% into the prize pool thing, I wouldn't mind paying for the staff and stuff if they can't go on without it.

Sort of ridiculous to think they probably are making more money from weekly cups than GSL.

I'm underwhelmed at this kinda sad Patreon though. For one it's completely insane that it doesn't actually say anywhere on the Patreon itself that 100% of the money goes to prize pool. I'm trusting State/Tasteless of course but that needs to be added to the actual Patreon somewhere asap. In addition to this it should explain in detail how the money will be split. What percentage of money raised goes to each placement in the event.

The tiers are poorly thought out. The fact that there's no tier equivalent to the $10-$15/month cost of a typical streaming service is mind boggling.

The whole YouTube/Afreeca controversy was poorly planned and I feel like that took some of the wind out of the sails of this Patreon. If they wanted to do that they should have announced it weeks ago and have the controversy mostly over before the Patreon launch.

The rewards are pretty disappointing. At least the $1,000/month tier should get merch or something big. If they don't want any physical items tied to the Patreon even something like the chance to choose player interview questions for the higher tiers would be cool. Or for the 1k tier a chance to play 2v2s with a pro and fan on each team. There's a lot of unique rewards they could do even if they've ruled out physical merch. Hopefully they're planning to launch a merch shop separate from this for additional funds.