ESL Revival Cup Update
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20 Mar 2014, 21:10
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Journals
For the past 2 months I was in contact with 
crakage to host the ESL Revival Cup. Now I havn't heard from him still, and Kenzi creating the journal wondering what happened to this Cup, I decided to get in contact with another staff member of ESL.
This is the response I got:
Is there still interest in ESL and their cups & AC?
crakage to host the ESL Revival Cup. Now I havn't heard from him still, and Kenzi creating the journal wondering what happened to this Cup, I decided to get in contact with another staff member of ESL.This is the response I got:
Is there still interest in ESL and their cups & AC?
No offense meant to CG, or ohurcool, you guys are great, and we all appreciate what you've done through out the years, but ESL's the big dog in eSports now.
Only advantage would be anticheat, which would require new databases and servers to work with ET and they won't keep pouring money into that if it isn't active enough. Like you said its a multimillion dollar company, they don't care about nostalgia/history. They want profitable communities and ET isn't one :D
You're making an entirely different argument than you've initially implied. I agree, with a few of your points, however your original reasoning was more of a "why would ESL picking up this game be advantageous for us?" as opposed to "why would ESL pick us up at all?".
On a technical note, as you've mentioned servers and "databases", no, they wouldn't lose any money or bandwidth on us, really, we'd just represent another column in their already existing tables, or maybe an additional table, I don't know their setup, but rest assured, you're really not looking at massive amount of storage or bandwidth being required in order for them to integrate ET, the DB would be kept rather small, given our current state, the bandwidth usage would margin on their 0.1% total usage a day. Servers? Why so? I don't believe they only support their own, local, managed servers, do they? People in this community are fairly qualified enough to setup their servers, for whichever verification process Wire goes through (if there even is a server-side check for such, I wouldn't know, I quite honestly don't know anything at all about their anticheat).
No, ET itself isn't profitable to them or anyone, nor are plenty of other games they support. You know who and what's profitable though? Site hits. Unique hits, every day. Ads. And potential "ESL Premium" subscribers. They don't care if we bring in the big names, if we don't bombard them with means of making big amounts of cash, they wont provide us with such, but they wont ignore us either. They'll still make money out of us, you don't go kicking someone in the face that's giving you free money.
Different story is if there are any experienced, knowledgeable and motivated admins left.
I haven't seen them looking for an admin with ET knowledge though so I wonder if these new admins are just admins from some another game, whose only experience from ET is from publics back in 2004 or something like that. Hopefully not.