I agree. Yet the idea was (and is still) feasible, but on a different scale. They just went overboard with the overhead. Less expensive location than Manchester (hey, a lot of start-ups started working from a garage, basement!), less people on payroll,... Ambition, passion, enthusiasm...
Casters who stream
- Casters who organise Tournaments are primarily driven, motivated by other reasons than pure revenue. Actually often it cost them money to do this and when there is profit it is a welcome byproduct. Of course casters will also engage in other activities, but they are...
- If you can't get your short term sustainability goals in order, don't even bother thinking long term.
- Being magnanimous is a luxury you can only afford when you have the cash to back this up. Otherwise you are a naive ***** (sorry!).
- The numbers of the LAN event were not really convincing...
Momentum does not mean already having reached its potential or "critical mass" but an impetus which there was and which they lost. People in droves were hyped for ECL, but ECL became not synonymous anymore with Escape.
Though ECL was seen as AOE2, Escape itself started to become known more for...
The writing was on the wall.
An audience is fickle and you have to keep the momentum going and keep them interested, entertain them, not lose them.
Escape had the momentum, but lost it by not keeping an ear to the ground and keeping its base entertained (complacency, some frivolous ideas and...
Reading this, really surprised, esp. Christ, to see how arrogant, elitist (on the border of discrimination) Voobly people are. Trying to create some sort of old boys network? I don't know and I don't care who is right or wrong, but I can at least conclude having read and watched Zak's castings...
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