Yahoo buying MLG

[GunRanger]

Report: Yahoo in Talks to Buy Major League Gaming - Breitbart

According to sources close to New York based E-sports organisation Major League Gaming, the company is currently in sales talks with California tech giant Yahoo for an undisclosed fee.
The move comes amid an increasing number of companies looking to invest in the growing world of broadcast competitive gaming.

“The talks are quite advanced and are about 95% complete,” one source informed Breitbart. “MLG have already been making plans for the future, especially in regards to CS:GO. The deal should be wrapped up before 2016.”

 

[Grand Conde]

Isn't MLG dead? No one cares about Halo and CoD, LoL and Dota are closed shops and Go is already saturated tournament wise. What else is there?

Seems like it died with SC2.

 

[GunRanger]

Isn't MLG dead? No one cares about Halo and CoD, LoL and Dota are closed shops and Go is already saturated tournament wise. What else is there?

Seems like it died with SC2.

No cares for cod except for the 100k people that watches the stream

 

[itsyoung!!]

Isn't MLG dead? No one cares about Halo and CoD, LoL and Dota are closed shops and Go is already saturated tournament wise. What else is there?

Seems like it died with SC2.

its not dead, but its not what it once was. Dreamhack, ESL, etc all are bigger but MLG has been getting a streaming service (like twitch) off the ground this past year and been paying some big streamers (nadeshot mainly) to stream there exclusively.

Yahoo might see the opportunity and with more money available can pay big time streamers a set amount of money a year (comparable to what they make on Twitch through donations/subscriptions, but a set salary, if that makes sense) to stream exclusivley to MLG services and steal them from twitch and rake in advertisement dollars (thats what all this is about anyway)

example;

if big time streamer makes $30k a month between donations, subscriptions and ad revenue from twitch. Yahoo might offer them say, $25k a month over 2 years (a contract) and say "you dont have to rely on donations, subscriptions, etc." and of course they can still make money off youtube videos

If Yahoo can set a budget of $10-15 million or so to steal big time streamers they might double that in advertisement dollars from people watching them play on MLG (if that makes sense)

 

[LinusCaldwell]

I need to get in on thia stream life

 

[Grand Conde]

No cares for cod except for the 100k people that watches the stream

When was this exactly? COD is s joke in progaming and lol/Dota/cs get a lot more than 100k. So did sc back in the day.

 

[detach]

Damn I used to fukk with MLG heavy back in the halo 1-3 days. Didn't know how much they fell off after reach and 4

 

[GunRanger]

When was this exactly? COD is s joke in progaming and lol/Dota/cs get a lot more than 100k. So did sc back in the day.

Like a couple months ago. It doesnt matter about jts rep, cod is a big draw



Mlg is doing h5 too

 

[Grand Conde]

100k is a small-medium sized draw nowadays breh.

Mobas and CS are where the numbers are.

 

[AkaDemiK]

nice...and halo is back on there with h5....it's lit

lol @ the mlg fell off posts...they were literally the main organization for COD which is big as fukk...

they are more than fine...still one of the leaders in competitive gaming...I just personally stopped fukkin with them once they stopped using halo...but i'm back on the train now..

 

[Grand Conde]

You telling me they didn't fall off when SC2 died and Lol/Dota became the next big thing?

I hadn't heard of MLG for like two years. And they are getting into Cs late as fukk.

 

[itsyoung!!]

nice...and halo is back on there with h5....it's lit

lol @ the mlg fell off posts...they were literally the main organization for COD which is big as fukk...

they are more than fine...still one of the leaders in competitive gaming...I just personally stopped fukkin with them once they stopped using halo...but i'm back on the train now..

they were the main organization for COD for American teams, over sea teams had way bigger tournaments with bigger cash prizes and crowds, even during MLG main days.

MLG felt more like a well organized local tournament than a big time tournament but, still, it has a place and with Yahoo money can make a push to be back in the spot light (I think Yahoo is seeing how much money shyt like Dream Hack, Blizzcon, etc + twitch is making and wants in)