IPL spent over $1 million on this year's event and lost money, they expect it to make money by its fifth year

Put_Marvel_in_IPL

I am one of the "oodles" they mentioned in their statement.

Dang...

A direct result of watering down video game execution. Capcom take notes.

@5. You're going to have to explain that one to me.

SgtKonus, you are "5".

@6

He needs to do some self explanation.

if they make ipl invitational only they can expect to lose money.

@4 What? What does video game execution have to do with this?

In the title: It's means "it is," possessive is "its."

I simply can't trust a journalistic website that has that kind of money to throw around. Not that IGN hadn't already did a great many things to loss my respect anyway.

#11

So something that has $ to afford an investment makes it bad by default? I understand IGN has many faults, but the "Fat Cats" argument don't really hold much water

I agree with #12

Marvels hype would make IPL profit off the second year rather than the 5th.

they would have to charge people to watch streams, because most people in the fgc are stream monsters and will never go to a competitve tourney. Like #4 for example

@Kalyx_triaD

IGN is owned by News Corp. which is ran by Rupert Murdoch. To say that man has extremely deep pockets would be an understatement.

Just a few other things that News Corp. owns that you may have heard of: 20th Century Fox movie studio (Star Wars films, along with tons of others), Fox broadcasting company (the TV network), Fox News, FX Networks, Fox Sports, Hulu, New York Post, Wall Street Journal and like hundreds more companies.

News Corp. is currently the 91st biggest company in the world, according to CNN.

Men ages 18 to 34 are not even a dominate market anymore, much less a key one. That info is horribly outdated. It's going to be hard to make money off of a bunch of broke gamers travling a long way with their broke friends sharing a hotel room trying to make a quick $100.

Poverty fighters don't equal money making demograph.

@16 Too right.

If they add Marvel, the entrants will come. West Coast Street Fighter tournaments will sustain IPL with the cash prizes alone being a good drawing point, but Marvel will put them over the top.

With SF4 I'm sure they'll do better. Events with big prizes will attract the top players which in turn will attract the fighting game viewers.

But then again, the FPS and RTS gaming crowd are fairly different and don't crossover much with the fighting game crowd. I don't think I've seen the level of hate / vitrol / nastiness that accompanies FPS and RTS gaming in the fighting game community, or at least not nearly in the amount that you see in FPS / RTS games. That makes for good drama though, which in turn attracts followers to the genres.

With the bigger money on the line I just hope the fighting game community stays away from the vitrol that accompanies the other genres :|

Good for IPL, knowing that they're in it for the long haul. Invest for long term gains, not a quick buck.

CGS had the same outlook... fck, every company has the same outlook. However the recession hit after CGS's second year so they never made it.....

Any game can be played competitively but there are only a hand full of games that players are willing to bet money on. Games like SFIV in which a novice will have very little chance of beating a seasoned player. Games like starcraft and league of legends where strategy and skill can greatly differentiate the best from the average. It's smart for ipl to acquire capcom fighters and like-wise for Capcom to partner with ipl; more exposure can never hurt.

@16

Hear hear! Broke ass poverty FGC. Not Infilration, never infiltration,

@16, if it's not 18-34, then what are the age group?

SFxT will be their saving grace if people start playing ver.2013 at much more optimal level.