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All Games: Letter to the Community: More and Better.

By: Lee Chen - Published June 06, 2007 at 12:18 AM EDT - Writer Archive
Letter to the Community: More and Better.


To the GotFrag Community,

As you’ll read on the next page, GotFrag has been acquired by Major League Gaming (MLG). We will be joining one of the fastest growing and most successful competitive gaming organizations in the world. This is obviously very important and significant for not just those of us who work here at GotFrag but also to you, our community. So, I wanted to take a moment and share a couple of items with you.

First and foremost, I want to tell you what this means for GotFrag. For myself and the staff, we gain the support of an organization that understands gaming. While MLG has been primarily focused on console gaming, they truly “get it” and love competitive gaming in all aspects for the same reasons we do: Plain and simple—it’s fun. Their commitment to us at GotFrag is to support us 110% in our pursuit of the best damned eSports content out there, and that’s a commitment we at GotFrag make to you. 2007 and beyond promises to be the most exciting and fastest growing time for eSports. MLG’s support enables us to do more and do it better.

We intend to continue our tradition of unbiased, professional journalism which our staff has worked so hard to establish in this community. What you may see from time to time, is our frank and upfront disclosure that GotFrag is owned by MLG. That’s to make sure that we’re being honest with you about who owns us when we write an article about them.

We are absolutely devoted to continue our coverage of all PC eSports with every league and event worldwide. We will be ramping up on our console eSports coverage as well. Our relationship with MLG will clearly give us access at their events and leagues. But that doesn’t change the fact that all your favorite titles, teams and tournaments are still going to be on the front page with the same great editorial insights and coverage that you’ve always seen. And more. And better.

Secondly, I want to thank the entire staff here at GotFrag for their hard work and dedication. All of whom have been dedicated to doing more and better. All of these folks will be joining MLG and I will still be here as President of GotFrag.com. Personally, I’m very, very excited about our future with MLG for many reasons.

Most importantly though, I want to thank the entire community for your support over the past 5 years and 200+ events that we’ve covered. Over the years, you’ve contributed nearly 7 million (6,996,409 as of this writing) comments, posts and, of course, flames to GotFrag. That’s an awesome number and it’s a sign of just how involved we all are in eSports. All of us at GotFrag have always felt that our job was to inform and represent this community.

Thank you all again for being a part of this community. We’re all looking forward to continuing as the best eSports site out there.

~Lee Chen
President
GotFrag.com




MLG and GotFrag Press Release on Page 2
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:(??
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Nice.
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cool i guess.... i dont want this to go too streamline
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congrats to everyone, amazing. great work to everyone involved.
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we want midway! =(
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wow... must have been good money
UpZ
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LoL good deal!!
MoB Gaming Organization Team Member
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This is huge, zmor ris has a post about this on his website a while ago also, apparantly gotfrag was bought for $5 million. GJ over the years GF, ive been a member since 03 :D
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sad day...
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holy huge news
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cool
blah blah blah
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wow midway finally got bought out.........
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hope there will still be some coverage about 1.6, wc3 etc..
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#17
Pretty sure that was covered in the letter :)
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i used to be very active in mlgpro.com's forums and theydont like PC gaming that much :\
<3
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#17 you should probably read the news before posting a comment

This comment was edited at 06/06/2007 12:44 AM
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Hmm interesting.
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great , interesting
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Keep up the good work!
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Trust me #23 they don't. I hope this doesn't mean GotFrag becomes a Halo site, i have to say i'm skeptical about the only objective e-sports site being bought out but let's hope it doesn't turn into a GGL-style "everything this league does is great".

Wait, CGS... hmm...
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#26 you spelled Kyrgyzstan "The land of forty tribes" incorrectly.
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Midway. You did it once, please do it again. Start up another site dedicated (well, mainly) to CS:S/1.6 competitive gaming. That is what I'd say 80% of this community was originally built off of. PLZSIR
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Serious money in this business deal no question about that.
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Wow I think that the mainway that this site will go will not be for we oldskool gamers.

It will prolly be to new console games and the new software generation.

That´s too bad.

Well lets wait and see!

This comment was edited at 06/06/2007 1:12 AM
Pedro "CarT" Henrique Junqueira Barbosa Costa
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I think PC games will get left in the dust, if they take away jesuit and midway i will be sad
"I never thought I'd see hacker get bent over the table on d2, but I think it just happened" -jESUIT
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As I say above:

"But that doesn’t change the fact that all your favorite titles, teams and tournaments are still going to be on the front page with the same great editorial insights and coverage that you’ve always seen. And More. And Better."

AND:

"the entire staff here at GotFrag for their hard work and dedication. All of whom have been dedicated to doing More and Better. All of these folks will be joining MLG and I will still be here as President of GotFrag.com Personally, I’m very, very excited about our future with MLG for many reasons."

That includes Midway and jESUIT and the rest of our staff.

This comment was edited at 06/06/2007 1:17 AM
Lee Chen | President | www.gotfrag.com | #gotfrag
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#19- That's like saying the community here at GotFrag is not open to the idea of console and therefore GotFrag itself is not open to it. That's not the case at all. It's likely you posted something about PC games at the MLG forums, and a few members were vocal against you or it. I've seen the same thing happen at forums for PC-focused sites but when console was mentioned. I know plenty of people at the MLG forums who love PC, and I myself play mostly PC games, as opposed to console.

#26 and #29- Your concerns are covered in the article. Nothing is going to change in terms of coverage. Nothing. If anything, it'll only get better. GotFrag won't become a Halo site (MLG isn't a Halo league), and it won't be biased towards MLG in coverage.
"A feather passing / by in the wind mirrors life-- / A fleeting moment." ~ Haiku
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And they say the media is ran by a few conglomerates, pshh! :\.

Anyways, I don't think there should be any reason to worry. MLG would only be committing suicide if they limit any coverage whatsoever, so expect GotFrag to do the same + more (in the console area + since they have money).

Though, I am a bit afraid of biased news now.... well, it wouldn't be the first time GotFrag would be labeled that.
Striving for the best, Expecting nothing less, Gamer 4 life.
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Whoa.
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Lee deleted my post :( Lee, I thought GotFrag would be honest and discuss what I posted? It isn't a bad thing - It is a great thing actually because there will be a lot of more good content I would think from motivated staff....

So why delete?
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I think we're all just a bit wary about where e-sports is going atm. It seems like every month or so there's another huge announcement that has the potential to change the whole scene. GotFrag does have a good track record of being impartial in my eyes but i think it's only natural and sensible to be a little worried when the only site that can boast that impariality is bought out. Still, on the plus side this means more money which means more paid writers, meaning even better quality than before.
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#18 & #20 i red the letter before posting... but plz stop beeing naive... there are often differences between what someone says and what he does after, particularly when a lot of money is involved..
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#4 I feel exactly the same... I'm excited for GotFrag in a way, but not too sure about MLG... Only time will tell I guess
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dont like that word [b]AQUIRES[/b] usually means trouble..
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Atleast it isn't Directv.
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If Gotfrag can really accomplish all the things Lee mentioned in his letter then I see no reason why this would be a bad thing. They just need to take the changes slowly and not try and rush drastic changes that they can't handle. MLG is a great organization and is well run and highly committed to gaming and if they took the initiative to acquire Gotfrag then I'm sure they are doing it with the community's best interests in mind.
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This underscores major shifts in the industry as a whole, at least its exciting.

Keep HLTVs plz!
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haha i like how ppl are so scared of what changes are going to happen...since MLG doesn't have any major competitors i doubt they will have any problem reporting on events that are all pc related
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Called it :P. Yea though, really there isn't much to say about the subject. Hopefully, GotFrag with the support of MLG can just show us the great things to come ;)..hopefully.
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Sounds great :) Good to see you guys making some moves.
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