Talk:Crystalline Flask/@comment-5764721-20121128220106/@comment-108.176.231.245-20121208011801

Interesting side note: Comparing the Season 2 prize pool ($5,000,000) to the player base (32,000,000) equates to about 16 cents per player. The winning team in the World Championships received approx. $400,000 per person (given the 16 cents they each on average contributed). This means that, besides the 60 players in the championships, 2,499,940 are needed at minimum just to pay for the grand prize (assuming any profits from advertising are largely offset by the costs of running the tournaments). Note that is the number of players needed just to provide the PRIZE. If you want, say, servers capable of handeling that player base or regular updates and improvements, even more players are needed.