Mr. Luchador
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Hmm, never even thought about that. They still have PPVs, right? However, I can't imagine they'll have kept them happy with their network idea.
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Hmm, never even thought about that. They still have PPVs, right? However, I can't imagine they'll have kept them happy with their network idea.
I'll have to watch this when I get home.
Perspicacity
Banned
lol that dirt sheet is reporting on bullshit that another sheet made up. It's like an Ouroboros of bullshit
He should have waited period and debut the network all over the country. He would have made the goal and the network would have been fully welcomed instead of ridiculed.
Vince got too damn eager to release the network and been paying ever since for it.
At the very least the 667k figure is real as WWE reported that themselves.
Wrestling is all just conjecture and opinion, there are no facts to be found.
lovely ladies
Member
The prepaid vanilla visa gift card doesn't work for signing up, maybe it's different if you sign up with a reloadable credit card but that's way too much hassle.
Mr. Luchador
Member
Well that's it to be honest. Do they even have to have a 24/7 'live' scheduled programming going? That must cost money to maintain, how many people even watch that? At this point it feels like a strange bastard child of the old WWE 24/7 Network and Netflix, only it doesn't provide the best of both worlds. They're still too controlling over their content and what they'll allow you to watch, and the stuff they do provide is too hidden away to find easily.
Navigation needs to be improved and basically just throw all your content on, it'll take people 50 years to watch it all anyway.
Imagine if they added a Playlists or Mylists where you could put together your own selection of favourite matches (and possibly share them?!). People would love that.
The fact that there's possibly more people who have given more than their very last dollar to subscribe to the Network than there are new subscribers speaks volumes of the Universe, and also proves that bean breath was right all along. WWE Network should've been accepting EBT card payments from the get-go. A huge oversight, and a misstep that could collapse the McMahon empire.
One thing about the network that's truly awesome....is wccw. I seen one episode and was blown away of how raunchy and silly the promotion was.
How you have a random brawl where officials try to cut it out....and still have a match afterwards involving people that were in the brawl?
How you have a random brawl where officials try to cut it out....and still have a match afterwards involving people that were in the brawl?
Perspicacity
Banned
To be fair it's pretty much exactly as Wade Barrett said it would happen
Jeff Albertson
Member
Anyone wake up today thinking 'what I really want out of today is to see a 14 second Facebook video of Dave mastiff playing a ukelele'
Then I am the king of your Wednesday
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10154469685360232&id=752730231
Then I am the king of your Wednesday
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10154469685360232&id=752730231
funkystudent
Member
The network is flawed.
As a way to get PPV's direct from WWE in a cheap and easy way it is great.
The 24/7 Live feed is pointless.
The 6 month commitment is too much of a barrier of entry.
The Archive is cool but not a draw in a age of youtube and dodgy Dailymotion uploads of 20 year old VHS recordings that are "good enough" for most people.
WWE should offer some unique features. How about have wrestlers involved in the match come in and do a directors commentary over the match?
As a way to get PPV's direct from WWE in a cheap and easy way it is great.
The 24/7 Live feed is pointless.
The 6 month commitment is too much of a barrier of entry.
The Archive is cool but not a draw in a age of youtube and dodgy Dailymotion uploads of 20 year old VHS recordings that are "good enough" for most people.
WWE should offer some unique features. How about have wrestlers involved in the match come in and do a directors commentary over the match?
Perspicacity
Banned
Oh no Vinny Russo is done with TNA.... again
So after all that, he leaves em
https://twitter.com/pyroballyhoo/status/494520114906034176
So after all that, he leaves em
https://twitter.com/pyroballyhoo/status/494520114906034176
slightconfuse
Banned
I have been enjoying fight pass a lot . Also great functionality. You can watch individual fights instead of scanning threwan event like on the network .
"My work here is done!"
You know that article is over a month old and the number is released tomorrow?
Another favorite talking point I love calling him a con man but continue to watch the product.
Not believing it yet, still waiting for the #Swerve
The lazy version of that is the Wrestlemania Rewind show, when they reuse old footage and interviews, and splice them together with filler comments from other wrestlers.
But a full on commentary session from both or at least one of the match participants should be mandatory in this day and age.
The problem is WWE is so damn protective of their image, which I get
But WrestleMania Rewind was great on paper, but for the most part tends to be fluff pieces and not real insight into what was going on at the time and real behind the scenes drama.
They nerfed Legends Roundtable by removing actual Legends and their crazy stories.
I don't see any relation between Vince being a carnie, out of touch conman and being able to enjoy a few matches every once in a while, especially for free.
The archive would be way cooler if it provided any form of context for the PPV matches. It's not like we a nice little video package for every feud back then.
The 24/7 live feed really is the most pointless thing. Who the hell watches that when you can just pick whatever you actually want to see?
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
Member
Spike's not falling for this.
I looked at a matchlist and I saw his name on a NWA Mountain State match and thought: Huh....
Seems to be more known than I thought.
Vince ain't trying to cut anymore checks, he's trying to cut budgets.
Mr. Luchador
Member
Rincent Vusso reporting for duty!
That would be so much damn work though. WWE has always been self explanatory too meaning in a lot of cases it's just redundant.
Serpentine
Banned
ahahaha fuck this is hilarious to me. You should be honored to be followed by a former Tag Team Champion!
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Deleted member 47027
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There is not just WWE though. There is also WCW and ECW. I have no context for basically any of the WCW stuff because I didn't watch it back then. Sure it would be a lot of work I am just saying that it would make it way better.
bean breath
Member
Fricking heck, I shouldn't have updated my payment info when I switched banks. But the desperation in Lawler's eyes as he pleaded for subscriptions on Raw tells me they'd move heaven and earth to collect their money.
Why did I give them my shoot address? I would legit switch banks again if I wasn't afraid of them busting down my door Elian Gonzalez-style.
Vince is out of touch but I just find the use of the words carnie and conman funny. This topic is the only one I see who ever uses those terms.
Hope those matches are on dailymotion or youtube because watching Raw on USA or Hulu still means he is making money off of people.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
Keeping him around cost them their TV, and the best response they could surmise toward him was "take a break". Everything this company does is a joke, and the punchline is "even when it all justly starts catching up to them, people still support them".
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Mr. Luchador
Member
Haha his tag team partner Cliff Compton follows everyone on twitter too!
dream
Member
God that would be great. I hope it happens and he's forced to join the cable company kiss my ass club in the form of a 20% PPV cut.
British Monsoon
Member
To me the biggest problem with the Network is that it feels like a fairly insipid execution of an idea at its most basic - they clearly envisioned a Netflix model with live broadcasts and original programming and that's great, that's fine, but it's also fairly unadventurous. For a company that loves telling you how socially active they are, it's not a very social application. There's no custom playlists, no sharing or viewing of content beyond the confines of your living room, no discussion or even a way to rate and see how the community rated said content. WWE's timid approach to what the Network actually is might not have been so underwhelming if only the application did its job well in the first place - but it doesn't. It's clunky, disorganised and isn't much help when trying to find a specific match. The player itself isn't that great, jumping backwards or forwards in an event is inaccurate, while the quality often varies wildly outside of live broadcasts (when, magically, the service seems to work without the slightest of otherwise all-too-frequent buffering). Lastly, there's no real context for anything, partly because there's so few TV episodes available as of yet, but also because nothing's linked - if you watch any of the vintage content on the Network when you're done it should automatically take you to the next event in the timeline.
DDP putting in good work, thanks for sharing. <3
lovely ladies
Member
Damn, Bray's a pretty good songwriter.
Yeah that is another big issue. Either have chapters for everything or give me a player that actually allows me to find stuff by putting in time codes or just having a proper timeline.