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NFL Gamepass blackouts. Will you be signing up?

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    #1652
    Raoul
    Registered Users Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Raoul


    Beefy78 wrote: »
    Where are you guys seeing that price? Was there an email?

    https://www.nflgamepass.com/en/subscribe/account


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    #1653
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    No, had gamepass before but not buying it with blackouts, wil use sky
    Beefy78 wrote: »
    A company called Neulion have ran the back-end since Gamepass started. They do MLB Network, WWE Network and others. I believe they've now been 'divorced' by NFL (based on another firm advertising for support roles for Game Pass recently and the fact that if you Google 'Neulion NFL Game Pass' you get linked to 2016 T&Cs referencing Neulion which if click into have had every mention of Neulion now removed).

    I don't think the complete overhaul of their apps and interface is a coincidence.

    It'll be interesting to see what this year's offering looks like.

    I don't think Neulion do MLB.tv. They have their own crowd 'MLB Advanced Media' that do both theirs. They also do WWE's and recently took over NHL's from Neulion.

    So It looks like Neulion have lost both the NFL and NHL streaming services in the past couple of years.


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    #1654
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    No, had gamepass before but not buying it with blackouts, wil use sky
    I don't know who's doing Gamepass going forward but the NFL could really do themselves a favour and get MLB AM to do it.

    MLB.tv is a great product


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    #1655
    Beefy78
    Registered Users Posts: 8,163 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    jack presley wrote: »
    It's in the FAQs.

    On the new site or the old one? There's no reference to price on the FAQ on the new site. It also says that the apps won't be available until 1st August which is the day they rebill so I'm probably going to cancel that until I know what I'm getting for my money.

    Scanning through the FAQ there's no mention of any console apps being featured any more (shame as the PS4 app was my preferred way of accessing replays of games because of the ease of being able to skip forward 30 seconds at a time if needed).

    It suggests that Game Pass is now a European offering only (I was hoping to use it in Asia later in the year and have used it in Austrlian and the States in the past).

    The FAQ also says that archived content is restricted to the 2016 season from now on.


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    #1656
    Beefy78
    Registered Users Posts: 8,163 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    Raoul wrote: »
    https://www.nflgamepass.com/en/subscribe/account

    Isn't showing up on the new site, just the old one.


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    #1657
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    No, had gamepass before but not buying it with blackouts, wil use sky
    Beefy78 wrote: »
    On the new site or the old one? There's no reference to price on the FAQ on the new site. It also says that the apps won't be available until 1st August which is the day they rebill so I'm probably going to cancel that until I know what I'm getting for my money.

    Scanning through the FAQ there's no mention of any console apps being featured any more (shame as the PS4 app was my preferred way of accessing replays of games because of the ease of being able to skip forward 30 seconds at a time if needed).

    It suggests that Game Pass is now a European offering only (I was hoping to use it in Asia later in the year and have used it in Austrlian and the States in the past).

    The FAQ also says that archived content is restricted to the 2016 season from now on.

    Sorry, not the FAQs but 'plans and pricing' at the bottom of the home page on the new site (IOS version anyway)


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    #1658
    JaMarcusHustle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭JaMarcusHustle


    Wait, so have we lost all the archived games from pre-2016 or not?

    Edit: Scratch that. Much like Boards, you can just to revert back to the old version of GamePass and the archived content is still there. The new design is horrible.


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    #1659
    Beefy78
    Registered Users Posts: 8,163 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    I think that's just temporary and suspect that once the migration to the new site is complete we'll lose access to that archived content. Hopefully I'm wrong.

    From the new FAQs:
    You can watch archived games since the 2016 season, including preseason and playoffs, as well as select Super Bowl games featuring some of the best NFL action from classic matchups, all commercial-free.


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    #1660
    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users Posts: 10,823 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    What benefit is it to them to stop people accessing archived games?


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    #1661
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,640 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »
    What benefit is it to them to stop people accessing archived games?

    they could decide to charge for it (depending on what's in the T&C's)


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    #1662
    Guffy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,033 ✭✭✭Guffy


    helimachoptor wrote: »
    they could decide to charge for it (depending on what's in the T&C's)

    Or just the work involved in migrating it to the new platform?


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    #1663
    Beefy78
    Registered Users Posts: 8,163 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    Off the top of my head I'd guess that transferring all of that data to the servers of the company running the new site is quite a big task (and possibly expensive in terms of storing all that information???) for content that not many people access.


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    #1664
    Raoul
    Registered Users Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Raoul


    Or maybe Neulion own all the archived data and they want money for it from the NFL. Can't imagine that is the case though.


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    #1665
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 39,438 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Raoul wrote: »
    Or maybe Neulion own all the archived data and they want money for it from the NFL. Can't imagine that is the case though.

    Well at the start of games it says "this telecast is the property of the NFL and can't be etc." I might have to turn off the autorenew as even if it costs less than previous years I want to see what I'm paying for first.


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    #1666
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,640 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    Raoul wrote: »
    Or maybe Neulion own all the archived data and they want money for it from the NFL. Can't imagine that is the case though.

    I doubt it, NFL will on the content, regardless of who is delivering it.

    I would imagine its purely a data migration issue, and not in terms of complexity but just in terms of scale. 16 games per week in HD at 3 hours per broadcast, so probably 3-4GB per game, so say 70GB per week, over how many seasons? And then you have all of the other NFL stuff you can get on it


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    #1667
    thomond2006
    Registered Users Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    As long as we don't lose the live playoffs!


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    #1668
    tripperman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,986 ✭✭✭tripperman


    The way i read it all the archives will be there eventually, just been done in stages so as the new format is available for August, live playoffs I'm assuming they will stay as they are,


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    #1669
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    No, had gamepass before but not buying it with blackouts, wil use sky
    Update on the NFLUK forum

    http://forum.nfluk.com/showthread.php?p=2336708#post2336708


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    #1670
    BaronVon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,646 ✭✭✭BaronVon


    No, had gamepass before but not buying it with blackouts, wil use streams
    Sweet, Android users finally getting downloadable content!


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    #1671
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    No, had gamepass before but not buying it with blackouts, wil use sky
    The new site looks quite nice to be fair. Hopefully the apps will be as good and will work smoothly.

    I just hope the fiasco of the delay in getting the condensed games uploaded isn't repeated this season.


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    #1672
    BaronVon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,646 ✭✭✭BaronVon


    No, had gamepass before but not buying it with blackouts, wil use streams
    When I go to log in, it says I have no subscription. I thought we were all subscribed up until July 31st, no?


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    #1673
    Jofspring
    Registered Users Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭Jofspring


    Think I'll sign up for the first time this year. Seems like a great service.


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    #1674
    BKWDR
    Registered Users Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭BKWDR


    They seem to have reset everyone's preference to auto renew... Best check incase you had turned it off


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    #1675
    Brian017
    Registered Users Posts: 2,848 ✭✭✭Brian017


    How do you change your billing information on the new site? Mine says "no billing information available"


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    #1676
    bruschi
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 4,138 Mod ✭✭✭✭bruschi


    BKWDR wrote: »
    They seem to have reset everyone's preference to auto renew... Best check incase you had turned it off

    had just seen that too. I dont think I will be getting gamepass this year and had switched that off about a month ago. Fairly sneaky and underhanded to switch it back on again.


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    #1677
    BKWDR
    Registered Users Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭BKWDR


    Brian017 wrote: »
    How do you change your billing information on the new site? Mine says "no billing information available"

    Looks like you're ok


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    #1678
    Brian017
    Registered Users Posts: 2,848 ✭✭✭Brian017


    BKWDR wrote: »
    Looks like you're ok

    Thanks! Let's hope so :)


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    #1679
    Megager
    Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭Megager


    Hi all. Are there any discount codes this year. Obviously if I hear of any I'll post them too. Thanks


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    #1680
    thomond2006
    Registered Users Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    Given the reduction in price from last year, are there archives or live broadcasts being removed from the package?


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    #1681
    Guffy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,033 ✭✭✭Guffy


    thomond2006 wrote: »
    Given the reduction in price from last year, are there archives or live broadcasts being removed from the package?

    Well the archives haven't been migrated as far as i know


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