WWE Network Thread

Well I took the plunge and went ahead and got the network using the workaround. Couldn't believe how simple it was to set up and believe me I am in no way technically minded at all. I can just about use my iPhone. The best thing was it was totally free. Free month on the network and a free trial of unblock-us. Great quality, little to no buffering and a huge amount of content on there. Anybody still unsure about it should take advantage of the free month.
And they didn't even pay me to write that!

Had issues with unblock-us. Switched to trying Hola and it works perfectly now.

If Chrome isn't the best browser to use, does anybody know what is?

It'll only work on Internet Explorer for me for some reason.

rovert wrote: »

WWE being clueless and stingey?



Credit: F4Weekly

To be fair, I don't see a problem with this. F4W should know better too, that's very tabloidy, 'trying to stir up controversy where there is none' of them. I can understand why fans are frustrated with WWE holding back content...but that makes total sense for them to do from a business standpoint - that archival content and how they use it is how they sell the Network long-term.

When people decide whether or not to subscribe, it's one decision regardless of how much or little content there is on there. By withholding content and releasing it in increments, they're increasing the amount of decisions that people are forced to make. If they blew their load by releasing it all in one go, they'd be dooming the Network to failure. The same amount of people would've made the same decision and WWE would have no trump cards to change their mind down the line, aside from new PPVs (which they could get into the habit of streaming) or new content (which is expensive to make). So they're dead right to sit back and come up with ideas from week-to-week about what to do next. That's also better for us as consumers: Vince tends to get bored of projects once they're fully-formed. If they rightly see the Network as a platform rather than an incomplete archive, that'll ensure they constantly maintain it.

Any good business would do the same. That's why F4W should know better. Fans, myself included, are being greedy by wishing there was more content (think about it - you can watch ANY pay-per view from the past that you like, right now, with a subscription...that's class). But that's an acceptable complaint because it's an inadvertent compliment that WWE can use to their advantage down the line.

I'm glad they're incorporating some archival stuff with ECW week. These monday night wars episodes (and other specials) are a great opportunity to release related vault RAW, Smackdown and Nitros. So after watching the docu on Mankind, put the RAW & Nitro up the night he won the belt, as well as important RAWs from Foley's career. A more cohesive package. Sell people on the Vault section. So people don't stop at watching an hour, they end up watching 5-10 hours!

Ageyev wrote: »

You can't watch the TV that developed the angles leading to those shows.

Why is that considered an absolute right, though? When we paid double the monthly subscription to watch one of those shows on DVD, we didn't see it as a flaw that they didn't have the four Raw episodes leading up to it as an extra. And they never flat out said, "You'll have the entire archive from day one," so we can't call them liars either.

Like I said, once you examine the criticisms behind it and their validity, it kinda underpins how entitled we now feel when really we've no right to be and are getting a tremendous deal for a tenner a month (again, feel free to pay double that and watch on Box Office while NOT getting all of the other shows at your fingertips). It's like a joke I heard before (can't remember by who) about us having the entire collection of human knowledge on a device that we can fit in our pocket...but if we run out of signal for a few minutes, we yell and scream like our world has ended.