Anyone else let their WWE Network subscription run out? I really like the content, but the service itself feels like such an unpolished beta test. After six months, that simply isn't acceptable. Plus, Night of Champions doesn't pique my interest at all (though I'm sorry to be missing Takeover). I'll wait for the inevitable free week + deal.

I am going to make an endorsement for the Roku streaming stick along with the earlier ones. I finally got it today because I was tired of hooking up my laptop to my TV. The live stream works fine and Ive only had one problem with streaming on VOD Content. I've used the Network on my laptop, my phone, on an iPad, a Xbox 360 and of course the Roku stick and the Roku is the best one I've used.

 

Also, it was on sale for 5 dollars less than the $49 price point for those that want to save some money.

 

I was really on the fence about renewing the Network but using the Roku might be the thing that keeps me.

 

Like Sek69 said before, WWE needs to giveaway Roku sticks to people that sign up for the Network but maybe do it at live events. I remember Bix saying it on a podcast about the Network (I can't remember which one).

 

Also, I think they were giving away Apple TVs under the seats of the people in the audience at the Vegas announcement.

Chromecasts have also been in WWE swag bags this year even though there's no network app (you'd have to screencast it). I got one at the Legends House lunch. Why that and not Roku, which was supported at launch? I have no idea.

Could it be some kind of licensing hangup with Google? I know there was the issue with Apple wanting too big a cut being the reason the Apple TV wasn't listed on the official support list at first, maybe something similar going on here?

It appears they've decided to STOP adding 95 Raws almost right before the MNW started. Making it impossible to watch a Raw, then a Nitro (or vice versa). I swear the people running this thing..................

It appears they've decided to STOP adding 95 Raws almost right before the MNW started. Making it impossible to watch a Raw, then a Nitro (or vice versa). I swear the people running this thing..................

 

Yeah, that's really annoyed me too. Even just getting the Raws up until the end of 95 would have been fine to give people the opportunity to see them both in the early stages.

Chromecasts have also been in WWE swag bags this year even though there's no network app (you'd have to screencast it). I got one at the Legends House lunch. Why that and not Roku, which was supported at launch? I have no idea.

 

I have a feeling some clueless WWE employee gave out Chromecasts because that was the cheapest option, not realizing that it's not officially supported. WWE's handling of the Network has been pretty clueless all around - bad advertising/shilling ($9.99!!!), an inability to properly explain how it works (some people probably still have no clue that you can watch it on a TV), inconsistent content uploads, a live channel schedule that feels like it was programmed by monkeys (there's no rhyme or reason to any of it), a clunky product that still feels like it's in the beta testing stages, and I could go on and on.

The sad thing is this is exactly what they did with Classics on Demand, big initial push then it got forgotten about when it wasn't the hot new plaything anymore. The difference of course is they didn't change their whole business model to bank on it being the main income provider.

Overall for me I'm sticking with the network . I have a Roku and it's been great for me.Sure their are problems. Yet I get enough content for my bucks. Sure I want more 80's content. Yes I want a consistency to the programming. Overall though they've given us a lot of content. Plus we get ppv's . The sheer amount of hrs they have on their is a lot.

My nephew and I both had a network account. After 6 months, we are down to one account.

As goodhelmet's nephew goes, so goes the wwe universe?

 

I resubscribed. Way too much content for me to ever get through. I also love to complain about things, so re-upping fills that potential void in my life, but they make it so easy. Standard complaints remain (no uniform resume feature; live stream programmed by a lunatic, etc.) and new ones continue to develop. I'm never going to watch Raw from the beginning, but for those that were and got used to a six month routine of having one or two Raws uploaded (in order)...to see that stopped out of nowhere is incredible.

 

I am weak and have no attention span, so if they continue to produce one hour specials I will watch most of them. But please let me never see DX invade WCW or McMahon appear on Nitro ever again.

 

I was texting with a friend (lapsed fan, retains some interest in the product, and attended WM29 with me, but will never be fully engaged), trying to come up with the twenty (!) topics to be discussed on the MNW series (now that, after a few, we have an idea of how they are presenting things.

 

So far: intro, NWO, DX, Foley (next episode)

 

Possibilities: Austin, Austin/McMahon, Rock, Hart Foundation, Goldberg. Then it gets cloudy. Cruiserweights? Hardcore divisions? WCW 2000?

Still baffled as to why a Monday Night Wars documentary debuts at 4pm on Tuesday.

 

One problem is they covered a couple of possible episodes (women, hardcore) quite comprehensively in the Attitude era episode (which you can add to the list of aired/confirmed.)

 

In no particular order (and with no suggestion I approve of these ideas)

 

6) Austin

7) Austin vs McMahon

8) Rock

9) USA vs Canada

10) Goldberg

11) Cruiserweights

12) Celebrities in matches

13) Women wrestling (which would be very hard to stretch out to an hour)

14) Weird venues (Domes, going overseas, Spring Break)

15) ECW talent appearing on Mondays/Jumping to the big two

 

~

 

19) Russo's shit

20) Final Nitro

 

 

What's more interesting/frustrating is just how much of this is retreads of DVDs they've already done. The first five episodes are pretty much:

 

1) An extended version of the opening section of the Monday Night Wars DVD

2) The NWO DVD

3) The Attitude Era DVD (which had a one-hour documentary so it's almost totally redundant)

4) An hour of DX -- no idea how much overlap that has with the HHH documentary

5) The Mick Foley documentary

I let my subscription expire. Like someone said earlier, it still feels like a beta test.

 

It had all the potential in the world, I realised this more and more over the last six months, even more so after listening to the WIll, Charles, Mookie podcast on fixing the network.

What happened to the ability to tweet what you're watching that was part of the demo in the original press conference in Vegas I wonder? I do think that's the kind of thing that could get people on board who aren't.

I let my subscription expire. Like someone said earlier, it still feels like a beta test.

 

It had all the potential in the world, I realised this more and more over the last six months, even more so after listening to the WIll, Charles, Mookie podcast on fixing the network.

Hold on, aren't you from the UK?

 

I let my subscription expire. Like someone said earlier, it still feels like a beta test.

 

It had all the potential in the world, I realised this more and more over the last six months, even more so after listening to the WIll, Charles, Mookie podcast on fixing the network.

Hold on, aren't you from the UK?

 

 

Yup, and used a VPN to access it.

I can't imagine they will do an episode on cruiser weights. That seems too openly celebratory of an aspect of something WCW did better than WWE without stealing from them somehow, as well as something they don't value now. I think a Gang Warz one would be more likely.

I can't imagine they will do an episode on cruiser weights. That seems too openly celebratory of an aspect of something WCW did better than WWE without stealing from them somehow, as well as something they don't value now. I think a Gang Warz one would be more likely.

I don't know, they certainly made points like that on the Best of Nitro DVDs they put out.

Does anyone know the logic behind the numbering of the Nitro episodes? I thought that maybe it was supposed to lineup with RAW, so that someone wanting to watch them back to back to compare could find them easily, but that's obviously not the case.

I can't imagine they will do an episode on cruiser weights. That seems too openly celebratory of an aspect of something WCW did better than WWE without stealing from them somehow, as well as something they don't value now. I think a Gang Warz one would be more likely.

 

Scary how plausible this is and I'm already holding back laughter thinking about the heavy-handed NFL films style narration "Fans were craving a more realistic, more dynamic brand of sports entertainment. Enter: The Disciples of Apocalypse."

Been thinking about the whole "upload Raws day by day/upload random episodes/upload a batch at a time/change policy for no reason" along with the "we can't upload anything before the 6 months is up or people won't resubscribe/we must upload stuff before the 6 months is up or people won't resubscribe" debate and it got me thinking there's a basic distinction which the people running the network may be missing:

 

I don't literally want to watch every Raw/Nitro.

 

I do want to be able to watch any Raw/Nitro.

 

It's the same story with the "we uploaded a few World Class shows, nobody watched them." For me at least, the whole selling point of the network library is that it's not like Classics on Demand where you're paying for a specific batch of content each month. It's that you're subscribing to a library that means you can think of a match and then watch it straight away. In other words, it's YouTube but legal, complete and good quality.

 

Despite all the talk at launch, it still feels like they are running it from the mindset of a channel where they decide what you watch, and they see the VOD library as a glorified version of a DVD extra.

 

I can't imagine they will do an episode on cruiser weights. That seems too openly celebratory of an aspect of something WCW did better than WWE without stealing from them somehow, as well as something they don't value now. I think a Gang Warz one would be more likely.

 

Scary how plausible this is and I'm already holding back laughter thinking about the heavy-handed NFL films style narration "Fans were craving a more realistic, more dynamic brand of sports entertainment. Enter: The Disciples of Apocalypse."

 

 

Los Boricuas and DOA have to go down as two of the sorriest groups ever. It's unfortunate I was alive and watching weekly wrestling at a time they were feuding.

 

 

I can't imagine they will do an episode on cruiser weights. That seems too openly celebratory of an aspect of something WCW did better than WWE without stealing from them somehow, as well as something they don't value now. I think a Gang Warz one would be more likely.

 

Scary how plausible this is and I'm already holding back laughter thinking about the heavy-handed NFL films style narration "Fans were craving a more realistic, more dynamic brand of sports entertainment. Enter: The Disciples of Apocalypse."

 

 

Los Boricuas and DOA have to go down as two of the sorriest groups ever. It's unfortunate I was alive and watching weekly wrestling at a time they were feuding.

 

 

I remember watching RAW around that time was like a sheer cliff drop in to a canyon of despair once you got out of the main event scene. Thank god for 5 minutes at a time lucha action on Nitro.

 

 

I can't imagine they will do an episode on cruiser weights. That seems too openly celebratory of an aspect of something WCW did better than WWE without stealing from them somehow, as well as something they don't value now. I think a Gang Warz one would be more likely.

 

Scary how plausible this is and I'm already holding back laughter thinking about the heavy-handed NFL films style narration "Fans were craving a more realistic, more dynamic brand of sports entertainment. Enter: The Disciples of Apocalypse."

 

 

Los Boricuas and DOA have to go down as two of the sorriest groups ever. It's unfortunate I was alive and watching weekly wrestling at a time they were feuding.

 

 

Los Boricuas had talent, they were just misused/miscast in that role.

 

Los Boricuas had talent, they were just misused/miscast in that role.

 

 

You're right, of course, but I find the juxtaposition between your name and your statement funny.