Hot Take Missing walkouts, horrific flow, endless ads

[Rampage_Jackson]

Welcome to the paramount era how did you guys like it

 

[pātrēärkē]

Buffer introduced Black Beast with something about chicken wings while there was a huge beer can graphic splitting the screen with him. lol

 

[VAfan]

not too bad - but they cut cruz's tribute off something awful, did they not? he was in the middle of thanking dudes at the desk and the thing suddenly went to 'the octagon is closed' and we had to switch links. not much of a tribute there.

 

[Mongoosemk12]

Buffer introduced Black Beast with something about chicken wings while there was a huge beer can graphic splitting the screen with him. lol

I hope someone can help out with a .gif on that one. That sounds great.

 

[Rampage_Jackson]

The worst to me is the ads in between rounds of big fights. Fuck off. Prelims whatever. First fight of the main card is trash but I'll allow it. Playing an ad over the corner of the main event should be punishable by death

 

[Bobby Boulders]

Already wondering how long before I decide to go back. Between the stuff listed in the thread title, no calls on fouls, the shit-tier O'Malley decision, not sure I want any bit of money I spend to lead back to TKO. I can still support the fighters directly by interacting with their social media stuff and buying merchandise from them, no need to support money hungry corporate entity

 

[xhaydenx]

It was almost bad enough that I want to go back to just pirating the card a few hours after it's finished.

It was already like less than 3 hours of fighting or whatever for a broadcast that last like 6-7 hours.

Now all that filler is just stupid ads for american shows and stuff that I don't give a flying fuck about.

And ads instead of walkouts fucking sucked. When they started then doing ads in between rounds?

Fuck off, Paramount.

 

[Ironheart]

Ehhhh costs more than a free stream, but a lot less than a ppv... So I guess I'm hopeful that they'll listen to feedback and let us see main card walkouts at least. Didnt hate it, didnt love it

 

[bng]

crackheads drumming inside the octagon

 

[BoxingFan653]

The pacing was bad and felt very CBS NFL paced.

 

[Neck&Neck]

There wasn’t enough ads for me

PFL about to take over MMA

 

[mideastbeast]

If you watch the Multiview stream you can see the walkouts and there's no ads. It splits the screen so you won't want to watch the fights that way but its good for watching walkouts fyi.

 

[Tapatio]

Paramount UFC = Sherdog forums without a membership. Ads everywhere.

 

[John Cena]

ads in between rounds was bs. People complain about NFL Redzone being bad. This felt like listening to the free version of spotify. WTF?

 

[Nabs]

Not bad at all for the 1st time. Better than ESPN+ for sure. It'll only get better

I don't mind the ads. I paid $60 for the whole year so...

 

[sdpdude9]

I didn’t like that it started an hour earlier and ended around the same time.

 

[Pharenheit]

All companies need their pound of flesh nowadays. The 70$ yearly price tag was always bound to come in with heavy commercialization

 

[SKYNET]

they aren't gonna charge 80 bucks to watch 5 fights instead they are gonna r_pe everyone blind with ads and promos.

I did like Kate Scott better than Karyn Bryant. They better bring back Paul Felder he was alright and much better than Weidman

 

[spooNN]

Felt like browsing without an adblock.

 

[Safton]

Eh, compared to ESPN when viewing on a desktop it doesn't really feel all that different to me yet.

My main complaint that made me want to put a hole in my monitor was the fact that -- after pausing the stream and coming back to it, if you click in the center of the screen to unpause it the way you could with ESPN+, the fucking app decides to fuck off onto some random Paramount program. You have to specifically pause/unpause using the play button at the bottom of the screen or the spacebar. This is infuriating to me as a design choice. I'm watching what I want to watch, why the fuck would I want to transition to another program directly from my chosen bit of entertainment? If I really wanted to, I'd damn well go back to the menu or, you know, use the search function.

It doesn't help that I've got years of muscle memory of clicking the center of the screen built up from ESPN+. Also, once I make the mistake, I gotta go back and decide between either starting the stream over from the beginning or going Live. Neither option is attractive if, say, I paused the broadcast when I was three and a half fights through the Prelims and came back hours later to catch up.