The Death of PPVs and the Case for Piracy - A Deep Dive

[joy2day]

Why would anyone be willing to increase what they pay for a product that has decreased in value?

 

[Here's Johnny!]

Warehouse stores are a different model, plus one typically gets discounts and other benefits from their membership.

Yeah i love those stores

 

[LeBron]

Getting rid of WMMA would go a long way towards me possibly paying. I will never give a penny to watch someone compete that I could get off my couch and KO.

 

[IDGETKTFO]

I don't feel guilty when I don't get a good value proposition. If I didn't watch MMA for free I straight up wouldn't watch it. I'd do anything else with my time. I like the sport, I don't need the sport.

You would watch and pay, and would love every minute of it, you fucking goof!

 

[Ube]

Getting rid of WMMA would go a long way towards me possibly paying. I will never give a penny to watch someone compete that I could get off my couch and KO.

you little weird macho men need to stop acting like the cards are full of Wmma bouts. At most there are 2 wmma fights in a main card.

It’s not women fucking up the product, it’s dudes.

So maybe stop trying to be so edgy. It’s so 2015. if your telling me you’re not paying for a ppv because a woman is fighting in it, then you just sound like some woman hating virgin.

 

[IsNormal]

As a european I've always found the UFC have been oddly focused on PPV rather that subscription models.

Not much room for growth of the PPV market outside the US. PPV is barely a thing in many countries (not a single swede I know has ever used PPV) and very few europeans are paying for a live event at 4AM.

One thing that does irk me a tiny bit about piracy is that the poor souls who do pay full price are basically funding free entertainment for the rest of us pirates.

 

[KungFuCow]

I bought just about every PPV up till UFC 44. I havent bought one since. That was the "one time" price bump for Couture vs Ortiz that Dana assured everyone was a one time thing and then it never went back down.

 

[Söze Aldo]

Getting rid of WMMA would go a long way towards me possibly paying. I will never give a penny to watch someone compete that I could get off my couch and KO.

I'm guessing your buying 316 then?

 

[Young Calf Kick]

you little weird macho men need to stop acting like the cards are full of Wmma bouts. At most there are 2 wmma fights in a main card.

It’s not women fucking up the product, it’s dudes.

So maybe stop trying to be so edgy. It’s so 2015. if your telling me you’re not paying for a ppv because a woman is fighting in it, then you just sound like some woman hating virgin.

you sound female

 

[Ube]

you sound female

Well congratulations: you finally got a female to notice you.

 

[shunyata]

Funny how when booking was at its best and production was unmatched, PPVs were only like $50? Now they're nearly double that, production is sloppy as hell, matches are thrown together as if done by a random generator, and best of all, you have to pay for the privilege of buying the individual cards! Imagine if your grocery store started charging admission. I won't participate on principle alone.

That and there's no option to mute the piss poor commentary.

Another reason to watch the bootleg Portuguese language broadcast at the gym with your training buddies.

 

[Simple Southerner]

I love threads w/ videos with no cliffs

 

[LeBron]

you little weird macho men need to stop acting like the cards are full of Wmma bouts. At most there are 2 wmma fights in a main card.

It’s not women fucking up the product, it’s dudes.

So maybe stop trying to be so edgy. It’s so 2015. if your telling me you’re not paying for a ppv because a woman is fighting in it, then you just sound like some woman hating virgin.

One WMMA fight is more than enough. If it’s not the best of the best why the hell would I pay for it? Women are inferior in all sports, period. Imagine paying to go watch a WNBA game lmao.

 

[GordoBarraBJJ]

Press play, cleanse your poor soul of the guilt

No guilt when they put on subpar cards, are making $$$ while fighters are shafted and paid less than they should be.

 

[Ube]

One WMMA fight is more than enough. If it’s not the best of the best why the hell would I pay for it? Women are inferior in all sports, period. Imagine paying to go watch a WNBA game lmao.

yeah, no, I don’t believe you. You’re just trying to sound cool because it’s the Internet forum trend to have a laugh at women in sports. One WMMA fight would stop you from buying a PPV? Clarify for me please.

P.S. I’m not some white knight fuck. (WNBA sucks. Women soccer is iffy.) But saying women are inferior in all sports is a lazy opinion, especially when men have found a way to give physically “inferior” men a pass by allowing them to fight under different weight classes.

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

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I love threads w/ videos with no cliffs

There's someone at ESPN, I think, who looks exactly like this. Dan someone?

 

[LeBron]

yeah, no, I don’t believe you. You’re just trying to sound cool because it’s the Internet forum trend to have a laugh at women in sports. One WMMA fight would stop you from buying a PPV? Clarify for me please.

P.S. I’m not some white knight fuck. (WNBA sucks. Women soccer is iffy.) But saying women are inferior in all sports is a lazy opinion, especially when men have found a way to give physically “inferior” men a pass by allowing them to fight under different weight classes.

They are inferior. There isn’t any woman pro that would beat a man pro, in any sport.

 

[LostMyBlackBelt]

They are inferior. There isn’t any woman pro that would beat a man pro, in any sport.

What is you Incel point though?
UFC manlets are not going to beat the Heavyweights either, so you never watch the manlets? WHy have weight classes for all those little pathetic manlets, right?

 

[Royce Greasy]

No guilt when they put on subpar cards, are making $$$ while fighters are shafted and paid less than they should be.

I don't feel bad for the fighters they choose to be shafted by UFC when they can be in other organizations and make more, they must be in UFC that's their own problem that they're contributing to keeping the sport a monopoly they have no right to complain about pay.


The original comment I wanted to put on this thread is how overrated UFC is in general and I would never pay for their events unless they were like $20 lol, this event tonight 315 aside from the main fight is shit and fighters on it are forgettable. I just finished watching Rizin recent event which was really a good time HW tournament many highly entertaining fights, there's no way this card tonight is gonna be better than that yet there's these new generation fans that will purchase every shitty UFC card for the brand retards all of them, I skip so many UFC events and am generally perplexed by the insane fandom for their product and I get they have the most top talent signed but they don't have it all, the last 5 years I've been the least uninterested in UFC and gravitate towards PFL, Rizin, ACA etc, and find them to be a product without the absurd PPV costs.

 

[Here's Johnny!]

you little weird macho men need to stop acting like the cards are full of Wmma bouts. At most there are 2 wmma fights in a main card.

It’s not women fucking up the product, it’s dudes.

So maybe stop trying to be so edgy. It’s so 2015. if your telling me you’re not paying for a ppv because a woman is fighting in it, then you just sound like some woman hating virgin.

There aren't any females in here man you don't need to try so hard