News UFC PPV's to now be $74.99 USD

Danas including a anti piracy surcharge

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That sucks. I could still see myself buying cards, but they'd have to be absolutely stacked to warrant that price. Sad that we'll probably just get more watered-down lineups and that very little of that increase in price (if any) will translate to better fighter pay.
 
I pay about $50 a month for access to every single NFL game, every single MLB game and every single F1 race.

PPV is a fucking cancer.
 
Sounds like some dumb shit Tito would do. It's official. Dana and crew are as stupid as Tito Ortiz.
 
the best thing about all of this was spending most of last year reading bleeding heart sherdoggers moaning and groaning about fighter pay and then reading a thread like this where 1/3rd of you steal the service and act like you're big supporters.
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The prices for these events were already far too high. Anything over like $30 absolute max is a rip off and if you buy it, you have to either be very well off financially, or you're a total moron.

Compare this pricing of what is basically $80 per event (including ESPN+ sub) to what you pay for other entertainment. The average PPV main card that you pay for is around 3 hours worth of content. That works out as you paying roughly $27 per hour of entertainment.

If you buy a new AAA video game, the standard price atm in the US is around $60, and the average single-player duration is from 20-30 hours depending on thoroughness of playstyle. That's approx $2-$3 per hour of entertainment. That is NINE times more value than a UFC PPV.

Another example: going to see a movie. The average movie ticket price in the US (going by AMC) is $13. The average movie is around 90 minutes. That works out at around $8 per hour of entertainment. Which is THREE times more value than a UFC event.

I'm sure there are many more comparisons to be made, a good one would be to compare other countries billing model to the US. Some people already mentioned the UK example, where we only pay around £20 (roughly $30) per month and get access to everything, and not JUST UFC, but also various other sports.

The UFC DESERVE everyone to pirate or illegally stream their content. Asking people to pay $75 on top of an existing $8 subscription fee is practically criminal. It's insanity to me that anyone would even consider parting with that kind of money just to watch these events. It's disgusting that they continue to price gouge like this, especially when they are more profitable than they have ever been in history, and they have already raised prices twice in the last 12 months. It's not as if they're losing money - they're literally making more than ever! Yet even with these ridiculous price hikes, they barely pay fighters anything but scraps! It's disgusting, and I for one will have no part in fueling their greed.
 
Gracious Warrior said:
Here's another way to look at how ridiculous this is:

If you treated UFC ppvs like a subscription and bought every event for the year it would cost 12 x 75 = $900

Now lets say you instead decided to buy a bunch of other subscriptions with your money like Netflix, Disney+, ESPN+, Hulu, Spotify, Amazon Prime. All of those subscription services would cost you $420 combined for the year. So instead of buying UFC cards, you get all of those services (many of which you will use on a daily basis) and still save $480.

So I ask one question: Dana, do you think we're fucking stupid?
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people say this while ignoring that they get hundreds of thousands of buys per ppv usually and upwards of 1m for a stacked card (or a conor card).
 
chinarice said:
Are you from Murica? If so, the comment makes perfect sense lol

If not, probably Ontario where you might as well just call yourself a murican at that point lol
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Nope, but I see you're gotten to so try again. Let's keep this going, I'll send you a telegraph in the interim kiddo.
 
Haha, it's like they don't actually want people to buy their product.

Who would have thought that greedy millionaire goofballs were out of touch
 
My final offer is $79.99 for the full year, which includes all PPVs, but no PPV can have WMMA on it.

Take it or leave it Dana.
 
kevinramsdell said:
As long as they get a few fights per year that can eclipse the 800k mark, then it makes sense to keep the current model. Especially if someone like Conor fights twice a year, that's 1.5M PPV buys pretty much guaranteed. This isn't like the WWE that saw it's numbers consistently below 100k which is why the subscription system made sense. But we won't know all PPV numbers because they don't release them unless they are a good number. I'd say more than half of their PPV's come in below 400k.
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Probably important to note that the pricing is most likely an ESPN decision (or mostly ESPN).
 
Not that it makes any difference to me, but I just don't understand how 75 dollars is a reasonable common price for a fight card. It's not.
 
I pay that much every time. I pay $100 because I like to pay money for stuff.
 
I would pay for a streaming service that included Fight Pass, ESPN plus
and all PPV's if it was $20-25 a month.

$75 PPV
$7 ESPN plus
$8 for Fight Pass
$90+ a month to follow the fights.
FUCK THAT.
 
Osiris3657 said:
No you goof. Clearly you haven't bought a card in awhile. It was $70 last year.

It was $60 for a long time, then $65 in 2020, $70 in 2021 and now $75 in 2022
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I did buy the ppvs last year. When I see $69.99 I must have felt like I was spending less than $70
 
EYEKICKFACES said:
Nope, but I see you're gotten to so try again. Let's keep this going, I'll send you a telegraph in the interim kiddo.
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Breh, you don't get to cry about me calling you murican and say it doesn't trigger you.

Then again, you're from Ontario.... you can't help you are the way you are <45>

Poor Murican-lite kid.
 
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