Poor PPVs are partly down to streamers.

[URATOOL]

I see after every PPV we get the same complaints being posted on here. Poor matches, no build up, filler matches and crap non-action segments. Have you ever stop to think maybe it's partly the 'fans' fault.

The WWE is a business and the wrestlers (entertainers) are demanding employees. A hell of a lots of money is needed to keep that Juggernaut rolling. They tour the world with dozens of well paid performers and many, many crew members. They produce shows in small, medium and huge arenas. They broadcast 4 or 5 TV shows a week. This doesn't costs 4 bucks and a can of Pepsi. It's costs millions and millions of dollars (shut it Titus and Darren).

So how do they fund this entertainment monster? Well you pay for it. Every cent they bring in comes from you, either directly or in-directly. PPV buys, merch sales, ticket sales and sponsorship (yes you pay for that to, by buying the products that are advertised). So what happens when literally tens of thousands (possibly even hundreds of thousand) of you stream PPVs rather than pay for them? They fill the income gap. One easy way to do this is have a PPV every month. With that kind of schedule, how do you expect them to pump out a quality PPV with such short run ups!

I've never streamed. If I want to watch the PPV I pay for it. I've paid for 11 out of the last 12 if memory serves me. How many of you can say the same? Or are you to busy bitching about something you didn't even pay for?

[K2Jelly]

That's an interesting theory.

Whether it's true or not, streamers ruin things in more ways than one. Like you, I never stream. I either pay for the PPV or if I know it's gonna blow, just watch Ryan Clark refresh the results as they go on.

[akbar]

I stream because I'm broke but I critic the show in a fair manner.

[clrj3514]

I've streamed maybe 3 or 4 PPVs in like 2 years but never watched one start to finish. Then again though I don't whine when things don't go exactly the way I want. Do I complain? Sure, we all do. I think my Dad & I ordered 3 maybe 4 last year. $55 is a lot to fork out but it's a necessary thing now. Too bad they can't be $25/30 & people leave the streams.

[CGBigMan]

if i stream its normally a last min thing if i cant sleep
or something ive highly anticipated but cant afford

interesting theory

[akbar]

I've streamed maybe 3 or 4 PPVs in like 2 years but never watched one start to finish. Then again though I don't whine when things don't go exactly the way I want. Do I complain? Sure, we all do. I think my Dad & I ordered 3 maybe 4 last year. $55 is a lot to fork out but it's a necessary thing now. Too bad they can't be $25/30 & people leave the streams.

$55?!?! That's pretty expensive...in UK it's £15 which is about $30.

[Amerinaine]

$55?!?! That's pretty expensive...in UK it's £15 which is about $30.

I would have to pay $45 USD to see a PPV. That is just too much to pay to watch Every PPV. I pay for the major PPV's and stream the others. (Includes TNA). If I had a better job, I'd pay for all of them. Unfortunately, I don't have a job, so WWE can kiss my grits right now with their expensive PPV's. I can go watch a Movie and get 3 popcorns and a Soda for about 45 dollars.

[MachoManFan]

I neither stream nor pay, I torrent. I can't afford to buy the PPVs that actually are nor Sky Sports for the freebie ones. I rarely bitch about quality though. I used to have a system with some mates where one of us would buy the PPV and we'd all go round and watch it, chipping in a few quid each for the cost.

As for the point, I understand that wrestlers need time off to recover and WWE can't make every PPV Wrestlemana quality (which I always buy) but I would say the solution is to go back to fewer PPVs so 1) wrestlers are less tired, 2) storylines have more time to develop which creates more buzz and makes people more likely to watch and C) means they are more affordable. I don't disagree with TOOLIE's point, he's probably right, but it's a vicious circle: if a PPV is crap one might stream the next one, revenues go down so WWE put less effort in resulting in a crap PPV...

The solution is for the fans to stand up for what they enjoy and PAY FOR PPVs when WWE book matches we want to see, I can't help but think John Cena would disappear if everytime the IWC flavour of the month was in the main event they sold twice as many PPVs.

[drumn4life0789]

the cause and affect here are completely backwards. I stream everything except for mania. I do this for many reasons. I don't have the money to pay for a ppv every 25 days or so. And I think a lot of people who stream are in this boat. As in if the streams got cutoff then they would not go buy the ppv and I think the WWE has started to realize this. About a year ago to a year and a half streams would get shut off left and right. You would have to find atleast 2 or 3 in a night because atleast one was guaranteed to be shutdown.

Even if I did have the money, I would not be buying current WWE ppv's. They are nothing special and it really doesn't have much to do with the time in between ppv's. It all has to do with storyline. The problem is they try and get the same people on the every single ppv. If they developed storylines for people other than the champs and cena they could have certain feuds overlap ppv's and not have the same rundown repetitive stuff that we have now.

Just wondering did you enjoy those ppv's that you bought?

[Tomsta666]

I will continue to stream. Bitch about it. Not feel guilty!!

Nothing else to add really