Potential New Benefits for Having a Subscription

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Per PWInsider.com...

WWE issued a fan survey this morning to members of their mailing list, seeking feedback on some possible new benefits that could be added to a WWE Network subscription, including the following:

*Downloads for offline viewing on mobile devices

*Providing the ability to buy merchandise such as video games and WWE apparel before they are available to the public, travel package discounts.

*The abilitly to vote for WWE Hall of Fame inductees.

*Offering discounted subscription bundles. Examples given were one year for $99.99 or 6 Months for $49.99.

*Offering a discount for Hulu Plus and/or a combined WWE Network/Hulu Plus plan, in order to allow fans to have access to Raw and Smackdown via Hulu Plus.

*Providing one free month of the WWE Network after every 12 consecutive months of being a paid Network subscriber.

*An ad free WWE.com.

I definitely wouldn't mind some of these.

[JCBaggee]

Yeah, let me do Hulu+ WWE Network for like $13.99, $14.99 and I'd probably be pretty happy.

Everything else...mmeh. Downloading means eating up a ton of space, the Hall of Fame is a joke, and early access to merch just means giving WWE more money faster.

Discounted package rates or a free month sound great, but ultimately just lead to the prices going up.

[Vice honcho room temperature]

Offline viewing on mobile could be cool but then I'd eat into my battery and get stuck with no cell service cause I had to watch Ultimo Dragon vs Alex Wright on the go.

["Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik]

I wish that they would develop something for long term subscribers one day. I feel like they always cater to offering things to get new people to join but wish they could reward loyalty from time to time. That being said - not cancelling anytime soon. The deal is just too good as a wrestling fan.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

I'd probably consider the Hulu package to stop watching RAW on sometimes unstable and shitty feeds from the UK, but aren't those versions of RAW and Smackdown horrible chopped up?

Could I still see the UK commercials?

You're SO Money Supermarket!

[Chainsaw]

*votes for discounted yearly bundles*
YOU HAVE VOTED FOR VOTING FOR HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES!
No I didn't!
I'M PRETTY CERTAIN THAT YOU DID!

[Reflecto]

Jul 15, 2016 10:07:56 GMT -5 JCBaggee said:

Yeah, let me do Hulu+ WWE Network for like $13.99, $14.99 and I'd probably be pretty happy.

Everything else...mmeh. Downloading means eating up a ton of space, the Hall of Fame is a joke, and early access to merch just means giving WWE more money faster.

Discounted package rates or a free month sound great, but ultimately just lead to the prices going up.

I don't know on the merch thing. If they replaced "early access to merch" with something like how they gave the people who subscribed to the Network from day 1 a $25 gift certificate to WWEShop instead for 12-month subscribers, that might be equal to it.

[JCBaggee]

Jul 15, 2016 11:11:49 GMT -5 YAKMAN is ICHIBAN said:

I'd probably consider the Hulu package to stop watching RAW on sometimes unstable and shitty feeds from the UK, but aren't those versions of RAW and Smackdown horrible chopped up?

Could I still see the UK commercials?

You're SO Money Supermarket!

Raw is a 90 minute version, Smackdown is in it's entirety.

Raw is really the only selling point there anyways. It takes 30 days for Raw to hit the Network, I believe Smackdown is still up next day (unless the rights changed when it moved to USA?)

[xCompackx]

Eh... Offline viewing is the only thing that mildly interests me, and even that I probably would never use.

Early access to merchandise is fine, but most of their merch looks awful nowadays.

Discounts/free months are fine, but that assumes that people buy bundles and don't just subscribe and forget it.

Voting for inductees is fine, but they'd still have to actually get the potential inductees to agree to it, and it'd probably be rigged anyway.

Ad-free WWE.com is... okay, but that kind of falls apart if you never visit the site and just use mobile/streaming boxes/game consoles for WWE Network.

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Jul 15, 2016 12:27:14 GMT -5 Reflecto said:

Jul 15, 2016 10:07:56 GMT -5 JCBaggee said:

Yeah, let me do Hulu+ WWE Network for like $13.99, $14.99 and I'd probably be pretty happy.

Everything else...mmeh. Downloading means eating up a ton of space, the Hall of Fame is a joke, and early access to merch just means giving WWE more money faster.

Discounted package rates or a free month sound great, but ultimately just lead to the prices going up.

I don't know on the merch thing. If they replaced "early access to merch" with something like how they gave the people who subscribed to the Network from day 1 a $25 gift certificate to WWEShop instead for 12-month subscribers, that might be equal to it.

Eh, I got hosed on that deal when I approached the year benchmark (I bought it on day 3) and they said my subscription lapsed.
Back then, I paid by 6-month increments. Add the free month for renewing in August, I still had a month left to go.
What sucked...it worked fine the next day. But I didn't get the $25.

[beavis666]

Offline viewing sounds great to me, especially if you can use it a la marvel unlimited, where you can move stuff back and forth and once you're done, switch the offline content.

[Deleted]

Subscription bundle'd be good but dunno if I'd actually get it. I save a decent chunk of change on the Network anyway with my current approach of staggering my subscriptions for when I can get the most out of them, like for instance letting my last one run down so I can now get a new subscription on Sunday and get caught up on the CWC and watch Battleground, Takeover, and if I want to SummerSlam all on the same ten bucks.

[alred1982]

Jul 20, 2016 8:43:49 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Subscription bundle'd be good but dunno if I'd actually get it. I save a decent chunk of change on the Network anyway with my current approach of staggering my subscriptions for when I can get the most out of them, like for instance letting my last one run down so I can now get a new subscription on Sunday and get caught up on the CWC and watch Battleground, Takeover, and if I want to SummerSlam all on the same ten bucks.

I think a lot of people do that I always try and stagger it so I get at least 2 ppvs out of it.

[Gremlin]

This just in: Mason Ryan voted into Hall Of Fame.

[Bo Rida]

Advert free WWE.com? I'd rather have an advert free network. They never mention that point of comparison when they claim to be better than Netflix.

[msc]

I like the downloads option (because sometimes the Network buffers to all buggery) depending on the WWE definition of "mobile device", and the chance to vote in the HOF.

I also wouldn't turn down the 1 month free thing if they started it.

[saintpat]

Could they just have Da Mack come knock on my door and do a moonwalk dance on every one-year anniversary of my membership?

[Bub (BLM)]

You can already pre-purchase video games, so unless they're talking about me getting to physically own the game ahead of time, that's pointless.

[Deleted]

I'll throw in a few extra bucks a month if they can give me an emasculation-free Raw. Just whenever Stephanie pops up live, show a video of 2003 Stephanie. No voice.

[Pushed to the Moon]

Jul 15, 2016 10:23:50 GMT -5 "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik said:

I wish that they would develop something for long term subscribers one day. I feel like they always cater to offering things to get new people to join but wish they could reward loyalty from time to time. That being said - not cancelling anytime soon. The deal is just too good as a wrestling fan.

Yeah having been signed up for a bajillion years I'd like some sort of discount. Like maybe if you do 12 months in a row you get one free or something.