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Originally Posted by yellowfever
Diff being boxing and wresting events have much larger fanbases. Poker has a very small niche group of people interested in it. It should be free to view to help grow the game not taxed when the interest in the game is becoming less and less every year that goes on.
Putting it on twitch is great as the game is going to be shown to people outside of diehard players to grow the game. Putting it on this pay to watch model is going to limit who sees poker. Not a good thing.
That would make sense if the game was growing. The game is not growing. As a niche game it makes more sense to use a pay model because providing it for free is not sustainable without a huge viewer base like UFC/WWE which can sustain themselves off ad revenue.
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Originally Posted by getmeoffcompletely
Twitch had 25k viewers on day 1. I don't know how much money they're making off subscriptions, but I can't imagine it being that much. The exposure it would get on Twitch would be insane.
Which is why I am advocating that they broadcast every day 1 on twitch for free.
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Originally Posted by yimyammer
the lack of a rewind is annoying, the +10/-10 buttons aren't working for me and wouldn't really do much if they were. Would be nice to pause, rewind, etc like I can do on a Youtube stream, hopefully they're paying attention
Yes there are some big technical problems. It is weird that some streaming services get this right and others fail miserably. WWE's streaming site has been excellent from the start while the UFC's was quite crappy but has improved some over time.
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Originally Posted by fishfood69er
i like it , it says theyre bringing back poker after dark. if theyre making content it will be good for poker community. if you remember netflix started like that they sucked at first and then it is what it is now. people should give it a chance it might turn into something decent.
but theyre ****ing up by not doing a month free sub. like everyone else.
Month free sub during the only time of year many people will be watching seems unwise. Counterpoint to that is that WWE offered one free month during Wrestlemania. Counterpoint to that is WWE has been struggling greatly since moving to a subscription model.
I do agree with you that I would expect them to add more content as time goes on similar to what the UFC has done adding local promotions to Fight Pass. Although, some of this content may be content that is currently free which will just piss people off more I suppose.
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Originally Posted by piizog
Poker Central is apparently too stingy to keep an archive up of the day one stream on their YT channel. Yeah, $10 is not that much, but this company is showing incredible lack of respect towards their potential customers. Why would I want to give money to someone who offers less and worse service that I'm used to or have for free? Yeah, I get it that I'm in no way entitled to it, but the reality is that for $10 I can get much more bang for my buck than their technically inadequate and questionable services.
And also, I'm unemployed so the $10 services start to add up, so it does actually matter what services are worth it. And this company seems to take it for granted that poker people will just fork it over no matter how degraded the experience is. Yeah, no.
I don't think their target market is unemployed people. In fact, I can't think of many services whose target market is unemployed people. If $10 is a problem I'd recommend getting a job. As for why someone would you give your money to them? Umm, I'd assume because you would like to watch the Super High Roller Bowl and WSOP events.
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Originally Posted by PeteBlow
Has it even occurred to you that for them to be able to buy it, WSOP were wanting to sell it?
WSOP were obviously putting more money into the streaming than they were getting out of it and didn't want to do it themselves anymore.
This.