Peacock exclusive playoff game is stupid

[treeguy27]

Bad move by the league. Quit being greedy and keeping your customers from watching your product.

Surely they wont put Mahomes in that game but who knows.

[WhawhaWhat]

Originally Posted by Chief Pagan

But I waited and watched the re broadcast on NFL network. I'm among the tiny minority that can actually go a few hours without getting a spoiler.

So I guess as long as the NFL continues licensing NFL network to YouTube TV and showing any "exclusively" streamed games on NFLN within a few hours...

I'm fine.

So you paid $75 to watch it on a time delay instead of $6 to watch it live. You showed them.

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

Principles. I went to a bar and supported a local business screwed over by this. Peacock did not get a subscriber out of me. And I’m content with that decision.

No, i don’t believe i am one of dozens to have done this. The Taylor swift bump has led to the chiefs smashing every tv ratings record including pulling 30m to watch regular season Monday night football. The chiefs got 53m to watch the bengals chiefs last year without Taylor swift. So yeah, it’s of course the most streamed in nfl history but you can’t tell me there weren’t tens of millions who did not end up watching it. Instead 23m puts us on the low end of a typical wild card playoff game.

I'm still hung up on how you justify paying $349 per year for Sunday Ticket (about $50 per week) yet are irate at paying $6 for a month.

[ChiTown]

The NFL isn’t stupid. They chose the right game to stream on Peacock, as they hooked in millions of Swifties. Beyond the NFL putting this on a stream I normally wouldn’t have in my repertoire, my feed sucked. That was my biggest complaint.

[Frazod]

This was just a test run, which appears to have been successful. That's good news for the greedy multi-billion dollar corporations, and bad news for all of us. Like we're not getting squeezed on all sides already.

When will it end? The answer is, it won't.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Hopefully all 23 million cancel this garbage

[DrunkBassGuitar]

Originally Posted by ChiTown

The NFL isn’t stupid. They chose the right game to stream on Peacock, as they hooked in millions of Swifties. Beyond the NFL putting this on a stream I normally wouldn’t have in my repertoire, my feed sucked. That was my biggest complaint.

yeah putting the Chiefs on there was a no brainer. Either you like the Chiefs and will pay to watch them, or you hate the Chiefs and want to see them lose. This isn't 2014, I would imagine there's very few people who are invested in the NFL that don't have a positive or negative opinion of the Chiefs. I can't totally say that I owuldn't have paid $5 to see Brady eat shit in a WC game

[DRM08]

Originally Posted by DrunkBassGuitar

yeah putting the Chiefs on there was a no brainer. Either you like the Chiefs and will pay to watch them, or you hate the Chiefs and want to see them lose. This isn't 2014, I would imagine there's very few people who are invested in the NFL that don't have a positive or negative opinion of the Chiefs. I can't totally say that I owuldn't have paid $5 to see Brady eat shit in a WC game

Nah, I would have pirated the game if it was Brady or another team I dislike. But since KC is the only team I root for in the NFL, I wanted a more stable streaming experience than the pirate websites. So I ponied up the cash with Peacock and canceled it after the game.

Given the fact they had over 20 million people streaming it, I am kinda surprised the damn thing didn't crash. So props to them for upgrading their servers and whatnot to deal with the demand.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by DRM08

Nah, I would have pirated the game if it was Brady or another team I dislike. But since KC is the only team I root for in the NFL, I wanted a more stable streaming experience than the pirate websites. So I ponied up the cash with Peacock and canceled it after the game.

Given the fact they had over 20 million people streaming it, I am kinda surprised the damn thing didn't crash. So props to them for upgrading their servers and whatnot to deal with the demand.

Had it not been the Chiefs in a playoff game I absolutely wouldn't have watched it. I had already missed several regular season games after dumping ST.

[Bearcat]

Hell, if it was Chiefs/Steelers from a couple years ago or if the Chiefs were already rolling on offense this season, I probably would have just found a free stream.... much less paying to watch the other shitty WC games.

It was obvious the Chiefs would either play anything above a C game and win fairly easily or have an unwatchable game and risk losing... but it was worth the $6 to watch Mahomes flip the switch and to watch the defense dominate, since we've seen so little good football from them lately.

And the GDT was in good spirits, so despite some people watching on the local NBC in KC and being a bit ahead, it was still better to be on Peacock than a free stream so it wasn't even further behind..

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by DaFace

I'm still hung up on how you justify paying $349 per year for Sunday Ticket (about $50 per week) yet are irate at paying $6 for a month.

Because it isn’t about money although I get it for people who believe $6 is a big deal. It’s about principle.

I pay for Sunday ticket because it gets me access to out of market games like the chiefs and EVERY game in the nfl. It’s still overpriced and I hope the nfl gets clobbered for price gouging. But this gets me access to games that were otherwise not supposed to be accessible. I get it - nfl only has a few slots and they’re going to favor local broadcasts, and people who live in local areas can by and large see the teams they want. I consider Sunday ticket a privilege to be able to see games not intended for me.

Side note, but offering Sunday ticket as a dish only solution in the past was shitty too. But we’ll leave that aside.

That is very different from taking a game that has always been free on a network that is supposed to be free, and deciding to throw it to ppv. Not a free trial, flat out ppv. So yeah I could’ve easily afforded to subscribe and cancel, but I don’t want the nfl to get the message that they can just toss out little surcharges here and there.

[Donger]

Are any additional NFL games this year going to be shown on Peacock-only?

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by Donger

Are any additional NFL games this year going to be shown on Peacock-only?

No, so sports bars who didn’t want egg on their face for not having a playoff game on tv probably had to pay a cool few thousand and get a full year subscription for the rights to show a single game.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

No, so sports bars who didn’t want egg on their face for not having a playoff game on tv probably had to pay a cool few thousand and get a full year subscription for the rights to show a single game.

Thank you.

[tredadda]

As much as we hate it the NFL knew what they were doing and the fans proved it. People complained about it being on Peacock and still watched it in record numbers. They put the biggest draw (KC) with the addition of Swift and like moths to a flame people came. This will just encourage the NFL to put more games on streaming sites in the future because they know the fans will watch and pay.

[displacedinMN]

All of this is smoke and mirrors.

NBC paid 110 million. Gained a bunch of new subscribers for a month. Earned a lot money.
Gets to brag on social media.

Months from now, people get fed up with paying another service. Cut it.
NBC cannot figure out why. They wont go under, but could lose money at some point.