WWE to the UK Fans - "Fuck you"

[Tom]

Yeah I've heard there's a way of getting it over here. I thought about doing it but tbh I just can't be bothered now.

If it gets released over here properly within my lifetime then I may consider signing up, mainly because of the back catalogue of content, plus the fact that I'm fickle and have no shame.

What I did. Will use the November free trial then I'll probably cancel before December so they don't get my money.

@Daz

Is one of the T&C's for the free month that you have to pay for December?

Also what VPN are you using? I tried Hola there but it keeps reverting me back to the UK website. Any help would be greatly appreciated :-)

I don't believe so.

Hola worked fine for me on Chrome last night but I have heard people have been having trouble with it. Might be worth paying the extra few quid for Unblockus or something along those lines.

I managed to get it working earlier on. Its running smoothly for me so far. I'm gonna check how it goes for me for the month and then decide whether its worth keeping after that.

I just read on ewrestlingnews that Sky are denying all involvement in the Network being delayed. According to them, it is a decision WWE made themselves. http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/news/sky- ... nside-here.

Either way, I don't think anybody can deny that it is bad for the company to announce that their Network is delayed indefinitely just 15 minutes before its due to go live. The fact that WWE have not come out and presented a reason for this to their fans is also quite annoying. No matter what its reason is, it is something WWE should have looked into before going ahead and getting peoples hopes up. In any business decision that is made, every angle needs to be looked at before making such important announcements. The reality is that WWE should have done their homework and should have known about the issue that has caused it to be delayed before even announcing that they were going to go live with it. A company wouldn't hire an employee and then tell him 15 minutes before he is due to start his first shift that the position is no longer required. A company also wouldn't allow their customers to cue for a said Playstation game (for example) and then announce 15 minutes before said game is released that it won't be in their store. It would be bad of them to do so, It's bad on WWE's behalf that they didn't spot whatever issue is causing the delay earlier than they did. A lot of fans were on wwe.com waiting to sign up. I was one them. They should not have left it till fifteen minutes before it was due to go live to come to the conclusion it needed to be delayed!

[Twister]

An apology at least.

http://www.wwe.com/videos/wwe-chairman-addresses-uk-fans-26779418

Apparently it will be 'well worth the wait', although if this article is accurate I very much beg to differ

http://www.sescoops.com/wwe-network-traditional-cable-channel-uk/

ETA: Turns out the above article is probably isn't genuine so everyone keep hold of your pitchforks.. for now

[SlightlyJames]

This is like the episode of South Park where Cartman buys a theme park and won't let anyone in.

[prophet]

Latest reports I've read say they played Vince's apology to the UK crowd last night in London and it was heavily booed haha. I've also read that the current plan is to make the Network it's own channel on SkySports which I'm lead to believe is something like they do in Canada...so I think this is bad.

[Twister]

I heard that too lol, really not surprising. The article I posted above turned out to be complete bullshit according to the page on Facebook that I got it from, so who knows. If it is going to be an exclusive channel on Sky then I'm 100% out. It would be a bad move by them imo, so many people don't even have a Sky subscription, they'd be losing out on a lot of potential custom doing it that way. I don't think many people would sign up to Sky just to get the Network Channel, it's hardly cost effective/worth it.

[The Legend]

I heard that too lol, really not surprising. The article I posted above turned out to be complete bullshit according to the page on Facebook that I got it from, so who knows. If it is going to be an exclusive channel on Sky then I'm 100% out. It would be a bad move by them imo, so many people don't even have a Sky subscription, they'd be losing out on a lot of potential custom doing it that way. I don't think many people would sign up to Sky just to get the Network Channel, it's hardly cost effective/worth it.

If they do it as a Sky channel, it's pretty clear that it would only be because the are contractually/legally obligated to do it that way.

[SortaCreative]

I heard that too lol, really not surprising. The article I posted above turned out to be complete bullshit according to the page on Facebook that I got it from, so who knows. If it is going to be an exclusive channel on Sky then I'm 100% out. It would be a bad move by them imo, so many people don't even have a Sky subscription, they'd be losing out on a lot of potential custom doing it that way. I don't think many people would sign up to Sky just to get the Network Channel, it's hardly cost effective/worth it.

If they do it as a Sky channel, it's pretty clear that it would only be because the are contractually/legally obligated to do it that way.

Are you Rupert Murdoch's son?

[Twister]

I heard that too lol, really not surprising. The article I posted above turned out to be complete bullshit according to the page on Facebook that I got it from, so who knows. If it is going to be an exclusive channel on Sky then I'm 100% out. It would be a bad move by them imo, so many people don't even have a Sky subscription, they'd be losing out on a lot of potential custom doing it that way. I don't think many people would sign up to Sky just to get the Network Channel, it's hardly cost effective/worth it.

If they do it as a Sky channel, it's pretty clear that it would only be because the are contractually/legally obligated to do it that way.

Then to be honest I'd rather not have the network at all than have to pay silly money for a TV subscription then a little extra on top of that for the 'Network'. I doubt it will be very successful over here in this format.

[Hanley!]

Yeah, it's likely WWE will only do things that way because their hand is forced, but it doesn't stop it from being a crappy deal. So it likely won't be too successful over here.

Are the pay per views broadcast on that channel then? That seems to be the only big selling point of the Network if you don't have access to old shows whenever you want.