WWE Network Changes Latest - Another Survey Released

Paying more money means more...Starz subscriptions?

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You would think WWE should be satisfied with what they have going. We kept hearing that they needed 1,000,000 people to subscribe to their Network to make it profitable, and earlier this year they revealed they had 1.52 million subscribers. And yet, they keep shaking things up.

Recently they’ve added commercials before the airing of some shows, and now they want to know what other kind of changes we will pay for. The most recent survey they've sent out to some fans shows they have a lot of things in mind, with some of them being...a little strange.

Here are some of the noted ideas from PWInsider:

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- Receiving a "crate" of WWE merchandise for subscribing for a year's worth of the WWE Network at once.

- Receiving a free month of the WWE Network by referring it to friends and family who sign up for three months.

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- Receiving discounts on the Network price if you pay for a year in advance.

- Having the ability to stream the Network on four devices at once.

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- Free shipping of WWEShop orders.

- Having a "family" plan to stream it in different locations.

- The ability to download material onto devices to watch while offline.

- The ability to play WWE-themed games on the Network app.

- Closed captioning of live events in other languages.

- Be part of a test group to give feedback on new games, merchandise and Network programming.

- Be entered into raffles automatically for trips to major WWE events and similar contests.

- Subscriber exclusive meet and greets with WWE talents.

- Exclusive chats with WWE talents where you would be able to ask talents questions.

- Creating and sharing video playlists with friends and family.

- Exclusive Network content including previews and behind the scenes content.

- Exclusive second screen content during WWE programming exclusively for subscribers.

- Getting 3 months of Starz with a 3 month subscription to the WWE Network.

- Voting on the WWE Hall of Fame inductees.

- Specified video suggestions based on talent searches.

- Greater ability to bookmark and play specific matches in events, as opposed to just playing an event from the start.

Now some of this is fairly typical stuff, like a family plan (for when grandma wants to watch Ric Flair matches, and your little sister is watching Table for 3), while some of it is a bit odd. Not quite sure what Starz subscriptions has to do with anything, and exclusive chats with talent? So if I pay for a year, do I get to Skype with Bo Dallas for four minutes or something?

While most of these ideas will likely be tossed aside, you can imagine at least a couple will be implemented in the near future. We’ll just have to see exactly what WWE has planned, but it seems that significant changes to the Network are headed our way soon.

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