10 Clues That WWE Network Has Been A MAJOR Error
2. Thirst For Old Content Has Been Quenched?
Your writer is one of the oldest here at WhatCulture.com.
This information is only important because your writer is old enough to have invested time in and money in hundreds of the shows in the vast WWE Network archive on multiple different formats before being daft enough to drop 10 notes a month on keeping them on demand forever and ever.
All good, in theory, but is much of the collection going to waste? Dave Meltzer doesn't always rank the most-watched bits and pieces every single week, but some of his Wrestling Observer round-ups made for eye-opening reading. Have subscribers been so overwhelmed with so many Ric Flair classics that they'd rather watch him talk about them on Table For Three instead? Every tough-talking Texan from Dustin Rhodes to Steve Austin travelled up and down the roads for decades to assemble some of the magic locked within the WCW and WWE vaults, but f*ck the old guys having matches if we can watch the new guys Ride Along to them, eh?
WWE have provided something wonderful, fundamentally, but if the interest is only passing, may they eventually have to tier access to it accordingly?