6 Ups & 4 Downs From The NEW WWE Network
Downs...
4. Bugging
On Friday 26th July, the reinvigorated Network launched via Watch.WWE.com shortly before updating itself on the various devices that house it, and early feedback on some improved features (more on those later) was overwhelmingly positive. The effusive praise sent many rushing to see it for themselves, which in turn resulted in a deluge of defects.
The beleaguered @AskWWENetwork account was hit with countless queries pretty much from the off, as it became apparent that the v2.0 didn't exactly leave the factory floor in perfect working order.
Reactive rather than proactive, the organisation set about implementing fixes which in turn caused other issues and various outages. It was a scattergun roll-out - not only were there many problems, but they weren't always able to be replicated via different apps, devices and browsers.
Though not a total omnishambles, the functional and often destructive bugs rattled the faith in the quality of one of the few things almost every browbeaten WWE fan still agreed on. That was, when they could even watch...