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Originally Posted by Splaya
In order for it to die, someone has to want to buy it out, similarly to what happened with WCW. Endeavor will not want to buy it so we can cancel that idea and there is no one who wants to buy it, nor will that idiot sell it. He could get 500 people in there for Dynamite's and Collisions but if he ends up getting 8,000 at a PPV and as long as they get 75,000-100,000 buys, it is considered a success.
But here's the thing. They are going to be going to Max with that new contract and will now have 12 PPV's a year. Is there going to be a deal where you can only watch the PPV's through Max or can you still buy them on the side? Because I can't see the casual (or even hardcore) AEW fan spending 59.99 per month to watch the trash they put out.
Plus, now you are asking Tiny to have to write meaningful storylines every month instead of every 3 months like they do now. Just seems like a recipe for disaster.
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Really it's gonna depend on what WBD wants. If their goal is to just get more Max subscribers they could make it something where your regular monthly sub gets you the PPVs as a throw in, not unlike the WWE Network but obviously Max has a shitload of non-wrestling stuff on it too. Ratings are only one metric, WBD know what AEW's actual viewership numbers are and they might deem it worth the squeeze to just try to get all AEW viewers to fork over the monthly subscription.
If you've gotta get a Max sub AND pay a significant amount extra for a now-increased number of PPVs, yeah that's gonna suck and lead to an obvious drop in buys. At a certain point it becomes too much to justify.
Setting aside platforms and costs or whatever I do actually think TK might benefit from a monthly PPV format if it allows him to maintain a focus on the major programs. In a perfect world the original 4 PPV a year format would be able to stick around but it's clear TK gets stuck in dead periods and only like 4 weeks before a PPV does he really start to go whole ham with build.
AEW does a weird thing where you can pretty much figure out 80% of a PPV card and yet none of the matches get officially announced until a week or 2 before the show. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me.