Well, my expectations certainly aren't too high but the answer to this question general depends on the individual and/or individual circumstances. For the most part, the build up the event plays a big part in rather the blame is on the viewer or the company when it pertains to failed expectations. Granted, the actual card to a PPV matters too but the whole point of a build is to build ld.up your expectations for the PPV, hopefully to the point of you relieving money on the show and in the shows quality should be somewhat representative to the quality of the build. Essentially, if your expectations for an event were instilled by the shows leading up to it then it's on the company for failing to meet whatever quality they were leading up to. Of course, some people are just going to get higher expectations than others for several factors which makes it a bit messier to decipher who's at fault but regardless, none of this relates to me anymore as I just watch the PPVs and since it would be asinine for me to try to speak for anyone else in this situation, I'll just focus on me from this point forward.
Like I said at the beginning, my expectations aren't too high in wrestling. In fact, they're very, very small. At several points during my occupation as WWE fan, my expectations were probably too high for what the product really was. Certainly was when I first joined this site and littered it with my ideas for booking WWE and tried clinging to any hope that CM Punk wasn't going to lose to The Rock like I initially thought he would the second the match was announced. It's no secret I was never a fan of that route and while I still believe the direction I was hoping for was the better direction to go, in all ways except short-term gain, it doesn't change the fact that it would've be a much more riskier endeavour that WWE clearly weren't willing to make (nor was there enough provocation for them too) and that any hope I kept was just going to lead to further disillusionment from a passion I once held dearer to me than any other. Pretty much everything about WrestleMania XXIX and it's build were the proverbial straw that broke this camel's back (though Eve Torres's departure was major too honestly) and why I'm not likely to watch a full WWE show again after I fulfill my self-made promise on here to review ever WWE PPV of 2013 (potentially excluding WrestleMania XXX, I may watch that fully depending on what card they shape up for, Wrestlemania XXX is a better swan song than TLC). But my disappointment was a slow burn leading up to the Road to WrestleMania so by show-time I wasn't disappointed by the poor show as I've been expecting it for months at that point.
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