Has the WWE Network lowered quality?

[edge4ever]

WWE has never had particularly great booking cross field. Vince works his way, he doesn't care if we don't like it. He books what he likes and that's it.

Not even the heralded attitude era had good booking from top to bottom. A lot of it was mediocre or okay booking brought up by hot crowds.

I don't mean to get into the middle of the discussion, but the attitude area didn't always have great booking, true. It did, however, have way more optimism and gamble booking. It played with tons of ideas and that's part of what made it so great. Vince had no choice back then but to go with what worked.

Now a days, and in the words of cm punk, the WWE will make money in spite of itself. He found a system to keep the cash flow still coming and keep him as #1.... So why stop? I mean unless another competitor comes into play or Vince truly starts to not sell out arenas, the same repitive, not creative booking will happen.

 

[Stopspot]

I don't mean to get into the middle of the discussion, but the attitude area didn't always have great booking, true. It did, however, have way more optimism and gamble booking. It played with tons of ideas and that's part of what made it so great. Vince had no choice back then but to go with what worked.

Now a days, and in the words of cm punk, the WWE will make money in spite of itself. He found a system to keep the cash flow still coming and keep him as #1.... So why stop? I mean unless another competitor comes into play or Vince truly starts to not sell out arenas, the same repitive, not creative booking will happen.

That is all true. Vince was forced into booking more in flow with the crowd back then

 

[Snowman1]

looking back through 2014... the Royal Rumble had Wyatt vs Bryan, Elimination Chamber had the timeless classic between Shield and Wyatts, WM30 had the Bryan matches, EC and Payback had the Shield vs Evolution, we had one of the best MITB Ladder matches with Rollins winning, Usos and Wyatts had a really fun 2/3 fall tag match at Battleground, Summerslam brought us the epic Cena vs Lesnar encounter after the awesome Ambrose vs Rollins match (which was followed by another excellent match at HIAC with a catastrophic finish), Sheamus and Cesaro tore shit up at Night of Champions, people loved the Survivor Series tag, as well as Ziggler vs Luke Harper at TLC.

Every single show had a blowaway match.
Then again after we unanimously despised Survivor Series, it wasn't because of "bad wrestling"... and what matches we didn't like (most were down on Paige vs Charlotte and Breeze vs Ziggler) were more a compliment towards over a year of Takeover specials with highlights including "Great main event! Women's wrestling is awesome! Tyler Breeze!" and reality striking us in the face.

 

[Jacob Fox]

looking back through 2014... the Royal Rumble had Wyatt vs Bryan, Elimination Chamber had the timeless classic between Shield and Wyatts, WM30 had the Bryan matches, EC and Payback had the Shield vs Evolution, we had one of the best MITB Ladder matches with Rollins winning, Usos and Wyatts had a really fun 2/3 fall tag match at Battleground, Summerslam brought us the epic Cena vs Lesnar encounter after the awesome Ambrose vs Rollins match (which was followed by another excellent match at HIAC with a catastrophic finish), Sheamus and Cesaro tore shit up at Night of Champions, people loved the Survivor Series tag, as well as Ziggler vs Luke Harper at TLC.

Every single show had a blowaway match.
Then again after we unanimously despised Survivor Series, it wasn't because of "bad wrestling"... and what matches we didn't like (most were down on Paige vs Charlotte and Breeze vs Ziggler) were more a compliment towards over a year of Takeover specials with highlights including "Great main event! Women's wrestling is awesome! Tyler Breeze!" and reality striking us in the face.

Back in the day too, you would be lucky to get one or two good matches on a PPV card. For example, Wrestlemania 9, the only match that was a good match was Shawn Michaels vs Tatanka. The matches themselves were not as important as the outcomes. I don't really recall it bothering me too much but then again I had WCW which had good matches (except during the Jim Herd years where it was a total shitfest) and Windy City Wrestling (also known as WCW back then).

 

[C.M. Shaddix]

Yeah there hasn't really been that much excitement in the ppvs since the network came around, since they know fans only payed the price of 9.99 for the network they feel like it's just another episode of Raw or Smackdown.