TNA/ TNA Fans

[Montana]

Does TNA listen to their fans too much? To quote 2pac, " I dont mean to be sleezy, but tease me, i don't want it if its that easy" I think sometimes TNA tries to please their fans too much, and the timing for everything is off. Look at Bound for Glory, they have clusterfuck going on right now for the championship. It seems whenever TNA fans really start to moan about sometime, TNA blows the load too fast. For example: The AJ Styles face turn. Now i thought they did a GREAT job booking this. My problem is that they didnt save their first, or a big match for Bound for Glory. This is your main fued all year, and they sort of gave it away too early.

Another example comes to mind is the Samoa Joe winning the title about 8 months too late. Again, good storyline, but the timing was off.

I think TNA is trying to please there fans a bit too much, and may be pulling the company in different directions.

I understand you can't piss off your main fans, BUT i think TNA needs to learn the art of the tease, and have better timing.

 

[Beer]

Great thread Montana. I completely agree. I mean come on. AJ Style and Kurt Angle feud. Biggest of the year easily. It was obviously going to go to BFG an now it doesn't even look like it will go that far. They wanted Jarett to show up. They are doing it next week inteadof No Surrender. Oops. Big mistake. You want the biggest TNA Superstar ever to make special appearances on Pay-Per-Views! Not free Shows. It as completely spoiled the novelty value of having somebody like Jarret on the show. But urmmm, yehh. Great thread.

 

[chessarmy]

I guess they could have held off on some things, but it doesn't really bother me that much. Samoa Joe winning the World Title was just in time imo, he was at the peek of his popularity and his match with Kurt Angle was something I've never seen before, it was awesome. Anyway, my point is I get what you're talking about, but we should be happy that TNA is at least trying to please their fans

 

[Montana]

I said Johnny Devine because he is too generic. Same problem with Matt Bentley. No one really cares about those type of guys imo.

 

[Ballin]

I guess they could have held off on some things, but it doesn't really bother me that much. Samoa Joe winning the World Title was just in time imo, he was at the peek of his popularity and his match with Kurt Angle was something I've never seen before, it was awesome. Anyway, my point is I get what you're talking about, but we should be happy that TNA is at least trying to please their fans

I was about to say this almost exact same thing until reading your post chess.

 

[Adampro123]

Great point with TNAs timing beings off. but if the question reall is if they listen to there fans to much then the answer is obviously no. because if that was the case we wouldn't have the prince justice brotherhood. the guns owuld be at least challenging for the tag titles and we wouldn't be having all of these gimmick matches for no reason and the ones with reason wouldn't be so dumb like lethal vs dutts match at hard justice.

but i totally agree. its just like with joe vs angle. it should be a bound for glory match but as soon as kurt came in they jumped to it and then after a while it just gets old.

another example can be them signing mick foley. not really signing him but putting the smiley on there site and having him show up for a house show...hell at least angle and cage were a surprise and booker was sorta one.

 

[Evil Austin]

yea I agree - Also not waiting and wanting to hear the crowds reation to it before the right time would be Mick Foley's recent move over to TNA - Foley is put on their site with a clear spoiler even if people don't want to be spoiled if they go on there - Also TNA is having him this week! like 5 - 8 days after signing him they should bring it slowly .... and they just send him out suddenly like HERE I AM! they serously have no patience with most things.

 

[Wrestling Station]

It shows that TNA are not confident of what they bring up the table. They are afraid that they will lose their ~800 fans if they dont give them what they demand. Poor and vague business tactics imo.

 

[chessarmy]

^ Not listening to your fans is bad business? Its unbelievable that the IWC bitches about TNA not listening to the fans, then when they do people on here STILL have something to complain about

 

[Headfirst For Hardcore]

I agree with this. I don't think it's about pleasing the fans, it's more about them missing the hype. when something's at its peak of popularity, like Joe or 3D winning titles, TNA failed to pull the trigger on doing that. but what's lacking is the surprise factor of title changes too, IMO.