Lagartixa
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The international NFL GamePass, now on DAZN, continues to be a great deal. I can watch any NFL game, whether it's in the preseason, regular season, or postseason (including the Super Bowl) live with commercials or, after a game is over, I can see it three different ways: the entire game broadcast without commercials, a 40-minute condensed version (also without commercials), or a ten-minute highlights video. NFL GamePass has a pretty big library of games from previous seasons.
Because I'm in Brazil, no games have been blacked out in the six years I've had GamePass. It'll be interesting to see if that's the case when there's an NFL game in São Paulo the day after the Thursday-night season opener and two days before the Seahawks' first game this September. My understanding is that there are games blacked out in the U.K., Ireland, and other countries, but I don't know which ones.
I also get access to RedZone and NFL Network.
I have access to all of this on my phone, on our computers, and on our Playstation 4. We connect computers (by HDMI only) to our 50" TV, which we haven't hooked to a network, so it's just a big dumb cheap screen, and the Playstation is always connected (also via HDMI) to the screen. For live games, the quality of the video from NFL GamePass is almost always really great on our TV. In the years I've had NFL GamePass (2018-present), I think there were three times when the streaming was bad for a little while (15-30 minutes) for one specific game but not for others on at the same time, and then everything returned to the normal video quality. And there's never been any problem with the video quality of games that have already been played.
This year, with the price set months ago at R$399.99 and charged to my U.S. credit card at Thursday's exchange rate, the subscription price came out to US$71.32. D00dz, 71 bucks is a great price for what NFL Game Pass gives me. Last year I think it was like $83 or something, and was a great deal at that price.
I'm not sure why the NFL has something this good available for me at this price in Brazil, but for the moment, I'm not complaining. I suspect they have pretty good guesses at their margins as a function of subscription price, based on hosting costs as a function of traffic volume and on models of traffic volume as a function of number of subscribers and number of subscribers as a function of subscription price. I'd be willing to be they're attempting to optimize the price based on one or more criteria, which could be some combination of maximizing margin (or minimizing per-unit loss) and growing their user base. The fact that I'm paying $71 for a year of access to every NFL game live (with one possible exception in early September that I almost certainly wouldn't watch on a Friday night anyway) suggests they're really trying to attract more viewers here.
Seahawks fans outside North America, how much would NFL GamePass cost for you? What games would be blacked out?
Because I'm in Brazil, no games have been blacked out in the six years I've had GamePass. It'll be interesting to see if that's the case when there's an NFL game in São Paulo the day after the Thursday-night season opener and two days before the Seahawks' first game this September. My understanding is that there are games blacked out in the U.K., Ireland, and other countries, but I don't know which ones.
I also get access to RedZone and NFL Network.
I have access to all of this on my phone, on our computers, and on our Playstation 4. We connect computers (by HDMI only) to our 50" TV, which we haven't hooked to a network, so it's just a big dumb cheap screen, and the Playstation is always connected (also via HDMI) to the screen. For live games, the quality of the video from NFL GamePass is almost always really great on our TV. In the years I've had NFL GamePass (2018-present), I think there were three times when the streaming was bad for a little while (15-30 minutes) for one specific game but not for others on at the same time, and then everything returned to the normal video quality. And there's never been any problem with the video quality of games that have already been played.
This year, with the price set months ago at R$399.99 and charged to my U.S. credit card at Thursday's exchange rate, the subscription price came out to US$71.32. D00dz, 71 bucks is a great price for what NFL Game Pass gives me. Last year I think it was like $83 or something, and was a great deal at that price.
I'm not sure why the NFL has something this good available for me at this price in Brazil, but for the moment, I'm not complaining. I suspect they have pretty good guesses at their margins as a function of subscription price, based on hosting costs as a function of traffic volume and on models of traffic volume as a function of number of subscribers and number of subscribers as a function of subscription price. I'd be willing to be they're attempting to optimize the price based on one or more criteria, which could be some combination of maximizing margin (or minimizing per-unit loss) and growing their user base. The fact that I'm paying $71 for a year of access to every NFL game live (with one possible exception in early September that I almost certainly wouldn't watch on a Friday night anyway) suggests they're really trying to attract more viewers here.
Seahawks fans outside North America, how much would NFL GamePass cost for you? What games would be blacked out?
