The Web Site doesn’t make it easy, so I’m doing some research first. But I think I can download the App onto my Firesticks, Phone or computers and watch the YesNetwork including the games. The offer I saw was normally $25 per month but only $19.99 is I sign up by April 30.
Anyone use the Yes App at all and on what devices? Does it work well?
That seems exorbitantly expensive. More expensive than any streaming service I can think of.
Yep, but cheap compared to picking up cable again. The cheapest solution was Directv Stream for about $85 per month.
70 cents a game doesn’t seem like a bad deal. That’s about what I’m paying for MLB TV.
For comparison, google is telling me NFL+ is $4 a month, or $40 for the entire season. From what I gather that’s only to watch live games, but it’s all of them.
If you want to be able to watch all games at any time, plus the 30-minute condensed versions, and the all-22 coach’s cam version, you need NFL+ Premium, which costs $10 a month or $80 for the whole season. With 272 games in a season that comes out to just under 30 cents per game.
Thus far I’m pretty unhappy.
There was billing BS where they signed me up for annual instead of monthly, so I have to straightened this out tomorrow.
I’m watching todays game and it is having major streaming issues despite a Gigabyte connection that handles every other streamer great.
I will probably cancel the entire mess.
Oh, one more hit. The Yes network site doesn’t appear to have a cancel option.
They clearly rolled this out half-assed.
So today everything seems to be straightened out.
Picture is crisp, no glitches, no freezing.
I got it switched from Annual to Monthly billing.
The website is still missing a cancelation option but I was told the chat tool will take care of it.
Maybe they can up their game by September when I’ll be canceling for 5 to 6 months.
NFL+ has blackouts - you can’t use it to watch your local team, and more importantly you can only watch live games on your phone or tablet. NFL Sunday Ticket is the one you’d need to watch live out of market games on your TV, and that’s $300 a year. Now, with the NFL that’s usually not a massive issue if you get decent antenna coverage.
However, YES Network would be to watch your local teams that would normally be blacked out of a nationwide package. This is kind of the reason why these channels are blacked out, because they would make a league wide service exorbitantly expensive.
Yeah I wonder what happened to the NFL game pass, or whatever it was called. A few years ago I wanted to watch Panthers games, and at the time the NFL offered a service that was $10 a month that let you watch every single game, either live or after the game ended. I think it was called game pass, but I also think they discontinued that service.
NFL Game Pass is now NFL+. You never could watch games live on it, except if you lived internationally.
This is from 2018:
You could in October of 2021, because I did:
The timestamp on the post shows 1:15 pm.
EDIT: An actual, honest to god “My post is my cite.”
Perhaps it was something pandemic related or your account thought it was somewhere else, but how do you think they would sell an out of market NFL package for $10 a month when they are charging NFL Sunday Ticket for $300 a year?
From the NFL:
So I am going for some software glitch or something, but you are going to have pay a lot more than $10 a month for out of network NFL games on your TV nowadays.
Like hotcakes!
Also of note, in a previous post in that linked thread I wrote that it was $100 for the season, or $75 during a sale. But I remembered $10 a month. Here’s a post I made a few weeks later:
Also, it wasn’t a matter of the streaming service thinking I was in a different country. It was, however, pandemic times, albeit late in the pandemic. (All the willing/sane people had been vaccinated by the end of 2021.)
My guess is that joking aside, it did sell like hotcakes, to the point that people canceled the DirecTV package, so they ended that streaming service deal. Another hypothesis is that they wait until the season is half over before they offer such deals.
I mean I don’t think they’d radically change the service from 2018 to revert back to what it was 5 years ago. And everything I’ve seen online seems to confirm that NFL Gamepass was the same as NFL+ is now.
For instance:
Maybe you just got lucky? Unless, in spite of your profile picture you actually live in Panthers territory?
Because if that was the case, a $10 a month service which is cheaper than less popular sports like baseball and basketball streaming (which both had blackouts) people wouldn’t be scrambling all over each other to get Sunday Ticket.
And to continue, here is a reddit thread from 2021 (on /r/fantasyfootball ) where they discuss NFL Gamepass doesn’t get every game live:
Well, no, not everything you’ve seen online. You have a first-hand account from a person who watched an out of market live game with NFL game pass and posted about it in real time right here in front of you.
When I google “NFL Game Pass” (no quotes) here’s what comes up:
The first result is a link to NFL Game Pass which is still live. The description text for that link, as seen in the screenshot, says this:
Huh. Every moment live from ALL 272 games. That advertising blurb must be mistaken, just like the location information on my device.
Did you manage to click on that link and then Watch Now?
And if you don’t get an international block notification (the exact language I get is “It seems you are accessing from a territory not covered by NFL Game Pass International”) then you should go tell YouTube to ask for their $2bil a year back for NFL Sunday Ticket.
That’s because the US version was ended, now being absorbed into NFL+. Back during the 2021 season the US version worked the same as the international version.