FanDuel Sports Network Detroit will offer Red Wings, Pistons games a la carte

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  1. >The cost will start at $6.99 per game, starting Dec. 5, with no subscription required; monthly and season subscriptions also will be available.

    Y’arrrrr Matey, sounds a bit pricey.

  6. Dang growing up I could watch every Tigers, Red Wings and Pistons for free without even needing cable on either channel 50 or channel 20 lol.

  9. I started sailing the high seas this year after enduring a full year of the bally sports app last year. The big similarity I’ve noticed is that the reliability/quality is about the same level as the bally sports app. The big difference is that when bally sports app poops the bed I would get so pissed about paying for a complete joke whereas now I just don’t really care because it’s free!

  12. I’ll take the tall price over nothing, although this does nothing to grow the sport. Only diehards are paying for this.

  15. Pirating games is simply less convenient than a streaming app, and it’s free. Kiss my ass, FanDuel.

  16. I am not happy with the current options and offerings; however, it is half the price of going to a movie for 2 1/2 hours of entertainment. And you don’t have to pay arena prices for drinks or parking, so it could be worse, I guess

  18. Wow. Instead of making their product worth a fuck they’re doubling down on more expensive options. Capitalism is so dope

  19. Watching sports has just gotten out of hand at this point. Between things like this from regional networks, blackouts, streaming services wanting X amount of games just so you sign up and hopefully forget about it, it’s just nuts.

  21. is everyone in here seriously this dumb? do you think this offer is for people watching more than 2-3 games a year? they’re putting the option out because there’s a lot of people who will buy a game for a party or something and they might as well grab that money.

  22. If you make an equal bet on each game it’s essentially free since there is no way anyone loses these bets

  23. Is this another option we get to watch games, or is this replacing one of those options to watch?

  26. Why do this when I can pay the monthly subscription for $20 a month for 7 months for a total of $140 and then cancel my subscription until October. Nice try fan duel!

  32. There’s a reason why when cities develop a new transportation system, they often will choose to offer it for free – or close to – to get people on for the experience and see whether they’d pay for more. At what point will any of these companies learn from this kind of successful model?

    There’s no way I could really ever justify paying this much just to watch a single game on tv, but if I were ever going to, I’d absolutely want a test run (probably multiple) to know that this viewing experience is worth that money.

  34. Rare moment where I’m thankful to live out of market with an ESPN+ subscription. This is ridiculous.

  36. If I promise to pay for one of their games will they promise to fire their audio team that they don’t even have?

  38. I have espn+ I’m already pissy about the wings, I can at least watch other games when they’re on national tv for $10 less a month too.

  39. A la carte is a fine thing, but they really need to do things like just the Red Wings for $80 a year or something.

    I don’t watch the Pistons or Tigers really, so I’m throwing money away paying to watch those games, and I’m not paying a premium to NOT use a product.

  40. What are the odds I get a product that is worth the value of what they’re charging? If it’s worth the 7 dollars, maybe I’ll pay. Otherwise, I can understand why people will turn to the free alternatives. Fuckin dopes.

  42. So, does this mean you no longer need to bother with Xfinity, WOW, etc and just stream through your computer or whatever?
    Or is the per game fee on top of paying extra for sports channels on your cable?

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