Can't be serious? It's an opinion on a product - I'm happy with it - you don't have to be. I first subscribed in 2018, and since then I can recall one time that the app didn't work at all - turned it off, and ended up watching the race a day later on the same app - and two or three times maybe that it wasn't a perfect stream. I've always used Nvidia Shield to stream, but when traveling, mobile and casting, laptop or other smart TVs - never had an issue accessing the platform no matter where in the world. Slow internet, no problem, can stream low quality. I can watch qualifying and the race live or if timing of the event doesn't work out, I watch spoiler-free afterwards. The live video production is the best of the lot (vs other race series). There are pre-race and post-races press conferences, tech talks by Simon, plenty for me to stay engaged and interested.
I'd take this apart if I didn't have 2 days of work to catch up on: but to be honest I think I realize why the service is as bad as it is; most of the vocal paying demoraphic are too easily content with the status quo--I'm sure they're using these as KPIs to keep things as they are as we speak.
It is my contention that on a larger scope when you take a larger demographics this breaks down: attendees of the races and presumably those who are also tracking their bikes are more concerned with using their discretional funds on making their (ever-shrinking) budgets go further to ride not pay DORNA a track day fee for the basics for races they have to watch a day later or live when it
occasionally works.
This is ultimately an n=1 sample size, and I'm inclined to say it's the outlier, but it is valid. I just don't think it's the norm, I've had DORNA pass since 2015 and kept it mainly through the offseason black Friday specials and I ALWAYS stopped using it after a few weeks and mainly used it for Market research rather than a place to watch the current season of races.
I found it so bad I just gave up and just re-watched from other sources where I could stream direct to my TV: I don't want to watch on my laptop if I can avoid it, and I'm OS agnostic and have all 3 major platforms: Linux, Windows, iOS. And they all had issues when streaming from within a PC or Mobile platform, it either just buffered until it crashed or simply refused to play with chromecast.
With that said, I can't see how things improve this way and ultimately the
you get what you pay for adage is one that doesn't reflect cost, but rather lowered expectations.
All the other major sports managed to solve this years ago and at a much better cost point; one of my colleagues actually made an early competitor to the UFC fight pass, which was focused on overseas MMA franchises that didn't have any Online stremaing and did well for a while as he established partnerships diretly. We spoke a lot over the years about how to improve things with regards to these kind of projects: ultimately these things live and die based on their community.
Eventually, he gave up as it was only able to cover expenses as many franchises folded or they stopped paying him so he moved on to another project which now is profitable and doing well, but the fact remains: MotoGP is like the ultimate moat in the Sports World, and it's a dinosaur in terms what it delivers, they rested on the laurels for too long in terms of innovation.
The ultimate slap in the face is making timing an extra cost, that really makes it clear that they'll monetize anything they can while neglecting it's core function as a LIVE streaming service: you can find replays of the races pretty readily as early as an hour afterward if you know where to look.
), at least not yet. Depending how culpable he was for the hilariously bad CGI dancing devil and DJ celebration last year...
