ESPN Gameplan

daystar437 said:

I have ordered ESPN gameplan for the past two years. I am displeased that most games are put on other channels which I pay for on the Gameplan. Second the quality of video is awful and hard to watch. This service needs to be improved or the price reduced. I got this plan last year and I saw games that others could not see.

I have told customer support about my concerns but they do not care.

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is what it is. personally, i am not going to be re-up'ing next year. i have been a subscriber since the package was created, but i just don't see the value in it anymore. with all the various channels playing college games, i end up paying $100+ for the one or two games i watch.

i am not against the cost of the product, i just don't see the value in it anymore. now if they added additional conferences to the package and had all games on HD, i might consider it. but beyond the ABC games, i just don't see how HD can happen for all the games.

everything has its day, and i think the time for this package has come and gone.

daystar437 said:

I have ordered ESPN gameplan for the past two years. I am displeased that most games are put on other channels which I pay for on the Gameplan. Second the quality of video is awful and hard to watch. This service needs to be improved or the price reduced. I got this plan last year and I saw games that others could not see.

I have told customer support about my concerns but they do not care.

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I too will be canceling Gameplan after this season. I never watch any of the games since the picture quality is horrible, no hd and so many other choices.

Did not renew mine this year either.

The fact they had games they could have had on and didn't add them, plus lack of hd are probably why I won't renew either. Besides I get the games through espn360 anyway now, so If tney have something of interest that I don't get otherwise I can get it that way anyway.

mshaw2715 said:

The fact they had games they could have had on and didn't add them, plus lack of hd are probably why I won't renew either. Besides I get the games through espn360 anyway now, so If tney have something of interest that I don't get otherwise I can get it that way anyway.

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ESPN provides the games. D* has NOTHING to do with it.

Correct, espn and how they handle it is the reason I would drop it, not Directv. My not being pleased with the package has nothing directly to do with directv. It has to do with the price espn is setting for the package and what they are offering in the package to directv. Directv is just delivering what it receives.

Satelliteracer said:

ESPN provides the games. D* has NOTHING to do with it.

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I cancelled my ESPN Gameplan Subscription 2 years ago. It's not worth it because there are no HD Games. I Like College Football and ESPN, CBS, NBC, and ABC have all the college football i need on Saturdays. The Only reason someone would need ESPN Gameplan is if they follow a certain college football team regularly and want to ensure they see that teams game when they are on ESPN Gameplan. ESPN and ABC though have more of the Big Games already televised.

Msguy said:

I cancelled my ESPN Gameplan Subscription 2 years ago. It's not worth it because there are no HD Games. I Like College Football and ESPN, CBS, NBC, and ABC have all the college football i need on Saturdays. The Only reason someone would need ESPN Gameplan is if they follow a certain college football team regularly and want to ensure they see that teams game when they are on ESPN Gameplan. ESPN and ABC though have more of the Big Games already televised.

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This is exactly why I buy one weekend at a time. I follow the USC Trojans from the east coast. Many of the USC games are ABC games or otherwise nationally televised so I don't have to buy them. This week and last week, the only way to get the USC games was to pay the $21.95. This gets me the game I want plus whatever else might be interesting in the package. If I do this less than 6 times a season, I come out ahead. Sure, HD would be nice, but this is way better than listening to the XM satellite radio broadcast or on the internet.

I'll tell you the better value is buying sportspack ...the cost of Gameplan pays for most fo the year of sports pack and most times you can watch an upconverted feed of the game you want to see and that really seems to help a little too...

GlennDio said:

I'll tell you the better value is buying sportspack ...the cost of Gameplan pays for most fo the year of sports pack and most times you can watch an upconverted feed of the game you want to see and that really seems to help a little too...

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Ding ding! We have a winner!

Many times you can get the game in HD as well with that....

Or at the very least on a channel that doesn't look like warm glass on a cold day

I'm a college football addict and I agree with daystar437 for the most part. What pisses me off more this year is the fact that the HD games on Raycom are not available.

forkball316 said:

I too will be canceling Gameplan after this season. I never watch any of the games since the picture quality is horrible, no hd and so many other choices.

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I can see it now. Next year they will have Gameplan in HD. Only you will have to subscribe to "Gameday Superfan" and pay an extra $99\year to see the games in a watchable format.

GlennDio said:

I'll tell you the better value is buying sportspack ...the cost of Gameplan pays for most fo the year of sports pack and most times you can watch an upconverted feed of the game you want to see and that really seems to help a little too...

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I have the sportspack and it is a good value that includes HD. However, the ABC/ESPN games are not shown there so Gameplan is still the only way to see them,:lol: crappy signal and all.

mikeinthekeys said:

I have the sportspack and it is a good value that includes HD. However, the ABC/ESPN games are not shown there so Gameplan is still the only way to see them,:lol: crappy signal and all.

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my internet provider (Verizon Fios) offers ESPN 360 so if I really want to watch I run my laptop into the bigscreen

I don;t think ESPN really cares about GamePlan any more. If you notice, their bottom line always shows the game being available on ESPN360, never GamePlan.

GlennDio said:

I'll tell you the better value is buying sportspack ...the cost of Gameplan pays for most fo the year of sports pack and most times you can watch an upconverted feed of the game you want to see and that really seems to help a little too...

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Hmmm. I'm about fed up with GamePlan myself. (Trend: pay more but get less.)
With Sportspack, do any games get blacked out based on where you are?

russdog said:

Hmmm. I'm about fed up with GamePlan myself. (Trend: pay more but get less.)
With Sportspack, do any games get blacked out based on where you are?

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I think all season long the only game I had blacked out that I noticed was Maryland vs (I forget but it was the minor conference school that beat them) ..other than that no blackouts I noticed and I flip around alot during saturday's I am watching ....

I fully expect that within the next couple of years that both Game Plan and Full Court will fade in to obscurity. I had both for many years but canceled last year when the Big 10 Network started up since I am primarily a Big 10 fan. Now with CBS College Sports, all the ESPN's, Fox Networks and networks such as the Big 10, Mountain and others that are probably in the planning stages, there just isn't the need for Game Plan and Full Court like there was. They could probably make more money by hooking up with schools like USC, Texas and the Florida schools to have a season package for those schools and make sure they are in HD.

I agree. Since the Big 10 Network came around, I no longer need to order Gameplan or Full Court. That saves me over $250 a year. And all of the games on the Big 10 Network are HD.

It really seemed like the bulk of Gameplan was Big 10 games and now that they have their own network, Gameplan's number of games have went way down.