NFL Game Pass

I don't have gamepass so can't comment specifically but a couple of things from guys moaning on www.nfluk.com about it

1. The Sky games are blacked out on Gamepass for 7 days and they do show some decent games when they can
2. The Playoffs aren't available live on Gamepass in the UK

http://forum.nfluk.com/showthread.php?t=89898

For example, the late game on Sky in Week 1 is bound to be 49ers @ Packers while you will get to choose between Seahawks @ Cardinals or Panthers @ Buccaneers

cheers db

any more opinions?

It's well worth getting IMO, but I would leave it until TV rights get negotiated again (SKY's deal is up), which, if past form is anything to by will be settled right at the last minute...



NFLUK made a right balls of the last negotiation, they'll probably nause it up again, I would not trust Alistair Kirkwood to organize my underpants.

thanks Dirk

sounds like a good idea.

not long now - cannot wait.

As long as you have a reasonable net connection you will be fine, it's a slick product now, in the early days gamepass was often a bit of a disaster esp. in the early weeks. But as I say it's a good investment now.

If I were you, I'd get the full package, not the 'my team' option.

It's nice when SKY have picked another bad game and you can take your pick from the rest of the card. And of course you're gonna get to see your own team most weeks?

Who is your team?

It was Dallas cowboys but I dont really care these days tbh

I just love watching the game for what it is.

not that big a fan of it though ive bought it about 4 years in a row.

theres a delay so betting in running is knackered. last year it fried one of my laptops, actually killed it - a 6 month old £500 laptop at that, cos it takes up stupid amounts of cpu usage. so i stopped using it and used sky player instead.

it is good, but i probably wont buy it this year. also the fact that the sky games are blacked out means you need sky anyway, so once youve got that is there much point really? its not like you can really watch one game on the nfl gamepass and one on sky, cos the scores flash up on sky on the ticker thing before they happen on the gamepass!

to clarify, it was defo the gamepass that killed my laptop. it was the only thing i was using it for at the time. it made the cpu overheat, then the gamepass froze. i tried to close it for about 5 minutes but it wouldnt let me. after that i used it on my higher spec laptop and it kept making that freeze too so i stopped using it and bought a sky player subscription instead. i still used the gamepass for pre-game shows etc, cant remember if they used less resources or not but they played ok. was just the live games that caused the problems. no idea why.

also, the delay...i know theres always internet delays, but i dont mean compared to sky tv. i dont have sky tv. i mean the sky player, or sky go or whatever its called now, the gamepass was a good minute or so behind that.

Hi guys,

I bought this year's gamepass (UK) on the discounted price of £100. The way it works is it has all the preseason games and then the regular season games except the ones shown on Sky (ESPN and channel 5 games I'm not sure) and no redzone.

Having watched it for the preseason games this week I can say the quality is pretty good. I'm not sure how big the delay is compared to live, however, I did find a few links on the usual sites which had feeds of the games (generally from gamepass too). Some of these links are the same quality pic and were actually mildly ahead of my gamepass pics (about 2 seconds).

In general, if you want to have guaranteed access to the games then I would buy it at the discounted price (when it goes back up to £200+ next year I doubt I will get it). Although if you are comfortable with searching around for links (and this includes searching for links during games when they inevitably go down) then I would say don't get it.

Jul 5, 2012 -- 8:58PM, sideshowbob wrote:

to clarify, it was defo the gamepass that killed my laptop. it was the only thing i was using it for at the time. it made the cpu overheat, then the gamepass froze. i tried to close it for about 5 minutes but it wouldnt let me. after that i used it on my higher spec laptop and it kept making that freeze too so i stopped using it and bought a sky player subscription instead. i still used the gamepass for pre-game shows etc, cant remember if they used less resources or not but they played ok. was just the live games that caused the problems. no idea why.also, the delay...i know theres always internet delays, but i dont mean compared to sky tv. i dont have sky tv. i mean the sky player, or sky go or whatever its called now, the gamepass was a good minute or so behind that.

it was crashing when I used gamepass in firefox for me. If I use it in IE then no problems

Can you access it from more than one PC/laptop or are you fixed to a single device?
The condensed 30 mins of highlights of every game sound appealing to me.

it uses a login so you can access it wherever. Haven't tried logging in 2 places at once though.... since I have paid for it and all that :P

still waiting to see what happens with the UK TV rights, whether Sky will get it or not.

But gamepass is appealing at £90 (10% off through quidco) for 4 months.

As a non-Sky subscriber, I get it every year (cost me £165 last year), and worth every penny imho. Never experienced any problems apart from ludicrously blacking out the sky games for the best part of a week. You also receive NFL Network for the duration which is a big bonus. And my laptop is alive and well.

I went ahead and bought it last night.

For £90 effectively through Quidco.

Now that it has Redzone that was all I was really interested in anyway.  It it very impressive though and the quality is excellent.

Shame it doesn't include the playoffs but I feel good not lining Murdochs grubby pockets