The NBA League Pass out-of-market over-the-top streaming service has received lots of positive press for innovative purchasing options like single-team and single-game packages, plus partial games and 10-minute game chunks. But all of that only matters if the service works, and lots of people Wednesday complained about League Pass outages and errors for more than an hour. Here are some of those tweets of complaint:
.@nba: Why are the rating down?!
League Pass: pic.twitter.com/CwPvYVbWJF
— daniel (@PNuttBoiii) December 12, 2019
Attention @NBA league pass is too damn expensive to be getting error messages like this get it together man #leaguepass pic.twitter.com/RH96auBbpW
— Chris Culey (@Chris_culey) December 12, 2019
@NBA I’m wasting money every month because of how many issues League pass has. I mean this is happening way too much.
— MIKE (@michaelhaddad02) December 12, 2019
https://twitter.com/GeekedOnSports/status/1204920859401445377
Of all nights for @NBA League Pass to be down. When I wanna watch LeBron on the East coast taking on my @OrlandoMagic. This is why the ratings are down, and you're making it worse.
— Jawn (@Jawn_Emcee) December 12, 2019
We pay $200+ a season for @NBA League Pass and its servers are crashing. WTF. Get your shit together. This is enough for me to cancel my subscription and just illegally stream
— Jawn (@Jawn_Emcee) December 12, 2019
"You need NBA League Pass to watch this. Currently you only have NBA League Pass". Um….k pic.twitter.com/V3hmdpd4D5
— Lisa Burmeister (@jooster13) December 12, 2019
https://twitter.com/Danteri0s/status/1204922624834359296
@NBA I'm not paying 29 bucks a month to not watch the Lakers. Fix league pass streaming please.
— Yukon C (@YKNCornelius) December 12, 2019
@NBA league pass is cancelled after tonight. I’m not about to keep paying for stuff that doesn’t work
— Brandon (@bshan42) December 12, 2019
https://twitter.com/strngr12/status/1204933519509602309
Some users did report being able to watch games (and halftime show content), and the League Pass US support Twitter sent a lot of replies saying they’re working on the issues:
Thank you for your patience. We are currently investigating and will update you ASAP.
— NBA League Pass Support (@NBALPSupport) December 12, 2019
Thank you for your patience. We are currently investigating and will update you ASAP.
— NBA League Pass Support (@NBALPSupport) December 12, 2019
Thank you for the additional information. It seems that certain devices are regaining service sooner than others, and we are looking further into it.
— NBA League Pass Support (@NBALPSupport) December 12, 2019
Issues and outages happen, especially for streaming TV services (but also conventional TV!), so League Pass is far from alone here. But whatever was behind these issues, they certainly were inconvenient for a lot of people hoping to watch games Wednesday.
[Photo via Lisa Burmeister on Twitter]
