Quote: MadDogg "I suspect they may announce some type of monthly subscription or yearly season ticket in the new year but what I don't understand is that both Sky Sports and the new streaming service will be showing the games concurrently (outside of the two games that Sky have exclusive access to). Why would anyone use the streaming service if you can pay for Sky and get all SL games included plus all of the other benefits that Sky bring (other sports, TV channels, Netflix, broadband etc).'"
I interpreted it differently, the way i read it is 2 games will be shown live on sky sports exclusively so there will be no way to access these games through the streaming app. The other 4 games will be exclusive to the streaming app, so there will be no way to access these games with a sky sports subscription.
The wording is not very clear though, with the quote “The remaining four matches of each round will be shown live on Sky Sports and Rugby League’s own streaming platform" i think they are trying to say that the streaming app will be run by both Rugby League (the RFL) and Sky. Sky are basically keeping a monopoly on the app, if we for whatever reason have a different broadcasting partner than Sky in the future, the app would become void.
I hope there will be at least some playback feature for the app and you can not only access the games live.