Users Once Again Annoyed As Netflix Once Again Raises Prices
It’s fairly obvious that Netflix won the first round of the streaming TV wars. Here’s the thing: as subscriber growth becomes saturated, Netflix has to keep providing Wall Street with those sweet, …
from the pay-more-for-less! dept
They keep raising the prices but what arr you gonna do?
I dropped them almost a year ago and have been buying blu-rays with the money instead. No regrets
cut one layer of the parasitic middlemen out of the loop. 👍
the corporate noose is tightening on everyone; the rope will either fray and snap on drop or simply break our necks. I am sickened by the short-term likely outcome, because so few people are pulling out the knives and cutting at their tethers.
cut one layer of the parasitic middlemen out of the loop. 👍
Amen!
As someone nostalgic for DVD extras I might start doing that.
I found an audio track on an… acquired copy of Star Trek: TMP with the Okudas and it got me to watch the whole thing twice in a row.
The sad reality is that the quality of modern BluRay releases has significantly declined. Sure the picture looks great, but they barely come with special features anymore. Also, the QA is atrocious. I buy a lot of UHD BluRays and ~30% of them come corrupted/damaged out of the box.
I really want physical media to become popular again so companies start actually putting in effort.
EDIT: I still love physical media. It’s pretty much the only way to own a copy of media anymore. I just wish it was as beloved as the DVD days.
If anyone knows of a player I can vertically mount to the wall let me know and I'll buy it today. I see that kind of thing for CDs. It's still just a spinning disc!
Users annoyed; do nothing.
Netflix users that subscribe year-round at this point either have lots of extra income, or very little going on upstairs.
The users do something, they keep paying more.
Frogs boiling.
They do it because they can. They are squeezing every last drop out of their customers. Clueless people with roo much money won't cancel. People who want to keep the product but are feeling the squeeze will go ad supported.
The rest were probably going to leave at any price as there is a lot more competition now and Netflix has adapted very poorly.
People either hop between services or go sailing wearing an eye patch or increasingly just so something else.
I think a lot of viewing time has been lost to social media, gaming and other alternatives. Don't know if most people these days have the attention span for day long binges with their phones going off every few minutes and the FOMO. I can handle sitting in a room watching a movie with someone with them looking at their phone for half of it
Me and my homies sail the high seas 🦜☠️⛵ 🌊
I pirate literally everything.
I used yt-dlp and downloaded a shitload of old commercials once and I stick then in a random playlist to get the full TV effect. Never know what'll be on.
From the bottom of my heart, to everyone involved in the production of any kind of media: I hope you fall face into a fifty deep wishing well full of human shit and erect dicks.
I don't think the creatives who actually produce the media are the problem here... Without them you'd have nothing to watch. The problem are the suits.
I honestly don't understand the visceral anger aimed at any business with a non-essential product offering.
It's as if the individual complaining should be diagnosed with a variant of consumerism.
If you don't like the pricing of a non-essential product, don't buy it. But if you still desire said product to such an extreme that you pirate it, recognize your shortcomings.
This discussion would be wholly different if we were discussing healthcare, food, or any other necessity.
So, if you're having an emotional reaction to a Netflix price increase, maybe you should get outside and touch some grass?
TLDR: To make a long story short, Netflix used to be the crown jewel that had everything. Now they arguably have a much worse catalog, for a higher price, on a platform you can't have your family members share because they live in another household.
I definitely see your point but I can also sympathize with the other point. The way I see it, the market is saturated with streaming services that all get, I assume, licenses to show different shows/movies.
Because of this, consumers are spreading their spending between platforms to potentially watch only specific shows. I would guess that most people really only have a few movies/shows they actually want to watch. The rest being filler.
As an example, maybe people bought paramount+ for Yellowstone. Sure maybe SpongeBob or others that they have, but compared to their entire offering, that's only a few. Maybe that 10-15 dollars a month makes it worth it but when you keep raising it and offer worse items or cancel actually good shows while keeping alive shitty ones because they're trending (subjective, I know) then that's where the anger can stem from I think.
Does life really have to get ever shittier, just because a few people need more money?
Sure, everyone can live without Netflix. But some entertainment is good, not just individually, but also socially. Lots of public entertainment has died down during the pandemic. Now entertainment is getting more expensive while people already have too little money because everything else got too expensive.
Where does this end? When everyone can barely afford rent & food, and nothing else? After all, nothing else is essential, right?
I'd pirate meds if I needed them and had to deal with American pricing
I'm keeping space available for the day I can download a car
Yeah I really don’t know what a fair price for streaming is. They can charge what they want and I’ll pay if I think it’s worth it.
My current pattern is to keep one or two streaming services at a time and when I run out of shows I drop one and add a different one.
People are disappointed though that the service used to be a much better value. It’s like most things that start out good and become “enshittified” as the service provider tries to extract more and more profit.
I think all the people flooding this thread with piracy advocacy are having a much more emotional reaction than any actual Netflix subscribers.
As long as they're paying, they're not annoyed enough. 🕳
Netflix did also recently remove pro palestine documentaries so one more reason to let them go
Yo ho
I replaced netflix with Stremio + torrentio + realdebrid and couldn't be happier. 90% stuff on netflix is crap anyways
RealDebrid is going to shut down their API, FYI. I'd check out TorBox.
I's a great way to download Linux ISOs.
Netflix has stopped being a product I am interested in a long time ago.
When they started out, they had a lot of stuff. These days, you'll have to subscribe to 5 or 6 services to watch a lot. And every service makes their own shitty shows to attract more customers. And 99% of them suck, with the occasional succes.
Right now, Netflix is too expensive for what they offer. But clearly they think they can get away with raising proces, so I guess most people think it is worth it or simply don't care.
I'm not annoyed in the slightest by this. That said I'm also not a user
... and that said, I cancelled years ago after their 3rd price hike in 18 months (in Canada). been sailing the high seas ever since and feel absolutely no guilt whatsoever. I remember their excuse was always something like, "In order to continue to bring you top-shelf content, we must also continue to raise your monthly fee, while at the same time our original content becomes increasingly shitty and we systematically remove quality content from our library, leaving you with horrible Netfux originals as your only option"
Yeah, but the Rogers is trully jolly .
Well they need to I’m sure because they must be about to give their employees raises. Right?
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Buy 👏Physical 👏Media 👏
To be fair, physical media far out costs streaming services if you only ever watch it once.
Download, me hardies yo ho!!!
Seems like the air smells quite... nautical.
Can't raise the subscription from 0.
I refuse to pay money for this, as the service continues to get worse, but the prices continue getting higher. They can blame it on data and hardware being more expensive, but that's not our problem to solve
Deny the parasite profit!
!business@lemmy.world exists
You have to understand that streaming itself was NEVER going to make a profit.
In all likelihood, Netflix spent more dough on producing their own series (not even movies lmao) than it ever brought in.
This was the expected end game. "Invest upfront money" get your pick of the market, and then you can raise prices.
For people coming from 100-200 usd cable invoices, when Netflix launched, 10 USD a month for a big catalog, that was great! 10 years later the catalog is not that big, and the prices are raising
I think paramount and HBO are the only ones with actual revenue, because they already owned their content, they don't need to make anything new. They are pretty mid tho, not like Netflix or Disney
To that end, Netflix reported $10.2 billion in revenue, operating income of $2.3 billion, and a margin of 22.2 percent.
They are still in debt but they are making money.
Well I guess they are making a revenue now, all according to keikaku
TN: keikaku means plan
Well congrats to them I guess. The industry coordinated to recreate cable and its reviving the piracy that affordable streaming cut way down on back in the day.
Paramount also owns Pluto TV which is completely free and I love them for that.
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