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If Streamers were smart, they'd lock pricing and change it for new signups.
Their problem is numbers retention. People would hesitate to cancel if their $8 plan would have to be 15/month or more to restart.
Moving everyone up, just pushes people to cancel, and they'll be even more unlikely to come back if prices keep going up
It’s not like they don’t know what they’re doing. They studied all kinds of business strategies diurig their “International business studies” or whatever the fuck they did. The C-suite simply doesn’t care about long term retention, they want their bonuses for this year and the next. They know perfectly well they will be replaced in a few years time anyway, whether it’s because profits are not increasing as much as the shareholders want or whether the profits have gone up because of price raises, but down again because customers left.
But in the second scenario they will get a whole lot more bonuses than in the first. So this is what consumers get: enshittification.
That’s what Dropout does, and while I’m not likely to cancel anyway because I love their content, I’m even less likely knowing if I left and came back not would be on the higher sub price
It's a 2$ increase from 13$ to 15$. I feel like most people don't care and it's more of a boiled frog situation than anything else. I doubt anyone is seriously going to cancel for an extra 2$ unless they were already planning too tbh.
Also, don't most people mentally round that up anyways? $13 was already $15 as far as I was concerned, so, this is just raising it what what I basically thought I was already paying. If they raise it again though, it's going to $20 which is gonna be a tougher pill to swallow.
The problem is that everyone who wants a subscription probably already has one. New customers aren't born fast enough to keep up with line go up.
Most streamers at least have annual subscriptions at a discount. Netflix is month-to-month only, which is just asking for churn.
Damn, I’ll have to keep not subscribing!
I'm not subscribing 20% harder.
I feel 20% less-subscribed (80% of 0 is 0)
same here, im not sure how people find the time really. I'm never subscribed to any of them though. I'm retired so don't really have the time.
I have time, it's just that I can think of much better things to do with it. I spend my free time generally either reading, gaming solo and with my spouse, and exercising. TV is fine occasionally, but it's such a passive activity.
Radarr, sonarr, prowlarr (with flaresolverr) and qbittorrent tied to a gluetun instance. Deploy jellyfin, and these rate increases instantly become irrelevant.
Can you repeat that in non-insider language please?
Sure...
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If buying is not owning, pirating is not stealing.
Flaresolverr was not working all that well for me. I switched to byparr and now I'm using trawl, which seems to fail less.
In related news, piracy of AppleTV exclusives will go up by about 20%...
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Woof. I wasn't aware apple intelligence was that bad.
Sucks. Still my favorite streaming service because of all the high quality science fiction shows and no ad tier.
So far they haven’t cancelled any of the shows I’ve been super excited for either. It’s not like scamazon or netsux where they do a season and it’s awesome but oh, no! It isn’t #1 for a month on launch!… better cancel it.
It’s still just a billionaire owned company though and likely to do what everyone else does eventually. Can’t wait for the next thing to come along and nuke ads again.
streaming was never sustainable venture anyways. 8 episode for shows makes them forgettable.
Yawns in Stremio
I’ll seed another 2 or 3 of their shows permanently now
They are good but there is no easticity for me, the price increasing just makes me unsubscribe
Well one month a year maybe
The irony of the company world-famous for being over-priced having the streaming service which most justifies a price increase.
Who can afford streaming?
me
but I choose not to pay for it anymore because the product is less convenient than alternative methods
It all feels like a way to bleed money from working class to billionaires. Death by a thousand little cuts.
I understand buying HBO for a month or two to watch GOT, or Apple for Ted Lasso. I don’t understand keeping it when it’s not being used. Paying for a maybe. Or 4 maybes. Streaming services often get “used” like a gym membership.
