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One of my favorite past times is reading people freaking out about the rising costs, while I sit completely unaffected thanks to the high seas.
When all the big cable players started making their own streaming services, most of us knew they weren’t going to let their gravy train go. We know they want us to use the ad-tiers because Iger flat out said so because it makes them more money, and I’m still expecting contracts to be their next big idea, sign up for 2 years, get 1-year half-price. Meet new cable, same as the old cable. It’s following a similar playbook too with no ads to some ads and ever-increasing prices.
Yeah to me the obvious end days was when the “half priced but with ads” plans came out. It’s going the route of cable. the patern is so predictable.
Year 1: Ad free - 5-10,
Year 2: Ad free 10-15
Year 3: ad free 10-15, low price ad tier 5-10
Year 4: ad free 20-30, ad tier 10-15
Year 5: ad tier 25-30, ad free 75
Year 6: Due to low demand, ad free tier is removed. ad tier 40-50.
That’s of course counting the shitification of their being 20 services, which are equally sharing shows of every genre so that no matter what type of shows you like, you’ll need to use 3-4 services to get the main shows you want.
This. I was fine with streaming when it started. It’s literally what most people were asking for - a la carte pricing for specific channels you want, rather than having to pay a bloated fee for a bundle that you want less than a tenth of.
I’ve enjoyed streaming over the last few years.
But over the pandemic and now beyond, they’ve decided to start conglomerating, bundling up a bunch of content I don’t want, and charging me extra for the privilege. Which was the complaint about cable.
Streaming will become like tv eventually, if it isn’t already: only old and/or simple people are interested in it. Almost all people I know don’t watch tv anymore. And let’s be honest: 99.99% of the streaming crap is the same boring assembly line writing that didn’t work in the 90s and doesn’t work now. And to search for the 0.01% - nah, I’ll rather be in my workshop.
Aside from the fact that your favorite shows/movies get deleted whenever licenses expire, or at the whim of Netflix’s profitability algorithm, for a hot minute, streaming was everything people wanted back in the 90s. No commercials, a total MSF of about half of what you might have spent on cable if you have every major streaming service, and a trove of shows and movies to watch. Now, they’re about to raise prices and shit out a bunch of bland mid content for dumb dumbs to watch. Forget the era of cheap streaming, I fear this is the beginning of the era of no more quality TV and movies.
Nothing a month is still affordable and always has been.
That’s the deal for this kind of corporations, they make it cheap until you’re addicted than they try to steal your money “legally”…
Sometimes that’s a tactic, sometimes it’s wild optimism, and sometimes they seem content to make a loss every year and prop it up with investment.
I don’t know about stealing, they stopped taking money when I unsubbed, now I’m watching shit that somebody else paid to make, while not giving them a penny back!
I was worried for some time that piracy would wither in face of cheap streaming options. Luckily I was wrong, or at least the streaming companies didn’t have the stamina to win this war. Arr! 🏴☠️
I never stopped torenting what I wanted to watch, so doesn’t effect me at all.
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I also don’t have to switch between 10 different apps to watch different shows/movies.
I paid for annual subscriptions for a couple streaming services, and get some when I buy other things from companies, but I still pirate the shows on those services and put them in Plex because everything is in one place
