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Netflix is discontinuing its most popular and convenient plan.
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Revolutionary
Member
They gotta fund more Zack Snyder and Adam Sandler garbage somehow
bitbydeath
Gold Member
Most popular plan?
JimmyRustler
Gold Member
Badlucktroll
Member
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
I've been off Netflix for ages so don't care, but I wonder how much of this is part of the plan.
I assume they think enough people will pay up that it'll make more money than maintaining current pricing. I was listening to a podcast recently and they said there that Netflix have dramatically changed their approach to funding shows. They said that a while back producers could get stuff greenlit very easily, but recently things have changed a lot.
I assume Netflix consider themselves as fully established and are now ready to make some serious money.
I assume they think enough people will pay up that it'll make more money than maintaining current pricing. I was listening to a podcast recently and they said there that Netflix have dramatically changed their approach to funding shows. They said that a while back producers could get stuff greenlit very easily, but recently things have changed a lot.
I assume Netflix consider themselves as fully established and are now ready to make some serious money.
cash_longfellow
Member
Fuck them. I cancelled over a year ago and have had no regrets.
TrebleShot
Member
Stremio + Real Debrid 
Trogdor1123
Member
Dont they usually grandfather people? This seems like a different approach.
Either way, they are really trying to extract more and more from people, and too fast I think
Either way, they are really trying to extract more and more from people, and too fast I think
Cyberpunkd
Member
It was always part of the plan and the very foundation of modern start-up growth: start being subsidized by VC money and capture the market with low prices, then slowly start increasing them to become profitable.
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
I would have said the same, but when I googled it said that Netflix have been profitable for 20+ years, apparently first posting profit in 2003 and since then- but I didn't look into it much.
Doczu
Member
It was always the plan.
I'm down to Disney and Amazon Prime for now, only because D+ still alows to share accounts (and a lot of cartoons for kids) and AP is dirt cheap in Poland.
Fuck subscription services, fuck shittification, fuck streaming.
Cyberpunkd
Member
I am with my cable provider for all cable services for the next 18 months I think, but then we will probably keep one service only.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
lol I knew this was the end game. Same is true for gamepass and every other streaming service.
This is why i never bought into any of this new silicon valley bs. Uber was the same. Cheaper prices at first. No need to tip your fucking cab driver. blah blah blah. Now you get a bad rating if you dont tip and prices are through the roof.
I will gladly pay full price for movies, games, tv shows and music and own it. Thanks but no thanks.
This is why i never bought into any of this new silicon valley bs. Uber was the same. Cheaper prices at first. No need to tip your fucking cab driver. blah blah blah. Now you get a bad rating if you dont tip and prices are through the roof.
I will gladly pay full price for movies, games, tv shows and music and own it. Thanks but no thanks.
FeralEcho
Member
The journey to the inevitable conclusion of any shit corporation:
-Start out cheap and strong with quality and features
-slowly reduce the quality while keeping the cheap price
-increase price while lowering quality
-slowly reduce features while keeping the price
-see that user numbers are somehow increasing despite the asinine decision making
-increase price further to squeeze more out of the already violated consumer base while adding nothing of value to entice new users
-slowly see the user numbers dwindle while doing nothing to adjust the quality,features or pricing
-bankrupcy
-pikachu face of ceo and board of how was it possible things could've gotten that bad
-calling Scooby Doo to solve this fucking mistery!
When greed is your end goal,don't be surprised when the time comes that people wake up and tell you to fuck off! - sincerily - Scooby Doo
-Start out cheap and strong with quality and features
-slowly reduce the quality while keeping the cheap price
-increase price while lowering quality
-slowly reduce features while keeping the price
-see that user numbers are somehow increasing despite the asinine decision making
-increase price further to squeeze more out of the already violated consumer base while adding nothing of value to entice new users
-slowly see the user numbers dwindle while doing nothing to adjust the quality,features or pricing
-bankrupcy
-pikachu face of ceo and board of how was it possible things could've gotten that bad
-calling Scooby Doo to solve this fucking mistery!
When greed is your end goal,don't be surprised when the time comes that people wake up and tell you to fuck off! - sincerily - Scooby Doo
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Bojji
Member
This 100%
I have only Amazon prime (as you said, dirt cheap in Poland) and bought one month od Showtime for Oppenheimer (plus maybe something else), that's it.
Spyxos
Member
Hmm, that's an interesting service. How long have you been using it and have you had any problems?
Trunx81
Member
I just found out a few days ago and it works flawlessly till now. Had a problem in the beginning (ExpressVPN was blocking my login) and the customer service answered pretty quick.
Bought half a year to test it out. Sure, I’m not “alone” because the other 4 people can see what I watched, but I honestly don’t care if they see that we enjoyed Kung Fu Panda and The Crown (kid and wife are the main users).
diffusionx
Gold Member
Me right now:
Daneel Elijah
Gold Member
Never paid for Netflix, and I still am angry about Marco Polo. As for Rome...
I'd also like to point out how insane it is that Stremio has better support for 24Hz and HDR switching compared to Netflix and Disney+.
Spyxos
Member
That is not the same thing. If you use the version with advertising, you have a much smaller library and of course the advertising on top.
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TheAtomicPile
Member
Just want to say I appreciate you guys always posting stuff like this. On more than one occasion, it has been a good reminder for me to go and cancel something.
newtypepilot
Member
Krappadizzle
Member
I don't think streaming services understand that they are 1 inconvenient step away from piracy. Keep raising the price of service, and the price of inconvenience lowers.
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Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
There has been very close to 0 pushback so far.
They'll continue to fuck people over until they find resistance, that's how it works.
Solarstrike
Gold Member
The war against what's left of the middle class continues.
TheGreatMusashi
Member
midnightAI
Member
Sorry, not read into it, but why would it be a much smaller library on the Ad tier?
Edit: I see, a 'small' number are locked out of Ad tier
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Spyxos
Member
Netflix says its ad-supported plan includes “the vast majority” of TV shows and movies available on the standard no-ads tiers — but more than a year after the streamer introduced the cheaper option, several popular titles remain unavailable to customers with the ad plan.
“Thanksgiving” is distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment’s TriStar Pictures — and it appears that the studio’s movie output deal with Netflix excludes titles from ad-based viewing. Other Sony movies unavailable on Netflix’s U.S. ad plan include animated hit “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” “No Hard Feelings,” the R-rated comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence, Tom Hanks-starrer “A Man Called Otto,” John Singleton’s “Boyz N the Hood,” “Gran Turismo,” “Dumb Money,” “Morbius” starring Jared Leto, thriller-comedy “Bullet Train” starring Brad Pitt, “13 Going on 30” starring Jennifer Garner, biopic “Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” “Whiplash” starring Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons, “Equalizer 3” starring Denzel Washington.
Meanwhile, TV series currently unavailable to Netflix’s ad-supported members in the U.S. include AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” “Peaky Blinders” starring Cillian Murphy, “The Tourist” thriller starring Jamie Dornan, DreamWorks Animation shows including “Dinotrux,” “Dragons: Race to the Edge,” “Voltron: Legendary Defender” and “Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh,” and “House of Cards,” the landmark Netflix original series from MRC.
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
I wonder if that's the actual wording - that is to say "no ads in our films" or if Netflix want to offer something that convinces people to pay up, OR if it's that the deal estimates a certain audience size (definitely this is part of it) and Netflix don't want to pay more to provide the films to their free tier too.
If I was a betting man, I think Sony would just let Netflix screen the films to who they like - as long as they are paying an appropriate amount.
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
This was announced in January and essentially is a $6 price hike or you lower the price and get ads.
It’s a pretty big gamble IMO but I’m still subscribing. I watch a lot of Netflix (just binged the shit out of The Last Kingdom and I always seem to be finding random shows I missed.
But with such a large price hike they can lose a ton of subscribers and still end up making more money. Then over time they may end up with people crawling back to the service anyways lol
These services are still cheap for what they offer.
It’s a pretty big gamble IMO but I’m still subscribing. I watch a lot of Netflix (just binged the shit out of The Last Kingdom and I always seem to be finding random shows I missed.
But with such a large price hike they can lose a ton of subscribers and still end up making more money. Then over time they may end up with people crawling back to the service anyways lol
These services are still cheap for what they offer.
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Soltype
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Stremio + Real Debrid
