Netflix Plans Price Hike After Actors' Strike Is Resolved (Report) | TheWrap
Netflix Plans Price Hike After Actors' Strike Is Resolved (Report) | TheWrap
Streaming competitor Disney+ is looking to boost revenue with live sports tier
Streaming competitor Disney+ is looking to boost revenue with live sports tier
"Netflix plans to go bankrupt by increasing the price on its bunch of garbage that everyone's tired of"
FTFY...
Everybody said that when they cracked down on password sharing.
Overall subscriptions went up.
Primarily in regions where subscription price was lower, though.
Their revenue didn’t really go up much compared to the number of new subscribers they showed off to investors afterwards
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NFLX/netflix/revenue
normies got caught off guard and used their free trial to finish a show they where watching. oh look subs went up.
Except for the live action adaptation of One Piece.
I would cancel in disgust, but I already did that the last time they raised prices.
I regret that I have but one cancel to give.
That Cancel’s so hot right now.
Like Reddit, I ditched Netflix as well. Loyalties' strength isn't what it used to be. Got a VPN, now I watch whatever I want. Thanks greedy companies, for helping me wise up.
Any tips on getting a VPN up for streaming? I ditched Netflix also and would love advice.
I got Mullivad, and just download what I want to watch.
Seconding Mullvad VPN. Barebones in terms of features and GUI, but it's the only VPN I actually trust for privacy. No emails or passwords needed to sign up, and you can pay in Monero
How does a VPN help you steam sans Netflix? You're using other streaming services and get access to more content from other countries?
This is a tactic to make people dislike unions...
Why?
Considering all their reality bs they don't pay anything for writers and not much more for actors.
excellent, means I’m saving even more money by still not subscribing
We always knew they wouldn’t give up their profits, so they’re just passing off the expense to us.
Yar har fiddle dee dee
This isn’t great. With all the cracking down on password sharing, less (quality) content due to every studio wanting their own streaming service the user experience is getting increasingly shitty. I think it’s a matter of time before a lot of people get their old pirate hats out of storage.
I'm already sailing the seas!
In this thread: I hear the theme song to "Pirates of the Caribbean". Weird.
Surely this will be looked back on as a wise and trust building move, by the future CEO and VP of Netflix, alone in their shared studio apartment, that they run the remainder of Netflix out of. Their one remaining employee will know better, but be too polite to say so.
Jokes on them, I canceled last year!
The pirate hat sits well upon my head.
Hopefully people smarten up and cancel this time.
Good luck with that. I have a list of shows I follow, and there used to be some 15 titles from Netflix, now I’m down to 6.
Sex education and cobra Kai finish this year. That’s 4.
Stranger things in
20532025. That’s 3.I’m left with two Korean shows, woo lawyer and squid game, whenever they come, and Wednesday, which I’m a lot less passionate for than many.
If they spent less money on productions and put more of that money into writing maybe they’d produce less shit and they wouldn’t need to hike prices. Frankly, they are quickly becoming the least attractive streaming service. I’d say amazon prime video, but I get that as a bonus with prime.
Isn't that price gouging? Isn't price gouging illegal?
No, price gouging has a specific meaning relating to spikes in demand often in conjunction with a disaster, like doubling gas prices during a hurricane.
But raising prices for a non-essential good will probably never be gouging.
also, peak pricing is generally legal, price gouging isn't illegal everywhere, and the definition is sometimes vague due to, you know, how vague the concept is—the definition usually includes some version of "excessive" or "extreme" pricing.
So like, if you have trouble getting food into your grocery store after a disaster, and you have to charge a little more, you're probably safe—the idea behind price gouging ins more what happens when all the grocery store owners quadrupled their prices as they twist their moustaches and laugh, saying, "what are you going to do, not eat?"
yeah "price gouging" is not the same thing as "increasing prices a lot" or "increasing prices at a time that makes people think, ooh wee, that's not a very nice thing to do."
Price gouging is the practice of increasing the prices of goods, services, or commodities to a level much higher than is considered reasonable or fair. Usually, this event occurs after a demand or supply shock.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_gouging
Price increased. Supply shock due to strikes. Sounds like price gouging to me.
It's not really price gouging. There's no particular supply/demand crisis to take advantage of. There's plenty of supply of streaming. Even free stuff enough for a lifetime, so it's completely voluntary to throw this or that amount at some greedy company testing the price limits.
They will have higher overhead from the writers demands, that cost is usually passed onto consumers
Bullshit. What they have to pay to the writers is minuscule compared to their profits. They're giving up less than 1% of their revenue.