It's a boiling the frogs thing. Eventually, that $3/mo price will creep up to $7/mo and then $12/mo and then $15/mo
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xyzzy@lemm.ee 9 months ago
This group is the outlier. The reality is most people will either accept ads or pay the $3 extra per month for the content they already had ad-free before.
Because of these price hikes, I’m slowly paring down the streaming services I subscribe to. I get Disney+ and Hulu “free” with my phone plan. I’m only subscribing to Paramount+ for new Star Trek: Lower Decks episodes at this point, and once this season wraps up I’m out for at least a year. Apple TV+ brought me back for the MLS season, but I’ll just cancel again until they bring back Severance or the next season starts.
I used to subscribe to Netflix. I used to subscribe to Max. HBO used to be appointment television for me, but now it’s all superheroes and reality TV.
In earlier times, I subscribed to VRV (Crunchyroll). I subscribed to Hidive. I even subscribed to Seeso.
And in three months when MLS playoffs end I’ll just be down to the two bundled options…
realcaseyrollins 9 months ago
wagoner@infosec.pub 9 months ago
One subscription service at a time is the way I do it also. Once subscriber growth numbers start to stagnate in the future, as is inevitable, I feel a new feature will be signup fees to discourage churn.