This is the problem. People keep buying it.
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NoneYa@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Not surprising when you look at how much they’ve increased their annual park subscription.
And to be honest, I can’t blame them when people keep buying it and they’re still keeping the parks full. I wouldn’t hesitate that they are having a lot of subscribers too and hardly anyone leaves when they increase the price.
Such a shame for the rest of us that don’t want to put up with these price hikes.
JiveTurkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
malloc@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I also suspect there’s a dark pattern where the subscriber just forgets it is on autopay.
I want to hope that the person that posted this screenshot disabled auto renewal.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Its a luxury service in a declining economy, when everything is getting shittier and shittier and people will pay through the nose for relief. Why wouldn’t they charge through the nose?
tal@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I’d also point out that Disney’s parks are on the pricey side. Like, they do provide a lot of nice stuff, but it’s not like they’re the only amusement park operator out there.
googles
A few years back, but I imagine the ratios probably roughly hold.
businessinsider.com/cost-us-theme-parks-ranked-di…
On this list of 45 amusement parks in the US ranked by cost, Disney World is #2, Disney Adventure Park is #3, Disneyland is #4, and Disney’s Animal Kingdom is #5.
jettrscga@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is one of my worries with a growing wealth disparity in the world.
The average person is starting to get priced out of any luxury entertainment because there are wealthy people with unreasonable amounts of money to throw at whatever they feel like.
There will always be rich people who can pay whatever price a company asks for.
CarlosCheddar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We’ll have to wait and see if they get away with it. I may be OK paying more if I already had my mind set on going and didn’t know about the price hike but if the experience is not worth it I won’t visit again.
Went to Epcot in November 2022 and it was the time when I paid the most and the park looked like a husk of its former self. Now I will actively avoid the parks for the foreseeable future.
tal@lemmy.today 2 months ago
And to be honest, I can’t blame them when people keep buying it and they’re still keeping the parks full.
I mean, for the parks, I’d increase the price to what the market could bear at the capacity the parks have, but also build more parks, if there’s that much demand.
googles
Apparently they actually do have a 14 acre expansion happening at Disney World at the moment.
www.cnn.com/2024/04/04/travel/…/index.html
But park visitors can one day expect to see much more beyond that wilderness at the iconic park in Central Florida – something more ambitious than just a ride overhaul or a retheming.
“It’s probably the largest expansion ever at Magic Kingdom,” Michael Hundgen, Walt Disney World site portfolio executive, said Tuesday during a rare media event previewing new Disney attraction designs and technology at its Walt Disney Imagineering facility in California.
He said the expansion will be about the size of Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge, which occupies about 14 acres. A Disney team is currently on research trips and going through concept design for this expansion area.
zelifcam@lemmy.world 2 months ago
NoneYa@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I mean it’s enabling Disney to do it, isn’t it?
It’s a luxury service. It’s not a necessity. If it were a necessity, I wouldn’t blame other customers because everyone needs it. But when you keep giving money to a company who keeps raising the price without doing anything to benefit you, you can’t tell me that’s not enabling these anti-consumerist practices.
Going back to the Disney parks, with the price increases, they have actually taken away benefits like no black out dates, forcing members into reservations, and more. And yet people still pay for this…?
Yeah, it is a shame for the rest of us that don’t put up with this and vote with our wallets because it means nothing.
woop_woop@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s hard to have pity for people who do this, especially if enough people stopped, the service would get cheaper.
zelifcam@lemmy.world 2 months ago
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
What a first world take on this, it’s not a requirement at all. Parent your fucking children. My kids watch D+ maybe once or twice a month, my wife and I honestly watch it more frequently than they do because they have shows we like. We could drop it tomorrow if our budget needed to be trimmed.
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 2 months ago
4 kids. Never paid for cable or Disney or any streaming service.. there are other paths
Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You got libraries where you are?
Mine does online rentals for digital products (movies, TV, audiobooks, ebooks).
Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Sorry you went through this. Feel free to report any agressive comment, hopefully the mods will act upon them.
malloc@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Imagine being so poor you can’t buy the physical media, rip it to your media server, and stream at anytime.
Lol, enjoy your shitty subpar streaming service that serves media at less than 4K while paying increasing monthly costs.