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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 149 points 6 months ago (10 children)

I think its more reflective that the price of streaming services continues to rise, while the value proposition does not. So why subscribe to all services at one time? You can only watch one at a time.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 47 points 6 months ago (8 children)

(Also, piracy is just so piss-easy for $5/mo)

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 27 points 6 months ago

normies are not redicalized enough but these media parasites working OT on pushing them to sail.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Setup a Digital Ocean droplet in Amsterdam, years ago. LOL, not even sure how to login to it, because I don't have to touch it.

OpenVPN -> connect -> thepiratebay.org -> Tixati -> done

Yeah, I could be more secure, do it better, good enough for me to steal movies and books.

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Exactly. I finally cancelled Netflix a few weeks ago. It's too expensive and there's very little I want to watch on there any more. The shitty way they were trying to push you into more expensive plans was just the shit icing on the turd pie.

I'm now looking at Disney+ and Prime Video because there's hardly anything on those too that I like.

[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I ditched Disney+ when they added 50% onto the price. The exit questionnaire was annoying as it had one answer that lumped in “can’t afford it” with “too expensive” which implies it’s a “me” problem when it was definitely a “them” problem.

I would have ditched Amazon Prime when they added adverts with an optional 50% price hike to remove them but my wife didn’t want to lose the prime delivery.

The intention is that we subscribe to Disney+ for a few months a year and catch up on what we missed.

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[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

and on top of that inflation everywhere else is causing people to have less discretionary funds.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 81 points 6 months ago (1 children)
  1. Streaming time grows steadily for years.
  2. Streaming services insert ads in paid accounts.
  3. Streaming time decreases.
  4. "Streaming Fatigue" - yeah, that's it! Obviously!
[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 32 points 6 months ago

Don't forget the steady fracturing of media licenses across dozens of services, coupled with enhanced enshittification.

Everyone's focusing so much on exclusivity to draw people in while their service quality quickly jumps straight down the nearest manhole.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 73 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It’s just cable with extra steps at this point. More effort, more costly. Not worth it.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

I think it's cable with fewer steps, but of course not as convenient as it used to be.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 61 points 6 months ago (2 children)

things we tried:

  • jacking up prices
  • adding ads to paid services
  • canceling the better shows
  • not adding anything meaningful
  • making specifically terrible shows that are obviously terrible from the get go
  • making the algorithm noticeably worse to cover up for the worse output
  • platforming has-been comedians so they can cry about how they aren't platformed anymore on our platform in a distinctly unfunny and joke-free manner

We're out of ideas... maybe we should utilize AI?

[–] conartistpanda@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

You forgot limiting quality on web browsers

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago

platforming has-been comedians so they can cry about how they aren’t platformed anymore on our platform in a distinctly unfunny and joke-free manner

No no, I'm sure if they get Dave Chapelle to talk about how much he hates transpeople and sees no parallels between the on-going struggles of the African American and literally ANY other Rights Movement, then I'll magically start giving a shit about what's on Netflix!

Tough break big N, maybe I'll check you out when Steel Ball Run finally gets animated.... Or not because I could probably get an uncensored version on a pirate streaming site as long as I use my VPN

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 44 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's not fatigue, it's enshitification. We're not going to continue paying more for less. Bye!

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago
[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Hmm... Yeah this is why they're going after pirate sites because people pushing back.

If green line for streaming does not continue to go up, I expect the propaganda with VPNs will be targeted as "used by criminals" Or "exclusive to CSAM" with talks of senate or house about "banning" or "restricting" them "for the children" in 2025

[–] socsa@piefed.social 15 points 6 months ago

This is more or less implied in project 2025 with all the age verification shit they want to implement at a national level to keep kids from learning that gay people are humans.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago

A depressingly prescient comment

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago

Very simple rule fuckers. Ads and free or paid and no ads.

[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I want to watch Stargate SG1. I hear people say it's on Prime Video, so I subscribe. It's not there. I guess being a filthy European makes me unworthy. So I bite the bullet and get a VPN. Now I'm paying what amounts to twice the price of the usual subscription. I start watching the series and guess what? It's leaving Prime in a few days. Motherf...

[–] GuillaumeGus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 6 months ago

Never better served than with Piracy™!

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 10 points 6 months ago

I recommend grabbing the full collection plus related movies elsewhere.

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[–] doylio@lemmy.ca 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think what would save the streaming industry would be anti-exclusionary legislation. Prevent contracts where shows are exclusively produced for one streaming company. Then streaming platforms compete on cost, curation, and interface, not on exclusive content.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What would be smart is for them to develop a unified platform where they get a percentage of your subscription fee based on the media you watch.

[–] jumjummy@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean, shit on the music industry for all of their crappy practices, but 100% this. I pay for one music streaming service and have access to any music I want without having to think about which record label released which album. Why is it still illegal for studios to own movie theaters, but not streaming platforms?

Decouple the content creators from the content distributors.

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[–] ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Too many services with too low quality content.

Once Upon a Time Netflix premiered a handful of huge shows and movies a season. Then they got addicted to watch metrics and decided everything should be "second screen content" from a firehose.

Now I don't watch any Netflix original until it's concluded or has rave reviews, because it's likely to get canceled in season 1 or just not be worth watching at all. And in the rare case it is great, gets picked up, and have rave reviews, they can still fuck it up like The Witcher.

Every other network is pretty much guilty of this too. I'm so, so over it. They have made me actually long for the option of a singular cable-like license I could get, because they are so shitty at maintaining their services and their catalogs are so poor now.

I just roll my own now and host a Plex server, because fuck em.

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 22 points 6 months ago

I have none of them left. Same reasons as everyone else, the value is not there and it's a subscription that ticks money even when I don't use it.

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

Put ads in a service I pay for?
*****cancelled!****"

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

no they started pirating because of the ridiculous number of ~~screaming~~ streaming services

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I hadn't noticed, but the consolidation has happened. The cycle completes as the phone and cable companies all have streaming bundles now. It's cable TV again in another form. Still horseshit, but that's going to be their collective play I guess

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[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 6 months ago

I could get a seedbox running the ARR suite and Plex for cheaper than 1 subscription service per month

Why the fuck would I pay THEM for their WORSE service?

[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I wonder if 2+ years between seasons is also having an impact.

I pick up new shows way less than I did in the past because of this with the ones I do being more tied to whether it is a miniseries or source material I plan to read after the season ends to finish it out on my own.

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago

Yar harr fiddly dee dee

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 13 points 6 months ago

Why pay for 20 services offering 10 mid quality exclusives when I can pay for a VPN.

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 6 months ago

So many service raised their price and so many people cancelled their subscription in response, in summary: FAFO

[–] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 months ago

Maybe they should try not being shitty and expensive?

[–] Fandangalo@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

We are cancelling some services. The value isn’t there, and we need the money. /shrug

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

No one has mentioned COVID and habits. Sure we aren't in lockdown, but it was literally the only thing to do a few years ago and people likely continued due to it be a comfort.

It has changed how we did things. As well as all the enshitifucation.

[–] CaptainPieces@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 months ago

I honestly don't even care to watch things anymore anyway; This is probably closed minded of me to say but, I feel like I've already watched my favorite movie and my favorite tv show. If new stuff comes out that is good, that's great! but it's never going to be as meaningful to me as the things I watched as I grew up. Hollywood is old news, gaming is where it's at for me now.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Sounds like they need to make it 25% more expensive next year. That will fix it!

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 7 points 6 months ago

I spent $0 and use free streaming instead. Pluto.tv, Tubi, Roku, and YouTube have plenty of shit to watch, not to mention other options. I had been a Netflix and Prime subscriber from the beginning (like, back when Netflix only shipped DVDs) but both companies kept getting shittier and charging more so I ditched them.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If this is true, then somebody is already hurting.

Apparently price hikes did not hurt netflix though, so presumably peasants are cutting other merchants.

A small W but good to see that people denying these parasites profit.

If only more people would be more willing to sail the high seas to deny them all of the profit.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 9 points 6 months ago

it's a service issue and some people still can't turn on a PC much less set up usenet.

There will always be a market for install app and gib card details plz.

[–] spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

I gave up on streaming entirely a few years ago, and now just collect physical media of various formats from Ebay, Yahoo Auctions, Amazon, thrift stores, antique stores, garage sales, and estate sales, etc.

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