Joan Westenberg
@daojoan.eth
Since 2018, Netflix has raised prices on its most popular plans by around 50%, with the Standard plan increasing from $10.99 to $15.49 per month, and the Premium plan going from $13.99 to $22.99 per month. What the ever living f**k has Netflix done to justify it?
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Chaotic Neutral
@jayce
That one hallway fight scene from Daredevil. That easily bought them a decade of me not complaining.
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šæ
@bias
producing more and more terrible things while simultaneously and prematurely canceling the great things they had once stumbled upon
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Adam
@adam-
They do it because they can, not because it's justified. https://www.popsci.com/diy/save-dvd-blu-ray-discs/
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robeee
@robeee
Tapping into dopamine triggers.
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Thumbs Up
@thumbsup.eth
To be honest, while I think these prices are unreasonable, Netflix is the only streaming service I feel has done anything to deserve any money at all. The rest just buy exclusivity rights to existing content. Even their āoriginal contentā tends to be purchased as is, not cultivated internally. Andā¦
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simon
@sa
Making a nearly unusable interface that auto-previews if you hover for more than .5 seconds can't be cheap!
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Loeber.eth
@johnloeber
1. inflation 2. generally, expense creep for stay-at-home lifestyles. Thanks to COVID, a big population is no longer as active in going outside as before, and that actually frees up a lot of disposable income for spending. Same story for DoorDash.
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The Apollos Concept
@apollosconcept
Especially since every movie I type in they never have it!
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Jawa
@jawa
Overspent on content for the preceding 10 years.
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jox.base
@jox
inventing streaming and surviving the streaming wars (first movers arenāt always market winners), oh and the increase in price quite probably a result of competition
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