Disney is gouging customers with a near doubling of subscription costs.

Disney is raking its customers over the coals with a 75% price hike for their annual subscription (originally $80.) People wonder why piracy is on the rise.Multiple commenters are saying I’m off base about the 75% price increase. My payment less than a year ago was $79.99. Here’s the proof.

satans_crackpipe,

The amazing thing is anyone ever paid to stream Disney…Disney adults are creepy and the corporation itself appears to be a child grooming & trafficking operation.

nyakojiru,
@nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Streeeeeeeeemioooooooooo + debris

kylian0087,

Jellyfin+Sonarr+Radarr+Prowlarr+qbitt (And working and testing it with I2P)

JustZ,

These streaming companies are dreaming. I hope people will just stop streaming. There will be massive street markets for hard drives and thumb drives loaded with pirated content.

reverendsteveii,

Unsub’d. Fuck that noise, I really only use them for Simpsons reruns between movies I give a shit about. So now I’ll steal the Simpsons and the movies. They overplayed their hand here.

InvaderDJ,

I already cancelled my subscription. I’m going to the subscription hopping plus piracy route now for D+.

DreBeast,

The prices change for the consumers. What never changes is the pay for Disney executives and shareholders. Their pockets of cash always go up and up 📈📈📈

BmeBenji,

The issue with price-hikes for subscriptions to me seems like it was always inevitable, and a no-brainer to solve. Disney, Netflix, and Hulu have no reason to lower their costs as long as people set-and-forget their subscriptions. The obvious solution is to stop subscribing and to buy a single month from a single service when you have a number of shows/movies you want to watch.

Paying $20 once per year to watch all the newest Marvel and Star Wars shows and movies in the span of a month at the cost of avoiding spoilers at release is a solid deal if you ask me. Paying $20 every month because you want to feel like you “own” the library of Disney’s media is a horrible decision.

HamSwagwich,

Do you want pirates? This is how you get pirates.

DigitalFrank,

Double the price and if fewer than half unsubscribe, there is a net gain in revenue.

physicswizard,

And a drop in costs too since their system has to support less users.

Kodemystic,
@Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev avatar

oh no… x’O

rchive,

Just canceling and not watching things is also an option. There’s so much stuff out there to do, you’ll probably never get bored.

loki_d20,

Thanks for the reminder to cancel! Ridiculous price for the amount of content they put out.

cyberpunk007,

Hm. Content on there is so lacking and we already use it so infrequently… If I had to choose between this and Netflix, Netflix stays.

Gruntyfish,
@Gruntyfish@lemmy.world avatar

I’m still incredibly angry at Disney+ for gutting watch together. I have a Plex server that I use quite a bit that I suppose will be getting even more usage now.

matey,

Yeah, what the heck happened to GroupWatch?

Gruntyfish,
@Gruntyfish@lemmy.world avatar

Idk if they ever said why they were doing it, but they canned it about a month ago.

kworpy,

There’s no unjustification for piracy anymore. If you’re gonna charge me this much to use your shitty streaming services that I use once in a blue moon then don’t cry when I instead download an mp4.

daed,

People were complaining about cable costing that much - now a single streaming service does. We have gone from “hmm, maybe it’s easier to just pay Netflix 12 bucks a month” back to “this shit is too expensive, I’m gonna pirate my media”

Entertainment companies just can’t seem to figure out how to deliver content to us in a convenient and affordable way.

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