Netflix Is Doing Great, So It’s Killing Off Its Cheapest Ad-Free Plan for Good::The company made gains in ad-based subscribers, but the $12 Basic subscription is being put out to pasture later in 2024 starting in Canada and the U.K.
You either die a hero, or live long enough to become another shitty cable company.
I ditched Netflix years ago when the content got worse by the week. Good shows were taken off by rights holders so they could put it on other platforms and what remained sucked. Not to mention Netflix’s proclivity for killing its own shows.
It got to a point where all the new stuff were shitty movies and Scandinavian crime dramas. Hard pass.
With the way other streaming services are going, it wouldn’t surprise me if people jumped back to piracy. I honestly don’t mind paying something reasonable, but all these subscriptions and price hikes do add up.
This is more feel than empirical data, but Netflix feels like they’ve gotten markedly better over the last 2-3 months.
I get the subscription as part of a membership on some other things, but would not have paid for the service the way it’s gone over the last ~2 years. That said after seeing the recent improvements, if my access to Netflix was cut off tomorrow, I’d probably shell out for the lowest non-ad tier of service.
However, mad respect for the people out there keeping the P2P/torrenting communities alive.
Edit: spelling errors
What’s worth watching on Netflix? I scan it every now and then and find nothing. I have no idea why I still pay for it. No one in my house watches it either. I should cancel until Stranger Things comes back.
While not the newest content, it recently caused me to find and finally watch the classics Boyz in the Hood and Training Day, and this weekend I intend to watch Vice. It was also because of Netflix that I first found the new Puss in Boots movie, Blue-Eye Samurai, and Delicious in Dungeon (I generally loathe anime so those last two are fairly significant).
I think Inside Job and Narcos are Netflix only content? I thoroghly enjoyed both of those (and totally understand why people hate them for canceling Inside Job). My wife enjoyed/enjoys (she’s doing a full rewatch ATM) of Orange is the New Black. The two of us also just finished binging Kim’s Convenience.
They also just added some other big name content that were (I think?) Exclusive content on other platforms - specifically thinking Dune, Whiplash, and Joker.
Between discovery and availability, Netflix adds value to my life in my opinion.
100% respect for people who disagree and have contrary opinions and/or are outraged at their handling of exclusive content (ngl, I’m not happy with them canceling Inside Job). But it’s good enough for me to keep around - that, and my wife is super NOT technically inclined, and I’ve yet to find a solution outside of a standard streaming deal (read as: anything involving sailing the high seas) that meshes with her willingness to work with it.
Edit: Spelling is hard.
“Pussy in Boots”
Typo or sexy spin-off?
Also Blue-Eye Samurai was super cool and Dreamworks has been killing itwith their movies
Wow, yeah def a typo there. Thanks for catching that for me.
One man’s typo is another man’s opportunity
Rebel moon is 23% on rotten tomato…
Netflix is doing great
uses picture from the worst major studio movie of 2023
I mean, that’s actually an excellent way to prove their point.
No matter how terrible stuff like Rebel Moon may be, Netflix is succeeding by the only metric that matters; subscribers.
People talk about viewer counts a lot in the context of streaming while completely forgetting that, for the most part, they don’t actually matter.
For Netflix, the absolute perfect scenario is a world where everyone is subscribed, and no one actually watches anything.
If their subscriber count is going up then Netflix is succeeding, and they couldn’t give two shits if Rebel Moon is the worst movie ever made.
You’re definitely right, it’s just hilariously short-sighted. Continue to make unwatchable crap and the subscribers will bleed away, guaranteed
Still can’t believe Zach Snyder went from accomplishing the impossible in Watchmen to the absolute garbage that followed.
Netflix does not care about box office, they care about subscribers.
I have also killed off my Netflix subscription for good
What is “Basic”?
I’m in the UK and I’m on the £10.99 “Standard” plan. Is this what they mean, because there isn’t a £15 plan.
I wonder if it’s region specific, I’m on Basic in Canada and it’s $9.99 and I believe limited to 720p. This was my compromise to switch to with my wife to not cancel during the the last price hike, but she’s just agreed we’re done when this plan goes away. We’ve invested in a boat and will sail the high seas even more.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The company also didn’t rule out future price hikes, mentioning “we’ll occasionally ask our members to pay a little extra” for improvements to the streaming service.
Netflix has routinely rolled out price increases over the last few years, but that doesn’t mean it’s experiencing subscription losses.
That includes such titles as the remaster Grand Theft Auto trilogy, which are admittedly the best way you can get the games in a modern format after the whole Definitive Edition fiasco.
Netflix wants to offer even more value with games and live sports, and part of that includes a newly-inked deal with WWE.
And yet, this latest stealth price increase isn’t so much a hard pill to swallow, as much of a chunk of rock that’s getting lodged in my craw.
I will probably keep my Basic subscription going for as long as I can because I still keep finding shows on the service worth watching like the excellent Blue Eye Samurai.
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The third season of Witcher is a marvel, it’s completely incoherent shit cobbled together from scenes they had laying around and every scene with not much happening is drawn out for maximum time.
I couldn’t even finish it
