Get ready to pay more for Netflix’s priciest plan.

Get ready to pay more for Netflix’s priciest plan.

Subscribers to Netflix’s Basic and Premium plans will be paying more, with prices rising to $11.99 and $22.99 per month in the US.

  • Cryptic Fawn@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    831·
    1 year ago

    Netflix announced that starting today, users on its $9.99 per month Basic plan will now have to pay $11.99, and those paying $19.99 per month for Premium will have to pay $22.99

    That’s insane. The only way those price hikes could possibly be justified is if the majority of movie/show creators had their catalogues available on Netflix. But they don’t because everyone and their mother wants their own fucking streaming service, ruining streaming for everyone.

    No thanks. I got a library card and access to my entire county’s book/audio-book/movie/show catalogue for free through Libby and Hoopa. As for everything else I can’t find there… Yarr.

  • tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.ukEnglish
    55·
    1 year ago

    “As we deliver more value to our members, we occasionally ask them to pay a bit more,”

    But you’re not doing the first half, so you can’t do the second half…

    • Raiderkev@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      If I was actually paying for half of the streaming services I have, I would cancel them all. They are all shit. Maybe I’d keep Disney+ for my kids, but Netflix is a waste of money nowadays.

  • dinckel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    471·
    1 year ago

    Piracy is always a service issue. It never went away, and it will never go away. Why should I spend the little money I have on a service that repeatedly jacks up prices, while also killing your favorite shows, or losing licences to stream other content?

  • MelodiousFunk@kbin.social
    40·
    1 year ago

    Netflix, what are you trying to do? I can’t cancel my subscription in protest if it’s still cancelled from the last time you did something boneheaded.

      • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
        10·
        1 year ago

        Join, and cancel the next day.

        I have herd you will get the money back and one month free.

        While pretty useless it will show up in the churn metrics.

  • Zarxrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    331·
    1 year ago

    I’ve probably been subscribing to Netflix for a decade now, but this is the largest price increase they have ever done on the basic plan, and this is the first time I have seriously started to consider cancelling.

    I need to go through my list and figure out what I really want to watch, and then just binge it. (I have never binge watched anything, but this is giving me an actual incentive to)

    • LifeInOregon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      I canceled four years(?) ago and haven’t looked back. The quality to crap ratio of their originals was so high and the back catalog was evaporating. Everything I wanted I could get on DVDs at thrift shops and rip to my Plex library or watch on Hulu (which is provided free with my cell plan).

    • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      The monthly savings for other people to switch to your plan just increased!

  • Gaim@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    About to set up a Realdebrid account and get kodi running on my pc, brb