They’re losing subscribers and money so I guess it’s not surprising. I’m down to zero streaming services after cutting back this year. The last couple subscriptions I’ve gotten I immediately cancelled and binge watched for the month my subscription lasted. There was no need to extend the subscription after that. Most services you can exhaust the content in a month or two of heavy use.

[–] Neuromante@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't get why the "not surprising" way to react when you are losing subscribers is rising prices so more subscribers gtfo.

Come on, you are FUCKING DISNEY. Get everything up to 50's/60's for free and make some plan to have limited free streaming of this or that movie (call it "disney watching parties" or something like that, make it be available during a same slot of time, put some hashtags and let people give you free publicity) so you can attract customers.

Then offer everything else you got for money and you are set. For life. You are Disney, for fuck's sake.

[–] coyootje@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Disney doesn't really have any enticing new content anymore nowadays. They mostly ruined Marvel and Star Wars and their remakes are generally not worth watching because the originals are better. In some cases they even alter the original story so much that it's barely even the same story anymore. The only worthwhile stuff on there is the Pixar movies and even they are struggling a bit recently with Elemental being a flop.

I'm currently sharing a Disney+ sub with my family and I'm going to try to get them to agree to cancel our subscription. I wanted to do the same with Netflix but I sadly couldn't get them to agree to it but with the lack of content on D+ I might be able to convince them this time.

[–] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I was sharing Netflix with a friend. When they moved forward with price increases, pushed to stop password sharing, and were found to be looking at introducing ads, I told him I'm not helping pay anymore and it's up to him whether he wants to cancel. Idk or care whether he stuck around and decided it's worth paying more than double what he had been paying. But withholding your share of the cost might convince your family. If it's your account being shared, just cancel it and tell them to launch their own account.

[–] unwinagainstable@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Making changes isn’t surprising since the current pricing is losing money.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Big number must go up! Even if attempts to make it go up only work on the short term and then later destroy your business! Makes lots of sense doesn't it?!

Capitalism is so broken

[–] AlDente@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I'd say it's working as intended. Let them drive themselves into the ground.