Can't raise the subscription from 0.
I refuse to pay money for this, as the service continues to get worse, but the prices continue getting higher. They can blame it on data and hardware being more expensive, but that's not our problem to solve
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2025
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You have to understand that streaming itself was NEVER going to make a profit.
In all likelihood, Netflix spent more dough on producing their own series (not even movies lmao) than it ever brought in.
This was the expected end game. "Invest upfront money" get your pick of the market, and then you can raise prices.
For people coming from 100-200 usd cable invoices, when Netflix launched, 10 USD a month for a big catalog, that was great! 10 years later the catalog is not that big, and the prices are raising
I think paramount and HBO are the only ones with actual revenue, because they already owned their content, they don't need to make anything new. They are pretty mid tho, not like Netflix or Disney
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