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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.
Just as doctor who is about to land.
If i had to pay to see it, i would be deeply pissed.
Piracy is the only good way to consume media, man even the customer support is better!
Me who never enjoyed their content. "You guys were paying for Disney+？"
It's families. Dual income with several kids, yeah the fees sting, but when your cashflow is high and your savings nil, $200 a year doesn't sound crazy. It's not smart, and it's not fair, but if you know any parents of young children you can see how they could make that decision.
My partner drives our neighbour's kids around sometimes, so we rack up seats on family streaming accounts that way.
Can confirm. My wife and I pay about half for a shared account so our nieces can watch bluey and whatnot. We, their parents, and their grandma also get the rest of the content as a bonus, and everyone else chips in a little for the price too.
If they started limiting streaming like Netflix is doing, it suddenly wouldn't be worth the cost anymore. But as long as we have 5 adults with jobs splitting the bill, it's really not that bad.
Not sure how you missed out last time they increased the subscription cost. You must have renewed immediately before the increase from $80. That said, I'm out. The Android TV app has been having annoying audio issues and I've already cancelled every other service because of pricing.
I'm on some Disney Plus deal to get 3 months for 99 cents per month. You'd better believe the second the 3 months is up I'm cancelling again. Let's face it, the platform is kind of dogshit and while there is an occasional good show, most of the new content is dreck. A month a year is sufficient to catch up on anything worth watching.
Do you want pirates? This is how you get pirates.
... You fuckin what.
Feels like an egregious misuse of the word "gouging" but I understand the sentiment.
in their defence they got that free 2-day shipping. I never watched Mickey Mouse Club when it was free
Can you hear Capt. Hook calling?
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.