Netflix is “sold” along other services. Here many internet companies bundle netflix in their plans.
They don’t need to be attractive to the consumer. They just need to do a deal behind curtains with other companies and force Netflix on people by other ways. Numbers go up.
My parents are finally getting rid of it. The one thing I’ve noticed, though, is that not having a subscription service means I’m very unlikely to get off my butt and watch tv/movies. Which isn’t a bad thing, I guess I just value other entertainment more?
I’ve wanted to watch the boy and the heron for a while. Maybe I’ll get to it eventually, lol.
I honestly don’t mind the pre-movie ads too much. Usually there’s not that many, it quickly moves on to other movie trailers (which I don’t mind knowing about) and then you just get the full movie without any ads whatsoever. You can always just arrive 10 minutes later and skip most of the ads anyway.
Netflix ads can kiss my ass though. Jellyfin to the rescue!
This is why I keep insisting that Kodi (and other open source “media center” solutions) really only work for people dedicatedly ripping their own large collection of physical content, or for pirates.
I would kill for an all in one, “single pane of glass” way to browse and watch even just only my legally obtained media library (personally ripped discs amd multiple streaming services). But at absolute best I still have content from different sources all squirelled away in their own separate menus, and if I use something like Kodi for the rips I’m stuck at 720p for streaming (assuming the unofficial plugin for Netflix decides to work that day).
And not even proprietary closed source stuff gets it right. With a chromecast dongle (or whatever they’ve relabeled it now) at best I can search for a specific piece of content from the main menu, and then it’s a crapshoot if say, the Amazon Prime content found by the search is included with my sub or a separate cost. It’s a crapshoot if the “link” will just open the associated app or actually take me to the fucking content in the associated app.
I don’t get why these streaming services think people care about the brand at all. The less I have to think about the service itself, the more likely I am to ignore how infrequently I use it. The more I have to deal with friction getting to the content, the more I have time to think about if the subscription is even worth the cost.
I don’t do ads. Seeing them after years of not has a profoundly negative effect on my brain. A slight fog akin to waking up after using Benadryl as a sleep aide, and a hazing of attention capacity.
I’m not going to pay for that impact on
my thinking. It certainly won’t improve the world to have more of it.
God, I have so many of these annoying catchy lines in my head. If I can’t access anything I’ll just use that Goldberg website to get some classics to read.
Back then ads were quite nice tbh, like they’d actually put effort into it to make it catchy and funny or beautiful. And TV was worth watching. Like the discovery channel was amazing.
I remember TV only enshitificated, except in the state sponsored channels, there we had only a single ad-break in the middle of a movie and none in the night
I remember when streaming was super new and the service was AMAZING. As time passed; everything got much more expensive, movies and series were removed and now, even ads are displayed to you even though you pay for their service. The reason for the streaming service was BECAUAE of them having no ads. Now all streaming services has gone to shit :/ giving you 720p upscaled but saying its 1080 HD or 4k. Just lies… Too expensive to pay for 4 or 5 different streaming services to get the movie you want to watch because one service doesn’t have what you want to look at.
Wasn’t $7.99 the price for standard at some point? I mean, it was easy to predict but they really did just add the option with ads to make it as expensive as the version without ads and then make every other option way more expensive
Just FYI, currently in Sweden I pay the equivalent of about $10 for the standard tier without ads.
They only recently increased it to the close to $10. Currently I am OK paying that since my kid is actually using Netflix frequently.
As soon as the price goes higher, or they introduce ads in any way or once they start peddling their shitty mobile games on the child account, we’re out.
They already started to not have non-English audio for a few pretty popular movies, which is a weird move and makes it less usable for us as well.
Already got Jellyfin setup, so no worries for the future on my end.
Fuck them for licencing games behind a monthly subscription. I want to buy Into the Breach, not get a video subscription I won’t use to be able to play it.
I think you’re looking at it the wrong way. It’s just an extra that you have for “free”, not a dedicated gaming subscription. I also live in Europe and my Netflix is cheap, so I will have the subscription by default (cause a lot of people in my family watch it), which means I get to try the games for free. You can always just go buy them if you want, from the store.
Remembering how Subset Games is notoriously anti-mobile I looked into it. Turns out, as usual, they did not intend to release a mobile port, just like with FTL. They have an FTL iPad port, but refused to release an Android port due to piracy concerns, claiming it wasn’t worth the effort to bother with the port. But Netflix approached them and sponsored the mobile ports for Into the Breach. In other words, if not for Netflix, the game would not have been playable on mobile at all. This likely applies to all the other Netflix exclusive games, they don’t buy licenses, they sponsor the ports.
And even if they were just buying licenses and making games available only through Netflix, then go complain to the game devs, not Netflix. Devs are the ones who agreed to it when they were offered money.
Hmm, didn’t know that one was exclusive to Netflix. It’s not a universal thing or a rule, cause San Andreas Definitive Edition, for example, is available for purchase for $20. Probably depends on what the game publisher agreed to.
You can use a controller. I got further in Dead Cells on my phone with the Backbone One than I did on my Steam Deck. Maybe the same would be true with Hades - it’s a shame the Netflix version doesn’t (or didn’t; I haven’t checked in months) support cross-save.
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Yesh numbers can be easily manipulated.
Netflix is “sold” along other services. Here many internet companies bundle netflix in their plans.
They don’t need to be attractive to the consumer. They just need to do a deal behind curtains with other companies and force Netflix on people by other ways. Numbers go up.
My parents are finally getting rid of it. The one thing I’ve noticed, though, is that not having a subscription service means I’m very unlikely to get off my butt and watch tv/movies. Which isn’t a bad thing, I guess I just value other entertainment more?
I’ve wanted to watch the boy and the heron for a while. Maybe I’ll get to it eventually, lol.
I stopped going to the cinema for the ads , I used Netflix until they geoblocked my downloaded content and I couldn’t watch it while traveling.
Now all my movies and series are free, in the resolution that I want, and they stay on my device for how long I want.
My local single-screen theaters usually have little to no pre-roll ads. Some of them even have pizza and beer at a reasonable price.
That said, I watch most movies on my Plex server, from the comfort of my couch. The experience is harrd to beat.
I honestly don’t mind the pre-movie ads too much. Usually there’s not that many, it quickly moves on to other movie trailers (which I don’t mind knowing about) and then you just get the full movie without any ads whatsoever. You can always just arrive 10 minutes later and skip most of the ads anyway.
Netflix ads can kiss my ass though. Jellyfin to the rescue!
I get Netflix for free but literally never use it. I think I’ll cancel it. Why even have it?
Corner the market. Then close in.
Don’t buy into subscription services.
all that to be locked out of anything higher than 720p if you dare use a privacy friendly operating system 😂 right, I’ll be holding onto my money then
Even Asahi Linux literally had to deal with this just to get 1080p:
This is why I keep insisting that Kodi (and other open source “media center” solutions) really only work for people dedicatedly ripping their own large collection of physical content, or for pirates.
I would kill for an all in one, “single pane of glass” way to browse and watch even just only my legally obtained media library (personally ripped discs amd multiple streaming services). But at absolute best I still have content from different sources all squirelled away in their own separate menus, and if I use something like Kodi for the rips I’m stuck at 720p for streaming (assuming the unofficial plugin for Netflix decides to work that day).
And not even proprietary closed source stuff gets it right. With a chromecast dongle (or whatever they’ve relabeled it now) at best I can search for a specific piece of content from the main menu, and then it’s a crapshoot if say, the Amazon Prime content found by the search is included with my sub or a separate cost. It’s a crapshoot if the “link” will just open the associated app or actually take me to the fucking content in the associated app.
I don’t get why these streaming services think people care about the brand at all. The less I have to think about the service itself, the more likely I am to ignore how infrequently I use it. The more I have to deal with friction getting to the content, the more I have time to think about if the subscription is even worth the cost.
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We used to have one, and it was great.
RIP Boxee.
Even using Firefox on Windows 10, 720p! I cancelled a while back and now I just download stuff.
I don’t do ads. Seeing them after years of not has a profoundly negative effect on my brain. A slight fog akin to waking up after using Benadryl as a sleep aide, and a hazing of attention capacity.
I’m not going to pay for that impact on my thinking. It certainly won’t improve the world to have more of it.
God, I have so many of these annoying catchy lines in my head. If I can’t access anything I’ll just use that Goldberg website to get some classics to read.
I had those syndromes too, until I have quit doing it
Stop it, before it is to late! Please, this stuff is poison to your brain! You suffered enough.
Haven’t seen an ad in over a decade, except by accident, which is jolting. The stuff in my head is from the 90s…
I see, the damage is already done 🫣
But it seems like you stopped doing it at about the same time as me 😄 only, that I only experienced few years of 90s 🤔
Back then ads were quite nice tbh, like they’d actually put effort into it to make it catchy and funny or beautiful. And TV was worth watching. Like the discovery channel was amazing.
I remember TV only enshitificated, except in the state sponsored channels, there we had only a single ad-break in the middle of a movie and none in the night
Yea those are still the best. I like watching Arte sometimes or other public channels because there’s no ads.
It’s been a long time, but I remember most of those Goldberg “classics” being pretty short, one-note affairs.
Normal, people show again and again that they dont give a f about the prices, so they go up and ppl still subscribe.
prices will go up until ppl start to cancel
what about stremio+torrentio+RealDebrid?
When you open the app without an account, the animation it shows still says that it doesnt have any ads
I remember when streaming was super new and the service was AMAZING. As time passed; everything got much more expensive, movies and series were removed and now, even ads are displayed to you even though you pay for their service. The reason for the streaming service was BECAUAE of them having no ads. Now all streaming services has gone to shit :/ giving you 720p upscaled but saying its 1080 HD or 4k. Just lies… Too expensive to pay for 4 or 5 different streaming services to get the movie you want to watch because one service doesn’t have what you want to look at.
Wasn’t $7.99 the price for standard at some point? I mean, it was easy to predict but they really did just add the option with ads to make it as expensive as the version without ads and then make every other option way more expensive
$7.99 was the only price at some point. Then they reduced the quality of the service and increased the price.
Streaming only launched at 9.99 iirc
This is incredibly misleading. They lost users in high paying regions and gained in lower paying countries.
Lots of people want their chance at being American™ before the country collapses into a different culture
Just FYI, currently in Sweden I pay the equivalent of about $10 for the standard tier without ads.
They only recently increased it to the close to $10. Currently I am OK paying that since my kid is actually using Netflix frequently.
As soon as the price goes higher, or they introduce ads in any way or once they start peddling their shitty mobile games on the child account, we’re out.
They already started to not have non-English audio for a few pretty popular movies, which is a weird move and makes it less usable for us as well.
Already got Jellyfin setup, so no worries for the future on my end.
mobile games might be the one good thing theyve been doing, pretty sure they released some solid ones, like hades port
Fuck them for licencing games behind a monthly subscription. I want to buy Into the Breach, not get a video subscription I won’t use to be able to play it.
Thats wild , didn’t know that, you cant own hades on ios or play it offline
On android theres prob cracked apks at least
Currently on sale for 8$ https://store.steampowered.com/app/590380/Into_the_Breach/
I have it on PC, but I want to play it on the go. The only way to (legally) get it on mobile is via Netflix. I’d buy it, if I could, it’d be worth it
Steam Deck?
Don’t have one, unfortunately. And I don’t think I’ll get enough use out of one to justify buying it
Yeah I was playing it while I cancelled my sub over the account sharing restriction. The only thing I missed, really.
I think you’re looking at it the wrong way. It’s just an extra that you have for “free”, not a dedicated gaming subscription. I also live in Europe and my Netflix is cheap, so I will have the subscription by default (cause a lot of people in my family watch it), which means I get to try the games for free. You can always just go buy them if you want, from the store.
No, you seeing it wrong.
The subscription is the ONLY way you can get that game, making the whole subscription a necessity if you only want to game that one game.
Like with YouTube, where you have to pay YouTube music as well, even if you have apple music payed by your daddy already
Remembering how Subset Games is notoriously anti-mobile I looked into it. Turns out, as usual, they did not intend to release a mobile port, just like with FTL. They have an FTL iPad port, but refused to release an Android port due to piracy concerns, claiming it wasn’t worth the effort to bother with the port. But Netflix approached them and sponsored the mobile ports for Into the Breach. In other words, if not for Netflix, the game would not have been playable on mobile at all. This likely applies to all the other Netflix exclusive games, they don’t buy licenses, they sponsor the ports.
And even if they were just buying licenses and making games available only through Netflix, then go complain to the game devs, not Netflix. Devs are the ones who agreed to it when they were offered money.
Even greedy Amazon is providing games that don’t require a constant subscription to play even after you cancel Prime.
Never used Prime, so can’t comment.
I cannot. Mobile games are exclusively licensed by Netflix: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netflix.NGP.IntoTheBreach&hl=en-US
On desktop, I’ll of course go for the actual purchase
Hmm, didn’t know that one was exclusive to Netflix. It’s not a universal thing or a rule, cause San Andreas Definitive Edition, for example, is available for purchase for $20. Probably depends on what the game publisher agreed to.
You can play hades on mobile now? It was already tough on PC, I can’t imagine how difficult that would be on mobile touch controls.
You can use a controller. I got further in Dead Cells on my phone with the Backbone One than I did on my Steam Deck. Maybe the same would be true with Hades - it’s a shame the Netflix version doesn’t (or didn’t; I haven’t checked in months) support cross-save.
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Are the gains self reported? They are probably lying then.
They are a public traded company, it is illegal for them to lie about their finances.
“Are these ‘gains’ in the room with us right now?”