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Well, they have to have some customers or they'll go away. I'm still with them for now, but each rate increase has always brought up questions of cost to value. I'm not against what you're suggesting, but again... these services do have to make money to stay around. My problem is now there's like a dozen different streaming services with content spread across.
In the past I've downgraded my Netflix 'service' as they have raised the rates. Not sure there's much downgrading left before I'm either forced to live with the rate or leave.
Will cross that bridge when I get to it.
At this point I have so much content backed up that I haven’t watched I’m not sure I’ll get through it all before I die. I say let Netflix perish on the pike of their own enshitification (ads and price increases).
I'm okay with them going away. The existence of that one particular company is not a net benefit to society.
I think their implication is that you want them to stay around to keep producing and offering more content, but I'm also pretty okay with that happening. Series produced by streaming services just can't seem to write self-contained seasons without leaving unresolved plot lines as a hook to keep you subscribed, but they're also just ruthless in acing anything once the numbers dip a touch. It's gotten to the point where I see "Netflix original" or whatever as a massive red flag when picking something to watch, as I know there's a high chance I'll never get any resolution to the series.
Beyond that, given the proliferation of streaming services replicating the cable packages this services initially were pitched as letting us do away with them, I say let 'em burn to the ground.
The scenario you described has basically taught me to wait a season or two before I binge-watch anything on Netflix, to make sure a series never ends on a cliffhanger that won't be resolved.
Ya, I'm not rooting for them to stay around either. But the point of my comment is, if you're 'taking' their content (which in this case I mean their self produced content) instead of paying for it and everyone does that, they won't stay around. A great loss? absolutely not, but a loss none less
Not only are there dozens of services they constantly bicker and fight amongst themselves over what service in what country gets what media but all seemingly agree that they will raise prices seemingly on a whim. Like get your hand out of my pockets and stop making me play geopolitics to watch some damn TV