- 1 hour
If media companies want a consistent user base, media companies can politically lobby for their users to receive wages high enough to include disposable income. If media companies won’t go to bat for their subscribers, why should their subscribers give them anything more than short shrift? (there’s your phrase for the day)
- anon_8675309@lemmy.worldEnglish1 hour
Because everything they want to watch isn’t on ONE single service so I can’t say I blame them.
Also, streaming companies boast this as a feature, so they can’t really complain.
- FiskFisk33@startrek.websiteEnglish18 minutes
this sends a clear message though. No the old “just hook them, then we have guaranteed income forever” isn’t actually working. That’s great.
- the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish12 minutes
Piracy sends an even clearer message.
“Fuck you, I’m not playing your game”
- Squidious@lemmy.zipEnglish3 hours
DVDs at thrift stores for a buck. My collection is massive and still growing. My Steam backlog will outlive me.
- MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish3 hours
Somehow, nobody takes issue with the cancel and renew instead of purchasing part. So they were successfully indoctrinated into the you will own nothing part, except the and you will be happy didn’t work out.
- wampus@lemmy.caEnglish3 hours
So… they’re taking advantage of one of the selling-features of streaming services, that being the ability to scale your spend pending your own personal preferences. In the early days of streaming services, they had enough content to justify paying a monthly subscription each month – it’s not the customer’s fault that streaming got enshitified. Hell, a bunch of them switching to ‘weekly episodes’ was just a very poorly disguised attempt to drag out how many months they thought their one flagship show could capture audiences. The old practice of dumping a whole season all at once in one month, because you knew you’d have another season of some other good show the next month, is practically gone – with streaming reverting back to the old network practices they’d usurped.
Same with games. Tons of titles are just shitty early access things, things that get abandoned mid-development, things that rely on a live-service platform that companies’ll shut down a month or two later, and so on. And some titles are askin like $80+ for their shitty offerings. Yeah, that’s not the customers fault in the slightest. They’re right to look for discounted offers, what sane person wouldn’t?
- 1 hour
In my experience the only games I get at full price anymore are the ones which are heavily discounted from their original price or were cheap from the beginning. For example something like Rimworld when I first got it.
- Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish4 hours
Also all of that interfaces really suck it’s like they don’t actually want you to use their platforms.
Apple TV is the buggiest piece of crap I’ve ever used, Amazon prime TVs interface is confusing as hell, even Disney can’t pull it off with their categories of Marvel, Star Wars, kids movies, and other, where other contains literally everything else.
There are streaming services that only contain four seasons of a show with 16 seasons, then there is a different streaming services that contain everything but those first four seasons.
Is it any wonder people pirate, they raise the price diminish the catalogue split everything up into 60 different services and all of them have terrible UX. It’s like they don’t even want my money.
- W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish56 minutes
Apple TV is the buggiest piece of crap I’ve ever used…
Wait, the streaming service or the device? Because the device is the best out there. The streaming service? No idea; I use these:
- WindyRebel@lemmy.worldEnglish38 minutes
Works very well on my Roku.
It’s more intuitive than Amazon and D+. Only Netflix is as smooth and useable for me.
🤷♂️
- 3 hours
Meanwhile, the folks over at FMHY had to revise their star system because streaming services have become incredibly competitive and to find more ways to differentiate them all.
3 hoursApple TV+ isn’t too bad IMO… IF you use it on an Apple device, everywhere else it’s shit
Millennial here.
I grew up with sneakernet through irc-napster-kazaa-limewire-directconnect-bittorrent-oneswarm. I gave all that up when netflix and spotify.
Those subscriptions have been ended a couple of years back and the eye patch is back on.
Netflix’ catalogue has just diminished, as everyone who owns rights to the good stuff want to do their own streaming service.
I wasn’t really listening that much ro spotify, but when they started injecting ads into podcasts I bid adieu. (Yes, injected - I’d listen to an English podcast and get very local ads between segments).
- kif@lemmy.nzEnglish4 hours
Injected ads in RSS podcasts are common too - they’ll look at the IP address and serve a location-specific episode.
- 4 hours
I don’t mind injected podcast ads so much, especially for smaller podcasts that need some financial support. What I tend to do is use a VPN, that way the podcast is in my local language, but the ads are in another that I don’t understand. I get my podcast, podcasters get paid, and I avoid tracking and brainwashing. win-win-win
I wouldn’t it mind it if I was on a free tier. I’d think some of my subscription moneys would go to the creators.
Well, spotify. I did a run with spot-dl before ending my subscription.
I self-host with navidrome and stream/sync to my phone with Tempus.
But 97% of my listening nowadays is just streaming HYPR demoscene radio.
- olympicyes@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
Bandcamp or rip CDs at the library. Ytdlp if you want to rip audio from YouTube. Picard to fingerprint and tag the files.
- encelado748@feddit.orgEnglish3 hours
Still paying for Spotify. At least Spotify is not shit from consumer prospective. Stremio/Kodi + a debrid service are better then any subscription and cheaper.
- 6 hours
So you’re saying people without money don’t act like they have disposable income? Fucking science!
I’m not subscribed to any video streaming sites, too pricey for just watching one thing once in a while. As for audio, I have Tidal and so far it has been quite good actually; but if that ever changes I’ll just revert back to physical media/piracy.
Steam sales tend to be pretty good, what’s even better is that keysites tend to drop the price accordingly.
- sturlabragason@lemmy.worldEnglish7 hours
Is this because they don’t know how to torrent? Or did the “you wouldn’t download a car” ads get into the water supply?
- Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish4 hours
Torrenting isn’t difficult but it’s also not very user friendly.
I don’t really know what a magnet link is, I just know it’s what I want. There’s also a bunch of stats and settings in my torrenting app that I don’t understand but apparently it’s ok to just ignore them. I’m fine with that, but that level of confusion is very off-putting to most people.
- 4 hours
torrent is useless, who wants to connect to a million people who are only sharing the arch iso?
- FlexibleToast@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
And I guess you get into torrents because you don’t know what usenet is.
- dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish57 minutes
Typically, people stay on the torrents because they are free, while all usenet costs money. Which is the point. Maybe genz can’t even afford Usenet access.
- lifeinlarkhall@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
Especially video games. Honestly as a casual gamer I get it. Games are expensive and they are a gamble. I’ve bought games in the past and played them for half hour and realized I hate it lol. I rarely buy games now, especially if it’s not a franchise I already know and like, because I can’t afford the gamble. If I do I buy a physical copy so I can sell it on.
At least with streaming services you can check and know there’s a few hours of shows you will definitely watch. It’s still tol expensive and I’m cancelling mine but it is less of a gamble than video games.
- stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish8 hours
Millenial here, I have zero subscriptions, the only thing close to that is that I manually pay for a gift card for Geoguessr once a year.
I do it this way so I don’t forget the cost of the service and should I come onto bad times, it is not something that will automatically renew and keep charging.
I am considering getting a lifetime subscription to Nebula, it is very expensive, but just a single payment that can be budgeted for, and once paid I’ll keep access even through bad times.
Gen Z here, also do not have any subscriptions except for a library card which is only 12 € a year (and also my server and domains and rent and electricity and internet). There are just so many movies and games to be watched and played I don’t see myself running empty anytime soon. Often times I visit there without a specific thing to rent and go out with 5 movies to watch, they actually curate the shelf fairly well and have more interesting/new things out for display. For newer releases I do go to the movies but my library does get a copy once there is a physical copy you just have to wait a bit until its your turn.
Fellow millennial here. I’m in the same boat. Zero subscriptions except for Curiosity Stream, which is like Netflix for educational documentaries, and it’s dirt cheap.
I bought the lifetime subscription to Nebula. It’s been worth it; I have a few channels I follow and I appreciate the extra content and freedom of video producers to say/do whatever they want without platform censorship. YouTube has so many restrictions, no one can post content without bowing to Google censorship.
Parody laws should allow people to actually review or poke fun at other media, but Google will demonetize or block any content that they arbitrarily decide is copyright infringement. Most film review channels I follow have to be extremely creative in how they show clips of movies. Most of them mute music scenes, and some will insert their own public domain (or homemade) music over scenes to avoid a ban. It’s ridiculous how far the MPAA and RIAA have gone in locking down media from public consumption.
- arrow74@lemmy.zipEnglish2 hours
Often your public library will have access to Kanopy is free. Also full of educational documentaries and free.
You do have a limit on number of “items” (a series, a seaon, or a single movie count as an item), but I’ve never reached it
- hOrni@lemmy.worldEnglish7 hours
Also millennial. The only thing I pay for is Tidal. Music streams, at least for now, are operating as they should. You pay one a month, get all the content and no ads. I’m using it everyday and it costs almost nothing.
I wouldn’t be so sure about that lifetime subscription. Companies already started changing the terms of use while subscribed. Sony’s has been removing movies that have been purchased from people’s librarys.
- stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish1 hour
I buy the music I want to have track by track on iTunes, I have 800 songs in my library, my thinking is that if I get on hard times, I will at least be able to keep access to my music without any added cost.
- thejml@sh.itjust.worksEnglish12 minutes
I do this and download it to local storage. It’s all DRM free and I can stream it myself with Jellyfin or throw it on a USB stick to play in my car. Even if Apple goes belly-up or something they can’t revoke that access.
I also have 300+ CDs though.
I wouldn’t be so sure about that lifetime subscription. Companies already started changing the terms of use while subscribed. Sony’s has been removing movies that have been purchased from people’s librarys.
I understand why you’d be worried but comparing a multi-billion multi-national corporation like Sony to Nebula is like comparing CNN or Fox News to 4ZZZ Community Radio, they are worlds apart
The founder and CEO posts on reddit responding to peoples questions
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nebula/comments/1qicazx/comment/o0swr01/
- hOrni@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
At the risk of sounding cynical. I also wouldn’t trust any company to stay fair forever.
- LeTak@feddit.orgEnglish6 hours
Nice, I also tried nebula and considered a one time pay subscription. I tried it once’s, found some cool videos but then I had to focus on other things.
