Disney is gouging customers with a near doubling of subscription costs.

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.Multiple commenters are saying I’m off base about the 75% price increase. My payment less than a year ago was $79.99. Here’s the proof.

poopiddy,

use stremio + torrentio

guts,

And Debrid.

Cookiesandcreamclouds,

Guess I got lucky that I get it free with my family phone plan.

Patches,

It ain’t free my dude. You’re paying 100% of it. You just don’t have a choice.

AWittyUsername,

Yeah, imagine how much his plan would cost without this “freebie”

Patches,

Well if they were to remove it now - which they will eventually do. The price sure as shit isn’t going down. Numbers only go up.

Cookiesandcreamclouds,

Yeah, it’s only a matter of time before they pull it. Disney must extract every penny.

Cookiesandcreamclouds,

Okay, fair enough my guy. Makes sense, yeah.

ghostdoggtv,

Mickey Mouserat

RememberTheApollo_,

Good lord.

What was it? ~$50/yr price a couple years ago?

matey,

It launched at 80

arc,

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.

kworpy,

There’s no unjustification for piracy anymore. If you’re gonna charge me this much to use your shitty streaming services that I use once in a blue moon then don’t cry when I instead download an mp4.

daed,

People were complaining about cable costing that much - now a single streaming service does. We have gone from “hmm, maybe it’s easier to just pay Netflix 12 bucks a month” back to “this shit is too expensive, I’m gonna pirate my media”

Entertainment companies just can’t seem to figure out how to deliver content to us in a convenient and affordable way.

Gruntyfish,

I’m still incredibly angry at Disney+ for gutting watch together. I have a Plex server that I use quite a bit that I suppose will be getting even more usage now.

matey,

Yeah, what the heck happened to GroupWatch?

Gruntyfish,

Idk if they ever said why they were doing it, but they canned it about a month ago.

cyberpunk007,

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.

loki_d20,

Thanks for the reminder to cancel! Ridiculous price for the amount of content they put out.

rchive,

Just canceling and not watching things is also an option. There’s so much stuff out there to do, you’ll probably never get bored.

Kodemystic,
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oh no… x’O

DigitalFrank,

Double the price and if fewer than half unsubscribe, there is a net gain in revenue.

physicswizard,

And a drop in costs too since their system has to support less users.

HamSwagwich,

Do you want pirates? This is how you get pirates.

BmeBenji,

The issue with price-hikes for subscriptions to me seems like it was always inevitable, and a no-brainer to solve. Disney, Netflix, and Hulu have no reason to lower their costs as long as people set-and-forget their subscriptions. The obvious solution is to stop subscribing and to buy a single month from a single service when you have a number of shows/movies you want to watch.

Paying $20 once per year to watch all the newest Marvel and Star Wars shows and movies in the span of a month at the cost of avoiding spoilers at release is a solid deal if you ask me. Paying $20 every month because you want to feel like you “own” the library of Disney’s media is a horrible decision.

DreBeast,

The prices change for the consumers. What never changes is the pay for Disney executives and shareholders. Their pockets of cash always go up and up 📈📈📈

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