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Greed1914
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 Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2024 11:33 am
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So, are we officially past the point where companies have given up on trying to entice new subscribers and just focus on ways to squeeze the ones they have? "It's just a dollar" adds up pretty fast when everyone does it.
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Kiwi93
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2024 11:41 am
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Everything is going up but wages smh, anyway at this point I’ve been priced out of so many services it’s whatever.
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Beatdigga
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2024 11:46 am
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| Greed1914 wrote: | | So, are we officially past the point where companies have given up on trying to entice new subscribers and just focus on ways to squeeze the ones they have? "It's just a dollar" adds up pretty fast when everyone does it. |
Yeah, and concerning a company that for all intents and purposes might as well be on fire. Every wishlist for a buyout of Paramount (which the Redstone family refuses to do because of a rose-colored view of the studio) involves Paramount Plus getting mothballed.
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BadNewsBlues
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2024 11:57 am
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Yeah, and concerning a company that for all intents and purposes might as well be on fire. Every wishlist for a buyout of Paramount (which the Redstone family refuses to do because of a rose-colored view of the studio) involves Paramount Plus getting mothballed. |
Hell of a Morton’s fork they’ve found themselves with.
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malvarez1
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2024 12:21 pm
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I’ve never signed up for Paramount+, and I’m glad for that.
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Jabootu
Joined: 17 Jan 2024
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2024 1:05 pm
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For some reason the article title was truncated.
Paramount+ Increases Subscriber Prices on August 20. Dozens effected.
There you go.
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YackDe
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2024 1:17 pm
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| Greed1914 wrote: | | So, are we officially past the point where companies have given up on trying to entice new subscribers and just focus on ways to squeeze the ones they have? "It's just a dollar" adds up pretty fast when everyone does it. |
You see, corporate executives are incredibly stupid. They see drops in subscriber counts and think to themselves "well we need to bump up the price to keep making what we're making now", not realizing that bumping up the price is what leads to the drop in subscriptions.
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AiddonValentine
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2024 1:36 pm
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| Greed1914 wrote: | | So, are we officially past the point where companies have given up on trying to entice new subscribers and just focus on ways to squeeze the ones they have? "It's just a dollar" adds up pretty fast when everyone does it. |
Basically; investors and executives are obsessed with "infinite growth" but it seems every streaming service has hit saturation point and people aren't interested in adding another streaming service. Netflix, HBOMax (I refuse to call it Max), Disney Plus are pretty much all most people need (also Amazon Prime, but that has other benefits so it's a different than others). However, if they keep this up they risk pricing people out as other industries have discovered
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SinisterOracle
Joined: 13 May 2023
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2024 2:57 pm
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I’m not surprised. Who actually subscribes to Paramount+? I think it comes with my Walmart+ subscription but I refuse to watch ads so I won’t touch it.
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jdnation
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2024 3:23 pm
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| YackDe wrote: |
| Greed1914 wrote: | | So, are we officially past the point where companies have given up on trying to entice new subscribers and just focus on ways to squeeze the ones they have? "It's just a dollar" adds up pretty fast when everyone does it. |
You see, corporate executives are incredibly stupid. They see drops in subscriber counts and think to themselves "well we need to bump up the price to keep making what we're making now", not realizing that bumping up the price is what leads to the drop in subscriptions. |
They've likely factored that in, and see higher profitability with fewer subscribers paying more.
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Utsuro no Hako
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2024 4:05 pm
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| SinisterOracle wrote: | | I’m not surprised. Who actually subscribes to Paramount+? I think it comes with my Walmart+ subscription but I refuse to watch ads so I won’t touch it. |
Star Trek fans. Though it's probably a bad idea to do the increase in a period when they aren't going to be releasing any new Trek.
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Cardcaptor Takato
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2024 4:23 pm
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Besides Star Trek Paramount+ hasn't had enough original content to convince me to subscribe to it and I'm not that big of a Star Trek fan and all the classic stuff is on Pluto now anyway.
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mdo7
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2024 4:50 pm
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Yep, saw this news via my newsletter from my usual sources from Hollywood Reporter, Variety, etc.... This announcement pretty much surprised me yesterday, but then again, Netflix and other streaming services sometime drop a random surprise price increase announcement in the past, so what Paramount+ did was no different.
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Chiyosuke
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2024 5:48 pm
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| Jabootu wrote: | | For some reason the article title was truncated.
Paramount+ Increases Subscriber Prices on August 20. Dozens effected.
There you go. |
Lmfao 
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TheAncientOne
Joined: 06 Oct 2010
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Location: USA (mid-south)
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2024 6:28 pm
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| SinisterOracle wrote: | | I think it comes with my Walmart+ subscription but I refuse to watch ads so I won’t touch it. |
I received 6 months of the ad supported plan free via my mobile carrier and discovered that with uBlock Origin, I get no ads viewing it in a web browser.
When I had previously had an extended trial of Walmart+, I viewed it on my Roku (with ads), and at least the number of ads at that time was far less than broadcast TV, and even less than the early days of Hulu.
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