• atrielienz@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I just don’t understand why they don’t stop offering it altogether. This price hike shows they can’t really afford to offer it at all. Just stop. It’s okay. You don’t have to keep providing this service tier to new users.

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      19 hours ago

      They don’t want it but still want to offer an option for it… its just a complete ripoff at that price though.

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        20 hours ago

        Lol. A lifetime subscription for a singular one time payment is a bad deal in any service that requires upkeep. That’s what makes it so enticing to people generally.

        I paid for a lifetime plex membership in 2014. It’s was $74.99. The use I have gotten out of it in the last 11 years has to have cost the company more than if I was a paying subscriber who paid a monthly fee.

        When I say “can’t afford” I literally mean it costs the company money to keep providing these services over time. I have services available to me from my “subscription” that don’t even exist in the current offering.