I've had the D+ for a few years for my daughter and then realized that all we watched was just a handful of movies on repeat (Frozen, Toystory, etc). So I cancelled it and just bought the movies.
Capitalism creates the contradictions that will inevitably force it to come to and end. The 7-10 year recession/depression “business cycle” is what will lead to capitalists automating away all jobs in the name of searching for higher profits.
Okay. And I’m saying the decentralized utopia that anarchists envision is not a pragmatic thing as some vertical hierarchy is still going to be needed in our transition away from capitalism.
Unless you think your decentralized entities are able to defeat highly organized capital, you’re going to need some “vertical hierarchy”.
But hey, yall are still comrades at the end of the day. So I won’t fight you that hard.
Even more reason to just keep pirating everything! I still like to purchase physical copies for stuff I really like, but hey, if they want to take away the only way they get any money from me, that’s their choice I guess
This is what I’ve been doing work video games for a few years now. I used to have Xbox Gamepass ultimate. They kept jacking up the price. I realized if I buy the 2-3 games I play a year it’s cheaper than paying for ultimate for a year
This was always the plan - operate at a loss to attract lots of subscribers, then jack up prices. You'll still have more subscribers than if you started at a rational price.
That was the plan to get market share and ultimately dominance but that didn't work.
They started ignoring getting embarrassed by Steam.
PSN plus has also started costing a kidney.
And Nintendo hasn't figured out that the internet exists yet.
They can't grab market share with a low price so it stopped making sense trying to.
to be fair, PSN plus ONLY started raising their prices specifically for different tiers, and it's priced way better than game pass and has barely changed price wise. The cheapest tier which still gets you all of the stuff it used to have (your 2 free games and online play) is now CHEAPER than it was in the past. The other 2 tiers are actually priced very well for what you get out of them. As far as "game passes" go, Sony won with flying colors.
As far as Nintendo, you're absolutely right, they haven't managed to create anything substantial.
Yup. I realized my kids outgrew Disney and I’m the only one who watches it for the occasional Marvel show once a year and the 2 animated movies. Wtf am I doing 😂
My daughter usually watches youtube either but youtube is just too much of a dopamine hit as she can just press any other content immediately. I was seeing her switch contents like every 5 seconds.
Movies last a few hours and she would have to sit through the entire movie to enjoy it. So i give her youtube kids when she would watch for less than 30 minutes, then shows for less than an hour. If her watch time might be longer than an hour, it will have to be movies without the option to just change around (she still gets to decide what to watch but i will change for her)
I was content with paying £100 a year for the convenience of Disney+. But I own blurays of everything my kids watch. The moment they raised prices subscription was canceled. I can't believe so many people are paying double a month to watch now.
I admin a plex server for my friends and family. Pretty funny to see watch habits from behind the scenes; people generally have one or two comfort shows and just watch those
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I've had the D+ for a few years for my daughter and then realized that all we watched was just a handful of movies on repeat (Frozen, Toystory, etc). So I cancelled it and just bought the movies.