I’m not ignoring anything. There’s a massive sense of outrage about a two dollar price increase per Service nine years later.
That’s not hyperbole that’s a fact.
I just want to be clear I’m not defending the trajectory streaming is taken, or that ads have creeped back in or essentially back where we started with cable. I’m literally saying the original post is incredibly misleading and it’s not an accurate representation of the reality.
Another hard fact is that if there were no ads, in nine years each Service absolutely would’ve been inflated more than two dollars each. I think if you go back and look at pretty much any other consumer product that bears out.
You are completly ignoring the part where the content is about the same. Just because disney replaced Loki and Mandalorian with Futurama and only murders at the building, doesnt mean it should be double the cost.
Disney owns Hulu, and cut production costs for their disney shows. We dont know hulus seperate production costs, but Disney's entertainment costs for movies and television(which has hulu included in it) has not increased but has actually decreased over the years since acquiring Hulu.
Disney entertainment budgets
2021: 30.5 billion
2022: 33 billion
2023 : 27 billion
2024: 25 billion
2025 : 24 billion
2026: 24 billion
You keep saying a merged streaming service is double the value, but we dont have double the content. Its not 1 + 1=2, when "both" are outputting way less than they individually did its more like .4 + .8=1.2
The reality is people are paying 3x as much for the option that is closest to how it was when it first came out.
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u/Z0idberg_MD 11d ago
So $2 in 9 years? I just wanna clarify that the outrageous a two dollar price increase per Service in nine years.