Max users grandfathered into $15.99 ad-free plan lose 4K, HDR next month::Number of devices you can stream from simultaneously is decreasing, too.
This why you should sail the seas
2023 really has been the year of pushing boundaries
Corporate greed is destroying any illusions of a “middle class”, that’s for sure. It’s just all us poor folks and a few rich assholes at this point.
Cloud-serfdom
Damn even Canadian cellular networks don’t do that
All the mental gymnastics they do just to avoid outright increaseing prices…
Legally i dont think they could get away with charging more without explicit permission from the account holder. As a business move when they want to generally increase prices, this is basically the only correct move.
That’s how it should work, but many services have been increasing pricing with email warnings for the last decade.
My friend has PS+ and it has multiplied in price for 3-month intervals without him ever confirming the new price. He’s had it for a decade without touching it and genuinely wouldn’t know he’s being charged so much more than he agreed to if I didn’t tell him.
This is in Australia which normally has better protections for consumers, but it’s possible we don’t in this case as it’s happened to me with every subscription I’ve ever had they send a n email and then start charging an amount I never agreed to.
The only exception was AEW+ via Fite.tv which was in USD, that was the only time I ever lost my sub when the price changed, which given it went up +40% I was glad they handled it respectfully.
Yeah this is the key. Price hikes require notification and time for the user to opt out or cancel. Removing features suffers from minimal legal regulation.
Ways to make profit: charge more or give the customer less 🫠
They need to make more profit next year than they did last year. This is how that happens and will happen almost every year from now on
The craziest part to me is they don’t even offer an option to upgrade plans people got via tmo or their cable provider…whatever, you have to sign up for a new account if you want 4k, so it’s an additional 20$ a month to keep 4k if you pay your ISP for HBO already
This is confusing, my plan auto renewed for a year in September, what happens to people like me? It didn’t even give me the option to “upgrade”, it just did it.
Yeah, our plan is paid for a year as well. If they drop our service quality before the year is up, that sure seems like a breach of contract.
Likely we agreed to show them to remove our add features without any breach or reduction in price
I’ve got a feeling that we’re gonna get to the point where streaming services only allow you to watch your shows on a single device, must have a certain ISP and that ISP needed changes hourly, prices will be $100+ but you get 5 seconds of show per 50 ads, Mercury must be in retrograde, and you must provide proof you are watching every single second and if you blink, your account is banished to the ad realm. Just for the sake of profit
Yup. They delayed it a few months so their dumbass “MaX” rebrand wouldn’t catch the flack.
I have Max included with my home internet plan. I use it so little that if I was paying $16/month for it, I could probably drop it and just buy Blu-Rays for any movies or shows that I would watch on there and still be ahead at the end of the year. Plus then I’d have media to keep for when they inevitably delist it on the streaming catalog to save syndication fees.
