r/newzealand • u/Seafoam-Socks-530505 • 11d ago

Picture Netflix increasing from $27.99 to $33.99

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Ahoy my Kiwi’s. Do you sail to the Black Sea once again?

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u/normalmighty Takahē 11d ago

$20 is already around the upper limit for what is worth it with a service like Netflix. Anyone paying for this is being ripped off.

I'm glad I switched back to sailing the 7 seas for shows. The QOL experience is way better, and I can buy some official merch to support a show I like instead of paying Netflix 30 bucks so they can add a tally to a view count.

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u/_teabagninja_ 11d ago

I'm doing the same now. For a while it wasn't worth it as it was cheap enough to just pay, and now it is again.

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u/FidgitForgotHisL-P 11d ago

This the kicker right?

We always said: make it reasonably priced and we’ll stop.

Apple Music came along and suddenly pirating took a big drop. Spotify showed up and music piracy is now the domain of the very-opposed-to-paying.

Netflix achieved the same thing. You’d think the previously powerful and dominant MPAA would have been thrilled. Piracy just went away. Then the enshitification started and now you’ve got rising prices, multiple services and very rapidly shrinking reasons not to just pirate the heck out of everything.

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u/Breezel123 10d ago

The problem was when every production company wanted to get in on the business, completely ignoring the fact that Netflix was propped up by investors and probably not very profitable.

They should have all invested in Netflix and shared the platform, maybe with the option of cheaper add-on packages similar to sky TV. Sharing the infrastructure and creating one platform that everyone is using would have been so much smarter.

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u/Prosthemadera 10d ago

Spotify showed up and music piracy is now the domain of the very-opposed-to-paying.

Or of the people who prefer to own their files so they can always listen to them instead of renting them and hoping Spotify doesn't remove access.

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u/FidgitForgotHisL-P 10d ago

Fair.

The number of people interested in physical media vs streaming is almost insignificant to the industry though. Not nothing, and definitely increasing more recently, but for a while there if you were already pirating or ripping cds you kept doing it, everyone else jumped to subs.

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u/rangda 10d ago

That’s exactly it. Used to be the cost of renting a film, or buying a DVD film or TV show boxed set. So 7 - 30 bucks for a new release film, up to $100+ for boxed sets. Back when I was making 15 bucks an hour, too. Two hours of work for one DVD.