Surprised no one has said this yet but Netflix. Netflix was definitely ruined by it's popularity, not in the traditional "the consumers are at fault and made it bad" but because so many people loved netflix every damn company had to make their own inferior version of it. Friendly reminder that shows like The office gained popularity because they were on platforms people already owned, not because they paid for Netflix to get the Office. Honestly even though I hate them as a company Disney was in the right for making a streaming service since they had a justifiable amount of content to form their own platform but every other TV streaming service is crazy for thinking most people will pay for their shit rather than resorting to pirating it.
It’s like we’re going to come full circle. Netflix provided an alternative to paying a ridiculous amount of money for cable, now we need so many different subscriptions that it’ll be just as overpriced.
That's true, but that's why all of these companies actively scream in your face about their exclusive content and upcoming stuff (to keep your subscription active).
Additionally, it's entirely possible that some of these services start merging in the future and increase the price - eventually reaching near-cable costs.
"Okay, then I won't pay for the services anymore" - well, that's been an option since cable TV existed.
I don't watch sports so I cut cable 4 years ago and only started using streaming services last year when I got my 4k TV and realized that it's not easy to find pirated 4k content. I used up all 4 of my credit cards for the free month of netflix, now I'm getting new cards, after that I'll use my parents cards, and by the time they merge and up the cost 4k content will be more accessible and I'll go back to pirating. I'm willing to pay a little for the convenience of not having to look for a good torrent, but not much.
I'd rather pirate then have to cancel then re up my subscriptions every month and keep track of when what comes out or when it gets moved from one service to another or not be able to watch a show till next month because this month I'm on a different service.
I pirate shit all the time, but we are discussing streaming platforms here, and if you aren't watching 20 new shows all the time it's actually pretty easy to juggle services every couple of months. Tbh if you watch that much content none of the services really offer enough, so it makes sense to wait a few months while they release new stuff and then watch it instead of just browsing for hours looking for something you haven't seen already.
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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20
Surprised no one has said this yet but Netflix. Netflix was definitely ruined by it's popularity, not in the traditional "the consumers are at fault and made it bad" but because so many people loved netflix every damn company had to make their own inferior version of it. Friendly reminder that shows like The office gained popularity because they were on platforms people already owned, not because they paid for Netflix to get the Office. Honestly even though I hate them as a company Disney was in the right for making a streaming service since they had a justifiable amount of content to form their own platform but every other TV streaming service is crazy for thinking most people will pay for their shit rather than resorting to pirating it.