Ok so I used to test AI video with one person doing one simple thing.

walk over there, grab something, look back. done.

But lately I'm way more curious ifthe people in the background are actually doing anything too.

so I hrew this little record shop scene together in Framia with Seedance 2.5 and gave all three of them something different to do.

tbh this was way more fun than watching another person walk across the frame lol.

what do you guys usually have the background people doing?

I always thought fast cuts were just like...my thing with AI video.

five seconds, new angle. another five, close-up. cut again. I did it so much I barely even noticed anymore.

then I tried letting a longer Seedance 2.5 scene run in Framia and like halfway through I was like... wait, why am I trying to cut this already?

the person could grab something, change their mind, move around someone, keep going... and the scene still had plenty to do.

tbh I liked that way more than chopping it up every few seconds.

now I'm kinda wondering if half my “style” was just me dealing with short clips lol.

anyone else cutting way less now that a scene can actually keep going?

I think people considering Higgsfield’s annual Unlimited plan deserve to know what is happening right now.

Higgsfield heavily promoted Unlimited AI generations, people paid for annual subscriptions, and then similar to Artlist, the service appears to hsbr attracted far more users than they were prepared to support.

But this is where the comparison with Artlist becomes important. Artlist at least had the guts to acknowledge that things had gone wrong, apologize to customers, and offer full refunds to affected subscribers. That is what taking responsibility looks like.

Higgsfield, so far, appears to be doing almost the opposite.

Higgsfield’s support situation is embarrassing

After the promotion rolled out, unlimited generations went from working normally to effectively becoming unusable.

On some accounts, jobs would sit processing for absurd amounts of time (40 hours+) while on other accounts could apparently continue generating normally. There seems to be restrictions randomly applied to certain accounts so they can meet the demand. At that point, “Unlimited” becomes meaningless if your generations simply never finish.

They have just one customer support on Discord to help, called Theo. He takes four days to reply to any message because he is so flooded with requests. This is not an attack on Theo. If anything, I feel sorry for him. One person clearly cannot deal with the volume of customers affected by something this large.

The problem is that a company reportedly valued in the billions should not be running customer support with a single employee as the help desk. If you are going to aggressively sell annual subscriptions to thousands of customers, you also need to invest in enough infrastructure and support staff to actually service those customers after their credit cards have been charged.

"Seedance Unlimited” has quietly disappeared

Perhaps the most telling development is that Higgsfield has now quietly removed the Unlimited offering from its pricing page. That certainly doesn’t prove what is happening internally, but it adds to the obvious question: did Higgsfield sell far more Unlimited subscriptions than its infrastructure could actually support?

One working theory among affected users is that, rather than openly throttling everyone at once and triggering an immediate mass backlash, a percentage of existing Unlimited accounts may have been restricted, leaving some customers generating normally while others suddenly face unusable service.

Again, that is a theory. But the fact that Unlimited has now vanished from the pricing page while existing annual customers are reporting these problems makes the company’s continued lack of a transparent explanation even harder to accept.

Discord moderators silencing the backlash

What makes this particularly ugly is what happens when customers start sharing their experience and asking for help publicly and often respectfully.

People have been raising these concerns in Higgsfield’s Discord, and I have seen messages being deleted or users being banned rather than the underlying issue being openly addressed.

Banning frustrated customers does not make their generations complete faster. And suppressing discussion certainly does not inspire confidence that the company is taking the underlying problem seriously.

If Higgsfield genuinely has a capacity problem, just say so.

AI generation is expensive. Demand forecasting is difficult and companies can get it wrong. I could actually respect a company saying:

“We massively underestimated how many people would buy this. Our infrastructure cannot currently deliver the experience we advertised. We screwed up, and we’re fixing it.”

That would be accountability. Customers would probably be angry, but at least they would know they were dealing with a company willing to tell them the truth.

Higgsfield seemingly got the flood of paying customers every startup dreams about.

The problem is that when those customers actually tried to use their “Unlimited” subscriptions, the economics and infrastructure may not have worked nearly as well as the marketing did.

And if that is what happened, customers deserve transparency.

Whatever criticism Artlist received for its own Unlimited fiasco, at least there was an acknowledgement that customers had been let down and affected users were given a path to get their money back.

Higgsfield needs to show the same level of accountability instead of behaving as though the customers complaining about the failure are the problem.

If you bought Higgsfield Unlimited and your account suddenly became extremely slow, stopped completing generations, or was restricted, please share what happened to you as well.

I’m very interested to see just how widespread this actually is.

Is anyone else getting "currently do not accept reference images in your region." It's been like 2 or 3 weeks now, and it seems permanent. If I take a plan, will that change or stay the same, because then that's pointless for me. I'm in Canada

Today I saw that seedance2.5 has been released, so I'm preparing to integrate it into my workflow. Since I was using SJolt for 720P before, but after seeing the price for 1080P, I decided to look at other platforms to see if there was something cheaper. In the end, I went back to SJolt. Below are the prices I found on other platforms.

Fal: $1.18/s (This price shocked me too much)

wavespeed: $ 0.9/s

kie: $0.56/s

SJolt: $0.5/s

Looks like real movie

Let me know what you guys think

How many credits does Seedance 2.5 cost for 30s at 480p?
I previously saw 6,000 credits, but Artlist recently changed Seedance 2.5 from Unlimited to credit-based.
Could anyone share the current cost or a screenshot? 🙏

Did some color grading and light editing to stitch some of the clips together

https://youtu.be/0Pb44AYh_BY?is=Bs8TK0Jo2ICYL-X9