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Here’s the summary stripped of the corporate BS: “We used to scale simultaneous streaming with your Netflix plan tier. We now want you to give us more money fo
by DeRock 4y ago
Here’s the summary stripped of the corporate BS:
“We used to scale simultaneous streaming with your Netflix plan tier. We now want you to give us more money for that feature, so we are going to gaslight you into thinking you were never supposed to share simultaneous streams with anyone but yourself. To do this, we will rename it a “homes” feature, and pretend the page you used to use to manage logins is new and justifies the price increase. But in reality, we can’t compete, we’ve already done as many explicit rate increases as our users will tolerate, and feel now is a good time to blame inflation for a blatant money grab.”
- benjaminwootton 4y agoThat’s not really fair. They’ve been relaxed about account sharing historically as I assume the metrics were more important than the revenue. However, they really do have the moral and legal right to put an end to it at the moment of their choosing. In what world is it reasonable to pay once then share the service with 2/3/4 households?
- thisismyaccoun7 4y ago>In what world is it reasonable to pay once then share the service with 2/3/4 households? Perhaps the one where the plan I pay extra for says I can use it on up to four devices at once, which is literally in the first paragraph of their help page for plans (https://help.netflix.com/en/node/24926 https://help.netflix.com/en/node/24926)
- bombcar 4y agoClearly that's only if you want to watch four things at once, or the same show on four screens around you.
- benjaminwootton 4y agoOr more likely 4 viewers in your household, such as different children watching different things simultaneously. To stretch this to entire different households sharing passwords was never a reasonable interpretation.
- DeRock 4y agoThey literally encouraged password sharing: https://twitter.com/netflix/status/840276073040371712 https://twitter.com/netflix/status/840276073040371712
- watwut 4y agoInterpretation in which we or some of us can travel for holiday and watch netfix is 100% reasonable interpretation. Having accounts limited to one place is beyond absurd.
- DeRock 4y ago> the moral and legal right I don’t think bringing morality into a discussion about a public corporation trying to make more money is helpful. The owners are abstract from it enough that they only care that share price go up. > In what world is it reasonable to pay once then share the service with 2/3/4 households? In the world where it was an explicit feature in the top tier plan I already pay for.
- benjaminwootton 4y agoThe average person knows it is not reasonable to pay for a service then share the password with multiple households. For Netflix to ask you to stop seems a perfectly reasonable ask regardless of how you label it.
- nullfield 4y agoNah. When they made it “if you want the highest quality please buy two more streams to get it” everyone read “it’s reasonable to pay more for more streams and higher quality” then got groups together to use that. Netflix has made too many errors on the path to short-term value/quarterly numbers, from failing to sign longer-term deals (and thus enabling the creation of their current competitors in the first place) to repeatedly raising prices without making whatever their value proposition actually is much clearer to consumers. One might say it’s a house of cards, and right now random cards are being pulled out while they wonder if they can fix their mistakes before they “find out”.