What innovation! Digital shrinkflation! Otherwise known as a scam.
Hey now, that extra bandwidth for downloading 4k content is really expensive, same goes for buying a third device to stream it on – HBO is really doing OP a favour here by saving them money
imagine if any tech company sold a service at a price that’s at least the cost to provide it, that would be outrageous
Yarr harr fiddle dee dee
Hilarious that these subscription companies learned nothing from the cable industry that they’re disrupting
They are the same companies. Lol they are all owned by isps for the most part.
Interesting customer retention move for a service that hasn’t been able to make much new content for the past six months and is about to see its new releases dry up.
“New Features” ah yes. Actually it’s an upgrade to a new features plan. They are doing you a favor. The new plan is completely free and you even gain streams from other platforms, also free. Yarr!!!
Don’t worry, I’m sure they’ll increase the price to make up for it.
“Thank you for being loyal, here’s how we are going to fuck you over”
Don’t forget the whole point of the rebrand was to sell off the actual HBO content and fill Max with shitty reality TV. It’s the exact same thing only they don’t send you an email about it.
Shit. I saw a few shows that were on HBO Max elsewhere (Netflix?) recently and was like ??? but yeah, that makes sense. When Westworld left, I took it as a one-off but I guess not.
This is not shrinkflation. This is fleecing.
Shrinkflation is a scheme that takes subtlety to pull off. There’s some level of artistry involved in increasing prices in a way that is unnoticed by the customer.
This is so unsubtle it doesn’t even deserve to be called shrinkflation.
This totally sucks, though I have to say I am impressed that they spelled it out so clearly. I can’t believe they showed it to you like that instead of burying it in some legalese/fine print, across multiple emails or something
What a weird way to thank someone
It’s more like “thanks and goodbye“ and maybe a little bit of “don’t you dare show your face around these parts if you know what’s good for you” sprinkled in for good measure.
“New Features”
What’s that? Are those sea shanties I hear being sung over the horizon?
They alerted the deal. Pray that they don’t alter it any further
alerted
“you’re too good of a deal, change or else”
The ability to spell a word is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
So glad I built a PLEX server.
Have a look at Jellyfin, if you haven’t. I moved from Plex because of restrictions in HW decoding.
Do you mean hardware encoding, because that’s what’s paywalled in Plex.
I personally migrated from a Jellyfin ecosystem to a Plex with Lifetime Pass one when building my current server - while both are highly capable media servers, Plex has, by far, the better clients.
Yup much easier to use Plex, couldn’t stand jellyfin
