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Disney+ Drops 1.3 Million Subscribers Amid Price Hike, Streaming Loss Shrinks by $300 Million::Disney+ lost 1.3 million subscribers in the final quarter of 2023 amid a hefty price hike that went into effect last fall

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

I'm calling it now:

Eventually these streamers are going to run out of runway, and they're already placing the blame on piracy. They're going to start pushing for more intense legal action against piracy and self-hosted options. Likely they'll push for broader enforcement of copyright and criminal charges, but i think they'll also litigate against plex and other self-hosted software and services as enabling/dealing in pirated content. Worst-case is that they start placing restrictions on VPN's and proxies, and they'll maybe couch it in a 'concern for national security'. FOSS has been having a moment the last couple years, but I'm very nervous about the attention their attracting.

I'm not sure what this will look like, but Netflix and others have already started putting out foreboding OP eds and statements addressing the market impact of pirating, and the digital media market sector is simply too big for legislators to ignore. The more companies like Disney and Netflix take on losses, the more pressure will be placed on legislators to act.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

It's getting ridiculous. I am starting to consider dropping Prime. I don't need free shipping that bad and I don't even watch anything on it anymore. And when I do want to watch something I have to watch ads!? Yeah....

Yarrr me hearties! It be time to raise the Jolly Rodger!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When greed backfires it’s glorious! Plus the more streaming services pop up, the more people will pirate; we’ve regressed back into the cable TV era all because the suits are greedy bastards and deserve to lose every subscriber.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Disney+ lost 1.3 million subscribers in the final quarter of 2023 amid a hefty price hike that went into effect last fall, but managed to narrow its streaming business’ losses by $300 million during the October-December period.

That doesn't really sound like it backfired to me. They lost subscribers but made more money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I don't even know what it means to "narrow" ones losses.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

They lost less than the year before

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Suppose one year you spend $60k, but only earned $50k. You lost $10k.

The next year, you spend $57k, and earned $53k. You lost $4k, and your losses narrowed by $6k.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Yup, I cancelled my D+ account, but not over the price hike. I cancelled it because I only care about Disney/Pixar/old Fox shows, and I already own all of those shows and movies physically now. The Marvel shows are absolute fucking trash, and Star Wars has been utterly murdered by the mouse. Aint nothing left for me on D+ so buh bye.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I still have a D+ account, and my parents have a Hulu account, we share with each other

The second the password sharing stops working both of us are canceling

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Time for OpenVPN and bridge your home networks together!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Tempting, but I'm not going to fight to pay for a service where they clearly don't want my money

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

I am one if the 1.3 M. I not gonna pay 80 bucks per year to watch Grogu.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

That's funny, I dropped them last week right before they announced the price hike because I own everything I want to watch and now that I have my OTA DVR set up I don't need Hulu so I said "see ya round like a big old doughnut."

[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

I wouldn’t have necessarily minded a price hike, at least not enough to drop D+ over it. It was the shitty writing that made me drop it, specifically Secret Invasion. That was the shitshow that made me go, “I’m done being angry at stupid, lazy-ass writing, I’m walking away.” And I’ve been fine. I haven’t even felt the need to pirate anything, I just don’t care anymore at this point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I couldn't even make it through the first 15 minutes. After kenobi im just not investing time in a whole season for a few moments of cool shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You wouldn't mind casually paying more for a service that ostensibly costs the same to deliver to you?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I would obviously prefer not to, but if it was delivering a quality product that I liked I might. Prices go up all the time, sometimes I'll pay, sometimes not, it just depends. With D+ though, I really wasn't using it for anything in their extensive library, it was really just the new shows coming out. With the quality being as bad as it's been from the get-go, I was just tired of the Marvel/Star Wars writers treating their audience like they're idiots. It was frustrating going from one contrived scene to the next with the barest of logic applied to anything, things only happening just to get to the next scene, without any regard for what would actually make sense for the characters. The constant character assassination and cheapening of their franchises.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

They killed fucking Maria Hill, and not even in an epic way. Just poof, dead.

Unforgivable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, Dianey+ just isn't worth it unless you uave children these days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What are you and Dianey doing to children?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Judt geedinf them fheese.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Do they mean 1.3 Million subscribers dropped Disney+ ?

If that's what they meant, english would actually let them say that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

( no english major here, by far)

but I suspect my qualm is: which entity is the actor and which is the acted upon.

Disney did not act to remove the subscribers, but rather the opposite, the subscribers acted to drop Disney.

One might extrapolate that Disney's previous actions directly lead to the event.

Does that stand to reason?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I can be pretty pedantic, but that seemed clear to me. Thinking about it, I regularly here "Disney has x subscribers" and much less frequently they "x people subscribe to Disney." So following that convention, saying that Disney has dropped subscribers makes perfect sense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I think they mean it that way as in their numbers dropped. Disney+ dropped (by) 1.3million

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In my country the price increased like 400%. I don't see anyone will continue to subscribe

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Whoa. That's Disney going out of their way to kill an entire market. A 5x increase in price is bonkers.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I can hear the groans and cries on the docks ..... YAHHARR!! ARGGGGG!! AYE MATIES!!!!! YAHAAR!!! YAHAR!!! ARGGGGHH!!! YAHAAR!!!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

THERE IS TREASURE TO BE FOUND ON THE SEVEN SEAS!

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