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Netflix axes its $10 ‘Basic’ plan in the US and UK (www.engadget.com)

submitted 1 year ago by DannyMac to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I buy steam games, even ones I've already pirated, for a few reasons.

Quick and easy downloads
Seamless updates
Almost all my other purchased games in one place.
Cloud saves
Durability, just knowing my games will be available to download on my next PC for the foreseeable future.

And I pirate just about everything I watch mainly because I'm not willing to play musical subscriptions to watch the shows I want to see at the end of a long day.

If the film industry had a service that offered a similar experience to a Plex share, I'd pay quite a bit for it. But instead they have this system designed to extract maximum value from every viewer, and I'm tired of it.

Gabe Newell was right on the money when he said piracy is a service issue, not a price issue.

[+] Merulox -8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't think Netflix could get any more convenient than it already is though.

[–] Devccoon 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Convenience would be knowing whether the show I've queued up to watch will remain on the service, or getting warned well ahead of time if it's going to expire. Or having every season of a serialized show available or at least something showing that not all of it is on the service before you get deep into it and suddenly cut off halfway through. Or easy access to my watch history and likes, as well as more robust settings (or heck, any settings) to tailor the way content is shown so I can get a consistent user experience whether I'm browsing new shows or diving back into the next episode of something.