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Plex price gouging any users they have left (lazysoci.al)
submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) by lazynooblet@lazysoci.al to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I bought Plex pass years ago for £79. The new price of $749.99 is INSANE.

No wonder all the cool people are using Jellyfin.

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[–] homes@piefed.world 13 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (3 children)

After 16 years of having a lifetime pass (and nearly 20 years of administering multiple Plex servers), I know this to be false. And, unless you have one yourself, you could not possibly know. Especially because, with a lifetime pass, there’s no other way that could possibly ask for money from a user. It’s literally impossible.

But, if I’m wrong, show proof of your lifetime pass, and the solicitous emails you received subsequently. I know you can’t.

If you’re going to speak from such obvious ignorance, it should be easy to admit when you’re wrong

Most Lemmy users, however, never find such a thing so easy…

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

For now

[–] homes@piefed.world 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

We’ll see.

I’m not immune to changing my tune. But only with good reason. And this isn’t it

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 16 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I think it's more that they're implying the company is likely to get worse in the future and start trying shit, not ehat they've already experienced. The price now being nearly 10x what it once was is a pretty big red flag, after all.

[–] homes@piefed.world -1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

I won’t argue with your cynicism, but increasing the price on something that almost nobody ever purchased anyway really isn’t a red flag at all

Especially when all other costs remain unchanged

If Plex starts some crazy Fuckery, I’ll be right on board with you.

[–] anotherandrew@lemmy.mixdown.ca 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

As another decade-long lifetime Plex pass holder and watching the generally downward spiral of Plex development, I’m right there with you. I don’t agree with a lot of the direction they’re going in, but they have never once tried to upsell me after getting the lifetime pass.

The system works, it’s a lot easier/more available for viewers than JellyFin, and until those things change I don’t see much reason to get out the pitchforks. However if they do, mine’s ready.

[–] homes@piefed.world 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I have been following the development of Jellyfin for years. I’ve deployed a couple of servers just for testing with my users. I am very, very, very interested in the development and future development of Jellyfin. I’ve even contributed money to the project.

But I’ve been a Plex user for nearly 20 years. I administer multiple servers with more than a couple of dozen users, and I can say this: Plex offers users a far superior experience compared to Jellyfin.

That said— I fully support support the Jellyfin project in creating an open source replacement for Plex. I really do. And I’ll switch to it as soon as it’s good enough to meet my needs and the needs of my users.

But that’s gonna be a few years from now. Plex didn’t get as awesome as it is immediately. It took 20 years to get there. Jellyfin isn’t gonna get there overnight. I closely track it progress, and as soon as I can switch to it, I will.

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

How about when they "accidentally" sent that email to all your users saying that they NEED to buy Plex Pass to continue to use remote streaming? Or when they had that "bug" in the app shortly after that, where remote streaming would give an error message saying that need to buy Plex Pass to stream your content?

Maybe they don't solicit from you, but they use dark tactics to trick your users, and that's not acceptable in my opinion.