Good thing they’re raising prices again!
If you don’t like the price hikes CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION.
Stop with all the belly aching. They cancel all the good shows early anyway. I killed my sub years ago and it’s been a great choice.
I cancelled my subscription when they stopped letting you share account login information.
The increase in cancellations was the nail in the coffin for me. But my satisfaction started to decline when they ditched the star rating system. I don’t care how many people want to claim it didn’t work a specific way or wasn’t tailored to you, etc etc. it produced many good recommendation for me with insane accuracy across the whole 5* spectrum. The binary system was, and I assume still is, shit.
Sense 8 and the OA deserved better, non subscriber, happy pirate since.
The OA was so good and then just evaporated.
I don’t mind price hikes, because the money spent is still worth it to me (I have like 5 streaming subscriptions), but Netflix is among the worst for just usability.
It’s often more difficult to find content on Netflix than it is to just search on my TV and click to the content from there.
Raising prices is fine if your product is competitive enough, but I’ve considered canceling Netflix just because it kinda sucks to use. Somewhere along the line, they stopped focusing on UX.
Lots of companies lately just foot to the floor with enshitification
There was a decent chunk of time, maybe the last decade, where Netflix successfully followed the Gabe Newell ethos: “you have to compete with free”. Unfortunately, all of the media giants have caught on now to the lucrativeness of streaming and are trying to take away all of the shows and movies that drew people to Netflix in the first place.
Right. It’s not really Netflix’s fault that all the studios are pulling their shows from the platform. The studios are going full crazy again.
I mean, sure, but it is Netflix’s fault that their strategy to fill that void is to produce garbage. Netflix saw this coming and started making original content. So they made a ton of stuff, but it’s really, really tough to think of anything that was as influential as the stuff that was considered b-tier on HBO, for example.
It’s hard to think of many things that Netflix has produced that are actually any good. Movies, in particular, they bring in these massive stars for the most schlocky bullshit imaginable. Even things like Witcher, which at least counts as a cult hilt, they managed to shit the bed on because the show being any good seems to have happened in spite of the writers and people in charge of it.
Tbh, when people talk about AI in creative activities, it’s pretty easy to think about quite a lot of the shit Netflix churns out. Just about everything I watch that’s Netflix Original really feels like it’s written by an LLM.
Stranger Things was really popular. I enjoyed The Map of Small Perfect Things a lot. Otherwise, yes, their stuff is pretty bad. The Adam Sandler movies are terrible.
Good. I still hate how Netflix doesn’t bother to buy the final season of Snowrunner. I guess it’s not important to them if Netflix USA didn’t have the show to begin with. Or The OA, or 1899, or altered carbon. As consumer I don’t care if it’s Netflix original or not, I pay for it and you lured me in with it, so it’s their responsibility to deliver season finals. Well anyways since they stopped account sharing we cancelled anyways, as it was just a flat price increase for no gain.
It’s becoming a graveyard of cancelled shows. When they killed GLOW, that was it for me.
Also the sound design is really bad. Everything is really ‘dry’ with no room reverb, sort of like how talking on telephones used to sound
I’ll never fucking forgive them for Dark Crystal. Like holy shit I don’t think I’ve ever been move devastated to see a show get canceled.
OMG right? What the fuck with the sound.
I think they’re constrained by having to sound good on such a wide variety of devices, like TVs, phones, earbuds etc. And their solution is just to sound like shit on everything.
Give it a year or two and all they will produce is reality garbage, calling it now.
Which would be a real fall from grace. Netflix has been pretty awesome for the better part of two decades now. But they’re losing content because all the studios want to go back to the cable model and are rolling out their own subs. Amazon is helping them a lot with that.
The value of my Netflix subscription has gone down tremendously. There used to be anchor shows that would keep me excited to log on to each of these services. Now HBO canceled Vice, Vice News, Vice on Hulu, Vice on Showtime. Another issue is shows that go south. I used to be really excited for Bill Maher. Not anymore, it’s a slog to watch. And the Witcher. And Game of Thrones. On Netflix I was genuinely excited for so many new projects. All gone. Everything I watch now is so fucking mid and forgettable.
I went over to youtube, and while its provided better for me, most of my favorite creators end up moving on. So now I mostly watch Nebula. Its so much cheaper. But it doesn’t have the vast content that Netflix has.
Hahahahahahahaha haha. Falling to sixth place in customer satisfaction but rising to first place as a new endless source of laughter. A laughingstock for sure.
Yeah, sixth place among companies named “Netflix”.
