Netflix buyers canceling assistance ever more incorporates extended-time period subscribers

So they gained a lot of subscribers during pandemic ( no shit) but losing a small % of long term users.

I honestly wonder if the amount they paid for friends and Seinfeld would have been better use for new projects than this hunt for password sharing and price increase.

I had netflix for 10 years or something now.

Im not paying for it ever again, unless they go back and un-cancel all the great shows the killed for no reason.

No duh. Why even pay for a streaming service if you get ads, have to pay a higher price for high quality streaming, and are charged extra for sharing your account?

It’s like streaming services are devolving into cable, but worse.

Death by a thousand paper cuts is still death. I’ve been a member since the “3 DVDs at a time” days. And I’ve bled enough.

Isn’t it great that after all this development, we’ve almost gone full circle and back to cable and satellite TV of the 90s.

I.e. pay a lot for a whole lotta services you don’t want, whilst being inundated with adverts and commercials.

Give it a couple of years and the convenience factors that drove iTunes and Netflix will be gone again, and we’ll be back to pirate city like the early 2000s…

And then it begins again. The market learns nothing

I’d quit mine but my brother and his fiance use it, I in turn get to use their Disney+. So it’s a fair trade.
I also rent a room from them so it’s all under the same house, but apparently that isn’t going to fly soon for Netflix so I’ll probably drop them if they make it too hard for us to share one account under one roof.

They cancelled our shows so we cancelled Netflix.

I just got hbo max and I cancelled Netflix. Hbo Max is slightly cheaper and has better content.

I am among them. It got to be like scrolling thru the cable listings- nope. nope. nope. etc.

Raise fees? I might cancel my subscription.

Cancel shows on my watchlist? Probably cancel subscription.

Ads on a subscription service? Guaranteed cancel.

All the above? Laugh at your ignorance and enjoy the extra money in my pocket.

This is a case of more publicity actually working out negatively. People weren’t thinking about their Netflix subscription because it’s always been there. Now Netflix has made people question, “Do I need this?” And increasingly those users are answering “No.”

Netflix diluted their own brand so badly.

When they first started producing original content the pitch was “Check *this* shit, we’re making Hollywood-tier movies” and pretty much you felt compelled to want to check them out on the basis that you trusted they were throwing considerable production effort behind them.

Then they shifted to the “greenlight everything, cancel after 2 seasons” model which again, at first was kind of interesting because it did get a lot of creative and novel stuff out that would have otherwise never been produced.

But eventually they’ve wound up in a place where the little red N is just as likely to mean ‘high quality original production’ as it is ‘literally the dumbest shit you’ve ever seen in your life’ and that’s just a bad place to be, especially against the reality that over time users more or less out-watch the pace at which good new content can be made.

At the same time, they let licenses expire on a lot of non-Netflix content while competitors stepped up with compelling services. End result, Netflix is flooded with red N content that the user basically has no idea if it’s worth their time.

A simple ‘fix’ would be rebranding and making imprints instead of placing everything under the N banner, but it’s probably too little and too late for that.

Cancelled after Marvel shows ended and came back during Covid lockdowns and canceled again. No one wants to watch a bunch of originals that have no resolutions.