• Bakkoda
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      02 months ago

      Best we can do is charge you more. Monthly.

    • @CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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      02 months ago

      Remember when Netflix first started raising prices claiming it was all going to go toward new content that people would be excited for? That was years ago now and we’ve seen additional increases, along with ads, and blocking account sharing and their content still sucks for the most part.

    • @MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world
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      02 months ago

      One or the other. Quality tends to cost more money. Fast food is cheaper than fine dining, but you can tell the difference in quality.

      Problem is the Studios charge a lot for crap.

      • @linearchaos@lemmy.world
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        02 months ago

        Fast food used to cost less than fine dining. I discovered last week that my local Italian place is now cheaper than a meal for four at McDonald’s.

        • Echo Dot
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          02 months ago

          Well that’s the second stage isn’t it.

          Start off by being the cheap and cheerful option, then raise prices and justify it by diversifying into more high quality products, and actually do that, create better quality products so people think the price increase is actually acceptable.

          Then slowly cut back on the higher quality products and go back to your basic service but don’t change the price.

          You see it in food, you see it in streaming services, you see it in video games. Remember when Call Of Duty was actually good?

      • @endofline@lemmy.ca
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        02 months ago

        Preferences are debatable and some people actually like that crap you don’t. F.e. I never understood American hype on “superhero” movies. I’d sooner watch American wresting which may be more plausible than any modern superhero movie

    • @BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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      02 months ago

      Especially suck less.

      If they sucked less, they’d have broader appeal, meaning more consumers so could potentially, maybe, not be so overpriced vs their value.

      Oh, who am I kidding? Hollywood has been a bunch of arrogant asshats forever.

      • @MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world
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        02 months ago

        Studio heads with no film background make decisions based on spreadsheets. Those people shouldn’t be in the industry… yet they remain.