#subscription fees

[jordanrosenburg]

I just need to rant for a second because I'm so aggravated. Amazon Prime is $139 annually or $14.99 monthly. It used to only be like $100 annually, or $50 annually if you were a student. I do the $139 annual charge because it's actually cheaper overall than the monthly plan. (14.99 x 12 = 179.88) A lot of services are cheaper annually. But most people see the "lower" monthly fee and figure that's more manageable.

Amazon Prime Video is one of the "perks" of having an AP premium membership. The movies and tv shows on there don't have commercials, rightfully so. However, subscribers will soon start seeing ads unless they want to pay an extra $2.99 a month. So, for those monthly folks, that's now $17.98 a month. FOR WHAT?!

"We are writing to you today about an upcoming change to your Prime Video experience. Starting January 29, Prime Video movies and TV shows will include limited advertisements. This will allow us to continue investing in compelling content and keep increasing that investment over a long period of time. We aim to have meaningfully fewer ads than linear TV and other streaming TV providers. No action is required from you, and there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership. We will also offer a new ad-free option for an additional $2.99 per month*..."

That's funny because, they cancelled The Wilds after 2 seasons. (Netflix does the same thing! And Netflix just very sneakily got rid of their $7.99 a month low-res option. So now if you don't want to pay $11.99 a month which is the new "basic" plan, you have to pay for ads.)

"Access to exclusive and broad streaming video content (including Prime Video exclusives like The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Boys, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Citadel, The Wheel of Time, Reacher, and The Summer I Turned Pretty, as well as blockbuster movies such as Air, Creed III, Dungeons & Dragons, Candy Cane Lane with Eddie Murphy, and exclusive live sports including NFL Thursday Night Football). Access to Prime Video Channels, which provides an unmatched selection of subscription channels like Max, Paramount+ with SHOWTIME, BET+, MGM+, ViX+, Crunchyroll, PBS KIDS, NBA League Pass, MLB.TV, and STARZ—with no extra apps to download, and no cable required. Customers only pay for the ones they want, and can cancel anytime."

All of those "channels" are extra costs. And they're saying this as if you can't just download the apps to your TV as if everyone only has firesticks or Amazon TVs these days nowadays.

And also, what if I don't like any of the original programming? What if I didn't care about football? All of the original programming I was invested in, was cancelled! I'm hoping The Summer I Turned Pretty doesn't get cancelled after the third season, but who knows?!

And what's different with APV as opposed to other streaming services is that this is just included with AP. This isn't something you can opt out of to save money. So, you may as well use it, right? What aggravates me the most is the fact that when I go to search for something, it'll either say, "Video not available, watch with [insert extra channel I'd need to pay for here], rent for $x.xx, or buy for $x.xx". I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO PAY EXTRA TO WATCH SOMETHING ON A SERVICE I ALREADY PAY FOR! NOR SHOULD I HAVE TO DOWNLOAD ANOTHER APP OR CHANNEL THAT ALSO REQUIRES PAYMENT.

I am so sick of having to surf between Hulu, Netflix, APV, MAX, Paramount+, Peacock, Apple TV, or Disney+. My Hulu is included in my Spotify because I was grandfathered into that option, so I don't pay extra for Hulu. However, I can't watch everything on Hulu unless I want to pay for the Hulu Live option which is $76.99 a month WITH ADS! So, between paying that or $10.99 for my Spotify/Hulu plan, yeah, I'm gonna keep the $10.99 a month plan. With Hulu Live, you still have the issue of not being able to watch everything you want to watch! There are still movies and TV shows that are unavailable. And I'm not talking about original content. I'm talking about if I have the urge to watch an old movie or binge an old TV show, I should be able to do that without flipping between services or having to pay extra!

I'm aware that rights and ownership come into play here. I know these services have to pay the networks to be able to stream certain shows. However, Amazon is a multi-BILLION dollar company. I think they can afford to eat the cost. They wonder why piracy is still a thing. How could it not be? All of this costs so much money and you still can't watch the things you want to watch!

People turned to streaming services so they could go ad-free and to save money on cable. Now, it all costs the same, even more, as cable depending on how many services you're paying for.

I also think APV is pulling this bullshit as a punishment for the strikes. "We lost so much money because the writers and actors were gone for so long, so now we need to make up for that lost time and also we have to cancel certain shows because they take months to put together and cost so much to film. So now we have to raise our prices so we can try to salvage what we can afford to do." That's essentially the message they're sending.

Amazon has generated approximately $553.7 billion in revenue over the last year. So, this is clearly just the usual corporate greed. Breaking even isn't an option anymore. Every quarter, every year needs to make more money than the last. Meanwhile, Amazon treats their warehouse workers like garbage. (I hope the workers keep unionizing because they literally keep the world running. We're able to get just about anything delivered same day or overnight because of the warehouse workers and drivers.)

The writers went on strike because they were being run ragged and so were the actors. When you have a speedy three month production, that means those people need to find other jobs for the other months of the year. That's why the next season would take a year to make because people found other jobs, so they needed to work around those schedules. And that's not to say some writers and actors and behind the camera workers aren't working multiple jobs at the same time, because they are, but this creates more and more time conflicts. They weren't, and probably still aren't, paying these people enough. So, now that things have been renegotiated, the streaming services are upping their fees for bullshit reasons all because they legally have to pay their workers more and god forbid they don't turn a billion dollar profit.

It costs more money to market towards new subscribers than it does to maintain the ones you already have. But who am I to say anything?

#amazon prime video #amazon prime #hulu #hulu live #netflix #MAX #paramount+ #mcu #peacock #apple tv #the summer i turned pretty #summer i turned pretty #jack ryan #streaming #streaming services #the wilds #prime video #subscription fees #writers strike #actors strike #sag aftra

[mintybreakfast]

I always use Tumblr as a sort of journal for when I get weird thoughts that I want to remember. I used to just write them down on my computer. I'd honestly rather write them on my personal private computer.

So what changed?

Well, for one, I got a stupid Smart Phone, so that made writing into something easier. For two, (or 'secondly' as you nerds like to say) my computer decided to delete its Operating System and I haven't been able to recover it for any worthwhile period of time.

I tried using notebooks and writing by hand, but then I lose my thought during the time it takes me to write out a sentence by hand. Plus, even if I do manage to scribble out a full thought, my handwriting is so terrible that I can't decipher it when I read it back.

So what options do I have before me? I bought a laptop a while ago so that I could just write in it. But... Wtf, I now have to subscribe to a service in order to simply write words into a document??!?!! Give me my 20 year-old computer back!

Anyway, that might summarize the reason behind why, periodically, I write inane babble into Tumblr. Because I don't know where else to keep it

#technology #subscription fees #I'm annoyed #Canada geese looking down on me while they smoke their cigars at their exclusive poker table

[veryspicyhoney]

#Adobe #Pantone #stuart semple #Fuck adobe and pantone for making people pay a subscription fee to use certain colors #Adobe and pantone dni

[jerejerejere]

Käärijä:

This is not a pornfactory

...or is it?

Jk

Unless... 😳💵

#boy you'll cost me house and home at that rate #not t mention my physical and mental sanity 😭 #i would prefer like a weekly post and a smaller subscription fee #then i could commit to anything #käärijä

[cliveguy]

i understand why anti piracy exists obviously but the truth is that piracy really massively contributes to archiving media... a lot of people's first foray into piracy is trying to find something that isn't available for sale online anywhere. in the streaming and subscription era its so much rarer to actually own what you buy, so many services can just remove your products even if you've paid for them, and it's becoming more and more common

#um.txt #RIP ZLIBRARY 🙏🏻🙏🏻 may your return be swift and easy #how have we accepted the insanity of subscription services removing products that were massively popular bc they dont want to pay the #license fee anynore.... #my brother has a ps+ premium account and i was playing rdr2 on it... after like 20 hours it got taken off the service

[sunnyupsidedown]

One day there’s going to be an investigative journalist obsessed with exy who decides to lookup the net worth of all the top exy players and discover they’re lower than expected.

Initially, they think, maybe they don’t buy a lot and keep most of their money liquid so it’s harder to track their net worth, but then they find out that nearly all of the exy players are generous philanthropists. Donating what they think is well over fifty percent of their income to various charities.

That’s their article, they think. Exy, One of the Most Charitable Sports in Modern History!

But then they start looking into it further and things start to look… suspicious.

Every single Edgar Allen exy alum donates to a mixture of the same ten or so charities. They are all lesser know charities that range from bringing exy to underprivileged communities to children with rare forms of cancer to environmental activism organizations.

Even the power trio from PSU, Day, Josten, and Minyard, have donated to a few on that list and their contributions significant. The difference between them and Edgar Allen alum though is that they also donate to causes not on the list and related to their pasts.

So they look into the charities more, looking at the mission statements, finding their financials, even volunteering at some of them. And they discover that things don’t quite match up. Yes the charities work toward the goals laid out in their mission statement, but the money they receive from the exy donations should vastly change their day-to-day operations.

And that’s how they find out that all those charities are a part of an elaborate money laundering scheme involving the top exy players in the world.

Shortly after figuring that out and shortly after connecting exactly who is doing the money laundering, they disappear without a trace.

#aftg #all for the game #tfc #exy #ichirou moriyama #aftg shitpost #aftg fandom #I couldn’t sleep so this is obviously what I think about #how do they pay the moriyamas without it being suspicious?? #idk how finance stuff really works though #they could probably pay some shell company monthly for some sort of subscription #or membership fee #some rich person club #but honestly #is it illegal if they’re giving it willingly??? #m #write junk

[just-an-enby-lemon]

I think the thing about creatives moving for their own subscription based plataform for me is that: it is a gringo issue. Not in a bad way but more like my favorite brazilian youtubers are not going to do that or if they ever do it'll take a while!

This means I'm mostly just losing my favorite foreing channels. Said channels are of course for english speakers wich means subscrition fees are dollar based. So the acessible 5 to 6 bucks becames 25 to 30 bucks for me (not even conting the conversion fees) and I just have no way of paying that much.

#watcher #i super get why they would do that #i'm just sad i won't be abble to have their content anymore #but like good luck for them #watchers tv's subscrition fee is more expensive than the cheaper netflix subscription fee #and like i don't even pay netflix anyway #but it does have more content and it's cheaper #at least from a brazilian stand poing #again i get why they are doing it #and i understand the importance of supporting small bussiness against monopolys #i just personaly am sad i won't be able to watch their content anymore #same feelings i have towards droupout tbh #but hey as long as I have ordem paranormal for free i don't care #i'm living of kaz rowe ordem paranormal felps being silly and spite

[drakonovisny]

so tempted to spend most of my salary immediately to start my hrt

#gendergp is like €200 of intial fees alone + €60 on each online consultation (i think the first one is compulsory) #+ subscription fee + the cost of t in the pharmacy ༎ຶ⁠‿⁠༎ຶ #it's gonna come up to a lot #i can't really risk spending this much at once #i really have to try holding this job for another month

[sopuu]

What do you use to animate? Also do you use premium medibang?

i used to use adobe animate but my licence expired recently so i’m looking to try toon boom/sb pro!

and i just use regular medibang (i didn’t even know premium was a thing??)

#also switching from adobe bc iii don’t like its business model #once i wanted to cancel a subscription early for smth but it needed me to pay an EXTRA cancellation fee like wtf is that. why #asks

[threadsun]

A sad fate of a person living in a country where Patreon is blocked..... _|￣|○

Oh no!!!! I've been planning on selling audios individually, I just need to find somewhere to sell them. I'd probably only be able to sell the patreon ones though, since most places ban creators from selling the darker/more taboo content I put on my discord (noncon, incest, etc.). Might at some point sell like...discord access? But I'll have to figure that out. I'll need to work it all out so the prices are fair regardless of if you're a patron or buying one off stuff ^^'

#sunshine #asks #18+ only #hmm given that patreon comes out to like less than 50¢ an audio... that seems weirdly low (possibly even not possible) to set #as an individual audio's price #and then I'd wanna either make the discord access a monthly/yearly subscription fee or make it expensive enough that people who are paying #for access through patreon aren't getting screwed over #god I'm so bad at numbers this is gonna suck #but I want it to be available to anyone 18+ who wants it!!

[nylarac]

corporate clash basically feels like original toontown if it continued to evolve into the modern day and also was freed from the shackles of capitalism

#ttr feels more like preserved regular toontown w some smaller updates #and also freed from the shackles of capitalism #u just know toontown would be microtransation hell if it was still in disney's hands #plus there would still be subscription fees and they would definitely be crazy expensive #so tbh i am glad original toontown died

[funshinebf]

is dimension20 only on uhh the one streaming service now. do you guys think ill be able to convince my dad to pay for the subscription for it

#my post #hes a nerd he likes d&d.... ill make him watch it with me if i must... #i wanna watch dungeons and drag queens as well. love the vibe #how much even is the subscription fee

[silverfox66]

Rest in peace, RIF 🥺

And I very much agree with this guy.

#Although I don't mind the idea of a paywall for newspapers but I am not willing to make endless subscriptions just to read an article #just give me the option to pay a small fee just to read that one article #Youtube is a nightmare as well #The golden age of the internet seems over #Reddit #Reddit is fun #Twitter

[futuresafe]

hi consider giving me some tips i am broke

#my posts #all my subscription fees hit me at once in between getting paid (my father has been slacking on paying me (: #and i am in the red bc of it #badly.

[sleidog]

Need u to know I started playing gw2 because all the posting u do make the game seem fun.... I don't know what I'm doing. But I'm having fun

that's great to hear! i hope you continue to have a great time with the game :D

#asks #gw2 is just it's own breed; despite gripes may have about the game #also a game like this is so rarely without subscription fees as well

[ghoooooooooooooooost]

oh yeah i got an actual scanner (an overhead book scanner but it's good) so my traditional stuff is gonna look cleaner now YIPPIE

#i was using a scanner app on my phone up till now #sometimes it worked really well like w that one roland from like 2 months ago other times it would just look like a phone pic #the grainy-ness had charm but it also made it a pain in the ass to edit the lineart n color things. plus the app has a subscription fee... #text post