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WordsAreSomething t1_iyegvw7 wrote

Reply to comment by Appropriate_North893 in This is why streaming Netflix, Disney Plus, and HBO Max keeps getting more expensive by Carolina_Heart

Why would they want to make it so you can pay once to watch something when their entire model is getting you to pay monthly to watch it?

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Appropriate_North893 t1_iyehlmo wrote

Aside from the fact that other streamers do it?

How about the fact that I can sub for a month, binge that show (and others if I want) and then cancel....for less than the cost of a digital copy of the show season. So they can get more of my money by offering it this way?

Like this ain't hard.

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WordsAreSomething t1_iyem5uv wrote

It's not that hard which is why it's weird that you're being so aggressive about it.

If they offer the one show that you want to watch somewhere else than your incentive to subscribe is 0.

If they don't then you have to subscribe for at least a month to watch it. That is when they try to hook you with everything else they offer so you stay on for multiple months.

They don't care about making more upfront because they can make more in the long run by getting people into their platform and keeping them. Which they have been very successful doing.

Most other streamers allow for purchase because that's what they did before they entered streaming.

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