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"Why don't people want to pay for streaming anymore?" cry the companies who split streaming into 40 different services that keep increasing in cost while randomly removing content without warning, and shoving ads into our paid services.
Yup, sure is a mystery. A real head scratcher.
For real though, the fact that so many companies entered the market, each with a lukewarm offering that's like 6 of the existing 9 series of a show you want, but then you have to get a new service for season 7-8, and wait to see who has 9, is fucking wild. I remember when Netflix had everything. Now it's a smorgasbord of crap, at a minimum of 20 quid each a month. What did they expect to happen?
@Zenbuffy
What happened was that Netflix became successful enough and other media companies wanted a piece of that pie. They did so by creating their own streaming service to offer their own IP and whatever content they could buy the rights for cheap.
So now you have two dozen of streaming services each offering some of what they made.
Ideally you would want to pay $10/m to have access to all the (multi)media ever made available in the world. But the world doesn't work that way.
@Zenbuffy
Regarding Netflix and its waining offering, in part this has to do with their licenses for content expiring and not being renewed. Either these licenses aren't on offer, or prohibitively expensive. To combat this NetFlix is creating/investing in its own content.
This happened in the gaming space much earlier with Steam, and when all the large publishers started to launch their own software platforms. EA's Origin, Ubisoft Connect, whatever M$ is doing. Same story...
@ligthert @Zenbuffy Netflix has made some original series I really loved, and they all had crazy cliffhangers, but then they cancelled them less than a month after release because not enough people immediately binged them. I refuse to be forced into binging shows immediately, i like streaming because I can watch when I want. And expecting people to magically find new shows when there isn't any advertising is crazy. I cancelled Netflix in January after they cancelled yet another show I loved.
@asjmcguire@mastodon.scot@Jennifer @ligthert @Zenbuffy this has been my argument with Netflix for ages now, no series on there has ever been given the promotion as Stranger Things. But now that they have started going down the traditional broadcast route of cancelling a series, even though it's popular - it makes it harder to justify investing your time in the latest new series. For example 1899 - that had so much potential to be a 4 or 5 season arc. But nope. Cancelled. Daybreak - cancelled.
@asjmcguire @ligthert @Zenbuffy 1899 is what made me cancel my account. I loved that show, and the final cliffhanger was insane, but we'll never know the rest of the story. I was so mad they cancelled it so fast.