Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 months agoAnd that should be enough right there to get all server owners to drop Plex
Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 months agoAnd that should be enough right there to get all server owners to drop Plex
pory@lemmy.world 10 months ago
but it’s not, because “i got it so cheap for $60 ten years ago” and “securely opening a port and enabling OAuth for jellyfin takes more than one click”.
The “lifetime” Plex Pass was a genius marketing move, because people are permanently inertia-locked into the cost they sunk. For nearly a decade now the refrain is “I just have a Plex pass. I bought it for $30 less than its current cost and it works great for me, sucks that it’s now $90/$120/$240 but IMO it’s worth it :)”
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 months ago
I know I’m one of them, and at the time and even now I supported it. They were adding features, they did plexamp! It was great, and I was happy to help pay for development. Now though? Nothing worthwhile added in years, and just more ways to nickle and dime. Not to mention the ad-riddled free “content” they’re shoving in front of my users. Nope, I’m done. My lifetime plex pass ended up being about $10 per year that I used it, and I’ll say I’m content with that.