If Netflix or Hulu were losing value, they wouldn’t be able to keep raising prices. Also, pirates are gonna pirate no matter what. The idea that they’d need some motivation or reason to pirate outside of wanting to not spend money is hilarious.

Streaming services are fine. Each of them have put a lot of money into developing original content that make the services worth it. You’d prefer a small handful of services that all have the same stuff? Or bidding wars for exclusive rights to certain shows or movies?

Haven’t some of you here argued for less of buying exclusives and paying for stuff and more of each console company developing their own stuff and making their libraries diverse and different from one another? Or is that just console warz nonsense spouted because Sony won this generation? Because the same thing has been happening in the streaming services space for awhile and yet you seem against it.

And again, if you don’t want to subscribe.... nothing changes for you. If you want to watch Star Trek, you have to subscribe to the CBS service. Handmaids Tale? Hulu. Ubisoft isn’t going to make you subscribe to play Ass Creed 2020 or Watch Dogs 3 lol.

Yes because price and value always go hand to hand. Netflix have gotten worse on the last 5 years and price rose. It may not take much longer for me to cancel mine.

And you pretending that a lot of content that was on Netflix have gone to other services either because the content creator opened their own service or found a better price is funny.

Just see crunchyroll that lost 3 animes I was watching or to start watching because Amazon and Netflix purchased the rights to them.

Also you are completely wrong on the piracy analysis. When Netflix made paying little for good and ample catalogue very practical piracy took a nose dive, and now after the dispersion of several subs it is regrowing.

Doing false parallel is not doing you any service.

You were saying EA Access success wouldn't give incentive to more companies doing it, and now you are trying to change your argument and put the fault on others.

I never said no other companies would do it. In fact in the recent thread about Sony finally bowing down and allowing the service, I said others would eventually have them. It’s just not the negativity shitstorm some here and elsewhere made it out to be, most likely said at the time only because PS4 wasn’t getting it lol.

Idc to argue opinions about the quality of Netflix or the value you get for the price, it’s all subjective. And piracy has always been a big thing and is bigger than ever. The idea that Netflix killed it or slowed it is as silly as when people would say that about Spotify. Not accurate.