what about stremio+torrentio+RealDebrid?
Just FYI, currently in Sweden I pay the equivalent of about $10 for the standard tier without ads.
They only recently increased it to the close to $10. Currently I am OK paying that since my kid is actually using Netflix frequently.
As soon as the price goes higher, or they introduce ads in any way or once they start peddling their shitty mobile games on the child account, we’re out.
They already started to not have non-English audio for a few pretty popular movies, which is a weird move and makes it less usable for us as well.
Already got Jellyfin setup, so no worries for the future on my end.
mobile games might be the one good thing theyve been doing, pretty sure they released some solid ones, like hades port
You can play hades on mobile now? It was already tough on PC, I can’t imagine how difficult that would be on mobile touch controls.
You can use a controller. I got further in Dead Cells on my phone with the Backbone One than I did on my Steam Deck. Maybe the same would be true with Hades - it’s a shame the Netflix version doesn’t (or didn’t; I haven’t checked in months) support cross-save.
Fuck them for licencing games behind a monthly subscription. I want to buy Into the Breach, not get a video subscription I won’t use to be able to play it.
Yeah I was playing it while I cancelled my sub over the account sharing restriction. The only thing I missed, really.
Thats wild , didn’t know that, you cant own hades on ios or play it offline
On android theres prob cracked apks at least
I think you’re looking at it the wrong way. It’s just an extra that you have for “free”, not a dedicated gaming subscription. I also live in Europe and my Netflix is cheap, so I will have the subscription by default (cause a lot of people in my family watch it), which means I get to try the games for free. You can always just go buy them if you want, from the store.
I cannot. Mobile games are exclusively licensed by Netflix: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netflix.NGP.IntoTheBreach&hl=en-US
On desktop, I’ll of course go for the actual purchase
Hmm, didn’t know that one was exclusive to Netflix. It’s not a universal thing or a rule, cause San Andreas Definitive Edition, for example, is available to purchase for $20. Probably depends on what the game publisher agreed to.
Even greedy Amazon is providing games that don’t require a constant subscription to play even after you cancel Prime.
No, you seeing it wrong.
The subscription is the ONLY way you can get that game, making the whole subscription a necessity if you only want to game that one game.
Like with YouTube, where you have to pay YouTube music as well, even if you have apple music payed by your daddy already
Currently on sale for 8$ https://store.steampowered.com/app/590380/Into_the_Breach/
I have it on PC, but I want to play it on the go. The only way to (legally) get it on mobile is via Netflix. I’d buy it, if I could, it’d be worth it
Steam Deck?
Don’t have one, unfortunately. And I don’t think I’ll get enough use out of one to justify buying it
Wild that standard with ads is now the same price as original regular Netflix
Am I the only one around here that wants to see them burn in hell just out of principle?
All that for JUST NETFLIX. What incredible bullshit people are having to deal with.
Yesh numbers can be easily manipulated.
Netflix is “sold” along other services. Here many internet companies bundle netflix in their plans.
They don’t need to be attractive to the consumer. They just need to do a deal behind curtains with other companies and force Netflix on people by other ways. Numbers go up.
Seconding this. The figures are too rubbery for headlines like this to have any meaning.
My parents are finally getting rid of it. The one thing I’ve noticed, though, is that not having a subscription service means I’m very unlikely to get off my butt and watch tv/movies. Which isn’t a bad thing, I guess I just value other entertainment more?
I’ve wanted to watch the boy and the heron for a while. Maybe I’ll get to it eventually, lol.
Boycotted over those cunts platforming that cunt chapelle and never looked back. No Netflix, no Disney, no Twitter, no Facebook, no Instagram, no TikTok, no Reddit, no Amazon, no Apple.
Already bailed when they blocked account sharing…
I get Netflix for free but literally never use it. I think I’ll cancel it. Why even have it?
I shared my parents’ account, but rather than locking me and my sister out of Netflix when they started bringing in restrictions against account sharing, Netflix just…deleted our account entirely. Maybe something to do with my parents being in a different country from me and my sister.
So anyway we haven’t had Netflix for like 2 years now thanks to that. Thankfully we’ve got a really nice…alternative streaming site with all the stuff that Netflix has, and any other stuff available from around the web, with the niceties of being streaming based rather than requiring downloading ahead of time, and keeping your watch progress etc.
Was watching a movie on Netflix with a friend a while back and it didn’t even support subtitles for her…
Wasn’t $7.99 the price for standard at some point? I mean, it was easy to predict but they really did just add the option with ads to make it as expensive as the version without ads and then make every other option way more expensive
$7.99 was the only price at some point. Then they reduced the quality of the service and increased the price.
Streaming only launched at 9.99 iirc
I stopped going to the cinema for the ads , I used Netflix until they geoblocked my downloaded content and I couldn’t watch it while traveling.
Now all my movies and series are free, in the resolution that I want, and they stay on my device for how long I want.
My local single-screen theaters usually have little to no pre-roll ads. Some of them even have pizza and beer at a reasonable price.
That said, I watch most movies on my Plex server, from the comfort of my couch. The experience is harrd to beat.
Here is 8€ for popcorns… And the average salary is 1400-1500 The price for the ticket is usually very low tho. Like 4-8 €
I honestly don’t mind the pre-movie ads too much. Usually there’s not that many, it quickly moves on to other movie trailers (which I don’t mind knowing about) and then you just get the full movie without any ads whatsoever. You can always just arrive 10 minutes later and skip most of the ads anyway.
Netflix ads can kiss my ass though. Jellyfin to the rescue!
all that to be locked out of anything higher than 720p if you dare use a privacy friendly operating system 😂 right, I’ll be holding onto my money then
Even using Firefox on Windows 10, 720p! I cancelled a while back and now I just download stuff.
Even Asahi Linux literally had to deal with this just to get 1080p:
This is why I keep insisting that Kodi (and other open source “media center” solutions) really only work for people dedicatedly ripping their own large collection of physical content, or for pirates.
I would kill for an all in one, “single pane of glass” way to browse and watch even just only my legally obtained media library (personally ripped discs amd multiple streaming services). But at absolute best I still have content from different sources all squirelled away in their own separate menus, and if I use something like Kodi for the rips I’m stuck at 720p for streaming (assuming the unofficial plugin for Netflix decides to work that day).
And not even proprietary closed source stuff gets it right. With a chromecast dongle (or whatever they’ve relabeled it now) at best I can search for a specific piece of content from the main menu, and then it’s a crapshoot if say, the Amazon Prime content found by the search is included with my sub or a separate cost. It’s a crapshoot if the “link” will just open the associated app or actually take me to the fucking content in the associated app.
I don’t get why these streaming services think people care about the brand at all. The less I have to think about the service itself, the more likely I am to ignore how infrequently I use it. The more I have to deal with friction getting to the content, the more I have time to think about if the subscription is even worth the cost.
I would kill for an all in one, “single pane of glass” way to browse
We used to have one, and it was great.
RIP Boxee.
You may have already looked into it, but I’ve been pretty happy with stremio. There are guides on getting it hooked up with real debrid + torrentio, and the end result is reliably search for what you want -> click play.
