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Plex Announces Massive Price Hike on Lifetime Subscription Plans (www.ign.com)
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Plex has announced a massive price increase on the service's Lifetime Plex Pass. On July 1, the lifetime subscription option will go from $249.99 to $749.99, an increase of 200%. The price hike will only apply to new subscribers, with no changes to monthly or annual subscription pricing.

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[โ€“] NastyNative@mander.xyz -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The scary part and the reason I never paid is because I think they will shut down plex soon. No one is paying for streaming services anymore and those giants will start coming down on the gov to do something about it. EU is coming down pretty hard on IPTV and torrent sites already.

[โ€“] Bloefz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The EU shouldn't because most of those streaming services are American. So it's only good for us if people pirate. It offsets some of the tariffs Trump has levied.

And it's those services' own fault. They offered a decent value for money for years. Now they keep wanting more and more. Rising fees, content disappearing to other platforms but still asking for more money. Adding ads and then asking for money to remove them. Eventually people are sick of it and go like ๐Ÿ–•