Why are you paying for this bullshit?
Even if it weren’t going up every year. It would still be Disney, an evil as Fuck company.
Turns out the 80s fearmongering of shoving free/cheap drugs at kids to get them addicted, then jack up the price was prescient after all.
Just with digital subscription drugs instead of narcotics.
Don’t do subscriptions, m’kay?
To stick with your analogy, I got so annoyed at the gouging I figured out how to make my own drugs and now I deal a little on the side too.
Weed? Or are you an aspiring chemist?
I mean, what is an analogy anyway?
Oh, duh.
Is your username a reference to The Day Today? If so I love it.
He’s a streamer now
Not surprising when you look at how much they’ve increased their annual park subscription.
And to be honest, I can’t blame them when people keep buying it and they’re still keeping the parks full. I wouldn’t hesitate that they are having a lot of subscribers too and hardly anyone leaves when they increase the price.
Such a shame for the rest of us that don’t want to put up with these price hikes.
And to be honest, I can’t blame them when people keep buying it and they’re still keeping the parks full.
I mean, for the parks, I’d increase the price to what the market could bear at the capacity the parks have, but also build more park, if there’s that much demand.
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Apparently they actually do have a 14 acre expansion happening at Disney World at the moment.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/04/travel/disney-expansion-magic-kingdom-10-year-investment/index.html
But park visitors can one day expect to see much more beyond that wilderness at the iconic park in Central Florida – something more ambitious than just a ride overhaul or a retheming.
“It’s probably the largest expansion ever at Magic Kingdom,” Michael Hundgen, Walt Disney World site portfolio executive, said Tuesday during a rare media event previewing new Disney attraction designs and technology at its Walt Disney Imagineering facility in California.
He said the expansion will be about the size of Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge, which occupies about 14 acres. A Disney team is currently on research trips and going through concept design for this expansion area.
I don’t know if that’s enough to substantially increase supply, though.
What a weird way to low key rip on and blame OP and others that pay for Disney+. Yes, clearly it’s their fault you have been priced out.
Such a shame, really.
I mean it’s enabling Disney to do it, isn’t it?
It’s a luxury service. It’s not a necessity. If it were a necessity, I wouldn’t blame other customers because everyone needs it. But when you keep giving money to a company who keeps raising the price without doing anything to benefit you, you can’t tell me that’s not enabling these anti-consumerist practices.
Going back to the Disney parks, with the price increases, they have actually taken away benefits like no black out dates, forcing members into reservations, and more. And yet people still pay for this…?
Yeah, it is a shame for the rest of us that don’t put up with this and vote with our wallets because it means nothing.
Why do you go on like I’m supporting Disney and their business practices?
I simply made a comment about how it’s weird to blame people. You didn’t crack the code. We all understand how demand and pricing works. I just don’t think a family that can afford it would consider Disney+ at the cost of a DVD a month to a problem just yet.
Imagine being so poor you can’t buy the physical media, rip it to your media server, and stream at anytime.
Lol, enjoy your shitty subpar streaming service that serves media at less than 4K while paying increasing monthly costs.
- Pay for luxury service
- Service gets more expensive
- Keep paying for service
- Service gets more expensive
- Complain about cost, goto 1
It’s hard to have pity for people who do this, especially if enough people stopped, the service would get cheaper.
We all get that. But when you have three kids and a Roku, Disney is nearly a requirement. A luxury for sure, but certainly nice to have. Most people are not going to buy handfuls $20 Disney DVDs in 2024.
Again, it’s really odd we blame people just trying to get through their day instead of the company itself.
At the cost of a DVD a month, Disney has people by the balls. It’s still within reasonable range for them. Especially since they own so much IP that appeals to all kinds of folks.
4 kids. Never paid for cable or Disney or any streaming service… there are other paths
Do you both work from home or is one a stay at home parent? Do you have enough money where a nanny/babysitter assists? Or do you have family that helps out regularly? Because if you answered yes to any of those, you can’t really look down from your ivory tower.
Naw. Im a coughsailor.I have all the media… my kids have seen it all commercial free.
main cost was storage, even that wasnt near these subscription fees
No one said it was the only path. I don’t see that being argued anywhere. But since the topic of THIS post is about Disney+ then it seems relevant to the discussion as why people are paying it.
But sure let’s hear more about your irrelevance on the topic.
I thought Disney was “nearly a requirement” . . . sounds to like those precious few who can manage without might have some useful information.
Typically this is what happens in a free competitive market, when a price goes up people look for substitutes.
And if they face constraints in moving to the substitute, they will benefit from help in loosening those constraints.So what’s the issue? You’re upset because I said that?
There are a 150 million Disney subscribers right now. Down from 160 a few years ago. The price increase has turned a few away, but not many.
Clearly there are families that continue to justify the expense. Again, I don’t have the service or children. I just thought it was odd for people to have so much hate for families who spend $12 a month to watch shows.
What a first world take on this, it’s not a requirement at all. Parent your fucking children. My kids watch D+ maybe once or twice a month, my wife and I honestly watch it more frequently than they do because they have shows we like. We could drop it tomorrow if our budget needed to be trimmed.
A fairly aggressive comment. I’m not the person you replied to, but as a parent with young ones, there are times where TV is literally an enormous rescuer. For example, just a couple of months ago, the entire family got hit with an extremely nasty stomach bug. I could barely walk without needing to either throw up or shit my pants. Being able to setup a little triage center in our living room for us and the kids, where we napped and watched movies all day, made that experience at least mostly bearable.
There are numerous other cases where modern technology makes parenting far easier. Back in the day, communities were much closer knit and extended family lived within the neighborhood, so parents had a lot more backup to help in those situations. Nowadays, that kind of support network is increasingly rare for parents to have. So yes, it’s a luxury, but it should be an accessible luxury. Private companies are free to do what they want, doesn’t mean we can’t complain about it while begrudgingly continuing to pay for it.
You go on some strange rant about people raising their kids and then proceed to validate my comment.
My kids watch D+ maybe once or twice a month, my wife and I honestly watch it more frequently than they do because they have shows we like.
Odd. Take care friend.
Your comment makes it sound like you can’t give it up because your kids use it too much. I didn’t validate anything.
I do not have a Disney subscription or children. It’s amazing how far people will stretch things to internet dunk on folks.
Is it that hard to follow that I’m simply talking about the topic of this post? A person posts a picture of the rise of costs for Disney+. I simply state I can understand why people would still justify the price and then people start pulling it into weird directions to justify their hatred of Disney. Whatever. Take care.
You got libraries where you are?
Mine does online rentals for digital products (movies, TV, audiobooks, ebooks).
some of them might even have these papery things with brothers grimm or hans christian andersen stories in them.
I don’t have children or Disney. I was simply adding to the discussion as to why folks might justify the current price.
Edit: Never thought I’d get so much anger and hate from people in a Disney+ post. I don’t have children and I don’t have Disney.
Sorry you went through this. Feel free to report any agressive comment, hopefully the mods will act upon them.
We’ll have to wait and see if they get away with it. I may be OK paying more if I already had my mind set on going and didn’t know about the price hike but if the experience is not worth it I won’t visit again.
Went to Epcot in November 2022 and it was the time when I paid the most and the park looked like a husk of its former self. Now I will actively avoid the parks for the foreseeable future.
This is the problem. People keep buying it.
This is one of my worries with a growing wealth disparity in the world.
The average person is starting to get priced out of any luxury entertainment because there are wealthy people with unreasonable amounts of money to throw at whatever they feel like.
There will always be rich people who can pay whatever price a company asks for.
I’d also point out that Disney’s parks are on the pricey side. Like, they do provide a lot of nice stuff, but it’s not like they’re the only amusement park operator out there.
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A few years back, but I imagine the ratios probably roughly hold.
https://www.businessinsider.com/cost-us-theme-parks-ranked-disney-six-flags-2018-5?op=1
On this list of 45 amusement parks in the US ranked by cost, Disney World is #2, Disney Adventure Park is #3, Disneyland is #4, and Disney’s Animal Kingdom is #5.
If someone wants to go to an amusement park and isn’t specifically set on what Disney has on offer, there are a number of other options that are more-affordable.
Its a luxury service in a declining economy, when everything is getting shittier and shittier and people will pay through the nose for relief. Why wouldn’t they charge more?
I also suspect there’s a dark pattern where the subscriber just forgets it is on autopay.
I want to hope that the person that posted this screenshot disabled auto renewal.
It’s why I cancelled last year. I got it for free through my FIOS Internet connection for a few years, but after that went away I paid for a year. But the price increase was just not worth the like 2 shows and maybe one movie that I watched on it a year.
I can buy 7 movies on physical media for that yearly price. Maybe it’s time to end that subscription.
Fewer than one a month?
I guess a good heuristic is if you don’t watch one or two movies a month on Disney, you should drop Disney makes sense.
I can see why you would come up with that number. The reality is I tend to watch my movies multiple times. This would give me seven new movies per year. On top of all the other movies already own. Plus I still have cable TV, which there’s a good chance I may shut that down and just go with antenna. Which would still give me all of my local channels.
Right now I buy on Blu-ray, but there’s a good chance I’ll probably start buying on 4K once I get my new TV.
Then stop fucking paying them
It’s kind of interesting, it’s not even mine, just something I took from elsewhere.
Was it necessary to be this agressive?
Anyway, have a good one.
It’s just kind of annoying. People that complain about these things yet they are the exact reason it exists because they continue paying.
Why not, if you keep paying?
It’s like when the ISPs area me offer me a 'better Price’s then my current internet plan…I know it’s always bullshit and I refuse to accept the ‘deal’ that they can revoke at any moment and increase the cost of.
The ISP motto: “I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.”
And yet the mobile app is still garbage.
The whole channel is kinda going to shit. Even as streaming services go, they rank behind Netflix and Apple.
But they’ve got a brand that people cannot resist. So we keep drinking their garbage.
It’s just inflation, guys. (/s)
goes to check how much actually is
https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
This is only using yearly resolution, but given inflation from 2021 to 2024, $79.18 in 2021 would be $85.51 in 2024.
That’s 8.95% of the increase from inflation, and 91.05% of the increase being a real increase.
Why do you keep paying??
It’s entertaining that nothing posted to this community is mild…
Yes, I just noticed the comments can be quite negative. Probably my last post here for a while
Yet the person continues to pay it every single year.
The only subscription that I pay for is subsidized by my cellular provider. Otherwise, my subscriptions would be $0 per month.
I’m broke AF, but that might actually still be a good price if you’re regularly using the service. Inflation is one, I’m sure, as well as the inclusion of Hulu and their library moving back to their services.
You can pay or not.
Yargh, matey. There be another option, if ye’ve got tha wit and tha courage.
