I think its more reflective that the price of streaming services continues to rise, while the value proposition does not. So why subscribe to all services at one time? You can only watch one at a time.

1. Streaming time grows steadily for years.
2. Streaming services insert ads in paid accounts.
3. Streaming time decreases.
4. "Streaming Fatigue" - yeah, that's it! Obviously!

It’s just cable with extra steps at this point. More effort, more costly. Not worth it.

things we tried:

• jacking up prices
• adding ads to paid services
• canceling the better shows
• not adding anything meaningful
• making specifically terrible shows that are obviously terrible from the get go
• making the algorithm noticeably worse to cover up for the worse output
• platforming has-been comedians so they can cry about how they aren't platformed anymore on our platform in a distinctly unfunny and joke-free manner

We're out of ideas... maybe we should utilize AI?

It's not fatigue, it's enshitification. We're not going to continue paying more for less. Bye!

Hmm... Yeah this is why they're going after pirate sites because people pushing back.

If green line for streaming does not continue to go up, I expect the propaganda with VPNs will be targeted as "used by criminals" Or "exclusive to CSAM" with talks of senate or house about "banning" or "restricting" them "for the children" in 2025

Very simple rule fuckers. Ads and free or paid and no ads.

I'm done with streaming it only really worked when there was one, now they've saturated it to the degree it's pointless. Not only that but they keep raising prices for a worse service and now they have all went ad crazy on top of it.

I see no benifit to subscribing to any of them I'd rather watch free to air stuff if I have to see ads, and for anything else I'll hoist the black flag since I'd likely need about 10 subscriptions otherwise.

I want to watch Stargate SG1. I hear people say it's on Prime Video, so I subscribe. It's not there. I guess being a filthy European makes me unworthy. So I bite the bullet and get a VPN. Now I'm paying what amounts to twice the price of the usual subscription. I start watching the series and guess what? It's leaving Prime in a few days. Motherf...

I think what would save the streaming industry would be anti-exclusionary legislation. Prevent contracts where shows are exclusively produced for one streaming company. Then streaming platforms compete on cost, curation, and interface, not on exclusive content.

no they started pirating because of the ridiculous number of screaming streaming services

I have none of them left. Same reasons as everyone else, the value is not there and it's a subscription that ticks money even when I don't use it.

Too many services with too low quality content.

Once Upon a Time Netflix premiered a handful of huge shows and movies a season. Then they got addicted to watch metrics and decided everything should be "second screen content" from a firehose.

Now I don't watch any Netflix original until it's concluded or has rave reviews, because it's likely to get canceled in season 1 or just not be worth watching at all. And in the rare case it is great, gets picked up, and have rave reviews, they can still fuck it up like The Witcher.

Every other network is pretty much guilty of this too. I'm so, so over it. They have made me actually long for the option of a singular cable-like license I could get, because they are so shitty at maintaining their services and their catalogs are so poor now.

I just roll my own now and host a Plex server, because fuck em.

Put ads in a service I pay for?
*****cancelled!****"

I could get a seedbox running the ARR suite and Plex for cheaper than 1 subscription service per month

Why the fuck would I pay THEM for their WORSE service?

I hadn't noticed, but the consolidation has happened. The cycle completes as the phone and cable companies all have streaming bundles now. It's cable TV again in another form. Still horseshit, but that's going to be their collective play I guess

I wonder if 2+ years between seasons is also having an impact.

I pick up new shows way less than I did in the past because of this with the ones I do being more tied to whether it is a miniseries or source material I plan to read after the season ends to finish it out on my own.

Yar harr fiddly dee dee

Why pay for 20 services offering 10 mid quality exclusives when I can pay for a VPN.

We are cancelling some services. The value isn’t there, and we need the money. /shrug

So many service raised their price and so many people cancelled their subscription in response, in summary: FAFO

Maybe they should try not being shitty and expensive?

No one has mentioned COVID and habits. Sure we aren't in lockdown, but it was literally the only thing to do a few years ago and people likely continued due to it be a comfort.

It has changed how we did things. As well as all the enshitifucation.

I honestly don't even care to watch things anymore anyway; This is probably closed minded of me to say but, I feel like I've already watched my favorite movie and my favorite tv show. If new stuff comes out that is good, that's great! but it's never going to be as meaningful to me as the things I watched as I grew up. Hollywood is old news, gaming is where it's at for me now.

Sounds like they need to make it 25% more expensive next year. That will fix it!

I spent $0 and use free streaming instead. Pluto.tv, Tubi, Roku, and YouTube have plenty of shit to watch, not to mention other options. I had been a Netflix and Prime subscriber from the beginning (like, back when Netflix only shipped DVDs) but both companies kept getting shittier and charging more so I ditched them.