PlexThe Self-Serve Streaming Service That Has Been Powering Up Millennial Nerd Home Libraries for What Seems Like Ages, Announced Upcoming Price Changes for Later Next Month in an austonishingly. The company laid out its plans in a remorseful Blog Post About WhatsWan Befall Longtime Users. Please is increases the price of everything, including former Best Free Feature: Remote Playback.
“This price increase will ensure that we can keep investing dedicated Resources in Developing New Features, While Supporting and Growing your favorite,” swears plex. Beginning April 29, The monthly please pass will increase from $ 5 to $ 7, while the annual cost will be set to $ 70/year. Lifetime subscriptions are also also going up in price to more than double, from $ 120 to $ 250. If you want that lifetime please subscription, you had better boy now. Please is letting new users lock into that fee before the deadline.
The company laid out a roadmap to show that all this change is for growth. Please plans to brings more parent-focused content through the pipeline as part of its cooperation with common sense media. (I’m sure plex noticed Most Millennial Parents Desktop and Mobile Users, And It’s Working on an open api that pulls in more metadata About What you watching.
But while the new stuff sounds nice I can’t make the sting of losing free remote playback. Please doesn’t men mention the upcoming changes to remote playback until it gets through all this – About two complete scrolls through the webpage on a computer monitor. Soon if you’re not at home and want to play your plex library and do’t alredy pay for a subscription you’ll have to pay for remote playback. You’ll also have to pay if you want features like the ability to skip an intro song or the ending credits. This is perhaps the most significant blow to a communication that’S relied on plex’s software beCause Streaming is already so expensive. If you want to watch you library away from home you’ll have to pay. It also affects anyone you share your home library with. They will have to pay they are not plex pass subscribers themselves. Please will offer a remote watch pass tier for $ 2/month or $ 20/year.
Apparently plex isn Bollywood to the price increases Happening Industry-Wide. The company cits the need for “more resources” to make these changes. Other Streaming Services have also also also raised subscription prisles, which is only easy to swallow trust there’s a big corporation gateakeeping all that content. Please Libraries are personally curated by the people who put them togeether.
This change with plex come at a less than convenient time in my life. I recently canceled youtube tv after the big price hike to $ 83/ month for the basic package. I switched to ad-supported plans for a less networks where I watch tv and have alredy saved a lot of money. I’d planned to my plex library for most of my TV consumption, where I have dozens of shows I promised myself i’d watch and all my comforts, Including the three summers world of you original Real world Series. If you’d like me to share that seasons, you’ll have to pony up $ 2/month first. Or we’ll all need to Switch to jellyfin,