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Disney is raking its customers over the coals with a 75% price hike for their annual subscription (originally $80.) People wonder why piracy is on the rise.Multiple commenters are saying I'm off base about the 75% price increase. My payment less than a year ago was $79.99. Here's the proof.

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[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 74 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm not defending them, but this was clearly always the plan. It was obvious they intended to enter the market just under competitor prices to establish a foothold and then later charge more and reset the industry standard in doing so.

Again, I'm not saying it doesn't suck, because it does, but this was clearly the Disney+ game plan since day 1

[–] Borkingheck@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Smae with password sharing etc.

[–] Patches@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But you can password share Disney Plus? Ask us how we know

[–] Borkingheck@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm suggesting they will remove it eventually like Netflix.

[–] StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I knew this too but didn't expect it to go this high so fast. Oh well, I'll finish setting up my deluge headless + VPN gateway lxc and get back to high seas.

[–] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

They forgot the bit where they put out desirable content though.