I was waiting for this story after I saw that on my inbox.

Waiting until “plex pro” and they slowly sunset features on the original plex lifetime pass.

Existing Lifetime Plex Pass memberships are unaffected by the upcoming price hike; if you already locked in your sub at a lower rate, you won’t have to pay any additional fees, and your service isn’t changing

For now.

It’d be mildly annoying to have to switch to Jellyfin, or some other option, but I have no qualms ditching Plex if it turns to crap. Don’t ever give into the sink cost fallacy.

wdym "borderline"

Jumping to $250 USD was borderline... $750 fucking crossed that point and took my job! (Referencing offensive like AI)

Fym "borderline"??

This is why I have Jellyfin.

I love being able to post this yet again:

I have a lifetime Plex pass I got during a big sale like a decade ago, at 1/10 the price they are raising it to. I haven't used it in about 6 months and never plan to even log into it again. Jellyfin 4 life!

I mean, I also have a whole bunch of windows keys from old MSDN accounts and stuff, but I am sure as shit not going to install Windows on my machines just because I can!

This is one of those situations where they’ll jack the fee up. Wait for everyone to stop pissing themselves. Then become heroes for listening and lowering it to the halfway point between the old few and the new one.

LOL. As if I would pay these clowns for access to booty that I've captured from the high seas.

Jellyfin is what to use.

Hey, remember when you bought a 'copy' of software? And it was yours to use for as long as you like? Subscriptions are the worst.

Bought it when it was a reasonable price but switching to jellyfin anyway. Fuck late stage capitalism.

Bye Felicia

Sounds like they don't want to sell lifetime memberships.

I would guess that their seed cap is looking for payback, or they realized that the lifetime plans are going to put them out of business.

They're running really high operating costs, live service (that no one wants) with commercials (no one wants) trying to compete with people that could stand up that same piece of content from pirate source in two minutes with no ads.

It'd be different if they just cached tvdb, epg, and provided low rez proxies, and kept basic features, they could live for a really long time.

They can't pay for the mess they're making trying to make more money :)

"THE ONE PIECE... THE ONE PIECE IS REAL!"