I wonder if sometime in the future, there is going to be subscription fatigue.
Subscriptions Are Remaking Corporate America (2018)
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#12subscribe to read hahahah For one, I hope subscriptions die. It's a pernicious trend that is borderline fraud for consumers (like gyms, profiting from users who simply forget to unsubscribe or making it painfully hard to unsubscribe). It's also exclusionary for most of the world for whom the subscription price might be a year's income. With downloadable software it was kind of possible to find a crack online, but web…
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#13The Starcraft community requested subscription content for years during the hots years. The popular reasoning was that the game needed refreshing and updating but that a company can’t afford to do it without incentives - and the ongoing revenue would incentivize them to keep the game in great shape.
Then again, you can’t use subscription software at all after the company completely moves on either - no windows 95 compatibility mode to keep using your expensive desktop applications. So you still end up with unusable software eventually - longer peak but a shorter life for more cost
The fundamental problem is how difficult and expensive it is to make software and maintain it year after year
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#14I wonder if sometime in the future, there is going to be subscription fatigue.
I think there already was, at least in Germany -- based on contracts that made it quite hard to unsubscribe. I think a key to avoiding a general subscription aversion is to make it very easy to unsubscribe.
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#15The Starcraft community requested subscription content for years during the hots years. The popular reasoning was that the game needed refreshing and updating but that a company can’t afford to do it without incentives - and the ongoing revenue would incentivize them to keep the game in great shape. Then again, you can’t use subscription software at all after the company completely moves on either - no windows 95 com…
It doesn’t have to be that way though. The company can open source the server.
They could also release a final patch that unlocks all content and removes the license check.
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#16A year ago I downloaded an interval running app for 10 dollars. Recently I recommended it to a family member only to find out they changed the pricing to 10 dollars per month for the same features.
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#17subscribe to read hahahah For one, I hope subscriptions die. It's a pernicious trend that is borderline fraud for consumers (like gyms, profiting from users who simply forget to unsubscribe or making it painfully hard to unsubscribe). It's also exclusionary for most of the world for whom the subscription price might be a year's income. With downloadable software it was kind of possible to find a crack online, but web…
I think subscriptions are fine; it is the banks that give power to corporations by making it impossible to control who bills your accounts. If you could easily see recurring billing charges and cancel on your bank's end easily, companies would have to step up and offer a useful service.
>I think subscriptions are fine
Is that correlated with having ample money to pay for them?
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think subscriptions are fine; it is the banks that give power to corporations by making it impossible to control who bills your accounts. If you could easily see recurring billing charges and cancel on your bank's end easily, companies would have to step up and offer a useful service.
> I think subscriptions are fine Is that correlated with having ample money to pay for them?
Many useful things take money to accomplish, I would be suspicious of anything that provides a service for free.
That being said, health insurance is an example of a subscription in the USA I find predatory.
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#19I signed up for “subscribe and save” because it gave me like a 5% discount on my Protein purchase from Amazon.
Before the next 5 lb jar was supposed to get sent, they sent me an email saying they were about to charge me and I had until X date to cancel.
You can make subscriptions work if your intentions are good and you’re not looking at them as a revenue stream based on people forgetting to cancel.
I ended up cancelling that next shipment but ordered again a few weeks later.
The model isn’t bad. Just depends on the execution.
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#20I wonder if sometime in the future, there is going to be subscription fatigue.
I'm already there. I just hate random money coming out of my account. I just gave fastmail $130 for three years. I wish I could have given them a thousand for lifetime so I would just never have to think about it again. I bought a lifetime Plex Pass for $150 so I would never have to think about it again. And no hard feelings if these services were to shut down.
I can deal with a large one time payment. A bunch of random 5 dollar a payments a month isn't going to float. I crawl through my credit card statements looking for oddities. And it just bugs me.