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Plex Announces Massive Price Hike on Lifetime Subscription Plans (www.ign.com)
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Plex has announced a massive price increase on the service's Lifetime Plex Pass. On July 1, the lifetime subscription option will go from $249.99 to $749.99, an increase of 200%. The price hike will only apply to new subscribers, with no changes to monthly or annual subscription pricing.

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[–] Anonymo@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The company's blog post also described a number of improvements they plan to make

After you pay: "oops, we won't"

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As a lifetime owner, the number of features they've deprecated is probably the worst part.

  • Photo support (luckily Immich came along)
  • Tidal integration (no idea if that was Plex or Tidal's decision)
  • Plugins (god forbid anyone add the functionality they keep removing)

It's close between that and the last app overhaul that removed a bunch of functionality.

[–] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Watch Together isn't removed, but it's been deprecated and has stopped working on at least one platform (Chromecast).

Really shitty move to be removing/deprecating functionality and then asking for more money.