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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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[–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Probably going to get hate for this. But I have easily gotten 750 dollars worth of value out of my lifetime subscription. I'm sure they are doing this to drive down lifetime subscriptions and increase month to month. But I legit think 750 over 20 years it's still a legit price.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago*

    About $3/mo. But for a lifetime deal you're also buying the risk. If they go bankrupt, stop honoring the lifetime deal, or any variation thereof tomorrow, you're out $750 - lifetime deals, where they exist are often heavily discounted compared to normal rates due to this. 20 years is though quite a long time. Plex is only 16 years old.

    In a perfect world a company would limit the amount of lifetime deals available and only have them in the beginning to get some quick cash allowing them to scale. I don't think Plex is running a very good business, which also devalues the lifetime deal.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    It;'s probably about 800 euro, but that is still 800 euro more than Emby/Kodi/Jellyfin or whatever other altnerative. I had a lot of issues with Plex due to them requiring that proof of ownership thing which didn't really work on TrueNas core I think it was?

    Jellyfin is way easier imo

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