Netflix - Not bad! Qwikster - uh, never mind...

remy, u went 2 otter school?

I can't believe I've been a subscriber to netflix for 11 years. I've never subscribed to anything for that long.

otter school. Sign up me.

can i say for the third or fourth time i didn't and don't care about the price hikes -- the deal for netflix was too good to last and it's still a good value -- complaining about making a service and user interface that worked very well into two services that you have to tend to separately, have two separate queues and two separate bills is annoying from a customer pespective, that's why people are complaining and it's perfectly rational and justified.

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i mean in any online service there are very specific user interface, convenience, and operational reasons why some services succeed and some don't -- for example, you can basically do anything on, say, playstation network or wii online that you can do with xbox live, but microsoft made its service better, more useable, and with a better feature set, that's why it's dominated this generation of online in the console space.

netflix up to this point was a massive success specifically because people liked the service, like the way it operated, like the interface and useability. now, this is changing in a way that is 100 percent worse for the consumer who pays money to netflix each month -- and unfortunately timed with some price increases.

if they or anyone else expected that people weren't going to complain, you are crazy.

I mean, i def agree that "that's a p dumb move" is a valid criticism. it's a pretty dumb move.

Unfortunately, the internet has sort of conflated it with a lot of "WELP IM CANCELING MY NETFLIX" and "THEY ARE DONE! THIS MOVE MEANS THEY ARE FUCKING DONE!" all of which is a pretty shrill reaction to something that's not really that much of an inconvenience

i can't believe people don't think they'd still be getting a lot of value for their dollar from Netflix even if they doubled their rates!

― some dude

that's fine! and if enough people agree with you, netflix will be fine too.

but that's a totally different argument from "you shouldn't complain about netflix or change your service because DVDs and video streaming are a first-world luxury"

users are going to complain when an interface changes even for the better, let alone when usability is made objectively worse.

guys theyre doing it because they want people to stop subscribing to the dvd delivery

http://i.imgur.com/Z8BAJ.png

UGH

xxpost

yeah you've said that a million times and i believe you

this strategy worked great for that hot MILF who owned the Indians in Major League

Why is he eating that baby?

its true, eating a childs face is prob overreacting

fucking lazy generation of baby eaters

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wow i didn't realize whiney's generation was that old

Caress your camera to comfort you.

i wd. be a fuckin awesome otter just floatin around on my back and eatin cockles and droppin my gs

i wd. be a fuckin awesome otter just floatin around on my back and eatin cockles and droppin my gs

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this is the streaming movie version of the timberwolves' last draft

jesus h christ whiney the joke's on you in this case

\o_o/

http://i.imgur.com/OEwRG.png, me

marker's google thing rocked this thread the fuck out imo

the joke is actually louis cks

netflix is pretty much a monopoly though, right? who's gonna teach gramma to torrent? (i did teach my dad to torrent and now 100% of folks bandwidth is torrents)

netflix strategy http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/netflix-business-opportunity-5854575

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lol

fail

sounds like they succeeded!

but that's a totally different argument from "you shouldn't complain about netflix or change your service because DVDs and video streaming are a first-world luxury"

― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Tuesday, September 20, 2011 6:13 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark

i did change my service! and it's cheaper for me now!

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lol glwt

ppl are just not being visionary about this, and unfortunately thats going to screw everyone in the long run, the consumers, the studios, everyone except for ISPs and cell companies, but whatever, when gibbon 2999 writes his decline & fall let it be known that i was on the side of the good and the righteous

^^max is definitely doing some thought leading itt

the canadian netflix clone, zip.ca, charges $25 per month and claims that their cost to ship a single disc out is over $2

hate to be all who is john galt about this, but who is gibbon 2999?

i think he is referring to the author of the decline and fall of the roman empire

gibbon 2999 is the person in the year 2999 who writes about the decline and fall of the american empire

bread and games, y'all!

our own postal service (which is even more MIRACULOUS and cheap) may cease to exist as we know it someday soon so maybe the question of netflix mailing dvds at all will be moot anyway

vahid on-point

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon

i was picturing super-intelligent future monkey...

we do not know what the future holds, philip

Some kind of ape planet most likely

isn't that the present?

i'm member of an apelike race at the asshole end of the 20th century; this film's a thriller of the mind.

haha Conan started to tell a joke about Netflix and the mere mention prompted boos -- he went on a whole "now we've got our priorities straight as a country" riff and started acting Lewis Black-style angry about Netflix

http://www.deadline.com/2011/09/netflix-stock-9-4-as-wall-street-wonders-how-low-it-can-go/