Hi All
I purchased a lifetime subscription and use Plex as a server admin. Love it (except for some bumps and concerns about future direction).
I’m regretting the lifetime subscription though, because I feel myself and others doing that is reducing forecasted long term Plex revenue, and as such Plex is SPRINTING into the world of ad-supported media (much to my dismay). I feel my lifetime subscription is contributing to the problem.
I was thinking of a simple option that we could provide for members to “donate” to Plex to advocate for the features we really want.
So the feature might look like this:
- Add a new, recurring Plex subscription type called “Super Fan”
- Make it totally optional, with no features behind it.
- Make it have no effect on the current monthly/yearly/lifetime tiers
- Allow the subscriber to opt in/out as needed, and setup recurring payments as desired (a “pay what you think” model)
- Most importantly, provide a simple checkbox list of “How do you use your account” so that analytics can be pulled behind why people are trying to throw extra money at Plex.
- Make it easy for folks to add this “add-on” subscription to existing accounts.
I think a feature like this might provide valuable insight to Plex into what Plex users REALLY want (as opposed to just feature votes on a forum that have no real significance), as well as a way for users to advocate their specific use case.
Thank you for considering it.
Mod-Edit: moved into existing/duplicate suggestion on the same matter
