If I were to get a price increase say at Sams club or Costco where I pay a subscription for access to shop, they won’t just immediately pull food products or home essentials JUST because of inflation. Sure, prices might rise but they literally won’t just abruptly stop carrying essentials like bread. Bread is still bread. Eggs are still eggs.
Maybe other featured items from departments might be cut but not their food departments, even small businesses need these core products and or services.
The same can be said about how Plex is currently NOT running their business as those mentioned above. They are adding a car dealership, insurance, or anything else that might just break or burry the core product and have it deteriorate. It will become unstable which will cause the demise of its existence.
Essentially all Plex is good for now is tv show, movies, and well, PlexAmp is saving the music experience but yeah, that’s about it.
Podcasts, DEAD.
Webshows, DEAD.
Photo Library Upload, DEAD.
Plug-ins/Channels, DEAD.
Watch Later/Bookmarking, DEAD.
Plex Cloud, DEAD.
Plex VR, DEAD.
Plex Arcade Games, DEAD.
Plex Theater, DEAD.
You claim that Plex needs to worry about inflation but yet prior to Covid and the inflation, Plex went on to do work on all these unnecessary “FUN” projects with both our money AND VC investment money. They should have ALWAYS but slowly adding new toys and value but making sure their core infrastructure was solid all along.
I distinctly remember having a SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY attitude when new things were being introduced but now, nope. They really have lost track of their main user base.
I can go into a Sams or Costco knowing despite a price hike on membership that they will have eggs or the basic core items I will need.
Plex only has just a small fraction of features that they once had.
If you ask me, they had plenty of time to come up with legal but solid ways to manage what they needed to. And it was only recently that they added big executives on to their board to help them out with streamlining some revenue streams.
So Plex has to actually admit they were at fault for letting their misadventures taking them down a dark path. You can only go down new paths only when your core product is rock solid. Without it, you’re nothing.
Podcasts was around for FOUR YEARS but managed to suck and sit idle with importing issues of various other podcasts that were not apart of the Plex Podcasts offering but Plex devs and company decided to keep quiet and let us all sit around for 12 months and then pull the plug. Oh well.
Same thing with the Games. Those who heard about it got upset because they then had to pay a fee to a third party to access the games, but had you had your own emulators, you need to figure it all out just to get it to work, then needed to also supply yourself with a controller. It was F’n ABSURD.
I really don’t know how much more evidence is truly needed to show proof that Plex actually has had plenty of time and plenty of our money to have focused on the core of their products but they absolutely were awful in making sure they can follow through on their end. Should we all just keep giving money away for nothing,
As far as their business model, many have said to get rid of the lifetime pass but if that’s what they kept allowing, then again, I reiterate those decisions are no one’s fault but Plex’s leaderships problem, not ours.
