Honestly, this is getting to be a joke…
You have people suggesting some legitimate feature requests in here.
And what do you guys do?.. You throw in Arcade games that cost more money.
Come on guys, When are we gonna see some real feature upgrades that people want.
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Agree. Or at least some feedback as to whether features would be considered for implementation or not. There’s features on here that have been requested for nearly 10 . If they’re not going to take anyth5 onboard and do their own thing they might as well close this section
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all these people crying out for audiobook and ebook support as seen in this forum section and plex management team roll out a paid Atari roms feature that no one asked for, its not looking good. almost every reply i have seen to this announcement has been a negative one. and i will also echo this notion. no one gives a rats ass about a couple of old atari roms and no one in there right mind is going to pay 2.99 a month to play a couple of the roms.
to add insult to injury it then only runs on pms for macos and windows… linux users all get the shaft. this is just another classic example of users paying to beta test an unfinished product.
listen to your customers and what they want.
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Conveniently moved so no one finds this post… lol
This post was found fine. the point of the suggestion forum is to make request and for us to gauge what we might do. We close post all the time that just won’t happen. If they are just unlikely we don’t close them because you never know. It is not a, you say jump we say how high situation.
Games like other Plex Labs work happens when employee devs experiment with things on their own time that end up being interesting.
It doesn’t run on linux because Parsec server api does not run on linux.
Just image what’s possible if employee devs do things during work time. lol
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i don’t have any idea what the official stats would be but I’m sure pms Linux users would make up a fairly big enough part of the user base to warrant the need for support for that OS. when plex was shopping around for this 3rd party company to launch this product did they think about linux users ? i’m not trying to be rude just trying to understand why Linux users are now left out. does linux support get added in the near future ?
Posted my dissatisfaction in the arcade thread already, but Plex you’re a joke at this point.
Nobody asked you to add a crappy, poorly implemented arcade that doesnt work, requires a windows box, an account with a 3rd party, another subscription, a ton of manual configuration and after all that doesnt work for your managed users.
I’ve cancelled my renewal, you clearly have absolutely no desire or intention to listen to genuine feature requests anymore, and the stagnating core product and awfully buggy launch of a new paid product shows that something is clearly not right at Plex anymore.
When you have your retro meeting to discuss Plex Arcade, make sure its mentioned that whoever made the call to use Parsec did absolurely no research into the options, and likely shouldn’t be in charge of those kinds of decisions again. Had you gone down the widely used opensource options you’d have had this up and running on all 3 platforms, supporting all major emulators and working on tv’s, tablets, mobiles, etc for ALL users.
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We don’t make Parsec. We can’t make them do that and have no idea if they will.
Was it not then a pretty misguided and poorly executed call to make to even use it given the proportion of Linux based customers?
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Please inform me of this apparently obvious choice of software that does and can work with PMS and I will happily tell folks about
I think they do amazing things all the time! I very much like the idea of plex arcade but wanted to see better audiobook support and book/magazine feature. For me this is much more important.
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Plex is a software development company.
There are litterally dozens of opensource projects that support retro gaming via emulators, plus another bunch of opensource projects that brings said emulators together into one place (e.g EmulationStation, Retroarch).
Using your software team (assuming you have any developers left given the awful pace of development over the last year or two) you contribute to those projects, and YOU add the support for PMS - your product.
The fact that a free opensource project has already managed remote emulators to run on iOS and Android should’ve been enough of a hint.
(and it still an utterly pointless addition to plex that nobody wanted)
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I agree. they do amazing things. But not all the time.
All updates lately are just fixes relating to DVR.
I’ve given up putting my point across regarding features.
They have an excuse for everything.
what you said is so true. it also feels like end users are paying to beta test this product as well. look at all the errors people are getting. and lack of support for linux.
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They should focus more on core features and listen more to their costumers. But for me i find it very difficult to ever really complain about plex because the price for lifetime is such a bargain. It is the most important and most useful software i ever bought. (120€ is almost like its for free)
I use it every day and it makes my family happy as well 
I couldn’t agree more. I started a thread on here requesting “other video” be added to the library types so you could use it for audio files that are not music related. I had some moderator delete my thread and chastise me for starting a duplicate thread because someone else started a thread requesting audio book support. Plex is becoming chalk full of features nobody asked for while paying customer’s requests fall on deaf ears or worse, get chastised.
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