Weirdest ad for Jellyfin I’ve ever seen

Wow, I got the Plex pass 15 years ago for like $70.

It is absurd to see it is over $700 dollars now.

I imagine it's to discourage the purchase of plex life time. But there's something about this that is feels so bad man.

I have spun up Jellyfin to run alongside Plex and I'm ready to switch over full time in case Plex ever goes after the old life time users. You just never know with these days.

And tbh, Jellyfin is pretty awesome. It seems to run lighter and faster than Plex. Nobody should be buying a $700 pass to watch your own content.

They almost certainly don’t expect people to buy it at this price. They’re putting it out to pasture.

Give it a year or two and they’ll do an announcement that no one is purchasing lifetime licenses so they’re sunsetting the scheme altogether.

There are almost no digital products that are worth a three digit price tag and this is certainly not one of those.

So instead of retiring it, we’re keeping it available at a price that reflects the real, ongoing value of the software we’re committed to building and maintaining for years to come.

I left Plex because of exactly this. What exactly have they delivered lately to actual users that isn't BS cloud streaming stuff?

The problem is the "lifetime" option, they needed to just stop offering it.

The optics of making it prohibitively expensive instead is just terrible.

It used to "pay for itself" after 3.5 years, now it takes over a decade. I don't think they understand most people were buying it before (as in a decade ago) as a form of donation to a software that didn't have a good alternative.

Now that Plex is trying to become a media streamer themselves for a revenue stream, and alternatives like jellyfin exist for what made Plex popular....

They should have just sunset the "lifetime" deal

LOL, fuck off. I dropped plex for jellyfin as soon as they hid encoding behind a paywall and every time I see anything related I'm so glad I left them behind.

They gotta pay their corporate trips to Hondorus somehow https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/inside-a-corporate-retreat-that-went-very-badly-wrong/ar-AA20gPzT

What's the point? Better off paying for Netflix at that rate for a few years

I bought my lifetime pass years ago. But, there is no way that plex is worth more than an entire computer

Hmm, I'm of two minds about this

On the one hand it's simply a ridiculous increase and pretty indefensible as a jump. Especially given that it doesn't really offer much you can't do for free with something like jellyfin

On the other hand at least they still offer a lifetime sub, crazy expensive yes, but the option is still technically there for someone who wants to use the software without subscription. Plenty of companies have gone down the sub only road, and I think we should give at least a bit of credit for them not doing the same, even though they'd clearly like to

I know audiophiles are a bit of an outlier in general, but Roon lifetime is even more IIRC!

I don't get what the point of this is. I have never paid a cent for Plex. If I ever want to access my library remotely, I'll use something else.

trying to squeeze as many people for the current price as possible. will probably run deep sales close to today's price in the future.

As long as they honor the lifetime part I'm not bothered. I bought my over a decade ago for about $25-30 on sale.

Fuck you plex. Ditched you a long time ago and it was obviously the right choice. If anyone gets money it's Emby. Yes I know about Jellyfin but it just sucks with HDR. Totally.

My goodness, I have my pass that I bought years ago for like €35, if I had to pay that I wouldn't even do it as a joke, I just hope they don't end up trying to squeeze more out of those who already have one, I've been trying jellyfin anyway just in case

We have Rokus on our TVs and ditched Plex as soon as a Jellyfin app became available

Holy fuck thats 10x what i paid

This was November 2019. Plex clearly beating inflation.