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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9378505" data-attributes="member: 18">It's pretty rude and crappy because they'll be getting access before other people who paid for the same content are getting it, which is a bad double-standard. That's crappy whoever does it, in whatever context. It's just a little bit of greed on the behalf of Beyond. I did predict them doing this well over a year ago, note, so I can't say I'm surprised. Even you seem to agree that it's crappy but for some reason you seem to think it being "normal" means it's not crappy? That's a little confusing.Yeah the entire idea with these modern subscription services is that they start out extremely good value, and give you more and more stuff, and then once their customer base is large enough, and ideally they've eliminated or conquered any competition (see how Xbox Game Pass effectively conquered and annexed EA's game pass and possibly other ones as well), then they will start doing three things:1) Increasing prices significantly on the previously good-value tiers.2) Offering a cheaper tier, but that has significantly degraded quality, and probably has significant advertising.3) Hard-enforcing soft restrictions that that they previously turned a blind eye to, or adding new restrictions and barriers to usage in an attempt to force more people to subscribe.Sometimes this works out for them, sometimes it doesn't. I ditched Amazon Prime because they decided to add adverts and try and charge not to have them. I haven't missed it. I'll probably re-sub for a month once The Boys is all out, but the main thing Amazon have proven to me is that I don't actually need Prime for anything, and that the slightly faster deliveries on some stuff weren't really that helpful, and that I wasn't getting any value from the subsidiary services like Prime Music.</blockquote>

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