Jesus, I had to read through their roadmaps after hearing this ridiculous $750 pass. Generally, companies would add features that would somehow justify their price increase. But nope, all the things they listed out are overdues like offline downloads per show and audio improvements, which competitors already do. I really hope this is a new sales tactic for them where they throw a 90% discount during Black Friday. I love my Plex, but they surely don’t have any worthy features that justify the $750 price tag.
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Plex Tripling Lifetime Plex Pass Price to $750 in July
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Maxis
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I bought Windscribe Lifetime also back then. However, I remember there were somewhere year 2027 mentioned. Have to check that if I have orderd it via gmail account still existing.
If I’m already using WireGuard to VPN back into my NAS and can stream my Plex media from anywhere in the world, what exactly is the benefit of Plex Pass in my setup?
marco114
macrumors 6502
I just tried it, it sucks for Live TV and Guides. I went back to plex and bought the $250 lifetime pass. Should have bought it 5 years ago..
Jellyfin is free, open source and better (and you are encouraged, but not forced, to donate for its development).
Despite having lifetime pass for a long time I fully switched to Jellyfin years ago and so glad I did, not having to worry about data leaks, bloated UI, web sign in, and most importantly slow transcoder. Honestly I have not used Plex for over 4 years it used to be good but not is just a greedy bloated corporate app. Jellyfin is all you need for local media and if you need to stream, pangolin or tailscale is more than enough and super secure compared to PLEX, and all self hosted.
Huh?
I’ve been streaming from my home Jellyfin server to my iOS Jellyfin app through cellular for years.
page3
macrumors 6502a
Tripling the lifetime pass price is completely understandable. Continually making the software worse, downgrading the UX, removing features, ignoring years of user feedback and turning a once brilliant media server into a confused streaming/social platform doesn’t happen for free. That level of sustained anti-customer innovation takes serious investment.
groove-agent
macrumors 68020
I bought my Plex pass for $250 probably 10 years ago. After all these years I can say it wasn’t worth it. Also they haven’t added anything of value over the years. The only thing that has changed is their attempt at Streaming shows which is the WORST platform for commercials. The price increase is probably to get customers to fund their streaming selection. NOT WORTH IT. You’re better to set up something like Kodi instead.
That's a highly effective way to stop having to offer the option of a lifetime pass.
Coming in a few months: Plex discontinues lifetime pass option, cites low demand
Coming in a few months: Plex discontinues lifetime pass option, cites low demand
Nah, this is a way to get people to buy it for 250 when they wouldn't have before. FOMO.
Then run sales in the future where they make it 300 and get people to jump on it again.
They know nobody is paying 750
I agree. They can simply release a new product with more feature that they don't make avaible to the one you own.
Very easy to make your lifetime purchase obsolete.
Apple_Robert
Contributor
I am not confused. I have to use Tailscale because I don’t want to open ports and put my server and home network at risk. I know how Tailscale works. I don’t need to told by you what I know and don’t know.
Ouch! I have a lifetime sub which cost around $49 back in the day, $750 is insane. I get it's around 5 years of a Disney Plus subscription, but the world will be very different in 5 years and we may not even use it, which derides the value of a lifetime sub.
I ditched it when the data grab started, the constant "you live in Europe and we're bound to ask you before we sell your data" pop ups on every client. Having to DNS blocklist a bunch of stuff just to use a personal media server to stop the vendor selling personal details/data, had me opt out of Plex completely.
Check out something like Adguard Home, connect Plex it to and watch the DNS requests to Telemetry sites soar...
I do get the remote-access hosting argument against Jellyfin. The lack of in-built MFA, fragile user authentication system and need to stand up DDNS and use a reverse proxy/Tailscale/VPN/idp isn't great. I ended up using Wireguard VPN with an on-demand tunnel purely to the NAS to sort out the proxy/idp part. But... if enough people asked for it in Github, I'm sure the devs could improve it.
I ditched it when the data grab started, the constant "you live in Europe and we're bound to ask you before we sell your data" pop ups on every client. Having to DNS blocklist a bunch of stuff just to use a personal media server to stop the vendor selling personal details/data, had me opt out of Plex completely.
Check out something like Adguard Home, connect Plex it to and watch the DNS requests to Telemetry sites soar...
I do get the remote-access hosting argument against Jellyfin. The lack of in-built MFA, fragile user authentication system and need to stand up DDNS and use a reverse proxy/Tailscale/VPN/idp isn't great. I ended up using Wireguard VPN with an on-demand tunnel purely to the NAS to sort out the proxy/idp part. But... if enough people asked for it in Github, I'm sure the devs could improve it.
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