I’m going back to just buying games on the cheap now. These monthly price hikes seem to be the norm that I don’t accept. It would be cheaper to just buy the games imho. Especially if you play the same game obsessively. For example I had bought Stardew valley (pc version) outright for about 10 dollars, and can play it for years if I like. Why would I pay the same price just to play it only for one month? I enjoyed Apple Arcade, but not that much. I promptly unsubscribed. Goodbye AA!

Y’all paying for this?

Announcing this without any new features or even any significant new “content” is a stupid marketing move. It wouldn’t take much for Apple to demo these services and “something new” at a fall Apple Event, and they could avoid a lot of this handwringing about the prices going up.

Meanwhile my employer hasn’t raised employee wages since November of 2021 and barely in March of 2022, and pretty much a penny in 2023.

It’s getting to the point where my paycheck is getting to naught after bills and whatnot, because of subscription pricing going up on everything. Yes I know I have control over this but sometimes some really good things come from various subscriptions these days, and yeah, I can live without it. But c’mon!

Again?

Applies only to US?

The Apple TV+ one is hilarious since I’ve just come off a 5 month free trial, cancelled it and now apparently can get 3 more months free. I’ve never seen a streaming service so regularly offered for nothing.

I loved Apple TV BECAUSE of the low price compared to others. Although lower than Netflix still, the value that you get in return is just not the same compared to competitors like Hulu and Netflix. Unless Apple starts hiring whole new departments or buying out sport shows and TV shows, maybe JUST MAYBE it’ll be a consideration.

Apple could easily take the loss or spend more money to make the service great before hiking the prices.

Same applies to Arcade and News. You barely get sufficient value from the subscriptions.

We’re all gonna go back to torrenting soon. Plex is awesome btw.

Just cancelled news+. You’re paying $12.99 a month and yet there’s an ad in the app.

I don’t know anyone that uses Arcade or News. Is it really that popular to demand price increases?

Yeah, I’m cancelling out of principle. Only way to let them know how we feel is with our wallets. Already cancelled so many other subs and I don’t miss them. There are other things to do.

Just wait till the mega raise the price of iCloud and we are all locked in 😡

I wouldn’t mind so much if my wage had also increased 30% in the last year. Update my wage hasn’t gone up at all

In NL i pay 22.95 euro/month for apple one family plan (iCloud+, music, arcade and appletv+); if i remove arcade, which is the shittiest service, sum of individual subscriptions goes up to 26+ euro…

At least, there is no news about price increase (for the time being)