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Regardless of donations made over time, their new PlexPass membership (Up to $75 for lifetime) seems to be mandatory to get any new features or some fixes. First it was that plexpass members would get "first" access to the new features, now it is that they will be the ONLY ones to get the new features.
...posted in comments on one of their blog posts to someone who actually bought their Plex clients for IOS and Android...
P.S. – Are us lowly basic users ever going to get syncing? Or is that staying Pass only until something better comes along?
James June 4th, 2013 5:30 pm
No. You basic users don’t need nor deserve sync. How about you support the developers for a system you rely on. Christ!
If you want free shit, use XBMC.
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davilla
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HAHAHAAH, told you, next they will come out with a 'new' osx app that replaces the old open source one, and it will be closed source and users will have to pay for that one too. Then their circle will be complete...
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It wouldn't surprise me at all. They are charging for the Windows 8 app now, the OSX one seems to be the last free one. Plus, even if you pay their $75 "PlexPass" membership you STILL have to buy their apps for IOS, Android and Windows 8.
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Rope people in with an app make them like it.
Then start charging money for it. Hard to migrate when you're so used to using something. At least for the average user. Rather pay a one time fee then have to worry it.
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That's ok, I prefer XBMC :p
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natethomas
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In a way, I sort of get the "be a plex pass purchaser or stfu" mentality. It's a bit like our "code welcome" mentality here. If you don't like something, your best hope is to contribute to the project to change it. Because XBMC is open source, we prefer that you directly code the change yourself. Since the vast majority of Plex has moved closed source, the only real way to contribute is to give the plex guys money and hope they fix the problem instead. I suppose there's also evangelizing and unpaid forum support, but those are harder to quantify.
Basically, that's the devil's deal you make with closed source software. You agree to use the closed software in exchange for acknowledging that you no longer have any say in how that software works. And the only way to possibly get a say in development is by buying in.
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The worst part of all the plex pass stuff is they are basically selling you saas at this point. If their authentication service goes down, you are SOL and just limited to basic functionality. If they just go away, you don't even have source to go to in order to fix problems.