Re:Netflix's UX design is keeping people up at night
by bootloop on Friday December 27, 2019 @12:45PM
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There is no such thing on Netflix as there is nothing to pay extra for.
They just try to avoid you canceling your subscription when their licensing agreements are not getting renewed and everything else except their original content is gone.
Re:Netflix's UX design is keeping people up at night
by jessaustin on Friday December 27, 2019 @01:25PM
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This phenomenon definitely exists on competitors e.g. Prime. Lots of screen space wasted on PPV stuff...
Re:Netflix's UX design is keeping people up at night
by yoz-y on Friday December 27, 2019 @01:46PM
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Prime has PPV? It that a US thing? In France it only shows content directly available. Amazon originals are often promoted first.
Re:Netflix's UX design is keeping people up at night
by jessaustin on Friday December 27, 2019 @02:43PM
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Originals are often promoted, and maybe I'm using the wrong acronym with "PPV", but if you click on anything that doesn't have a tiny "prime" ribbon in the corner, you'll get a screen asking you if you really want to spend $3.99 or whatever. Slight annoyance, but then again I have bought these before when they did something manipulative like offering 8 of the 9 available seasons of a show for "prime" viewing... Also sometimes you just want to see something now instead of waiting a year or going to a theater.
You have no idea how much I prefer this over the dominant competing model which is "promote content that costs extra because it is not actually included in the subscription I already pay".
Netflix at least is trying to make me satisfied with the content available, instead of making me yearn for more in order to upsell.