Catch up on stories from the past week (and beyond) at the Slashdot story archive

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
×
Media Entertainment

The ESPN+ Annual Subscription is Going Up by $10 (engadget.com) 56

Posted by msmash from the up-next dept.
For the first time since the service arrived in April 2018, the ESPN+ annual plan is getting a price increase. From January 8th, it'll cost new members $59.99 instead of $49.99. Existing annual subscribers will have until at least March 2nd to renew their plan for $50. From a report: The monthly plan went up by $1 to $5.99 in August, so opting for an annual subscription instead of going month-to-month will save you $12 over a year. Of course, you'll save more if you lock in an annual plan before the increase.
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.

The ESPN+ Annual Subscription is Going Up by $10 More

The ESPN+ Annual Subscription is Going Up by $10

Comments Filter:

  • News for nerds? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Geoffrey.landis ( 926948 ) on Thursday December 31, 2020 @10:05AM (#60881852) Homepage

    because everybody knows that nerds all subscribe to ESPN?

    • Re:News for nerds? (Score:5, Funny)

      by idji ( 984038 ) on Thursday December 31, 2020 @11:07AM (#60882014)
      The summary doesn't even say what ESPN is - all I see is that it is a "subscription" to a "service". Is this a VPN or home food delivery or what? Is this News for Nerds, things that matter?

      • Re: News for nerds? (Score:5, Funny)

        by NateFromMich ( 6359610 ) on Thursday December 31, 2020 @11:14AM (#60882028)
        ESPN a TV station for watching guy in suits sit around and talk about football players. Sometimes they talk with the football players. This is based entirely on when I'm at a bar and forced to watch it. As for ESPN+? I'd assume more guys in suits and more talking.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Ogive17 ( 691899 )
      Not all nerds are D&D playing, basement living, code monkeys.

    • Does anybody actually pay retail price for this service? I'd imagine that most people who have this service got it in a ESPN+/Disney+/Hulu bundle.

    • ESPN is starting to carry some "E-Sports" events, and believe it or not there are quite a few "nerds" who follow Sports of various sorts. And quite a few "Jocks" who are into video games and computers. Plus, this place has a hard-on for anything "streaming" related and it's end of the year so everyone's just phoning in any story they can find as filler. I'm surprised they didn't make this part of a "top ten" list.

  • so sterming is becomeing cable! (Score:4, Funny)

    by Joe_Dragon ( 2206452 ) on Thursday December 31, 2020 @10:09AM (#60881870)

    so steaming is becoming cable!

    • Is it steaming or sterming that has become cable!?

      I can't stand not knowing!

      • Is it steaming or sterming that has become cable!?

        Yes. I hope this has been helpful.

      • just buy them all and then you don't need to know. It's called the low IQ big media plan and a nice broker can make it all show up on one bill for an small added fee.

    • so steaming is becoming cable!

      I think streaming has surpassed cable. The Spectrum TV commercials that talk about streaming being more expensive don't seem so dumb these days...

      • so steaming is becoming cable!

        I think streaming has surpassed cable. The Spectrum TV commercials that talk about streaming being more expensive don't seem so dumb these days...

        Commercials?

      • The Spectrum TV commercials that talk about streaming being more expensive don't seem so dumb these days...

        They're just as dumb now as they were in the beginning. My streaming services total $22.98 a month, which no Cable plan can match.

        • My "cable " plan beats that easy. I pay $0 a month and get 50 random channels and a tv guide channel. Of course half of it is in bad sd. The other half digital channels in hd. Of course I canceled my old tv cable plan and they forgot to disable it at the street. So it could disappear any day. Just like the past 3 years . Still pay the company for internet. Which they deliver a fairly reliable 35-50 mbs. Of which I stream netflix, hulu, disney, and random others short term.

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by Megane ( 129182 )

            Your cable plan sounds a lot like mine, which is an antenna. Except that the TV guide is split up onto each individual channel (the annoying part is PBS only goes 12 hours forward) and my channels are unencrypted. I still have stuff as plain MPEG2-TS files that I recorded years ago on my MythTV.

            Back in the late '90s when I still had cable they had forgotten to remove the Showtime channel filter... and I still didn't watch it. They eventually removed it when they disconnected me for being a month behind on

  • I will save $60 by not subscribing. If I really need to watch a ESPN only sporting event, I will go to a sports bar. And I have not had any need and do not see any in the future.

    • I will save $60 by not subscribing. If I really need to watch a ESPN only sporting event, I will go to a sports bar. And I have not had any need and do not see any in the future.

      The bars are closed where I live. I wonder if that's been good for the bottom line of Disney then.

  • Being a sports fan is expensive (Score:3)

    by skam240 ( 789197 ) on Thursday December 31, 2020 @10:24AM (#60881898)

    I'm glad I'm a PC gamer as being a sports fan seems awfully expensive.

    Seven years of this service at this price comes out to $5,040. Meanwhile, I just replaced my gaming PC after 7 years of use and paid around $2,500 to do so. Even when you ad in the cost of games over 7 years I still come in less than the cost of ESPN+ for my hobby,

    • Just simulate sports games as video games.

      • Just simulate sports games as video games.

        Are you kidding me? That would actually be interactive and fun.
        Sports fans just want to watch someone else play.

    • I think you may be mixing up yearly costs and monthly costs.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Bigbutt ( 65939 )

      Huh. I paid about $1,800 for my two video cards :) Although technically my wife bought me the second card for my birthday.

      [John]

  • People pay for ESPN? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by schwit1 ( 797399 ) on Thursday December 31, 2020 @10:33AM (#60881922)

    It's got one foot in the grave from the pandemic and hosts who thought they were political preachers.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by kulaga ( 159303 )

      The jokes on us. WE subsidize all the sports fans. A large percentage of most package prices goes to ESPN, even if you never watch it. I had to search for a non-sports streaming service, but when I found it, it was significantly cheaper...Philo FTW.

    • ESPN had one foot in the grave long before the pandemic. It's been a huge money loser for many years now. Dragging Disney down with it.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Megane ( 129182 )
      Yes, and most of them don't even know it because it's on the next tier up from basic on every cable TV system. I've heard it's on the order of $6 a month, but its rolled into the channel tier cost so most people have no idea.

  • Disney Plus is increasing its subscription fee too. And who owns ESPN? Why, Disney of course. I expect them to continue increasing subscription rates until they start losing subscribers. Granted, that's gonna take a lot with the way people talk about their Disney subscriptions. The folks I work with act like they wouldn't be able to survive without it, yet it didn't even exist not that long ago. I just don't get it, I guess.

    • Disney Plus is increasing its subscription fee too. And who owns ESPN? Why, Disney of course. I expect them to continue increasing subscription rates until they start losing subscribers. Granted, that's gonna take a lot with the way people talk about their Disney subscriptions. The folks I work with act like they wouldn't be able to survive without it, yet it didn't even exist not that long ago. I just don't get it, I guess.

      Nah, they'll just tell everyone that they need to be able to watch Baby Yoda and dumbfucks everywhere will give them more money.

      • I've literally got a pair of coworkers hassling me about not having it. I haven't seen a single Disney Star Wars release, yet every damn new episode is, "Have you seen it yet?"

        "No, and I'm not going to?"

        Shocked gasps and, "WHAT?! WHY WOULDN'T YOU?!"

        Between that and their utter disbelief that I won't subscribe for the marvelverse shows that'll probably be lame as all get-out, I'm beginning to suspect they've been completely brainwashed.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by aitikin ( 909209 )

      The folks I work with act like they wouldn't be able to survive without it, yet it didn't even exist not that long ago. I just don't get it, I guess.

      A lot of the content that they're likely over the moon about existed on other services not that long ago and doesn't now.

      For the life of me, I don't understand how we ended up with music being much more easily licensed/distributed as opposed to TV shows (is it fair to even call them TV shows anymore?)/Movies. How is it that Spotify/Pandora can have access to the vast catalogs they have, but we can't have a video streaming service that has access to similar breadth of catalogs? I'm sure there's some stupid

  • Disney saw how well they were doing with Disney+ and, owning ESPN, put 2 and 2 together. Showbiz "creativity" cannot be denied and so ESPN+ gets a price raise, too!

  • The Fed wants [cbsnews.com] inflation, and we're printing money [politico.com]. Prices are going up in response, and the dollar is weakening compared to other assets (e.g. stocks, up 66% since March). Expect more prices to increase in 2021.

  • Considering how so-called ESPN+ is not all of ESPN, and then some more, just third tier crap, it should be called ESPN-. You don't get the bowl games! It would be overpriced at a penny for eternity.

  • And why wouldn't they? They know they've got millions of new teleworkers by the balls as there are few broadband alternatives. So you'll see the media complex squeezing for more profits while they can.

    I have cancelled cable TV entirely (but kept internet service because I can't work without it), but I fully expect these companies to dramatically increase prices on broadband as more people do the same. There are a couple of content providers I actually like to consume so I get those over the top.

  • Disney knows how to make things suck. People have been leaving ESPN for years now.
    And now, this worthless service even costs more?

  • why would I pay subscription for Equipment Serial Number?
  • Super annoying for those of us living on a retired, fixed budget. How will I listen to people in suits talk about baseball? The radio?
  • They don't warrant or deserve what they're charging now? Lousy excuses of what THEY want to call "pay-per-view" boxing matches!

Slashdot Top Deals

Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.

Close