We live in the day and age of the subscription. We subscribe to services and have our unlimited fill. What do you currently subscribe to?
I’m starting to collect subscriptions.
Currently…
— Xbox LIVE
— PlayStation Plus
— Spotify
— Netflix
— UFC Fight Pass
I’m also seriously considering subscribing to the WWE Network even though I haven’t watched wrestling seriously for years.
Of those services I’d say that Netflix is the best (easily) and UFC Fight Pass is a bit ordinary, but I’m a big enough MMA fan to stomach it.
What are you guys and girls subscribing to? What would you recommend?
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95 responses to “Off Topic: What Do You Subscribe To?”
Only Netflix but I chuck $10 a month to Shut Up and Sit Down because I really appreciate the content they put out.
Netflix. I use Netflix Around The World (https://netflixaroundtheworld.com/) and What’s New on Netflix (http://us.whatsnewonnetflix.com/) to find what I’m looking for, then I use Hola (https://hola.org/) to watch from that region, and simply select to watch programmes in English if it’s not the region’s default language. I’m subscribed to Netflix via its pre-existing US pricing.
Netflix – $11.99/month
Playstation Plus – $20/3 months
Patreon (KindaFunny + KindaFunnyGames: Greg Miller and Colin Moriarty’s new podcasts) – $10/month
I was surprised not to see a few more ‘KindaFunny’ subs
I posted it specifically to see if there were any Kotaku AU people following them too! 😛
haha great content – currently only supporting the Gamescast but i should pull the finger out and jump onto the original channel. But I really like the pattern I have gotten into watching an episode every night on youtube and I just know if I sub I will consume it all in a day on my commute.
If you’re interested, Kevin Smith does a two-part interview podcast with them, part 2 is on the Smodcast network at http://www.smodcast.com.
Although considering part 1 was on the kinda funny channel, you probably already know this.
Just in case, though!
Netflix
PS Plus (but only for my 12 month thing, then I’m not renewing as I don’t play the thing)
Spotify
oh, and my VPN access!
Netflix and PS+.
Playstation Plus
Xbox Live (Only because Xbone came with a 12 month pass…)
Spotify
Netflix
Day[9]
Unblock-Us
TORGuard
Pretty sure I still have an active SWTOR sub I should probably suspend (Hi @rize!)
Heh. I just couldn’t bring myself to unsubscribe after I stopped playing SWTOR. I think it went for like six or seven months unplayed before I finally bit the bullet and unsubscribed. I don’t particularly enjoy playing it but I really, really want to.
TorGuard and Unblock-Us? Are you just using TorGuard proxy and Unblock-Us VPN?
Yep.
Unblock-Us is basically a US Netflix service. Set up on the AppleTV for the US library and HBO Go. Being able to switch between Netflix regions without reconfiguring everything is incredibly handy.
TORGuard proxy for obvious reasons…
PlayStation Plus
Spotify
Netflix
Foxtel (shudder, but only for HD sport)
Netflix and PS+ here as well. the free games from PS+ make it worth the annual fee. Also while I am glad Australia finally has Netflix it is very sad compared to the US version.
Crunchyroll
Playstation Plus
I’m thinking about getting Netflix once I move into my new place in about four months (hopefully) as my current place has really, really crappy internet.
How crappy? I can get it and it’s actually really watchable on my 1.5mbit connection.
Same, if you can get Playstation Plus to work, Netflix will work no problems.
I’m staying with my parents while my new house is being built. So while it is bit of an ordinary connection, also the layout of the house isn’t conducive to Wi-Fi. They don’t mind if I setup the PS4 in the living room for updates and downloads but when I leave it there they get narky.
The new house is going to be sweet. Brand new estate with FTTP.
PS+
Netflix (still in free trial)
Foxtel…
…
..
Loooooool jk.
Netflix & PS+
Xbox Live
Netflix (US)
HBO Now
Pretty much covers all my entertainment needs with the odd movie rental from iTunes US
I guess, Xbox LIVE, Playstation Plus, and Adobe products.
Netflix
PS Plus
WWE Network
Foxtel (if only I could get my sports fix elsewhere!)
Contemplating Spotify as the new Playstation app is fantastic to listen to while I play games, but not totally convinced it would be worth my money yet.
Netflix, PS Plus, Spotify (through my Vodafone contract). Also a couple of digital magazine subscriptions on the Play Store as they’re about half the price compared to in the newsagents. If HBO Now becomes more widely available over here and not just confined to Apple devices then I’ll probably subscribe to that too
Xbox Live
Netflix
I know – Boring.
Last thing I was subscribed to was Hyper, but I cancelled that back in 2010 or something I think.
Netflix
Foxtel
PS Plus
….thats all. Oh and I used to have a gym membership before I realised im not going to use that shit hahaha…oh.
Gaming: Xbox Live Gold
TV/Movies: Currently subbed to Netflix and Stan. I considered Presto but decided it didn’t add anything I wanted. I’ll also pass on foxtel Play since it’s still overpriced and suffers from the bundled package bullshit. I’ll happily sub to HBO Now when/if it comes to Australia.
Software: My wife, currently a student, has active subscriptions to Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite and Microsoft Office.
Other: I’ve sponsored Rooster Teeth for some 10 years now, and will continue to do so. I think I’m still grandfathered in on their $10/6 month plan even though they increased the price last year. I’ve also considered subscriping to Don Shipley’s “Phony Navy Seal of the Week” website he started because butthurt phonies were issuing fake takedowns on his youtube videos, but I’ve decided as much as I love his videos they’re not worth $10/month to me.
If you love Rooster Teeth so much, then why don’t you replace Ray?
Setting aside the fact I’m crap at video games and don’t have his stunning good looks, quick wit or charisma, there’s a few barriers between me and a job at Achievement Hunter such as distance and the 4 million other AH fans who think they’d be suited for the job, and the huge amount of shit whoever replaces Ray is going to cop until they get settled in.
If I were going to replace anyone, it’d be Michael. By which I mean I’d like to take over his life and marry Lindsey.
Yeah well I’m going to start my own channel. With blackjack, and hookers.
I’d subscribe to that for a dollar!
xbox live
ps plus
foxtel
Netflix and PS+
Netflix (Aus) – pretty meh at the moment
Playstation Plus
Google music – really like it, library is getting bigger everyday.
Foxtel – Wish I could fuck it off, but sport and GOT.
Quickflix – wouldn’t recommend, keep forgetting to cancel. Shit UI, poor library.
easyDVD – not really a subscription, but pretty good library and Chromecast friendly.
I have found all the local subscription services a bit below average, am hoping at least one improves to I can kill a few accounts. Actually, I just want to leave Foxtel.
I nearly subbed to Quickflix when I noticed they had an Xbox One app, but fortunately Netflix announced a local release and I was able to hold off.
Netflix, lowest end package until I get NBN and can support HD/2 streams.
Google Drive, 1.99 USD a month for 100GB, backup for photos and a few other bits and pieces.
Playstation Plus
Xbox Live
Spotify
GiantBomb Premium
probably about it, might be something else starting with use and ending with net… *cough*
Netflix, Spotify, PS+, XBLG, marvel unlimited
I subscribe to that I am the best.
– Netflix (I’m absolutely loving Netflix atm, as is the wifey!)
– NordVPN
– 3 physical comic books (Captain America, Star Wars & Avengers)
– World of Tanks premium account.
– Subscribed to PS+ for a month when the PS4 came out, then quickly went straight back to the PC. I was ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED at the prices that are charged for console gaming. I took one look at the PlayStation store and went straight back to Steam…
Netflix
Playstation Plus
PIA
GiantBomb
Tragically trialing Foxtel Play purely to watch F1 properly
Netflix and crunchyroll
Just PS+
I can, with pride say that I am no longer a subscriber to WoW as of about a week ago…
Alright lets be honest here, I will probably resub once tanaan jungle goes live but hey, I might save myself $60 in the meantime
Only toward one Twitch streamer. Used to be subscribed to Crunchy Roll but the anime I watched on it finished.
Just Netflix and Xbox live gold.
I tried WWE Network, but they don’t stream Raw. When they do, I’ll sign up again.
PlayStation Plus
Netflix (US)
Getflix (dns service to switch Netflix regions)
Spotify (prev. Google Music but console app caused me to switch).
I have an Empire Magazine subscription (Christmas gift) and not sure it counts as a subscription, but I have active season passes to Tales from Borderlands and Game of Thrones from Telltale.
WRC+
Foxtel Play (2 days in and thinking I’ll cancel before my 2 weeks free ends).
Had to crack open the banking account to see, because I REALLY don’t keep proper track of what comes out of my account.
Playstation Plus (annual)
World of Warcraft (bi-annual)
Shit… Wildstar (bi-annual – I KEEP FORGETTING TO UNSUB)
Shit…? Star Wars: The Old Republic (quarterly? Wow, I really do keep forgetting to unsub everything I don’t use… at least I’ll have cartel coins)
Netflix (monthly – just the free month HD so far, we’ll see how that goes)
Pandora (annual – would be Spotify, but that chews through damn near double the mobile data at over double the price; why no long-term discounts, Spotify?)
Xbox Live Gold (annual – I really should cancel this one, I don’t have a xbone and the 360 isn’t even plugged in anymore)
VPN (monthly – changes by service; I’ve used Overplay for ping-reduction/region-unlocking for ages, but sometimes their service turns to shit for streaming. Currently experimenting with others)
Huh. Does phone, internet, health-fund, rented white goods, union fees, etc count? Man there’s a lot of crap coming out of my account every month.
PS+, STAN, Presto (free trial), and Xbox Live (which I’ll let lapse in Oct)
PS Plus.
Netflix.
Was thinking of switching to Stan when (and if) they get a PS4 app and there is nothing I want to watch on Netflix anymore.
Cancelled my NBA Season Pass because I have so little time anymore.
Netflix
PS+
Foxtel, but we share 3 boxes on one account
Netflix
Getflix (to make Netflix worthwhile)
PS+
Spotify (just the free one, contemplating the paid version)
Xbox Live
PS Plus (2 accounts because I’m an idiot and forgot to cancel on one)
Netflix
Crunchyroll
Unblock-us
Roll20
NBA League Pass and that’s it.
PS+ is pretty much all I’m subscribed to, along with one or two Twitch users. I almost had a Netflix subscription but after looking at their very limited line up I realised that there were only a couple of things I was half-interested in and would end up watching within the first free month anyway.
Nada.
Well, technically Netflix, but it’s in the free trial and I’m about to cancel it.
For the little TV I actually do watch I can easily find enough on the free TV station websites to occupy me. Other than that, I was pretty close to paying for a Unity subscription. Then they went free and I didn’t have to.
Foxtel
PS+
RIDE cycling review (actual paper magazine!)
Wombles Down Under (AFC Wimbledon fanzine)
I’m redoing my home network at the moment, once I’ve finished that I’ll grab Netflix (and would get rid of Foxtel in a heartbeat if I could get sports reliably another way).
Just Netflix. PS+ hasn’t sold me yet, and my free Pandora somehow doesn’t have any ads…
Netflix (AU)
XBox Live Gold
WWE Network (up soon, won’t renew until July)
Private Internet Access (VPN)
The WWE subscription’s worth it if you have a few people around for a PPV barbecue once every three months, occasionally like to see matches from when you were 8 and wrestling was awesome and want to see some of the great-but-storyline-light stuff on NXT. It’s not really for ‘keeping up’ with wrestling because it doesn’t have the up-to-date shows. If you want to keep up with wrestling just watch the Mark Remark on Youtube.
We are just tentatively stepping into the subscription service this year starting with:
office 365
we are trying WWE Network for the free April promotion and my gosh my childhood is only a click away now. Reliving the Attitude Era one smackdown and raw episode at a time.
we will share a Netflix account with a friend starting after their free month expires
and thanks to DBCLLC, we are trying Express vpn but are having mixed opinions on its worth.
Netflix US
Hulu
Unblock-Us
Xbox Music
Plex
XBL Gold
PS+
Spotify
Foxtel (as a motorsport fan they have me by the balls, there really is no alternative)
I’m also thinking about Netflix, I guess I don’t really understand it fully yet, It looks like I can view all old seasons of the shows they offer, but how up to date is it? how close to it releasing in the US will it be on Netflix? That will pretty much determine if I get it or not
Give the Netflix free trial a go. It will answer all your questions 🙂
man…there are a lot of netflix subscribers on here. good stuff.
Well, it is free at the moment. It hasn’t been available in Aus. long enough for anyone to have had to pay for it.
Xbox Live, Spotify and Netflix.
Crunchyroll
Netflix
Technically Stan, only because I forgot to unsubscribe before the trial ended. I should do that.
Have been meaning to subscribe to some magazines…
PS+
Google’s Play Music
Netflix
Crunchyroll
I love that Netflix works on the PS3 in my bedroom where usually I can’t even connect the internet on my laptop.
PS Plus: 12 month plan
Netflix: $11.99
Spotify: Have premium free till December with Vodafone but will be paying it after as I’ll be moving to Optus.
Looking at getting an X1 for Halo 5 so will pay for XBL in a few months.
PS+
Netflix
Crunchyroll
Spotify
and one Twitch Channel if that counts (Maximilian if anyone cares.)
– Stan
– Rooster Teeth
– Xbox Live
– World Of Warcraft
– Pandora
Netflix PS PLUS and xbox live not renewing xbl after its runs out as i dont have a xbox but my bro uses my profile
– NHL Gamecenter
– Ballstream (NBA)
– Foxtel
– PS Plus
– Kinda Funny Gamescast
PS+
White Dwarf (although I’m going to let that lapse after they fucked me over by splitting the old WD into weekly crap plus monthly picture book – the fuckers!)
Fox
NBA League Pass
NFL Game Pass
NHL Gamecenter
Pandora
Spotify
Netflix
VPN service
Netflix (11.99/month)
PS + (whatever it is for a year access $70 i think)
Game Informer (Digital $20 i think a year)
Star Citizen Subscriber ($10/month)
Phone ($91/Month)
Loan repayment (kinda a subscription? $70/month)
So $183/month on subscriptions + rent D:
Right now I’m not playing any MMORPGs but I’ve still got PS+, XBOX Live Gold, Netflix and Cruncyroll.
Currently:
• Spotify
• Adobe CC
• Netflix
• Dropbox pro
• Virb (for my personal portfolio)
Formerly:
• Presto (cancelled after first free month)
• Google Play Music (also cancelled after free trial, but considering replacing Spotify)
• Marvel Unlimited (my 2012 Nexus 7 died and I don’t want to buy a new tablet just to read comics)
• Plex Pass (I only consume media at home, so this service was pointless)
Netflix
Crunchyroll
– Netflix subsciber for two years before it came here.
– WWE Network
– Playstation Plus
– Foxtel
– Google Play Music
– Adobe Creative Cloud
PS+
Netflix
Hulu+
Unblock-US
NFL Game pass
NHL Game Center
Google Play Music Unlimited
Patron (Kinda Funny + Kinda Funny Gamescast)
Man so many KindaFunny scumbags! I’m so surprised that theres Kotaku AU people following those guys too!
Scumbags?
Sorry it’s an OG Gameovergreggy show reference. Before referring to the audience as ‘best friends’ Tim and Nick wanted to refer to the Patreon subscribers as the ‘scumbags’ 😛
Ah right. I’m relatively new to GOG show. I came across from Podcast Beyond.
Netflix
Crunchyroll
PS+
XBLA
Google Music
getflix
Netflix
Google Play Listen Now
Soundcloud
And totally not subscribed to Emuparadise at all…
Got a few going…
PS+
WWE Network
Netflix
Giant Bomb premium
I think that’s all of them…
Netflix and Xbox live
Netflix
Brazzers
PornPros
Amazon Prime
Hulu
Xbox Live
PS+
At Least i am honest…
Netflix. Just Netflix. :\
Netflix
Quickflix
World of Warcraft
Playstation Plus
UFC Fight Pass
Spotify
Private Internet Access
Netflix (US)
Hulu Plus
Spotify
Stan
Unotelly
Amazon Prime
Netflix.
Adobe Creative Cloud.
Office 365.
Currently…
Netflix
Stan
Pandora
Xbox Live
Does TorGuard count?
Netflix
Getflix
Spotify
Meggafast (seedbox)
Zuver (website hosting)
PS Plus (I think it’s my 3rd year) Adobe CC and in the last week, Spotify and Netflix.