It’s 2024 Not the best year for Disney+ users. And in recent months, the streaming platform has raised subscription prices by 30% and launched new measures against account sharing in Canada and the United States.
And the bad news doesn’t end there. Disney+ has just announced a new price increase and not only that. The streaming platform has also confirmed the date on which the restriction on the use of shared accounts. We’ll tell you later what the new Disney+ price is and when you’ll no longer be able to share your account.
Disney+ Gets Worse: Price Increases, Account Sharing Restricted
As revealed The Hollywood ReporterDisney+ will increase the price of the premium subscription to $15.99 per monthThis increase will take effect on October 17 in the United States and will be extended to the rest of the world in the coming months (in Spain the new price is likely to be reduced €13.99 per monthalthough it has yet to be confirmed).
Furthermore, the price of Standard subscription with ads (the cheapest plan offered by Disney+) also comes in at $9.99 per month (€7.99 per month). Simply put, Disney+ is increasing $2 for each membership level. This represents a price increase of between 12% and 20%.
To put it in context, Disney+ is already more than double the original price when it launched in 2019 ($6.99/€6.99 per month). It is speculated that in the US this price increase is intended to force users to migrate to the «Disney Package». This includes Disney+ and ad-supported Hulu for $10.99 per month.
And it doesn’t stop there. Disney CEO Bob Iger just confirmed it in a recent Shareholders’ Report What measures to limit the use of shared accounts are coming September 2024 a global levelThis is a global extension of regulations already in place in Canada and the United States.
It has not yet been revealed what Disney+ will do to comply with this restriction. At the time, users in Canada were told in an email Sharing your account or login credentials outside of your home is prohibited.. And if they did, they risk having their accounts suspended.
For him Disney+ Help CenterHe “Home” user is the collection of devices associated with your primary personal residence. This means that the new measures seek prevent your account from being shared with people who don’t live in the same household. However, they also emphasize that this restriction will not prevent the user from using their account while traveling, although they do not specify how they will do this.
And you… Do you think that with these new measures Disney+ is still worth it?
