As a follow-up to the Moviepass post, they recently made a number of changes to their service that have people upset and confused. Some affect current members like myself and others new members. Let’s start with the new members.
The standard $10 for unlimited movies offer is gone (at least for now) and replaced with an offer that gives you 4 movies a month instead. That’s one a week and still a good deal, but not as good a deal. They give you some crappy trial for some other service with it, but I honestly don’t know how that is a ‘benefit’.
Okay, that out of the way, let’s talk about the changes that affect old and new customers. You can no longer go see any movie you want to once a day (or once a week depending on your plan) but instead only can see movies you haven’t already seen with the service. In other words, no repeat viewings. This severely limits your ability to hit the one a day mark and really hampers my plans. I figured as long as I could go see a movie later with a friend, it wouldn’t matter if I saw it first on a different date that I had some time to kill. Quite annoying.
As well, some of us now have to take a photo of our ticket when we use the service and upload it.
It all boils down to two things. One, people are using it more than they want us to. Two, some people are ruining it for others by sharing their account and using it to scam services. For example, some people would get tickets and not go just to earn rewards for the movie chain since the movie still counted since it was ‘paid’ for. So now, we get less and have to do more to reap the benefits.
It’s still a good deal, just a lot less appealing.