This is really poor from Trakt VIP itself isn’t worth $60 a year, maybe bring it back to $30p/y.
By limiting the free features will likely see many users leave and go elsewhere, i gave VIP a try for a month and it just isn’t worth the money.
This could begin the end of Trakt, listen to you users they are your customers.
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Because there are competitors, which offer the same features for less or for free.
TV listing magazines are a relic of the past - would be surprised if they are around in a few years, much like yellow pages.
I like Trakt, and think that the pervious pricing was better and more compelling to upgrade. I think trying to force free users to upgrade in this way is counterproductive especially for $60 a year when other services are cheaper with the same feature sets. As many others have said I do think a cheaper tier for around $10-20 a year to remove said limitations as well as maybe dark mode would be a good idea.
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Of course, but for example, I’m only using Trakt to list what I’ve watched.
I’m not using any calendar or additional features.
I’ve 2 lists : movies and series.
When I watch a movie, I rate it, mark it as watched, add it to my collection, and include it in my movie list.
When I finish a series (all seasons), I do the same for the complete season (not 1 ep by 1) but in my series list.
That’s it.
I’m using Kodi, but without any API for auto-checking or syncing, I do everything manually.
So, for that, it’s not worth paying $60 per year.
At least, like Simkl, I could consider a lifetime subscription for around $150 or something.
But clearly, paying yearly for what I’m doing makes no sense. 
Now, I can’t even use the website anymore for the little I was doing, so…
Gimme something at 1$ or 2 per month or idk 20$ per year for only collection and list and i’m good with that, no need more
Just put an Half VIP ^^
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Here’s the thing: there are 3 adults (me, my wife and our daughter) living in our household and we all use a single Trakt account for our Kodi addons because it’s really the only way to manage things. With a setup like this, it doesn’t take long before a Collection of TV shows easily exceeds 100 items when 3 people are using it and a Trakt Collection is - by far - the best solution.
I can imagine that 100 items on a list might be enough for 1 or 2 people but for 3, it simply doesn’t work. Many TV shows have a huge number of episodes to get through and it also doesn’t really make sense to continuously add and remove shows based on when they screen during the year (adding them) and when they’re on hiatus (removing them).
And here’s the thing: it seems to me that Trakt is being used in a lot of different ways by users and yet Trakt staff are now trying to force people into a one-size-fits-all pricing structure based on a perception of how they think people use Trakt. The reality is that some people will use a lot of the current VIP functions, some will use maybe half of these, and some (like me, and apparently many others who have posted in this thread) only want the bare minimum. It just doesn’t make sense to try and force users into a one-size-fits-all pricing structure when the product itself is being used in so many different ways. It really seems to me that Trakt staff have become so tunnel-visioned and enamoured with functions and dreams that a considerable number of customers don’t need or want….but Trakt needs these customers to pay for them, regardless. This is a crazy way to do business and I’m sure you’ve noticed that people don’t like being forced to pay exorbitant fees for a whole bunch of stuff they don’t want or need.
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if you come across a decent alternative, please pass it on. I’m aware of Simkl, but their non pro users still can’t create custom lists.
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I know people are unhappy but this is highly inappropriate. If you are looking to refer to another service, use another forum (like Reddit). If you were in my place of business discussing the competition and urging people to leave, I’d throw you out!
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Simkl as of now doesn’t let you create custom lists, unless you go pro. And you cannot create one standalone list for all your movies and TV shows either, even if you go pro! Not the best alternative!
your approach to customer interaction speaks volumes about your understanding of people, let alone your business acumen. safe to say, I couldn’t care less.
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well assessed. I wish more people were receptive to the problems users are facing, and if nothing else at least be polite in their response — rather than ranting about business ethics they know nothing about.
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Why do you really need to use the collection feature if you can’t/won’t pay for it? Trakt is perfectly usable without, right? It tracks what you’re watching (progress/up next), what you’ve already seen (history), and what will come out soon (calendar w/ watchlist). Now if you actually wanna see 100 items in the near future, you’ll run into a problem, but otherwise, things should be fine.
I can’t imagine using ONE Trakt account for 3 different people. Even if you use the same media centre thingy, I hope you can set up different users that scrobble to different Trakt accounts.
That was always possible with Plex back in the day when I used it.
I’m not saying you have to use Trakt this way, but if you’re been using it otherwise, I guess maybe it’s time to give it a try the way it’s supposed to work 
And I know there are certain apps that use stuff wrong, but that’s on them. For example using the Collection future as the Watchlist or something idk.
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I’d imagine people are flagging your posts for legitimate reasons, not because we disagree with your opinion. You’ve thrown around all sorts of personal attacks. Congrats, you can call randoms on the internet “young”, “snowflakes”, and whatever other childish insult you can come up with. You’re literally adding nothing productive to the conversation and whomever keeps unflagging your posts is doing a disservice to this forum.
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Let’s be realistic, most people using trakt don’t “own” anything these days. People can use trakt as they like, and collection is essentially just a normal custom list that already has a name that you can’t change, so people using it as a 4th list is actually savvy seeing that the current limits for free users is borderline ridiculous.
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Fully agree with all the points you’ve made.
This one-size-fits-all approach makes no sense, especially the way it is being forced.
In fact, I’d say the only thing it achieves is to increase the appeal of any alternative that has various price points, even if it doesn’t achieve feature parity.
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Absolutely absurd. Truly moronic. I hope your little money grab attempt completely backfires.
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Gotta say, I do like your reasoning. Instead of being able to give a bit of money to use some desired features, everyone is being forced to give a lot of money to just keep the features we used to have, again for a non-essential service. I’d also simply rather spend my time (manual tracking and watchlist monitoring) than this much money tbh.
And yes, it is a lot of money.
Breaking it down by day/hour and comparing it to a coffee/take-out is a common sales tactic (especially in the Western world) to make things seem affordable to the gullible. I’m always wary of motivation/intent when someone uses this analogy.
This analogy doesn’t magically somehow increase the value or reduce the price of what you are paying for, nor make it worth the cost. It also doesn’t work on people who don’t frivolously eat out or buy expensive coffees.
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That sounds more like a third-party app problem, than a Trakt problem.
Have you contacted the app developer yet?
You’re not VIP, so it can’t be the streaming scrobbler (that’s still in BETA) that’s having issues.
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I don’t know the app so I don’t know the terminology but you’re talking about “collection” on that thread there. If your collected is already over 100 shows and/or movies and you’re no VIP then the error seems to be explained with this thread.
Or do you mean you cant scrobble or sync watched history? Because I don’t take that from your topic there honestly and maybe you should clarify over there for them to be able to give better support.
Correlation does not imply causation
You keep talking about collection. But if an app needs to the collection feature on trakt to scrobble or send watch data its honestly a bad(ly designed) app
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if you’re going to moan this much about a free service then just leave and stop wasting your time here
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again, stop bringing politics into this. it has nothing to do with it
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