US streaming service Max has officially launched its extra member fee that aims to eliminate password sharing on the platform.
The move was expected, as last year operator Warner Bros. Discovery warned it would be “asking members who have not signed up, or multi-household members to pay a little bit more.”
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Now it’s here, the fee to add an additional member outside your household is $7.99 a month regardless of which plan you’re on. That’s still cheaper than the $9.99 a month Max charges for the ad-supported version of The Last of Us streaming service.
Netflix charges $6.99 a month for an extra member on Basic with Ads, but its $8.99 a month if you’re adding an extra member without ads. So Max falls right in the middle.
As with Netflix, extra members will have their own account and password, but will have access to the benefits of the main account holder – like offline downloads and video quality. They will, however, only be able to stream from one device at a time in the home.
It’s probably no coincidence that Max is currently offering the opportunity to subscribe for one year and have your own membership for less than the price of the extra member fee.
As a limited time offer you can get Max for $79.99 a year for the Basic With Ads tier that usually costs $99.99 a year. Month by month that’s $6.67 over the 12 months of access.
Unfortunately, in February, Max phased out offering live sports and CNN Max for free with the Basic with Ads package. You can only get the NBA, NHL and MLB games bundled in on the standard with package that’s currently available for $139.99 a year – a $30 discount under the limited time terms. Premium, which includes 4K, can be nabbed for $50 off at $169.99.
Opinion
This had been in the post for a while now. One might hope that once the streaming services manage to fix the leaky tap that is password sharing, they might be kind enough to stop putting up the prices exponentially?
Yeah, right. And monkeys might fly out of my butt.
