Subscriptions For Car Seats!? (The Jimquisition)
Excessive monetization isn't just for videogames! Let's see how another industry is taking horrible cues from game publishers as BMW starts charging for car seat heaters!
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At this point, I think the world's economy deserves to crash.
I no longer have to imagine buying an 85,000 dollar car and being charged 12$ a month to use the heated seats. Hyundai did something similar with their remote starter. They packaged it with 3 years free and a 1200$ yearly subscription. You get more but most of it is useless. That is also the starter package 1 of 3. For all 3 it's more than 3500 a year.
Tesla has been doing this for a while in order to get my back seats heated it would cost like 500 bucks(luckily it is a one time purchase I haven’t done yet) but it is still just software that is locked and that is bullshit
That's not a subscription, tho. It's annoying, but at least makes sense. It is a lowered price to get the car, which matters to some people.
I was not at all surprised to see this video - thanks for covering it. Hopefully more eyes will stop this nonsense moving to other industries. But sadly I expect it'll just encourage it.
Glad to see you're still pointing out how especially bullshit present-at-purchase dlc is, especially now that its jumped the fence and is trying to escape into the mainstream
Normalization is the name of the game. 😕
Maaaaaybe these things get hacked immediately, and everything unlocked permanently, and then the owners get their service in a free workshop obviously, and the dealerships will be pissed, and BMW doesn't get their bloody DLC revenue either. Not that I would endorse such behaviour !
I certainly hope so. But the UK is already looking at venues to make 'tampering' with car software illegal, and I bet EU would follow suit because 'it could be a safety hazard.'
Steph, this video is shite and lacking full context. I trust you would never have done that on purpose so I hope you look more deeply into it and issue a retraction. I'd also love to have a chat
You said retraction. 🤣
Oh, yeah! I heard about that! Instead of making different cars, they make one model and charge more to turn on the features. I'm sure they'll make a lot of money from some who will get frustrated that these things are ON the car that THEY purchased, but just don't work. 🤪😜
But they didn't purchase them yet. Thats the whole point. If you live somewhere cold and need the heated seats but lets say you dont want the other high beam options and whatever then this way you can GET the heated seats without having to pay for the top end model like you would've had to beforehand
Next on the pipeline, BMW loot boxes. You might get 30 minute heating on your seats or... a new wallpaper for your dashboard. But hear me out, you can get a season pass that enables you to use the heating for 15 minutes in the morning OR the evening Monday to Friday during Autumn and for a small extra during Winter.
That's funny, but not at all accurate.