In the video games space, the acquisition means Warner Bros. Games and its subsidiaries—including Avalanche Software, NetherRealm Studios, Portkey Games, Rocksteady Studios, TT Games, WB Games Boston, WB Games Montreal, WB Games New York, and WB Games San Francisco—will soon be under the Netflix banner.
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At this rate there will only be two media companies in America next year, and then one the year after.
It can’t be worse than what the current management has been doing for the past decade.
Hopefully we will finally get a new decent Batman Arkham game.
The real issue here is the game companies they are acquiring. Netflix should not be a player in gaming, full stop.
I am, however, relieved for John Oliver’s sake.
John Oliver’s show is free on YT outside of NA, hope that doesn’t change.
Nah it’s free in NA too
Hasn’t Netflix been “in gaming” a while? You can access a lot of games on mobile from them. I opened my Netflix Android app and just from the suggested I can play Red Dead Redemption, Story Teller, Dead Cells, Spirit Fairer, Shredder’s Revenge, Street Fighter, and bunch of Choose your own Adventure type stuff from their own IPs. They’ve been angling in to game publishing for a while.
They have, but their in-house studios have suffered tremendously.
Yeah, this I believe. I saw the news that they sold one of their studios back to the original owners while still publishing the game they were developing. I must have missed the news about them downsizing their in-house stuff.
I looked up what studios they would be acquiring under the WB merger and uh…outside of the new Mortal Kombat, Hogwarts Legacy, and the DC games…I don’t really know if they’re going to make a big dent in the gaming sphere immediately. A lot of these already look pretty mismanaged, maybe it could get worse, but it could also get better.
But if we’re worried about moving towards even more subscription-based cloud gaming…yeah…looking at the state of gaming and hardware right now, I can’t argue with you there.
This is not a good idea, but I already stopped paying for streaming entirely because the products have only gotten worse over time.
I was converted from a pirate to a subscriber about 10-12yrs ago… But the enshitification of everything makes me yearn for my old hat once more.
If Netflix buys everything can I only buy one streaming service again?
29.99 w/ ads. New customers only. Price increases without warning every three months until you bleed. Sports packages extra…
30 for all currently airing media and a big catalogue to watch through? That’s not-
w/ ads
Over my dead fucking body
This just sounds like cable
If you increase the price every three months you’d have warning though.
If Netflix buys everything can I only buy one streaming service again?
There’s no need to buy any of these streaming service that gives shit quality for expensive price and gives shit service like not allowing to share account or even casting to TV (yes, Netflix removed the ability to cast from phone to tv).
Just Torrent with VPN or get Stremio with Real-Debtid €16/6month. Stremio with the correct add-ons has everything. If you just want purely anime, get Hayase with VPN.
How’s the hentai selection?
That I do not know, lol.
Oh come on we’re all degenerates around here.
How is the Hentai section with Netflix lol.
It’s called a VPN mate, and a copy of qBittorrent
I am more of a Debrid guy (Real Debrid) even if I have no need to pay for a VPN here in Mexico I still prefer to use RD, if I had unlimited HDDs I’d hoard everything of course.
I absolutely DO NOT have a mediaserver in my own home with a BDrom that can rip movies from physical media for my own personal use… I do not scour charity shops and car boot sales for music, movies and tv shows to put on there and I do not have around 70TB of storage and I am certainly not looking to expand the HDD’s in the new year.
Shoot, if you’re willing to share data with the rest of us I can send a few your way - my old IT contract jobs gave me plenty of salvaged parts to work with.
Can’t wait to have hbo shows to be cancelled less than a month after release even though they got decent audience (but not enough for the algorithm to consider it good) I’m talking about Kaos on Netflix
Goddammit. I like HBO MAX soooo much better than Netflix.
The shows are better in just about every way and they rely less on padding from Korea.
They have become too big to fail. Everyone can now RELAX.
Does it include their video game ip? Wonder how it’ll affect that given how great Netflix has been with their own studios…
