• Knitwear@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Bet they get cancelled after the first boss heyyyoooo (drum drum cymbal sting)

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    1 year ago

    Seeing how they treat their own shows, cancelling them willy nilly. Really doesn’t give me hope in them getting game series going.

    I dont wanna go and get attached to a game just for Netflix to completely drop support

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      1 year ago

      I was about to say, this sounds like a classic tax dodge. Start developing a ton of games, drop 8 of them come next year to make the charts look nicer for the shareholders, maybe release 1 game 3 years down the line.

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    Wait, what?! 😂 Okay, so is this gonna be a cloud based thing, because how stadia was so successfull? Or are these going to be downloaded apps? Or just stand alone choose your own adventure like black mirrors bandersnatch?

    On its website, Netflix says by the end of the year it’ll have 86 games for subscribers to play. This includes the recently announced Grand Theft Auto Trilogy - Definitive Edition off the back of the first trailer for GTA 6.

    Or are they gonna mail me a disc for gta again? Lol I’m genuinely so confused what this will eventually look like.

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      1 year ago

      They have games for Android already and you actually download the games; you don’t stream them. Notice that this article doesn’t specify whether these 10 games are for mobile or PC, though…

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        Orly?! I had no idea! And also… no interest in actually looking into those games or buying Netflix again.

        Thanks for the clarification! ♥ 💕

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          Some of them are just good games where Netflix is publishing them on mobile. I got both Bloons TD6 and Into The Breach through Netflix.

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      Stadia was successful. Everyone just hated on it for some reason. Didn’t get the playerbase so it was sold off. Was a fantastic service and I curse google daily

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          Wasn’t successful in playerbase no. Was in terms of a cloud gaming system. It worked. All I neeee it to do. Didn’t hit googles lofty ideals though.

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            It’s fine if it actually worked perfectly for you, but “just working” isn’t exactly a measure of success.

            They still needed the playerbase to actually use it, and devs to actually make games for it. Which they got very little of both. So it wasn’t successful.

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            It didn’t have a way to function in the event of system failure.

            Steam sometimes goes down. When that happens, people can often still play their singleplayer games. If Steam had totally failed business-wise, it either would have been sold to another publisher who would maintain access, or the games would’ve been unlocked for permanent offline play.

            Take a look at Stadia’s failure resolution strategy; they had to fully refund every person who bought a game there, because all purchases became completely unusable. Imagine if they’d gone a decade selling games to people and building off of their revenue, before encountering failure.

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              Nothing works in a system failure. It’s a system failure.

              They can only play their download games if it doesn’t need to access steam for a reason. Yeah you can go get a Nintendo 64 and play a game. Modern games require an internet connection. Yeah it’s a downside to it but it’s like saying you can’t play when it’s a powercut. It’s what board games say to video gamers.

              Also true. An issue that has just come up with Ubisoft. They have discontinued a game. No way to access it. That’s probably the most legit point.

              Very true. Look at Sony. Look at discovery. They aren’t refunding. Are you calling them failures ?

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    So…11 games? I hate how press releases like this say “over” a certain number rather than just telling us the actual number.

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    Are these 10 mobile games? Last I went on Netflix all they had was mobile garbage.

    edit: looks like GTA is on there so maybe there will be something decent

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      There’s some you play on iOS already. For example storyteller and Into the Breach. It basically checks that you have a Netflix account and then you can play the game.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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      They have games on Netflix already that you play using your TV remote. They’re basically just choose your own adventure books, but in a TV show/movie format instead of a book.

      There is also old crap like Doodle Jump, too, on other services that work on a TV using your remote.