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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Yo ho ho.
Probably bad news for the show and streaming space, but if this curtails WB’s patent bullshit it’s great for the gamers.
fuckin monopolies gonna ruin everything
Let’s say that Trump doesn’t manage to cancel or subvert the next couple of sets of elections and that in 2029 the US has a democratic president and a democratic congress. Let’s also imagine that the next president cares about monopolies and puts Lina Khan back in charge. I wonder if there’s anything that they can do about decisions made by Trump’s FTC. Or is Netflho just now legally in place and we’re stuck with them unless the FTC can prove they’re abusing their monopoly?
do you think all monopolies should be split into different smaller companies and then collectivized by the workers?
Da
Introducing, a brand new Batman series, where Bruce joins the army and-CANCELED.
But wait, here’s the first in a 8 part miniseries about the Gangsters from Space Jam, who-CANCELED.
We know these are trying times, so we decided to reimagine the world of-AND CANCELED.
Didn’t even need to tell you what the reboot was, it was just canceled on sight.
Don’t forget the tax write off too for canceling a completed movie!
Man, I didn’t even realize I was interested in the backstory of the gangsters from Space Jam until just now. I’d like to sign up to watch all of your pilots.
Dang I had WB-Discovery being acquired by Skydance-Paramount before being acquired by Disney in the semifinals. Gonna have to redo my whole bracket now.
Better not Paramount.
You should see what they did to the Halo show.
Quite hard to fuck that world up as there is so much possibilities. Instead they went for reskinned halo-aesthetic generic sci-fi action show.Its this whole movie doping with AI thing. If all the teams do it what’s the problem! C’mon, let’s get out there and break a couple of legs in 3 or more places!
At this rate there will only be two media companies in America next year, and then one the year after.
Thankfully a lot of people have a movie making machine in their pockets (cell phone). Content will eventually be produced by the masses, competing against the behemoth media companies. Barring that, local community theatre productions. Maybe get a cheap CD player or two and put it in the back closet and then start collecting CD’s again. There is more stuff in media history to consume than there is new stuff being produced. A lot of it is better.
Content will eventually be produced by the masses
And it will be owned by one of the many monopolies.
Barring that, local community theatre productions.
Put on in a theatre owned by Ticketmaster.
Some people drink Pepsi some people drink Coke, but that wacky morning DJ says democracies a joke.
I hate the cynicism though tbh. If it wasnt for “intellectual property” this bullshit wouldn’t matter nearly as much.
Is it cynicism when it’s the reality around us?
And there’ll still be too many damn streaming services.
there absolutely will, and they will constantly shift what is available on where. Imagine owning most of them, and having people constantly pay you by switching services because they dont have what one wishes to watch. This is likely why those services do this, I cant imagine any other way to make profit from driving customers away from your service.
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
sounds like an accurate representation of what would happen, too.
cable is the carcinization of media under capitalism.
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.
limited to devilman crybaby
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.
you absolutely should not share these files
You are living the dream.
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.
That would be so sweet, but I am also limited to my two bays NAS 😅
I should have known better that the hoard being that lives inside of me would need more storage down the road.
That’s why I have a 3d printer - so I don’t need to buy storage housing XD
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
I’m still mad about Kaos.
I leave it on in the background for my dog sometimes, in case the views help revive it.
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
I think they just put the main segment on yt, unless they changed that recently
Try setting your country of origin to a more obscure county, like Albania. You get the full episodes.
The initial releases are main segments in NA, but they upload the full episodes for earlier seasons if memory serves. So probably in a year or two this season’s full episodes will be updated.
I live in France but visited Canada recently, I was able to see the main story but not all the bits before and after. The moment I landed back in France I received notifications for the 4 episodes I missed.
Not a big deal, really, but sometimes the news updates are very funny and balance out the heavier subject matter.
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.
I was converted from a subscriber to a pirate about 20yrs ago… And the enshitification of everything makes me love the feel of my well worn hat.
Finally put it back on a little while ago, honestly it’s a breath of freah air
Exactly! Having a good thing going is never enough anymore. If video had taken the route that music did with streaming then we’d be in a much better place.
i really hope ted sarandos becomes the new ceo, or fires david zaslav and hires a new ceo. seriously!
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.
As much as I despise media consolidation in general, I couldn’t be happier about the Batman Arkham franchise finally leaving the purview of such terrible leadership.
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.
The only streaming service I still pay for besides Prime (which has gotten so bad with ads that I’m just about done with them)
They have become too big to fail. Everyone can now RELAX.
Phew
Does it include their video game ip? Wonder how it’ll affect that given how great Netflix has been with their own studios…
