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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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[–] SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world 95 points 11 months ago (3 children)

If Netflix buys everything can I only buy one streaming service again?

[–] humble_boatsman@sh.itjust.works 95 points 11 months ago (3 children)

29.99 w/ ads. New customers only. Price increases without warning every three months until you bleed. Sports packages extra....

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 56 points 11 months ago

30 for all currently airing media and a big catalogue to watch through? That’s not-

w/ ads

Over my dead fucking body

[–] JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works 23 points 11 months ago

This just sounds like cable

[–] SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world 6 points 11 months ago

If you increase the price every three months you'd have warning though.

[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How's the hentai selection?

[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world 12 points 11 months ago

Oh come on we're all degenerates around here.

[–] kratoz29@lemmy.zip 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How is the Hentai section with Netflix lol.

[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 4 points 11 months ago

limited to devilman crybaby

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's called a VPN mate, and a copy of qBittorrent

[–] kratoz29@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Anomnomnomaly@lemmy.org 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] kratoz29@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago

That's why I have a 3d printer - so I don't need to buy storage housing XD

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 55 points 11 months ago (3 children)

At this rate there will only be two media companies in America next year, and then one the year after.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And there'll still be too many damn streaming services.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 12 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] Merlin@lemmy.zip 41 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I'm still mad about Kaos.

I leave it on in the background for my dog sometimes, in case the views help revive it.

[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 40 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] Zeddex@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Don't forget the tax write off too for canceling a completed movie!

[–] datavoid@sh.itjust.works 34 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] pasdechance@jlai.lu 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

John Oliver's show is free on YT outside of NA, hope that doesn't change.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I think they just put the main segment on yt, unless they changed that recently

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They have, but their in-house studios have suffered tremendously.

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] Victoriathecompact@sh.itjust.works 33 points 11 months ago (2 children)

fuckin monopolies gonna ruin everything

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

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?

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[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 29 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 8 points 11 months ago

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!

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Better not Paramount.
You should see what they did to the Halo show.
Quite hard to fuck that world up as there are so much possibilities. Instead they went for reskinned halo-aesthetic generic sci-fi action show.

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[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is not a good idea, but I already stopped paying for streaming entirely because the products have only gotten worse over time.

[–] Anomnomnomaly@lemmy.org 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 months ago

Finally put it back on a little while ago, honestly it's a breath of freah air

[–] wrekone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago

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.

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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Goddammit. I like HBO MAX soooo much better than Netflix.

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[–] pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago
[–] shani66@ani.social 4 points 11 months ago

Probably bad news for the show and streaming space, but if this curtails WB's patent bullshit it's great for the gamers.

[–] nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

Does it include their video game ip? Wonder how it'll affect that given how great Netflix has been with their own studios...

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