In the video games space, the acquisition means Warner Bros. Games and its subsidiaries—including Avalanche SoftwareNetherRealm StudiosPortkey GamesRocksteady StudiosTT 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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[–] 101 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 100 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 8 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.

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  • [–] 57 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 35 points 8 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 12 points 8 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 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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  • [–] 41 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 41 points 8 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.

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  • [–] 34 points 8 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 33 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    fuckin monopolies gonna ruin everything

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  • [–] 4 points 8 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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    [–] 29 points 8 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.

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 11 points 8 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.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

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    [–] 10 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    They have become too big to fail. Everyone can now RELAX.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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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    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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  • [–] 4 points 8 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.

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