Netflix aims to 'crawl, walk, run' in its gaming push, but as subscribers largely ignore the growing games library, analysts remain skeptical of the move.
  • AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    211·
    1 year ago

    Lmao why. You turn on Netflix when you want to watch movies or TV shows, the battle is already lost in less than a second if you want people to care about your video games.

    • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
      151·
      1 year ago

      Because their whole good catalogue was owned by other people who took it back.

      They didn’t manage their originals well at all, but way more of their issue is the loss of content they weren’t even given a chance at.

      Everything since is desperation trying to claw back that value that isn’t coming back.

      • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Ridiculously poor management of originals, how did they end up with such huge gaps between seasons, they even release them all at once so they know fairly immediately if they are going to renew and can get the ball rolling. How is there more of like every other streamers main shows than Stranger Things

    • PenguinTD@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      you don’t think trying to find the thing you want to watch is kinda already a puzzle game if you use the TV embeded client. I was not a sub for a long time and last time at my friend’s place we tried to find something using the TV client it really painful. Maybe making it a arcade game so you have to win to watch a show when they buffer everything at higher quality in background is a win?(oh and throw you some ads if you lose and the buffering is not done yet.)

      ps. I basically get the however many month free from a deal and then just cancel it before it ends since I don’t watch/follow tv shows that much, I watched like 4 episodes of stargate and the streaming quality is really not up to par at the time.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      They still have pretty good value compared to competitors. I don’t like it, but when other streaming services are competing to see who can be more hostile to customers, Netflix is on the better end of the spectrum.

      That said, if Netflix is one of the better ones, I’m seriously reconsidering having any streaming apps at all and just buy shows and movies directly.

      For games, I honestly don’t see the appeal. I just buy the games I want, and it’s absolutely not something I want a subscription for.

  • BlizzardEnglish
    91·
    1 year ago

    It’s going to be a huge fail.

  • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    They could’ve just filmed some "choose your own adventure“ stuff and called it a game. Would’ve attracted more people, especially with their wealth, name, and the amount of books they could use.

  • kugmo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    71·
    1 year ago

    I hope it dies as it’s crawling like Stadia, streamed-only games is a dystopic idea.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Always amazes me what autocorrect gets past commenters… “Technicolor” is a new level.

  • drekly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    1 year ago

    POINPY is a fantastic Netflix owned mobile game.

    Don’t just downvote because ‘Netflix bad, not for gamers’. Go play it, you can just log in with netflix and get a great game.

  • smallaubergine@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    The game catalog is pretty decent. I had an issue where I downloaded a couple games from Netflix and then found they didn’t work on my flight because they needed a network connection. Pretty annoying