• Dark Arc@social.packetloss.gg
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    6 minutes ago

    The big problem seems to be that with current interest rates, breaking into cloud gaming with a whole new platform is just not profitable.

    It stopped Google and now it’s looking like it’s stopping Netflix.

    Gamers just don’t want to spend money on new platforms or platforms where their friends aren’t.

    It’s a shame to some degree because Stadia was a cheat free paradise. There will always be latency concerns but I think streamed competitive gaming has a future, particularly as kernel anticheat fails to deliver and high end hardware gets more and more expensive.

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    2 hours ago

    Did this studio ever actually produce anything? Or did Netflix just have these highly-compensated C-suite guys on payroll for 2 years doing nothing?

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      I mean I spent a total of 5 minutes on the “Netflix” games

      Playing the puzzle game with my mom was pretty fun I guess. For as long as the novelty lasted

      So yeah I guess their salaries for 2 years paid for that lmao