• Rinzler@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    I’m no joke considering buy an iphone, becauseso many console games coming to the platform

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      11 months ago

      I would wait until they have actually arrived before making any purchases.

  • Bone@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Taking games that already exist and locking them behind their subscription. They already did it to Into the Breach. Time to boycott the the makers of these games for making shitty deals (Supergiant Games, Devolver Digital, Subset Games).

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      11 months ago

      Subset Games is two people. The game has been available on Windows, Mac, and Linux for five years, during which they gave away a significant expansion for free. You’re not punching up by calling for a boycott against EA or Activision here, these are indie developers and this is presumably their livelihood.

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        11 months ago

        Instead, they are asking all who want to play on mobile to add a Netflix subscription. What?

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            11 months ago

            So you care about me caring only enough to tell me I shouldn’t care. Genius

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          11 months ago

          Presumably they could never afford to port to mobile themselves, without cooperating with Netflix. Since you don’t want to pay for a Netflix subscription… You’re not missing out on anything. It wouldn’t have existed if not for Netflix.

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            11 months ago

            I understand I’m not paying for it (not because I don’t want the game; I’d gladly pay for it alone), and so I’m not playing it. I am missing out, what are you talking about? I’m voicing my displeasure with the situation. And it’s totally valid. I think defending the subscription model is absurd.

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          11 months ago

          Instead? Instead of what? Just not developing a mobile version?

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            11 months ago

            No, you claimed it’s only two people and I shouldn’t punch down. Instead, these two people think everyone else should pick up a Netflix subscription just to play their game. Boo hoo

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              11 months ago

              The game’s been out for five years, they gave it away for free on epic’s shop, it’s available on three other operating systems without subscription, do you want them to come round and suck you off too?

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                11 months ago

                No. That’s a lot of words to not understand that I just don’t want a Netflix subscription in order to play a game. Hope I have a PC, what? But, since you finished it off with absurdity I have no more reason to speak with you.

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                  11 months ago

                  OK great, yeah nobody except the people profiting off it likes games being locked behind a subscription, but the only absurdity here is your sense of entitlement

    • Chloyster [She/Her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      11 months ago

      The games already exist, but not on mobile. I’d agree if they were available on mobile already and then went behind a paywall subscription. If the games would never exist on mobile if Netflix wasn’t paying for them to be there, then I don’t mind as much

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        11 months ago

        I hear what you are saying. I thought a little about that myself, if they are paying to get them onto the platform. But that’s just it. I don’t know about ios, but it’s Android that Into the Breach is on. That’s the platform. Netflix is no gaming platform. Why didn’t these studios bring their games directly to Android? I say fault them.

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      11 months ago

      What’s great is you can find cracked versions. I played ITB on my phone and I don’t have a Netflix account