Netflix to shut down two game studios: Night School and Moonloot

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• Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  any studio that get acquired these days, instantly dies in my eyes because it’s never acquired by someone who cares

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  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s not true… me failing and finding examples and scrambling well … I gotta go now, bye.

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  • dudeface@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or perhaps they promise the purchasing company something they cannot deliver on time and companies like Netflix are less understanding to bloating budgets

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    • silver@das-eck.haus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It wouldn’t surprise me. Place like Netflix decides to invest in gaming without having expertise.. Then when they see the inevitable delays that are so common with game releases, they panic

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just six weeks ago, Night School had released Unhinged, a novel 30-minute first-person horror game, streamable on TVs to Netflix users.

  Prior to its Netflix tenure, Night School had developed the award-winning supernatural thriller Oxenfree.

  Netflix attributed the studio closures to a prioritization around kids gaming, party games, story-driven fare and games with mainstream hooks, such as a recently released FIFA game.

  Ah yes from their history I can see how it would be impossible for them to pivot from story based ges to party, fits, and uh, story based games.

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  • Carighan@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They are competent, so that naturally just failed to align with Netflix’s business principles.

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  • RamRabbit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think the real reason is nobody plays Netflix games. Vast majority of people don’t even know they exist; and those who do often don’t have a device that can run them.

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• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The 6 hour GTA 6 deal was expensive. They have to make cuts somewhere else. 1 trailer in exchange for 2 studio closures… Man these closures in general, if they at least could go independent or sold rather than closing. This industry is so eff-upped.

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• ScoobyDoo27@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck Netflix. Night school made good games.

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• sealhaslupus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  creatives who are successful want more money to fund bigger projects and increase the scope of their art.

  capitalists want studios to make money to line their pockets at the expense of creativity and eventually kill them when the games become just another vector to funnel cash to the wrong places.

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• Carighan@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wish their games were more readily playable. :<

  I got three Android TVs, including a TCL 75” I just bought last year. I can’t play Netflix Games on any of them. The only device I can do that on is an old Google dongle. Wild.

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• cheeseburger@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The goal of the guys who owned the studios was to make a bag selling to a larger company. They knew what that meant when they did it. Netflix is corpo, doing what it does naturally. Blame the cunts who sold.

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