This guarantees that I'll never even TRY their service.
Brilliant move, Netfilx. Be sure to mention the in-game ads in all your marketing materials too. I'm sure people will FLOCK to your service in DROVES.
Netflix is reportedly exploring adding in-game ads to its gaming service
Submitted 10 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to gaming@beehaw.org
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guyrocket@kbin.social 10 months ago
falsem@kbin.social 10 months ago
Yeah, you're supposed to wait until you actually have a user base to enshittify it.
belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Fuck these companies lol. This is worse than cable ever was and is far more expensive.
Sail the 7 seas and tell them to get fucked.
YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
The Enshittification continues! I have no interest in playing games on Netflix so they won’t get ad revenue from me.
Stillhart@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Netflix has a gaming service?
Spacemanspliff@midwest.social 10 months ago
Yeah I don’t have a PC for gaming so I can’t speak for their PC catalog but they have a couple really nice android exclusives.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 10 months ago
but they have a couple really nice android exclusives.
And that is a big issue.
Stillhart@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I like… don’t even have an idea in my head of what we’re talking about. Is it like Gamefly for renting video games? Is it like Epic Games Store, a pathetic attempt to cash in on Steam by offering the exact same service but worse? Is it like Amazon App Store, a pathetic attempt to copy the Google App Store but worse? Is it games you play on your TV with the TV remote? (I’m pretty sure I have seen one of two of those on Netflix that my kids played.)
I could look it up but they might see that as interest, and I’m really not interested. Just OOTL.
chloyster@beehaw.org 10 months ago
This sucks lol. I actually think netflixs gaming selection is pretty solid. I will immediately lose interest if they pull this though
alyaza@beehaw.org 10 months ago
what would you say is the stuff of note in their selection currently?
chloyster@beehaw.org 10 months ago
On Android, not including stuff you can also get outside netflix:
- deaths door
- into the breach
- shovel knight pocket dungeon
- Poinpy (from the downwell dev)
- Spiritfarer
- Moonlighter
There’s also a few things that you can get through Netflix that’s also available outside of it, like dead cells, world of goo and btd6
Overall it’s my go to place when I feel like finding a game to kill some time. They have a lot more than that but those are some of the higher quality ones
Infinite_Indecision@midwest.social 10 months ago
So maybe I’m just out of touch, but who reads this and still wants to use this service?
ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Perhaps the ones that don’t pirate or don’t have to pay for the service.
I personally avoid all streaming services like the plague and sail the high seas.
toxicbubble420@beehaw.org 10 months ago
yo ho ho & a bottle of rum
FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 10 months ago
Sega Channel never did that shit. 😒
Pepsi@kbin.social 10 months ago
Yeah it was amazing for the 3-4 hours it worked every day.
Damn haven’t thought about that shit for 25 years.
shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Yo I heard you liked ads, so I added ads to your ads
iMastari@kbin.social 10 months ago
From the article:
"It’s suggested that Netflix would only introduce ads to users who already see ads as part of their subscription, which is the case for users on the lower-priced ad-supported models."
I think people here either did not read the article or completely missed that sentence.
Eggyhead@kbin.social 10 months ago
Oh. Well then I guess that just makes it completely okay for ads to just be in games now. Good thing you cleared that up.
espiritu_p@kbin.social 10 months ago
Well.
No one is even using Netflix' games.
Thay just make sure it will stay so.
cdipierr@beehaw.org 10 months ago
I love companies swinging between “we have to increase your subscription costs to allow us to offer more great features” and “our customers are excited about our new features so we need to leverage advertising to continue providing them”. Just repeat until everything is loaded with ads AND costs twice as much!
alyaza@beehaw.org 10 months ago
honestly, the thing that gets me here is–who even focuses on Netflix Gaming in the first place? i never hear about stuff dropping in their ecosystem, and so it really feels like an afterthought service to begin with that they’ve bolted onto their main business
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Ok no joke, I discovered Dead Cells, one of my favourite rougelike games currently, through Netflix. I was browsing through Netflix mobile, saw that they had a gaming section, and that was one of the first suggested games.
I now own 3 copies of Dead Cells+DLCs (one for every platform I game on). However, I don’t have a Netflix subscription anymore, lol.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
They have a few good games, I really like Moonlighter
agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 10 months ago
And that is exactly the problem.
They throw a half assed product at the wall without notifying anyone, nothing sticks, so now they’re throwing in ads to recover costs.
I really feel like the C suites of these companies are run by complete morons, without hyperbole. These people are not good at what they’re doing. They just floated to the top during a period where money was free and being bold was more important than being right.