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Netflix does it again. Record subscriber gains. (discuss.tchncs.de)
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[–] -1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I think you're looking at it the wrong way. It's just an extra that you have for "free", not a dedicated gaming subscription. I also live in Europe and my Netflix is cheap, so I will have the subscription by default (cause a lot of people in my family watch it), which means I get to try the games for free. You can always just go buy them if you want, from the store.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I cannot. Mobile games are exclusively licensed by Netflix: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netflix.NGP.IntoTheBreach&hl=en-US

    On desktop, I'll of course go for the actual purchase

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Hmm, didn't know that one was exclusive to Netflix. It's not a universal thing or a rule, cause San Andreas Definitive Edition, for example, is available for purchase for $20. Probably depends on what the game publisher agreed to.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No, you seeing it wrong.

    The subscription is the ONLY way you can get that game, making the whole subscription a necessity if you only want to game that one game.

    Like with YouTube, where you have to pay YouTube music as well, even if you have apple music payed by your daddy already

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Remembering how Subset Games is notoriously anti-mobile I looked into it. Turns out, as usual, they did not intend to release a mobile port, just like with FTL. They have an FTL iPad port, but refused to release an Android port due to piracy concerns, claiming it wasn't worth the effort to bother with the port. But Netflix approached them and sponsored the mobile ports for Into the Breach. In other words, if not for Netflix, the game would not have been playable on mobile at all. This likely applies to all the other Netflix exclusive games, they don't buy licenses, they sponsor the ports.

    And even if they were just buying licenses and making games available only through Netflix, then go complain to the game devs, not Netflix. Devs are the ones who agreed to it when they were offered money.

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