Netflix has revealed a bunch more games that subscribers will soon get to play at no extra cost. They include indie hits such as Braid, Death's Door and Hades.
  • Bonesince1997@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years 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).

    • GrapesOfAss@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

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

          • Chloyster [She/Her]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            2 years ago

            Well basically these games would likely have not been on mobile at all. Netflix is publishing them for mobile. If I had to guess, I’d say that Netflix approached these devs and offered to publish for them and provide them money for being on their service. For the devs, it’s free money for something they likely weren’t considering in the first place (porting to mobile). I definitely wish the devs would publish themselves (if they have the means) but it’s not how it’s happening unfortunately. And fwiw they are on the play store. You just need to sign in with a Netflix account when the game boots up.

              • Chloyster [She/Her]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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                2 years ago

                I mean porting isn’t an effortless task to be fair.

                I’d like to be clear I definitely do not prefer subscriptions to just buying it once. But really there are 2 scenarios here. 1. The game doesn’t exist on mobile at all. 2. It exists and you can play it if you have a Netflix subscription. I wish there was more than that but tbh I feel like I’d pick 2. At least with 2 the devs get more financial support and some more people have access to these excellent games