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Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. (www.gematsu.com)
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In the video games space, the acquisition means Warner Bros. Games and its subsidiaries—including Avalanche Software, NetherRealm Studios, Portkey Games, Rocksteady Studios, TT Games, WB Games Boston, WB Games Montreal, WB Games New York, and WB Games San Francisco—will soon be under the Netflix banner.

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[-] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 39 points 6 days ago

Introducing, a brand new Batman series, where Bruce joins the army and-CANCELED.

But wait, here's the first in a 8 part miniseries about the Gangsters from Space Jam, who-CANCELED.

We know these are trying times, so we decided to reimagine the world of-AND CANCELED.

Didn't even need to tell you what the reboot was, it was just canceled on sight.

[-] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago

Man, I didn't even realize I was interested in the backstory of the gangsters from Space Jam until just now. I'd like to sign up to watch all of your pilots.

[-] Zeddex@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

Don't forget the tax write off too for canceling a completed movie!

[-] Victoriathecompact@sh.itjust.works 33 points 6 days ago

fuckin monopolies gonna ruin everything

[-] tuskyo@ttrpg.network 1 points 3 days ago

The problem is stupid people giving them more money.

[-] DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 days ago

do you think all monopolies should be split into different smaller companies and then collectivized by the workers?

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

Let's say that Trump doesn't manage to cancel or subvert the next couple of sets of elections and that in 2029 the US has a democratic president and a democratic congress. Let's also imagine that the next president cares about monopolies and puts Lina Khan back in charge. I wonder if there's anything that they can do about decisions made by Trump's FTC. Or is Netflho just now legally in place and we're stuck with them unless the FTC can prove they're abusing their monopoly?

[-] tuskyo@ttrpg.network 1 points 3 days ago

You pay this subscription so they can make more money.

How stupid are you?

[-] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 27 points 6 days ago

Dang I had WB-Discovery being acquired by Skydance-Paramount before being acquired by Disney in the semifinals. Gonna have to redo my whole bracket now.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Better not Paramount.
You should see what they did to the Halo show.
Quite hard to fuck that world up as there are so much possibilities. Instead they went for reskinned halo-aesthetic generic sci-fi action show.

[-] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago

I've never seen it, but I read enough about it to dissuade me from even starting. Very disappointing. But my point was less about which media companies are preferable and more that american companies are racing to consolidate during this period of pro-big business government. It's more blatant under Trump but it's been going on for a while.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Oh sure.
But they better not merge those two so we can have at least a bit of quality before they fully went to shit.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago

Yo ho ho.

[-] shani66@ani.social 5 points 6 days ago

Probably bad news for the show and streaming space, but if this curtails WB's patent bullshit it's great for the gamers.

[-] DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

i really hope ted sarandos becomes the new ceo, or fires david zaslav and hires a new ceo. seriously!

[-] SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world 100 points 1 week ago

If Netflix buys everything can I only buy one streaming service again?

[-] humble_boatsman@sh.itjust.works 96 points 1 week ago

29.99 w/ ads. New customers only. Price increases without warning every three months until you bleed. Sports packages extra....

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 57 points 1 week ago

30 for all currently airing media and a big catalogue to watch through? That’s not-

w/ ads

Over my dead fucking body

[-] JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago

This just sounds like cable

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

sounds like an accurate representation of what would happen, too.

cable is the carcinization of media under capitalism.

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[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 55 points 1 week ago

At this rate there will only be two media companies in America next year, and then one the year after.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 34 points 6 days ago

And there'll still be too many damn streaming services.

[-] reksas@sopuli.xyz 12 points 6 days ago

there absolutely will, and they will constantly shift what is available on where. Imagine owning most of them, and having people constantly pay you by switching services because they dont have what one wishes to watch. This is likely why those services do this, I cant imagine any other way to make profit from driving customers away from your service.

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago

Some people drink Pepsi some people drink Coke, but that wacky morning DJ says democracies a joke.

I hate the cynicism though tbh. If it wasnt for "intellectual property" this bullshit wouldn't matter nearly as much.

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

Thankfully a lot of people have a movie making machine in their pockets (cell phone). Content will eventually be produced by the masses, competing against the behemoth media companies. Barring that, local community theatre productions. Maybe get a cheap CD player or two and put it in the back closet and then start collecting CD's again. There is more stuff in media history to consume than there is new stuff being produced. A lot of it is better.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

Content will eventually be produced by the masses

And it will be owned by one of the many monopolies.

Barring that, local community theatre productions.

Put on in a theatre owned by Ticketmaster.

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

Be positive! Anything is possible. The people will rise up once again! The underground is now more powerful than the mainstream due to the "societal" shift into absurdity. Blood is more powerful than a token representing dubious value.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Normally when the people rise up they're slaughtered. When rich countries go through major changes normally there's a lot of chaos and blood before things get better. If you're someone who lives in one of those countries it's better if you can ride the chaos out somewhere else. In fact, in a country where things are getting bad, it's generally a good idea to get out long before the chaos starts.

[-] Merlin@lemmy.zip 40 points 1 week ago

Can’t wait to have hbo shows to be cancelled less than a month after release even though they got decent audience (but not enough for the algorithm to consider it good) I’m talking about Kaos on Netflix

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[-] datavoid@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 week ago

The real issue here is the game companies they are acquiring. Netflix should not be a player in gaming, full stop.

I am, however, relieved for John Oliver's sake.

[-] pasdechance@jlai.lu 13 points 1 week ago

John Oliver's show is free on YT outside of NA, hope that doesn't change.

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[-] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 22 points 1 week ago

This is not a good idea, but I already stopped paying for streaming entirely because the products have only gotten worse over time.

[-] Anomnomnomaly@lemmy.org 11 points 1 week ago

I was converted from a pirate to a subscriber about 10-12yrs ago... But the enshitification of everything makes me yearn for my old hat once more.

[-] kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 days ago

Finally put it back on a little while ago, honestly it's a breath of freah air

[-] wrekone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago

I was converted from a subscriber to a pirate about 20yrs ago... And the enshitification of everything makes me love the feel of my well worn hat.

[-] FriskyDingo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

Exactly! Having a good thing going is never enough anymore. If video had taken the route that music did with streaming then we'd be in a much better place.

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 13 points 1 week ago

Goddammit. I like HBO MAX soooo much better than Netflix.

[-] prole 1 points 6 days ago

The only streaming service I still pay for besides Prime (which has gotten so bad with ads that I'm just about done with them)

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[-] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

They have become too big to fail. Everyone can now RELAX.

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