They had one?
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TIL Netflix had a game studio.
First I've heard of it.
The first time I heard about it, was when it opened. The second time I'm hearing about it, is when it closed.
And nothing of value was lost.
They had a AAA gaming studio? I must have been living under a rock.
Same rock here.
I'm sure you didn't know that you can play games in Netflix either :p
It should have been a AAAAA studio. That is where they fucked up.
Or, they fucked up thinking that people wanting to watch movies wanted to play games....
Wasn't it all mobile games? I'm pretty sure that was the exact market they were looking for. People with short attention spans that can't put down the phone, even while consuming other media.
I just ignored all the ads and any news, so you are likely correct. I did think that most of the games were mobile, but I must have been mistaken in thinking it was playable on Netflix clients on your TV or something.
I used to play Pac-Man on my old FireTV with the controller while I was killing time in the mornings before work, so I thought it was similar in that regard.
Damn, I didn't know that was a thing either, lol. I'd play retro games on the TV remote.
Based on the article: the AAA thing was supposed to be something new/different, but they closed it before releasing anything. I also haven’t tried the mobile games, but they should be still available, that is done by a different team
Oh, ok. I definitely didn't read it in this case.
Or, they fucked up thinking that people wanting to watch movies wanted to play games....
true gamers dont watch movies 😡😡😡😡🤬🤬
og movie freaks dont play vidya 🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮
For those saying they didn't know about this, it's because they never actually released anything. They got shut down unexpectedly before they finished any projects. Allegedly there are still some in-development games based on Netflix properties that will still be released on their gaming service, and the service itself will stay up. It's just the studio itself that was shut down.
Why even join a new studio now if the owners randomly shutter them after - checks notes - the best financial quarter ever ?
Because it was a pandemic fueled rush. Everyone thought gaming was the best bet because we're all at home. Companies like meta, Microsoft etc.. grew astronomically on tax payer subsidies making it even better money. Other companies tried to invest or spin up game divisions.
Now the party is over, it doesn't even matter if these games are good or have potential. They put the sunk cost in the "pandemic's fault" spreadsheet, and take all the liabilities and costs from the expense spreadsheet. It looks fantastic on paper to investors, the real numbers dont really matter.
Well, they produced Oxenfree 2 which was a welcome sequel that I enjoyed. But other than that, I didn't really hear about anything else from them.
Was it a AAA game? How can it be this unknown when it was AAA?
Not really AAA at all, no.
Oxenfree 2 is out? I need to take a look. Thanks.
Was that this studio, or their other studio that's been running since 2017? This one, "Team Blue," was supposed to be working on some unannounced AAA game.
what does the speedometer do in oxenfree 2? just curious
You know. In ancient times, they had radios with tuners - and scales for visual feedback. ;)
In the game, they use it as a plot device for the communication with other... planes of reality? I liked the idea in part 1.
It wasn't a terrible idea, but I'm not surprised that it failed
If only this meant the removal of the annoying tiles for games that show up in the app above everything else (often using up the entire screen) even though I've never tapped on them once.
I don't want your games Netflix. I barely want your shows.
They why are you using it?
P.S.: the duplicated comments were a Jerboa bug, with a connection problem.
I hope Halo can use this opportunity to invite Joe Staten back on board. Their Creative Director opening on LinkedIn was closed recently, but who they actually hired we don't know.
I've had a lot of fun with the content they added for Into the Breach.
Darn. They made that choose your own adventure thing on Netflix right?
I remember doing the bear grills one, and one of the choices was to jump over a ravine, or walk over it using a fallen tree as a bridge.
Being the hiker I am, the obvious choice of walk around it being missing kind of annoyed me, but I chose the tree option.
Bear died.
So I got to go back and pick the jump over option, which was apparently the right one.
Who the fuck does running jumps over a 15 foot deep ravine.
I never bothered with the choose your own adventure things again. When the correct choice is just not available and the next logical choice just means an instant loss, you don’t have a very fun game