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I just found out it was another bad day to have netflix shares.
Wednesday, 17-Sep-14 20:39:40 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker Why so? Because Netflix is in Germany now and having a very poor selection at the moment?
Wednesday, 17-Sep-14 20:44:15 UTC from Choqok-
@broniebrown Shares went down. And the recent internet cryout about the European netflix pool of goodness being about a quarter of the American ones is probably to blame there.
Wednesday, 17-Sep-14 20:45:58 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker Well... It's not surprising. Most of the countries here have their own streaming sites with their own contracts (maybe exclusive) for certain films and series. Netflix had to expand earlier in order to gain significant influence. In Germany there are about 5 bigger streaming services (watchever, maxdome, amazon, videoload, apple itunes). I'm curious which of them will survive.
Wednesday, 17-Sep-14 20:55:18 UTC from Choqok-
@broniebrown It will only be a matter of time before mayor mergers will occur followed by an epic 2 or 3 way shakedown. Pretty much in the same way which Apple vs Android vs Windows-Phone or Steam vs Origin ( vs Uplay ? ) is going down
Wednesday, 17-Sep-14 21:10:58 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker Not to mention the "deal exclusives" wich will probably appear. Ever heard of the game-exclusive content everyone's favorite retailer Gamestop was proposing ? Yea, not sure how they are going to do that for series and movies but... Will it be good for the consumer ? prolly not
Wednesday, 17-Sep-14 21:14:04 UTC from web -
@critialcloudkicker I'll predict that the ones with the bigger money behind their backs will win in the end. So I would say that netflix will buy the local streaming services one by one and thus eliminating their competition. In the gaming business it's not that important. Steam is loved by many people, while origin and uplay are hated. Games for Windows died recently and won't sell games anymore. I assume that will happen to origin and uplay too because of their low userbase (and acceptance).
Wednesday, 17-Sep-14 21:20:48 UTC from Choqok-
@broniebrown "I'll predict that the ones with the bigger money behind their backs will win in the end" ... Your move Nintendo ... But all sillyness asside, there is virtually no way to predict what will happen in a 3-way fight between companies. Sure you could state things like Namco or Capcom or Sega, but they are not big-time players anymore. Quite recently the Gamespy servers went down and everyone got a sour taste of "wait, I can not play [name of old title] anymore ?" which I am sure has not seen the height of it's internet-cry-time yet... And back on the topic of Origin and Uplay, if their ( crappy, shoddy, weak excuse for DRM, real customer interfering ) methods are the only way to see the games you get hyped enough for ( Watchdogs, Titanfall ). People will use Uplay/Origin. Hype is being used as a tactic to uplift the bad taste in people's mouth when they hear DRM, it might be short term, and it might be damaging to the games-market it is but it works.
Wednesday, 17-Sep-14 21:28:46 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker You're right that it is hard to tell what will happen. Who would know in 1992 that SEGA won't produce any consoles anymore? To gamespy: I have never used gamespy, mainly because I don't play games online, but it sucks for sure that all the games have a crippled feature because a service went down. It's like all the online play with the old XBox and some Nintendo DS and Wii games (insert many other games that relied on specific services that are now defunct). I hope the developers will make games that allow people to run their own servers.
Wednesday, 17-Sep-14 21:44:20 UTC from Choqok-
@broniebrown Well, not entirely correct. Back in 1996 after looking at how Sega Master System failed in America when compared to Europe, and looking at the reluctant sales of the Sega 32X & Saturn & basic lack of any sort of hype for the Dreamcast I held a presentation about the subject ( boring half the class to either yawning or looking outside at passing cars, while there were like 3 interested people, including the teacher, which scored me a pretty grade it did ). I think I ended it with me making a blind jab at the future stating something like "I think that the future of gaming on dedicated machines relies more in the hand-held portable market than it does on machines that you must hook up to your TV." ( I should have those overhead-projector slides somewhere I think ). We all know what happned though, Nintendo already had the home-team advantage since it was outselling the Game-Gear about 4 to 1, and a year later the Game Boy Color was anounced. Ofcourse I got one :D
Thursday, 18-Sep-14 00:43:54 UTC from web -
@broniebrown You have no idea how much I hope for a new "we allow you to run your own server from home"-renaissance. These days a LOT of games rely on the "lets squish piracy by keeping a lot of stuff to ourselves" method. Simcity is a big one, Dawn of War 2 is also an example of how I do not like to see things being done, Battlefield has been a big one since BF2142 I believe. And the biggest kid on the block "Galactic Annihilation" is although I really like the game, almost unplayable due to lag ( I actually went back to Suppreme Commander because I had the "itch" ) because from what I have gathered, troop movement is not calculated locally even when playing skirmish, this is all done in the "cloud". And I really hate that term.
Thursday, 18-Sep-14 00:50:29 UTC from web
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