• 3dmvr@lemm.ee
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    13 hours ago

    mobile games might be the one good thing theyve been doing, pretty sure they released some solid ones, like hades port

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      12 hours ago

      Fuck them for licencing games behind a monthly subscription. I want to buy Into the Breach, not get a video subscription I won’t use to be able to play it.

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        9 hours ago

        Thats wild , didn’t know that, you cant own hades on ios or play it offline

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        11 hours ago

        Yeah I was playing it while I cancelled my sub over the account sharing restriction. The only thing I missed, really.

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        10 hours ago

        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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          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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            3 hours 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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          10 hours ago

          Even greedy Amazon is providing games that don’t require a constant subscription to play even after you cancel Prime.

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            9 hours 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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      9 hours ago

      You can play hades on mobile now? It was already tough on PC, I can’t imagine how difficult that would be on mobile touch controls.

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        8 hours ago

        You can use a controller. I got further in Dead Cells on my phone with the Backbone One than I did on my Steam Deck. Maybe the same would be true with Hades - it’s a shame the Netflix version doesn’t (or didn’t; I haven’t checked in months) support cross-save.