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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.
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
Then dont subscribe, they're not planning on making money selling to people who already on it on PC. Netflix is making it available to people who didn't buy this on PC.
If enough people dont play it, they'll lose money and they wont do it again. If a lot of people play it, then who the fuck are you to tell other people the right way to enjoy playing games?
What's the lie? Netflix doesn't give a fuck about you or me. They're creating a list of games to provide their subscribers because they want to make more money. You want the government to pass a law that says they cant or something?
Our power here is to subscribe or not. That's it, find another avenue to exercise control in your life if that's not enough for you.
It's not about boycotting, it's about making a personal choice to allow something into your life or not.
On the list of shitty things society decides, this is not even in the top 1 million. If you want the game and dont want to pay for it, pirate it. Easy solution for each of us personally.
Yes it will, it will literally change YOUR life.
Stop worrying about if a game costs too much for your liking based on what you think society should pay for it. Nobody is going to get sick or die because hades ios is a netflix exclusive.
Bro if netflix offers me a few million to make my game exclusive, fuck you im taking that deal
Okay but we can just pirate it.
You're just making stuff up.
Says who? Do you know if the Devs can afford that or whether the mobile market is even likely to be profitable for them without help from netflix?
So then pirate the mobile version like the rest of us, this is a good news, there's a native mobile executable of these games now, who cares if it's a subscription or one time purchase??