I understand that $1,000,000 is a lot to us plebs but that's like leftover change when we're talking about deals worth tens of billions. The guy can be bought for chump change, which is just wild as fuck. If I'm going to be a corrupt dictator, I'm gonna squeeze more than a million out of these people.
You would be surprised by how little some US politicians can be bought off for.
We always hear about the largest corruption scandals, but most US politicans are satisified with selling out for just a few thousand dollars being donated to their reelection campaigns...
In the US, the right wouldn’t shut up about Hunter Biden making a few million off Burisma, but completely ignores Jared Kushner making a cool $2B off the Saudis.
The guy can be bought for chump change, which is just wild as fuck. If I'm going to be a corrupt dictator, I'm gonna squeeze more than a million out of these people.
That's why even the dictators of the world regard Trump as one of the dumbest men on the planet Earth...and always have.
Putin, for example, has skimmed so much wealth from the Russian people that not only has his country descended into third rate status, but he had to invade Ukraine just to try and steal more oil and natural resources. This has made Putin, by many estimations, the actual richest man in human history. But he's smart enough to spread it all out and not declare it all publicly.
Note that when an oligarch falls out of window and his assets "return to the state" that's Putin breaking open another one of his many piggy banks.
Trump's first term was a joke, but now he has surrounded himself with a higher class of charlatan. So, he's finally a real billionaire.
But even a world-class charlatan like Musk couldn't get Trump to the next level of chicanery.
Politicians are surprisingly cheap. I worked for a big tech company and noticed in the public filings how much they paid for legislation that year, and I'm pretty sure it was less than they paid the 30 or so engineers on my team.
My understanding is the favors given to the politician and those related to him/her. In the U.S, once the alignment is reached, what you have is the allegedly completely independent political associations which come out of the woodwork to pour money into the politician's campaign, run ads on his behalf, etc.
Trump is a cheap bitch. Congress are even cheaper bitches.
They would throw us all under the bus for 20k.
Trump won’t do it for less than 100k but you gotta give him a reach around on air and off air. Each favor is longer reach around and more money. It just can’t be the same or less. He’s the epitome of “what have you done for me lately”
Trump only cares about Trump. Ignoring the fact that Netflix can clearly out-bribe the Ellisons, he already owns the Ellisons. He can gain no further advantage over them, so it will be argued by the people telling him what to do that having Netflix in his pocket increases his power.
Their lawyers will hire a “deal facilitator” who will buy a few million of Trump’s crypto coin. Netflix pays for the “deal making service,” never hears about the process or coins, and Bob’s your uncle: “Mostly ethically”
Agreed. But the issue isn't with Netflix or the Ellisons. It's with Trump. Trump wants the bribes to approve any merger. That has been the case for all mergers these past 11 months.
So, yes, I'm sure Netflix doesn't want to have to bribe Trump. But they aren't going to have any choice. The FCC and DoJ will do (or not do) whatever Trump commands, so...
Why are you arguing with me. Of course its with trump. Hes signal he will need a bribe. The Allison's have already proven to be willing to undermine the rule of law while silencing dissenting voices in journalism.
To your second point. Yes ive said as much in my original comment.
Netflix pretends it's in the gaming space, but I think we can all agree that they aren't.
But, traditionally, the merger of any two megacorporations invites scrutiny. In EA's case, it might not warrant a block under a normal administration as you say.
Either way, EA is bad investment right now for anyone. Which is why Netflix quite wisely chose not to buy.
Traditionally, the merger of any two megacorporations invites scrutiny. In EA's case, it might not warrant a block under a normal administration as you say.
The elite know a massive financial crisis is coming when AI valuations inevitably blow up. They are scrambling to dump stock and lock in assets before it hits.
They are rushing to buy assets at all-time highs before the market crashes and those assets are cheaper? Makes zero sense. Holding cash would make more sense if they thought a bubble was going to pop.
Holding cash is a losing strategy on that scale. Hedging against the currency devaluation that usually follows fed intervention after a crash is the more sensible choice of the two. Owning Warner Bros is worth way more than holding onto piles of cash, even if its overvalued right now.
Also, there is no such thing as an “all time high”. The market sits at an all time high 80 percent of the time.
Not if the Feds bail out the tech industry, that's at least a couple trillion in printed dollars. Add on COVID-style checks from Trump himself and you've got a delicious inflation cake
I think Netflix has like 9bn liquid, they probably have to get rid of it somehow before it loses value due to inflation and to shape future tax contributions
The streaming wars are becoming brutal, especially with Disney being a serious competitor just due to their size and reach. It makes sense that Netflix wants to diversify their offerings and/or find other new ways to compete.
I have a strong suspicion that one of the main reasons they want to buy WB is specifically so they can own DC comics. That would give them an IP which could potentially compete with Disney head-on.
EA has better margins than Netflix. If game streaming ever takes off, Netflix has great synergies. Don't know how that would be throwing money away, especially since EA sold for more than Netflix was willing to pay.
Their stock has crazy valuations. It sort of makes sense to consider using it to buy stuff, especially if they think in the mid term there will be a correction in stock prices.
I think it’s an IP play (some of their IP can be made into video games; some of EA IP into movies), but also was likely related to that venture Netflix had into video games
This is literally their mentality. They’re coasting off the decision to get into streaming film & TV content early. They still haven’t come up with a new growth strategy beyond “expect the next unexpected exponential growth thing from us”.
That's exactly why you would buy 1 and not build it yourself if that's an industry you want to diversify into. EA already has a subscription option, which Netflix does have expertise in. You can keep the exec's around with golden handcuffs to help with the first few years after the acquisition is closed.
Or you could always go the Amazon way and we all know how that worked out.
Usually, the company taking over rocks up and implements "efficiencies" to try and justify the ludicrous money they have just spent/staying solvent.
Sometimes those "efficiencies" are genuinely efficiencies. Most of the time, the company realises too late that the people they cut were kind of important and they don't actually know how to run this entirely different business.
I've been a part of multiple acquisitions, the most recent being a similar size to the WB deal. Our exec's were all locked into up to 2 year golden handcuffs and the financials were absolutely ridiculous that they would never say no. Efficiencies of course will happen, you don't need 2 HR departments for instance but when you make acquisitions it's usually because you want either the IP or the customer base. Netflix buying EA would absolutely make sense to me considering Netflix already has mobile games.
EDIT: I should add quite a few of those acquisitions were so that the acquiring company diversifies into complimentary technologies.
You hope it’s the AT&T era, where they come out so large as to be unstoppable, and not the AOL/Time Warner era, where the acquisitions got so expensive to finance that the debt drowned the company.
Their goal is to the the primary entertainment center for the family. Everyone has an account and they can access their specific games, TV, movies etc. Netflix will gather their habits and tailor recommendations (and ads, so many ads) specifically to them.
I wish they would just give it up though. Nobody wants their shitty game platform. The platform is already expensive as it is. Stick to one thing and do it well. They're adding stuff nobody is asking for and using that to justify jacking prices even higher. Give us good content at a reasonable price, that's all we ask.
This is just more enshitification of a service and we're sick of it. If someone wants a gaming platform because they're into games, they'll subscribe to that and pay what they deem is a reasonable price for that service. People who just want to watch a movie or binge a good series don't give two shits about the game section. While there is some crossover, the venn diagram isn't substantial enough to justify it.
Honestly their game offerings aren’t terrible. . . Monument valley was solid, currently they have Red Dead Redemption up so definitely gonna play through that again on IPad Pro. . . And since it’s included in the plan I’ll take it.
They have vastly more subscribers now than when it was cheap.
Also I pay about £6 for netflix their cheapest option in the UK with ads. I have no problem, I get between 0 and 2 ads an hour, for how much I use it I'm quite happy with the cost.
I always thought they should have bought Jackbox during the pandemic. Everyone I knew was playing it over zoom, and Netflix could have spun up hosted Jackbox games on their platform pretty quickly.
Hell, I still think they should do it. It's kind of the perfect game library for a streaming service...
Not that I'm rooting for it, to be clear. I don't really want those guys swallowed up by a mega corp. But as a business idea I think it makes a lot more sense than a lot of their decisions in the gaming space.
I hate the fact that you cannot remove or even hide the games sections. Does anyone even play them? If I want to play games, I will play games on my PC or consoles. I don't want to have to pay extra every month to subsidise a feature that no one ever asked for and the majority don't even want.
As a PC/console gamer myself, I also turn up my nose at most mobile games. I struggle to call it "gaming" in the first place.
But mobile games are undeniably a much bigger and more lucrative market than "real" games. People like us have no use for these games but we're probably not in the majority.
I think (mostly rightfully so) WBD's history as a legacy studio and all the TV and movies that are wrapped up in that have hidden that Netflix probably sees their gaming portfolio as a not insignificant value in the acquisition.
Unlike Google or Amazon, Netflix hasn't dropped it's supposed entrance into gaming, through it also still has not done much outside of allowing premium mobile games to be accessible through your subscription and some licensed products. I had been suspecting that this could have been a higher ticket item in their eyes if they want to expand in the ways they seem to be indicating, and this story makes me think that really may be true.
Along with Netflix's recent statements about their intentions and plans with the Movie and TV divisions of WB (how much you trust those statements is still TBD) I think Netflix wants to expand streaming as a key entertainment pillar, and much like legacy companies used tentpole movies as advertisement for parks and merchandising, Netflix may be doing the same for not just their brand, but their industry as a whole.
Monument Valley is a fun, calming puzzle game with very interesting geometry based puzzles.
They actually have Red Dead Redemption available now!
The games aren’t really in app, you go to the app to do the initial download but after that it just downloads from the AppStore and opens like any other app.
But daddy Trump made sure the deal went to ol Kushy boy and his terrorist buddies.
Now he’s cautioning against the Netflix and WB deal because his boy Larry Ellison wants in on that deal. Ellison donated 16mil to Trumps “new presidential library.”
Feels like another case of “what if we buy an entire adjacent industry instead of figuring out our own margins.” On paper, Netflix + EA = IP + distribution + subscription bundle. In reality you get culture clash, massive capital outlay, and regulators asking why a debt-fueled streamer owns FIFA.
All these monopolies are banking on trump admin never leaving office again....as soon as pendulum swings shit is gonna hit the fan. I want all these companies broken up, through the anti-trust book at all of them.
Well Netflix would actually do something with all those IPs EA has been sitting on. Would probably get a dew decent shows or movies out of them too. Dead Space would be such an easy franchise to pump out at least 2 decent movies.
actually there's some good corporate synergy, every time they see a good idea they run it into the ground before unceremoniously cutting the series short and firing everyone involved.
I feel like this is retaliation to Kushner for potentially facilitating the Paramount attempt at a hostile takeover.
Basically a hyper rich guy telling another hyper rich guy to piss off otherwise they will undercut their own deal in retaliation, that will hurt everyone's wallet and bruise egos
Seems like Netflix was just looking to throw money away for a brief period.
During this administration all anti-trust issues are off with a large enough bribe to Deepthroat Donnie Dipshit, so...
I understand that $1,000,000 is a lot to us plebs but that's like leftover change when we're talking about deals worth tens of billions. The guy can be bought for chump change, which is just wild as fuck. If I'm going to be a corrupt dictator, I'm gonna squeeze more than a million out of these people.
Always makes me laugh. In the UK a politician convicted for 10 years for accepting Russian bribes and he got 30k for it. Laughable
You would be surprised by how little some US politicians can be bought off for.
We always hear about the largest corruption scandals, but most US politicans are satisified with selling out for just a few thousand dollars being donated to their reelection campaigns...
In the US, the right wouldn’t shut up about Hunter Biden making a few million off Burisma, but completely ignores Jared Kushner making a cool $2B off the Saudis.
That's why even the dictators of the world regard Trump as one of the dumbest men on the planet Earth...and always have.
Putin, for example, has skimmed so much wealth from the Russian people that not only has his country descended into third rate status, but he had to invade Ukraine just to try and steal more oil and natural resources. This has made Putin, by many estimations, the actual richest man in human history. But he's smart enough to spread it all out and not declare it all publicly.
Note that when an oligarch falls out of window and his assets "return to the state" that's Putin breaking open another one of his many piggy banks.
Trump's first term was a joke, but now he has surrounded himself with a higher class of charlatan. So, he's finally a real billionaire.
But even a world-class charlatan like Musk couldn't get Trump to the next level of chicanery.
Politicians are surprisingly cheap. I worked for a big tech company and noticed in the public filings how much they paid for legislation that year, and I'm pretty sure it was less than they paid the 30 or so engineers on my team.
My understanding is the favors given to the politician and those related to him/her. In the U.S, once the alignment is reached, what you have is the allegedly completely independent political associations which come out of the woodwork to pour money into the politician's campaign, run ads on his behalf, etc.
One of my favourite sayings so far, "What's the difference between 1 Million and 1 Billion? About a Billion"
If you're buying a company for one hundred billion plus, I'm gonna need at least one or two billion
Trump is a cheap bitch. Congress are even cheaper bitches.
They would throw us all under the bus for 20k.
Trump won’t do it for less than 100k but you gotta give him a reach around on air and off air. Each favor is longer reach around and more money. It just can’t be the same or less. He’s the epitome of “what have you done for me lately”
Or on, trumps going to crash the Netflix deal because he favors Ellisons right wing grift.
Trump only cares about Trump. Ignoring the fact that Netflix can clearly out-bribe the Ellisons, he already owns the Ellisons. He can gain no further advantage over them, so it will be argued by the people telling him what to do that having Netflix in his pocket increases his power.
Netflix has operated mostly ethically. I dont think they view the need to grift and bribe as a necessity compared to the ellisons.
Their lawyers will hire a “deal facilitator” who will buy a few million of Trump’s crypto coin. Netflix pays for the “deal making service,” never hears about the process or coins, and Bob’s your uncle: “Mostly ethically”
Yes, ive said as much in my original comment.
Trumps going to demand a bribe.
Agreed. But the issue isn't with Netflix or the Ellisons. It's with Trump. Trump wants the bribes to approve any merger. That has been the case for all mergers these past 11 months.
So, yes, I'm sure Netflix doesn't want to have to bribe Trump. But they aren't going to have any choice. The FCC and DoJ will do (or not do) whatever Trump commands, so...
Why are you arguing with me. Of course its with trump. Hes signal he will need a bribe. The Allison's have already proven to be willing to undermine the rule of law while silencing dissenting voices in journalism.
To your second point. Yes ive said as much in my original comment.
How would Netflix acquiring EA be anti-trust? They are barely in the gaming market...
Netflix pretends it's in the gaming space, but I think we can all agree that they aren't.
But, traditionally, the merger of any two megacorporations invites scrutiny. In EA's case, it might not warrant a block under a normal administration as you say.
Either way, EA is bad investment right now for anyone. Which is why Netflix quite wisely chose not to buy.
There would be zero anti trust issues with Netflix buying a gaming company anyway.
Traditionally, the merger of any two megacorporations invites scrutiny. In EA's case, it might not warrant a block under a normal administration as you say.
The elite know a massive financial crisis is coming when AI valuations inevitably blow up. They are scrambling to dump stock and lock in assets before it hits.
They are rushing to buy assets at all-time highs before the market crashes and those assets are cheaper? Makes zero sense. Holding cash would make more sense if they thought a bubble was going to pop.
Holding cash is a losing strategy on that scale. Hedging against the currency devaluation that usually follows fed intervention after a crash is the more sensible choice of the two. Owning Warner Bros is worth way more than holding onto piles of cash, even if its overvalued right now.
Also, there is no such thing as an “all time high”. The market sits at an all time high 80 percent of the time.
If a market is going down isn’t holding cash the best thing you can do?
Not if the Feds bail out the tech industry, that's at least a couple trillion in printed dollars. Add on COVID-style checks from Trump himself and you've got a delicious inflation cake
Somehow the EA elites know this but the Netflix elites don’t 🤔
You guys are so goofy
I think Netflix has like 9bn liquid, they probably have to get rid of it somehow before it loses value due to inflation and to shape future tax contributions
They really want a chunk of game streaming market imo
The streaming wars are becoming brutal, especially with Disney being a serious competitor just due to their size and reach. It makes sense that Netflix wants to diversify their offerings and/or find other new ways to compete.
I have a strong suspicion that one of the main reasons they want to buy WB is specifically so they can own DC comics. That would give them an IP which could potentially compete with Disney head-on.
Why didn't they call me, I could use some money.
They got all that extra valuation from raising prices.
EA has better margins than Netflix. If game streaming ever takes off, Netflix has great synergies. Don't know how that would be throwing money away, especially since EA sold for more than Netflix was willing to pay.
Why can't they throw some money my way?
Their stock has crazy valuations. It sort of makes sense to consider using it to buy stuff, especially if they think in the mid term there will be a correction in stock prices.
It’s like they’re in their AT&T era, just buying up shit for the hell of it.
"We've never successfully run a major gaming company...let's buy one of the largest and give it a go. How hard can it be?"
I think, at least hope, the idea is "buy it and let it run itself but add some of our IP" rather than interfere or try to build their own
Plus "oh conveniently we now have the film rights to Dragon Age & might redo the Amazon Mass Effect contract"
Or just add stuff to the subscription as they did with android games.
Then they don't get sales and then it's not doing well enough and then you get shut down haha
100% this. Especially with the push for animated content.
Honestly, only better than what EA is allready doing, probably
It’s weird because while this news is absolutely bad, I’m staring at it and thinking “Man, why is Netflix of all people the lesser of two evils here.”
Warner Bros Discovery sold to them instead of Paramount, and now EA might be sold to them instead of Saudi Arabia/Jared Kushner.
I think it’s an IP play (some of their IP can be made into video games; some of EA IP into movies), but also was likely related to that venture Netflix had into video games
You don't need to own EA to monetise your IPs.
$8? Is that what a banana costs?
It's one banana, Michael. What could it cost? 10 dollars?
There's always money in the banana stand.
No touching!
This is literally their mentality. They’re coasting off the decision to get into streaming film & TV content early. They still haven’t come up with a new growth strategy beyond “expect the next unexpected exponential growth thing from us”.
That's exactly why you would buy 1 and not build it yourself if that's an industry you want to diversify into. EA already has a subscription option, which Netflix does have expertise in. You can keep the exec's around with golden handcuffs to help with the first few years after the acquisition is closed.
Or you could always go the Amazon way and we all know how that worked out.
That isn't how takeovers normally work.
Usually, the company taking over rocks up and implements "efficiencies" to try and justify the ludicrous money they have just spent/staying solvent.
Sometimes those "efficiencies" are genuinely efficiencies. Most of the time, the company realises too late that the people they cut were kind of important and they don't actually know how to run this entirely different business.
I've been a part of multiple acquisitions, the most recent being a similar size to the WB deal. Our exec's were all locked into up to 2 year golden handcuffs and the financials were absolutely ridiculous that they would never say no. Efficiencies of course will happen, you don't need 2 HR departments for instance but when you make acquisitions it's usually because you want either the IP or the customer base. Netflix buying EA would absolutely make sense to me considering Netflix already has mobile games.
EDIT: I should add quite a few of those acquisitions were so that the acquiring company diversifies into complimentary technologies.
Tbh much prefer EA in the hands of Netflix than in the hands of the Saudis
I was thinking the 80's IBM Era.
You hope it’s the AT&T era, where they come out so large as to be unstoppable, and not the AOL/Time Warner era, where the acquisitions got so expensive to finance that the debt drowned the company.
I don't actually want them to be so large as to be unstoppable, so I'm fine with the mismanagement timeline
Asset diversification. The broader the range of assets a company owns or controls, the less likely the company folds when something's not selling.
Always feel like mega media companies have no idea what they're doing
In years when Netflix dies and become the next Blockbuster the circle will be complete.
They’re eventually going to overextend, fold, and then Amazon is gonna buy up everything at a discount
Makes sense. They've been trying to establish a gaming section for a while. Not to mention all the IPs for movies and everything.
This. Using valuable IPs that can cover both media can be very profitable, if done right
Fingers crossed for a decent stranger things game 🤞🏻
if it's by EA, you'll have to pay 10 dollars to unlock the upside down
$10 to unlock a shirt. The upside down would be an extra $60 to unlock after paying $80 for the game.
Their goal is to the the primary entertainment center for the family. Everyone has an account and they can access their specific games, TV, movies etc. Netflix will gather their habits and tailor recommendations (and ads, so many ads) specifically to them.
I wish they would just give it up though. Nobody wants their shitty game platform. The platform is already expensive as it is. Stick to one thing and do it well. They're adding stuff nobody is asking for and using that to justify jacking prices even higher. Give us good content at a reasonable price, that's all we ask.
This is just more enshitification of a service and we're sick of it. If someone wants a gaming platform because they're into games, they'll subscribe to that and pay what they deem is a reasonable price for that service. People who just want to watch a movie or binge a good series don't give two shits about the game section. While there is some crossover, the venn diagram isn't substantial enough to justify it.
Idk I've found it a nice perk. I've been playing a few games. Red dead, monument Valley, into the breach.
Yeah they have a lot of strong mobile fames for my iPhone that I would not buy independently. My son plays them when we have to wait.
We actually played some of the multi-player ones on the TV with our kids and it was fun.
Honestly their game offerings aren’t terrible. . . Monument valley was solid, currently they have Red Dead Redemption up so definitely gonna play through that again on IPad Pro. . . And since it’s included in the plan I’ll take it.
Ironically, so has EA...
Gaming and subscription models aren’t doing the best now, look at what gamepass has caused on the Xbox division
I can't believe we missed out on the Madden Multiverse
We're approaching that joke from Bojack Horseman where there is just one company left
AOL-Time-Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader-Joe's
Welcome to Costco. We love you.
It’s either that or KFC Taco Bell Radisson Texas Instruments NASA.
Demolition Man, everything is Taco Bell.
Would it have been better than Jared Kushner and the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund?
Is that even a question?
Not really?
Even though Netflix sucks, yes
That’s the problem. Netflix is a horrible idea but it seems to be better than the alternative in these cases
I've got a used Hyundai Elantra, since Netflix seems to be buying random stuff they probably don't need
Hmmmmm, who is it that owns EA? I forget his name. I am sure he has no links to the White House….
Seems netflix is reaping the rewards of being the most expensive streaming platform.
To think, we used to have $7.99 a month no ads BS no strings attached.
They have vastly more subscribers now than when it was cheap.
Also I pay about £6 for netflix their cheapest option in the UK with ads. I have no problem, I get between 0 and 2 ads an hour, for how much I use it I'm quite happy with the cost.
I always thought they should have bought Jackbox during the pandemic. Everyone I knew was playing it over zoom, and Netflix could have spun up hosted Jackbox games on their platform pretty quickly.
Hell, I still think they should do it. It's kind of the perfect game library for a streaming service...
Not that I'm rooting for it, to be clear. I don't really want those guys swallowed up by a mega corp. But as a business idea I think it makes a lot more sense than a lot of their decisions in the gaming space.
Why don’t we just combine all the companies?
then who's gonna be left for competition for dodging taxes and evasions ? :(
/s
That would have been the end of EA. Maybe they should have.
Better than selling it to the Saudis
Mass Effect live action?
Amazon are already making a Mass Effect live action TV show.
Can Netflix buy everything and implode so we can start from scratch?
Would’ve been better than the Saudis at least
EA Movies, it's in the dumpster.
Oil money had more value I guess.
Why shouldn't we just ban mergers outright? the economy needs competition and the "efficiency" argument is garbage, inefficiency is the point.
At least it’ll be removed from the Saudis
Id be cool with it if it meant they would fucking fire all these fucking BOZOS GIVING US A DOGSHIT MADDEN YEAR AFTER YEAR
I hate the fact that you cannot remove or even hide the games sections. Does anyone even play them? If I want to play games, I will play games on my PC or consoles. I don't want to have to pay extra every month to subsidise a feature that no one ever asked for and the majority don't even want.
As a PC/console gamer myself, I also turn up my nose at most mobile games. I struggle to call it "gaming" in the first place.
But mobile games are undeniably a much bigger and more lucrative market than "real" games. People like us have no use for these games but we're probably not in the majority.
I think (mostly rightfully so) WBD's history as a legacy studio and all the TV and movies that are wrapped up in that have hidden that Netflix probably sees their gaming portfolio as a not insignificant value in the acquisition.
Unlike Google or Amazon, Netflix hasn't dropped it's supposed entrance into gaming, through it also still has not done much outside of allowing premium mobile games to be accessible through your subscription and some licensed products. I had been suspecting that this could have been a higher ticket item in their eyes if they want to expand in the ways they seem to be indicating, and this story makes me think that really may be true.
Along with Netflix's recent statements about their intentions and plans with the Movie and TV divisions of WB (how much you trust those statements is still TBD) I think Netflix wants to expand streaming as a key entertainment pillar, and much like legacy companies used tentpole movies as advertisement for parks and merchandising, Netflix may be doing the same for not just their brand, but their industry as a whole.
Didn't Saudia Arabia just buy EA? Lol that company ain't worth the fight over.
If Netflix gave the green light for a Dead Space 2 remake, im all for the monopoly.
I’ll take Netflix owning EA over the damned Saudis
Does anyone play Netflix's in-app video games? I avoid those like the plague.
The games (some of them at least) are legit games that are actually really good. Into the breach and dead cells being a couple stand outs
Into the Breach is phenomenal. Check out their other game FTL.
Red Dead Redemption just dropped and if Monument Valley is still available give it a try, it’s a chill, visually beautiful geometry based puzzle game
Also recently added Red Dead Redemption.
Monument Valley is a fun, calming puzzle game with very interesting geometry based puzzles.
They actually have Red Dead Redemption available now!
The games aren’t really in app, you go to the app to do the initial download but after that it just downloads from the AppStore and opens like any other app.
IDK why but that seems even more sketchy/spammy than just playing games in Netflix app
it honestly works better. . . Last thing I need is a game launcher on my iPhone à la Epic
They do own the studio behind Oxenfree on the other hand
Give me Titanfall 3 and I'll preach about your monopoly
Can they put this money into their production and make sure that shows get proper endings and good writing?
Even though I dont like Kushner and the Saudis owning EA, i’d hate to see them make a quick payday from this.
Harry se está garchando a todos!
I feel like it would be hard to do a worse job managing it at least
The people who deserve it got it
But daddy Trump made sure the deal went to ol Kushy boy and his terrorist buddies.
Now he’s cautioning against the Netflix and WB deal because his boy Larry Ellison wants in on that deal. Ellison donated 16mil to Trumps “new presidential library.”
Someone with a "buy all the things yolo" mentality at Netflix just happens to be in charge of the bank accounts
I'd have preferred this over the Saudi's having it, and not going for Warner Bros
Feels like another case of “what if we buy an entire adjacent industry instead of figuring out our own margins.” On paper, Netflix + EA = IP + distribution + subscription bundle. In reality you get culture clash, massive capital outlay, and regulators asking why a debt-fueled streamer owns FIFA.
This feels like a win with EAs terrible track record..
More???
This would be preferable to the Saudi fund, but I wonder if it'll be a shared ownership group
All these monopolies are banking on trump admin never leaving office again....as soon as pendulum swings shit is gonna hit the fan. I want all these companies broken up, through the anti-trust book at all of them.
Well Netflix would actually do something with all those IPs EA has been sitting on. Would probably get a dew decent shows or movies out of them too. Dead Space would be such an easy franchise to pump out at least 2 decent movies.
actually there's some good corporate synergy, every time they see a good idea they run it into the ground before unceremoniously cutting the series short and firing everyone involved.
Tech companies just buying whatever the hell they wan t
Saudia Arabia beat them to it.
so a we have no real source claim...
reddit users take it as a fact source....
When your Battlefield 6 squadmates are kids trying to play it on the netflix app in the back seat of the minivan on the way home from school.
Imagine playing battlefield on Netflix
EAs been shit for a while. Let someone else take a wack at it.
I’d rather Netflix own EA than the saudis
Bullet dodged there
I i considered buying it too....wheres my news article?
From the Saudi’s?
From Prince Abduul “My lambo ran out of gas so I bought a new lambo” Nauada Hakim?
From King Viziri “My son said everyone takes the train to school so I bought him his own train” Rafiq?
Yea I didn’t think so.
Don't imagine it could make ea any worse
Didn't the Saudis just recently buy EA? Are they sick of their toy already?
these big company acquisitions is awful news for consumers i dont think people understand that enough
Netflix wants to be like Facebook now. They will own TikTok next haha
I didnt know companies could get a midlife crisis
Netflix cloud gaming when?
Instead probably going for Warner Bros.
Ngl I'd rather them than the Saudis
You don’t want magic carpet simulator 2025?
Why does everything have to try to become an everything app?
Good..fix NHL PLEASE
That acquisition would have made lot of scene for Netflix they have the resources to take cloud gaming
But why?
It's not like they can make it any worse. So why not?
Netflix is considering buying Dairy Queen. Netflix is considering buying Kaiba Corp. Netflix is considering buying the concept of Ownership.
Is it time to drop Netflix? It’s all junk anyway.
The only way I would be happy about a company buying EA is if they resurrected Command and Conquer and Empire Earth.
There's no way they can fuck up EA more than EA fucks up EA.
But…. How would Netflix make EA worse?
I feel like this is retaliation to Kushner for potentially facilitating the Paramount attempt at a hostile takeover.
Basically a hyper rich guy telling another hyper rich guy to piss off otherwise they will undercut their own deal in retaliation, that will hurt everyone's wallet and bruise egos
Im fine with that.
Better than the Saudi’s and Kushner fkr I guess
Neucom be like
To mutch taxe outcome ... I need to burn money ...or i will drawn and i bring the more i can in the deep oceans
They consider a lot. Didn't they consider making a bid for WB too?