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Netflix to acquire Warner Bros.

www.gematsu.com Netflix to acquire Warner Bros.

Netflix will acquire Warner Bros. in a $72 billion deal expected to close after the previously announced separation of Warner Bros. Discovery’s Global Networks division, Discovery Global, int…

In the video games space, the acquisition means Warner Bros. Games and its subsidiaries—including Avalanche Software, NetherRealm Studios, Portkey Games, Rocksteady Studios, TT Games, WB Games Boston, WB Games Montreal, WB Games New York, and WB Games San Francisco—will soon be under the Netflix banner.

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If Netflix buys everything can I only buy one streaming service again?
- 29.99 w/ ads. New customers only. Price increases without warning every three months until you bleed. Sports packages extra....
  
  30 for all currently airing media and a big catalogue to watch through? That’s not-
  w/ ads
  Over my dead fucking body
  
  This just sounds like cable
  
  If you increase the price every three months you'd have warning though.
- If Netflix buys everything can I only buy one streaming service again?
  There’s no need to buy any of these streaming service that gives shit quality for expensive price and gives shit service like not allowing to share account or even casting to TV (yes, Netflix removed the ability to cast from phone to tv).
  Just Torrent with VPN or get Stremio with Real-Debtid €16/6month. Stremio with the correct add-ons has everything. If you just want purely anime, get Hayase with VPN.
  
  How's the hentai selection?
- It's called a VPN mate, and a copy of qBittorrent
  
  I am more of a Debrid guy (Real Debrid) even if I have no need to pay for a VPN here in Mexico I still prefer to use RD, if I had unlimited HDDs I'd hoard everything of course.

At this rate there will only be two media companies in America next year, and then one the year after.
- And there'll still be too many damn streaming services.
  
  there absolutely will, and they will constantly shift what is available on where. Imagine owning most of them, and having people constantly pay you by switching services because they dont have what one wishes to watch. This is likely why those services do this, I cant imagine any other way to make profit from driving customers away from your service.
- Some people drink Pepsi some people drink Coke, but that wacky morning DJ says democracies a joke.
  I hate the cynicism though tbh. If it wasnt for "intellectual property" this bullshit wouldn't matter nearly as much.
  
  Is it cynicism when it's the reality around us?
- Thankfully a lot of people have a movie making machine in their pockets (cell phone). Content will eventually be produced by the masses, competing against the behemoth media companies. Barring that, local community theatre productions. Maybe get a cheap CD player or two and put it in the back closet and then start collecting CD's again. There is more stuff in media history to consume than there is new stuff being produced. A lot of it is better.
  
  Content will eventually be produced by the masses
  And it will be owned by one of the many monopolies.
  Barring that, local community theatre productions.
  Put on in a theatre owned by Ticketmaster.

Can’t wait to have hbo shows to be cancelled less than a month after release even though they got decent audience (but not enough for the algorithm to consider it good) I’m talking about Kaos on Netflix
- I'm still mad about Kaos.
  I leave it on in the background for my dog sometimes, in case the views help revive it.

Introducing, a brand new Batman series, where Bruce joins the army and-CANCELED.
But wait, here's the first in a 8 part miniseries about the Gangsters from Space Jam, who-CANCELED.
We know these are trying times, so we decided to reimagine the world of-AND CANCELED.
Didn't even need to tell you what the reboot was, it was just canceled on sight.
- Man, I didn't even realize I was interested in the backstory of the gangsters from Space Jam until just now. I'd like to sign up to watch all of your pilots.
- Don't forget the tax write off too for canceling a completed movie!

The real issue here is the game companies they are acquiring. Netflix should not be a player in gaming, full stop.
I am, however, relieved for John Oliver's sake.
- John Oliver's show is free on YT outside of NA, hope that doesn't change.
  
  Nah it's free in NA too
- Hasn't Netflix been "in gaming" a while? You can access a lot of games on mobile from them. I opened my Netflix Android app and just from the suggested I can play Red Dead Redemption, Story Teller, Dead Cells, Spirit Fairer, Shredder's Revenge, Street Fighter, and bunch of Choose your own Adventure type stuff from their own IPs. They've been angling in to game publishing for a while.
  
  They have, but their in-house studios have suffered tremendously.

fuckin monopolies gonna ruin everything
- do you think all monopolies should be split into different smaller companies and then collectivized by the workers?
  
  Da
- Let's say that Trump doesn't manage to cancel or subvert the next couple of sets of elections and that in 2029 the US has a democratic president and a democratic congress. Let's also imagine that the next president cares about monopolies and puts Lina Khan back in charge. I wonder if there's anything that they can do about decisions made by Trump's FTC. Or is Netflho just now legally in place and we're stuck with them unless the FTC can prove they're abusing their monopoly?

Dang I had WB-Discovery being acquired by Skydance-Paramount before being acquired by Disney in the semifinals. Gonna have to redo my whole bracket now.
- Its this whole movie doping with AI thing. If all the teams do it what's the problem! C'mon, let's get out there and break a couple of legs in 3 or more places!
- Better not Paramount.
  You should see what they did to the Halo show.
  Quite hard to fuck that world up as there is so much possibilities. Instead they went for reskinned halo-aesthetic generic sci-fi action show.
  
  I've never seen it, but I read enough about it to dissuade me from even starting. Very disappointing. But my point was less about which media companies are preferable and more that american companies are racing to consolidate during this period of pro-big business government. It's more blatant under Trump but it's been going on for a while.

This is not a good idea, but I already stopped paying for streaming entirely because the products have only gotten worse over time.
- I was converted from a pirate to a subscriber about 10-12yrs ago... But the enshitification of everything makes me yearn for my old hat once more.
  
  Finally put it back on a little while ago, honestly it's a breath of freah air
  
  I was converted from a subscriber to a pirate about 20yrs ago... And the enshitification of everything makes me love the feel of my well worn hat.
  
  Exactly! Having a good thing going is never enough anymore. If video had taken the route that music did with streaming then we'd be in a much better place.

Goddammit. I like HBO MAX soooo much better than Netflix.
- The shows are better in just about every way and they rely less on padding from Korea.
- The only streaming service I still pay for besides Prime (which has gotten so bad with ads that I'm just about done with them)

They have become too big to fail. Everyone can now RELAX.
- Phew

It can't be worse than what the current management has been doing for the past decade.
Hopefully we will finally get a new decent Batman Arkham game.
- As much as I despise media consolidation in general, I couldn't be happier about the Batman Arkham franchise finally leaving the purview of such terrible leadership.

Does it include their video game ip? Wonder how it'll affect that given how great Netflix has been with their own studios...

Probably bad news for the show and streaming space, but if this curtails WB's patent bullshit it's great for the gamers.

Yo ho ho.

i really hope ted sarandos becomes the new ceo, or fires david zaslav and hires a new ceo. seriously!

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