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halfanothersdozen t1_iyazzc5 wrote

We swung too far in the wrong direction. Everything has it's own service now (with their own nigh indistinguishable app) and they keep asking for more money.

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constantino675 t1_iybfnd3 wrote

costs $7 just to maintain the app when you only have a few million subs. THEN comes the content costs...

but no one wants to just be the studio that produces content for netflix.

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Existing-Class-140 t1_iyc1d76 wrote

> but no one wants to just be the studio that produces content for netflix.

At the end of the day it might be the best way to go. You focus on making the content and Netflix focuses on the distribution. Everyone focuses on the thing they do best and they split costs. But no, they had to be greedy and now everyone pays more - everyone loses.

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dalittle t1_iyd3g3y wrote

I would love to see the books on most of these streaming services. I bet there are only a couple winners and all the rest are money pits. Disney just fired their CEO and one of the things he was doing was hiding the streaming service loses. I would not be surprised in the next couple of years if there is a contraction and content providers dump their services and go back to the big players. If they would all just go back to Netflix I would be a much happier Customer and actually watch some of their shows I can't be bothered with now.

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Existing-Class-140 t1_iyd9tb1 wrote

If it were successful, they'd be bragging about the numbers left and right. I'm having dot-com bubble vibes with this one. Huge money at the beginning due to big promises with the streaming revolution and then a bitter realisation that people won't pay for multiple services, and once you invested the money, you have to pay the loans you took, and with the streaming market so fragmented among all the various companies, the returns look not too promising.

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Relevant-Ad2254 t1_iydux7q wrote

Won’t we hear calls for “break up Netflix” if Netflix was the only streaming service?

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Existing-Class-140 t1_iyee3xg wrote

Nope, we won't. We don't hear any voices calling for breaking up Steam.

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Relevant-Ad2254 t1_iyemtkm wrote

Doesn’t steam does have competitors like the epic games store.

And other game publishers have their own store like activision blizzard.

So there’s no reason to break up steam when there’s other ways to buy games online.

Your point is irrelevant

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