From the opinion piece:

Last year, I pointed out how many big publishers came crawlin’ back to Steam after trying their own things: EA, Activision, Microsoft. This year, for the first time ever, two Blizzard games released on Steam: Overwatch and Diablo 4.

  • @[email protected]
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    151 year ago

    What I’m wondering: is this going to happen to the many streaming services as well? They’re many and expensive. Are they going to consolidate in a few or are they going to lower their prices so that they don’t continue to lose users?

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      61 year ago

      or are they going to lower their prices so that they don’t continue to lose users?

      We all know this isn’t happening

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      81 year ago

      The unpopular ones like Paramount+ and Peacock will probably lower their prices, rely on ads, realize they can’t keep the lights on with their lower prices, and probably sell to Amazon or Disney someday. The larger ones will consolidate the popular content and continue raising their prices and inserting more ads. The previous prices were just a loss-leader to get people to sign up.

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        21 year ago

        I’ll be honest, star trek is keeping my wallet open to paramount. All their other stuff meh…

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          31 year ago

          Do you like all the trek? I thought Lower Decks and Discovery both started great but kind of fell off. I heard Picard was good.

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            11 year ago

            I couldn’t get into voyager but I’ll go back and watch it all eventually. Lower decks was great. I found out about it watching SNW and was like wtf is this shit?! But after I went back and watched lower decks I got it and it was fun.

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          11 year ago

          I’ll be honest, star trek is keeping my wallet open to paramount. All their other stuff meh…

          If you’re lucky, your subscription will be rolled into Max, should the merger talks conclude.

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      21 year ago

      are they going to lower their prices so that they don’t continue to lose users?

      If they lose users, they’ll increase the prices for everyone else. Then they’ll lose even more and increase prices even more.

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      41 year ago

      HBO and Disney are already delisting some shows and selling the rights for the more successful ones to buy and add it to their catalog.