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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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (13 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months 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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