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LegitHyperbole said:
300 million users a month. They are making so much profit they should have quality TV and films up weekly instead of dumping 320 million on a once off. |
It's a lot easier to spend money than to raise talent, see MS ;)
This is what we get with subscriptions. The risk is on the subscriber now instead of the production company. It used to be the problem of the production company when a movie or show flopped, keeping budgets realistic. Now it's simply passed on to the subscriber, either by raising the subscription cost or less new content.
That's the future of Gamepass as well, risk pushed on to the subscriber. Flops (and polish) don't matter as much to the publisher anymore, quality goes down.
It's not just Netflix, Amazon spend over a Billion on Rings of Power and it sucked, pissing all over the lore. The idea to attract / keep customers is to make things shiny, kinda like the games industry which ground itself into a corner with escalating budgets and $70 game prices.
Concord being the prime example where chasing subscription/mau money fails. In Concord's case, mau / 'whale' money. Which is sort of the same thing as subscriptions, FTP survives on mau, people regularly spending money on it. Subscriptions are a safer form for publishers, putting all the risk on the subscriber. (And the price and subsequent flop of Concord no doubt contributes to higher PSN prices, so also covered by subscription money)
And on the opposite end you have indies, which can only survive on making quality products that people actually want.
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