Netflix is ​​dominating the streaming market strongly, but, as is obvious, not all its decisions end up being successful. In some cases, the company itself sees that you may have erroneously plan and go back in terms of its plans. That is precisely what has happened in this case.
As surely you already know, Netflix has several divisions in which it invests with the intention of providing users with the highest quality and variety of content. Today we do not talk about those sections dedicated to series or cinema, but to which it focuses on video games. Although it is a service that is increasingly reaching more users, Netflix is ​​still in the process of gaining experience. And it is in this division where they have regretted a past decision.
Six announced games will not arrive
Netflix has a habit of announcing, with generous margins, the novelties they will have in the coming months or in the near future. For example, a few days ago they revealed some of their plans by 2025. Therefore, they many times play with enough margin to, if the case arrived, regret and back down with some of those decisions. With the game division, this materializes with the cancellation of the launch of six titles that users expected that they would be added throughout the coming months.
These announced games will not come because, according to Netflix, they have decided to make changes in planning to better adjust to the interests of their users. That is, the streaming platform would be constantly analyzing the activity of the players and would have seen that the investment in these six games would not compensate for the possible effect they would get with them. Based on this, the best decision they could make was to cancel the launch and that the six games do not end up arriving at the platform.
It is a decision that, on the other hand, is in the line of what has happened with the presence of Netflix in the gaming sector in recent times. The company has been reducing its activity significantly and has lost in the way some of the most important executives they have had in this aspect. At the same time, they have also eliminated several of the games that have been available, which has been, in any case, a clear demonstration of how they are still learning. With this last change of plans they remain in that learning decision that will help, yes, to the service to polish the experience it provides for video game lovers.
What games will not arrive?
These were six games that would be available to download for free and play with the subscription of Netflix on iOS, Android or PC mobile devices. Three of them belong to the Klei Entertainment Game Library, a company that had possibly signed a very convenient contract with the streaming platform. These games were Lab Rat, Don’s Starve Together and Rotwood, whose launch, except lip rat, had already officially occurred. But even without being new games, they could have been a good addition to the gaming service that Netflix provides. In the case of Don’s Starve Together, for example, it is one of the great survival classics.
The other three games that were on their way to Netflix were Tales of the Shire: a game of the Lord of the Rings, Compass Point: West and Thirsty Suits. Among these proposals, it is obvious that the game based on the universe of the Lord of the Rings will be the greatest absence that users will notice. It is a simulator in which we can enjoy the relaxed life of the hobbits in a title that radically breaks with the tradition of action or RPG of the franchise games.
Anyway, we must not forget that these games are not canceled in terms of their development, but simply will not reach Netflix. Therefore, if you want to live like a hobbit, you can do it when Tales of the Shire is launched shortly in consoles and Steam. For Netflix, it seems that right now the priority is to concentrate on the games inspired by their own programs and add titles that help reinforce the brand, such as the exclusivity of WWE mobile games. It does not seem a bad plan.
