A video game subscription service in the vein of Netflix Instant Watch will make a company very, very wealthy. But it probably won't be Electronic Arts.
EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.
EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.
Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.
This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.
SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space
Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
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No EA Access will never be like a netflix for video games. They are a single publisher.
Playstation Now Can be a netflix for video games IF they get this pricing right. I'm not sure what they are doing at the moment, i understand it is a beta and they are testing pricing.. but for every day you "test" pricing at such a high cost, they are losing money on the cost to keep those servers and infrastructure up and running. How many people are really streaming any games what so ever at pricing like that? I bet its an astounding low amount of people, to where they are losing more money than they are recouping, all for what? just to "test" pricing.
Sony did not test playstation plus pricing. They put out a completely reasonable subscription and it started selling itself immediately. I'm actually worried for this playstation now subscription model though. With pricing like how it is, it make it seem like the subscription would be a monthly fee of ($15-30) which translates to a yearly fee of ($180-$360)..That will certainly cause PSNow to fail.
We have to think what there subscription would mean.. would it give you 'free' access to to every game in the catalog to stream? if so... it becomes something even better than playstation plus.. which already costs $50 per year. I'm interested to see what they do with this subscription. I have a feeling it will be extremely expensive and sink their ship though.
Netflix with such a limited library? Limited to their games only, not even close to Netflix. Playstation Now is closer to Netflix than EA Access and a better value as you choose what games you get. Most of the EA games you will probably get on release, Fifa, BF, NFS, Madden, or will ppl wait several months for EA to put these games in The Vault and not buy them on release?
It could never be with the limited library (which comes with a publisher running the service hence why either a pltofrm holder or a third party company needs to run the service). Also the method of delivery means it could never reach those heights (running games locally). PS Now is more akin to Netflix
I want to be an astronaut, doesn't mean i'm going to be one
yeah because EA games are top of the top right ? right ?