I realize that . I ' m just trying to balance out the negative with some positive <| sep |> And we know they hire nothing but the best and the brightest . <| sep |> If we weren ' t all stupid , we would see that tax cuts for the rich are a great incentive program for all of us to work hard and get rich so we can earn those tax cuts ! <| sep |> Probably no . Netflix was in an incredibly unique position that doesn ' t really have any parallel for games . First they used DVDs that they didn ' t need licensing to rent , so they could offer literally any DVD . Services like GameFly have been trying to do the same thing , to very modest success . A big problem is that buying movies is really uneconomical pay $ 15 for two hours . Buying a AAA game may be about four times as expensive , but it ' s almost always very easy to put more than 8 hours into a big game . The incentive to rent just isn ' t as high . Then Netflix got hold of a mountain of streaming licenses before anyone had any idea how much they were worth and as soon as streaming became feasible they had an enormous library . No game company will ever get away with this especially after Netflix , every license owner is acutely aware of the value of such licenses . Today , Netflix ' s licensing deals have been gutted during renegotiation now that all the content producers know how much streaming licenses are worth and how much money Netflix has , but Netflix already had a gargantuan user base and brand recognition and money . And now they ' re focusing on producing their own content too . What we ' re seeing with EA and similar is a lot more comparable to the glut of individual streaming platform schemes that nearly every content producer tried to create after their contracts with Netflix expired . And none of those have been very successful . If people subscribe to them , it ' s usually briefly for one particular thing so little different than just buytoown . Most of them basically gave up . Amazon is only really successful since the service is tied to an existing , popular , independent service . I can see practices like this growing a bit . But I just can ' t see it supplanting the current model in a major way .