YouTube Is Getting Into Games, Too (theverge.com) 22
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: YouTube is branching out into games -- at least for its paid subscribers. The platform is giving Premium users access to a set of online games that can be directly played on either the mobile app or desktop app. Known as "Playables," the company first debuted the experimental feature to select users in September. As noted by Droid-Life, YouTube sent a notification last week to Premium subscribers informing them of Playables and allowing them to try it out. Those who opt in will be able to play a total of 37 mini-games that effectively live inside YouTube -- there's no need to download or install them.
The selection of games isn't too challenging or "out there" -- they include crowd-pleasers like Angry Birds Showdown, Brain Out, Daily Solitaire, The Daily Crossword, and a number of arcade games. And they may not be here to stay. YouTube Premium's notification stated that the games would be available until March 28th, 2024. For now, Premium members can find the full library of games under the "Playables" section in the Explore tab.
The selection of games isn't too challenging or "out there" -- they include crowd-pleasers like Angry Birds Showdown, Brain Out, Daily Solitaire, The Daily Crossword, and a number of arcade games. And they may not be here to stay. YouTube Premium's notification stated that the games would be available until March 28th, 2024. For now, Premium members can find the full library of games under the "Playables" section in the Explore tab.
Pure degeneracy (Score:4, Informative)
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The worst part is that the high fees for YouTube Premium are paying for all this crap. I'd prefer to pay half as much for just the video, no music or games or original content.
Amazon Prime too, give me the "free" delivery for a much reduced price, I don't want the music or video.
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Amazon Prime too, give me the "free" delivery for a much reduced price
This but Amazon wont do this. They already use Prime to trick people into signing up for things that should already be included.
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Be careful as well. I hardly ever shop on Amazon any longer but every once in a while need to for an item I can't find local. I did this yesterday, chose "NO THANKS" to the question about wanting Prime and BAM POW KABOOM on the next page I was signed up for Prime with a $16.08 charge made to my credit card. I spent over 15 minutes just figuring out how to contact a live person and then another 30 minutes for that live person to cancel the subscription and refund my money. Fucking Amazon slammed me! That was
Gotta do something... (Score:3)
Having recently admitted that video is a poor way to consume content (other than maybe cat videos): https://slashdot.org/story/23/... [slashdot.org] ... Youtube's got to come up with something to make them useful. I'll bet keeping Youtube running costs an absolute bomb, and so they've got to get revenue from somewhere.
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>video is a poor way to consume content
If I go to a news article and it is only a video I nope right out of there. I hate having to go at the video's pace and wait through their fluff.
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Same with just about everything on youtube.
I saw one the other day "How many horsepower is a horse?". Half an hour long. I skipped to the last 20 seconds without bothering with anything else and guess what? There it was: "After all the calculations the final answer is... 5.4hp"
Half an hour of utter crap to get a 2 second answer. I hope I've saved somebody here a bit of life.
There's a couple of good channels out there but most of them are utter dross. Who sits through that crap?
(IIRC from school the original
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Same with just about everything on youtube.
I saw one the other day "How many horsepower is a horse?". Half an hour long. I skipped to the last 20 seconds without bothering with anything else and guess what? There it was: "After all the calculations the final answer is... 5.4hp"
Half an hour of utter crap to get a 2 second answer. I hope I've saved somebody here a bit of life.
There's a couple of good channels out there but most of them are utter dross. Who sits through that crap?
(IIRC from school the original "horse" was a small pit pony, not a big shire)
If you want a simple answer for a simple question use a search engine, YouTube is the wrong tool for the job.
If you want an interesting presentation on how they arrived at that answer, or a set-by-step tutorial on how to do a car repair, then YouTube is exactly the place to go.
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If you want a simple answer for a simple question use a search engine, YouTube is the wrong tool for the job.
I wasn't looking for an answer, it popped up as a youtube recommendation and I clicked the bait.
(Because I was curious, I knew it would be safe to skip 99% of it, and I've been told that only watching a few seconds of those videos is bad for them...)
Re: Gotta do something... (Score:2)
It depends on the content.
If it's very visual then a video is often the best way to present it. Still images are better sometimes, worse other times.
If I just want information, I never want a video. If I want to see something, I usually do.
Oh yes (Score:2)
And they want people to stop using ad blockers? This will only drive it more.
More shit I won't pay for (Score:2)
I already have "playable" games. They are installed on my system where they work even during an internet outage.
Google wants us to pay for Youtube but won't offer us a plan where we pay for the parts we want. And even if they did, they would still be advertising to us when we've paid to remove ads — they'd just be advertising their services, like Microsoft now does in home screens, menus, on the desktop, and everywhere else they think we might see an ad. And thanks to telemetry, they know exactly wher
nothing but Ads (Score:1)
Youtube is so unwatchable now that they have to branch out to gaming to get people to do Youtube......
youtube games (Score:2)
Will I have to sit through 30 second ads I can't skip every 5 minutes or so?
Not for me (Score:2)
I have YouTube Premium, there is no Playables available to me.
Could be, again, geofencing. Second-class country citizens are not deemed worthy.
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"I have YouTube Premium, there is no Playables available to me."
I never thought I would see one of you both in the wild.
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I can afford to pay for an ad-free experience.
Peace of mind is worth those 10 bucks or whatever it costs. I have no problem paying for subscriptions.
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"I can afford to pay for an ad-free experience.
Peace of mind is worth those 10 bucks or whatever it costs. I have no problem paying for subscriptions."
But is it really free of ads, or do you still have to watch people praising their 'always cool' cup-holder or whatever crap?
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Most of the videos I watch, if they have in-video sponsored ads, those are relevant to the topic. For example, watercooling videos have PC-related ads. I don't mind those.
There are a couple exceptions, but I'm willing to cope with them because I understand why they exist.
What bothered me to the extent I wanted them out of my life very badly were the algorithm-made idiotic ads for retarded mobile games, those ads having very little in common with the game itself and nothing at all in common with the video I
How will it work with ads? (Score:2)
I mean, free to play games are already annoying enough, so I guess it makes sense, but can you imagine clicking on a game and before it starts you get 2 unskippable ads before you can figure out what the game is about.
And in the middle of your game, boom, it suddenly stops so it can show you ads. Maybe you're trying to kill a boss, and both you and the boss is nearly dead, then bam, an ad for insurance.
For 2 Years Only (Score:2)
Seems like some of our fellow /.'s havee forgotten Google's short attention span.
No matter how good it works, this too shall pass away.