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Why was Stranger Things removed and will that stuff come back?

HansLollos2
HansLollos2 Member Posts: 270
in General Discussions

Yeah uncool

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  • BarnesFlam
    BarnesFlam Member Posts: 654
    Answer ✓

    Because of Netflix.

    Will it ever come back? We don't know.

  • Shroompy
    Shroompy Member Posts: 7,784
    Answer ✓

    It wasnt up to them, and maybe.

  • Chordyceps
    Chordyceps Member Posts: 1,720
    Answer ✓

    The license expired and Netflix chose not to renew it.

    I've heard rumors about its possible return, but really that's just conjecture.

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  • CBT137
    CBT137 Member Posts: 138

    if Your on steam, you could access a dlc key through an online key store, although do this at your own risk, and it also costs like upwards of like 40 quid

  • OrangeBear
    OrangeBear Member Posts: 3,508

    There is no official, factual answer for why dbd lost the stranger things license. All the answers you see on the internet are rumour and speculation.

    As for if it will come back is also another question that has no concrete answer. My guess is probably not, considering they did a huge sale on all of the content, bringing back the license probably wouldn't get them that much more money.

  • jajay119
    jajay119 Member Posts: 1,232
    edited January 2023

    The license was up... but imo it was also a lot more insidious than that.

    Netflix decided they were getting into gaming themselves and wanted ST just for them to pull people into their platform.

    This was the result...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrqMPQPjGJk

    It's not a coincidence to me that ST disappeared from DBD when they were launching their game division. Netflix Games launched on 3rd Nov 2021 and ST left DBD on 17th Nov 2021. The other two mobile ST games were also removed from the Playstore and Apple play to be on Netflix exclusively when the service launched, so it's clearly about holding the IP in monopoly.

    I don't see how their characters still being in DBD which would have still given them money would have detracted form this given they're focusing on mobile games.

    Overall, I wouldn't be surprised if the venture wasn't the lucrative gold mine they wanted it to be and so are considering moving back to third party licensing.