The Rise of Ritual Features: Why Platforms Are Adding Daily Puzzle Games

Re:The Rise of Ritual Features: Why Platforms Are Adding Dai... by bji9jhff on Friday August 08, 2025 @10:45AM (#44837619)

How is this different than daily crossword in newspaper?

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Re:The Rise of Ritual Features: Why Platforms Are Adding Dai... by 65 on Friday August 08, 2025 @11:17AM (#44838034)

Maybe it makes sense for NYT or LinkedIn, but why YouTube and Netflix need games seems like a weird product market fit.

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Re:The Rise of Ritual Features: Why Platforms Are Adding Dai... by dylan604 on Friday August 08, 2025 @11:35AM (#44838260)

Any game Netflix offers will be better than the original "try to find something to watch in under 2 minutes" game. That one sucks. It takes much longer to find something that I'm interested in, and fits the available time slot I'm willing to sit through.

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Re:The Rise of Ritual Features: Why Platforms Are Adding Dai... by akudha on Friday August 08, 2025 @11:24AM (#44838136)

Maybe the idea is to throw everything on the wall and see what sticks?

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Re:The Rise of Ritual Features: Why Platforms Are Adding Dai... by joot82 on Friday August 08, 2025 @11:48AM (#44838424)

Sort of, it's growth at any cost. If you're saturated in organic video views and ran out of ideas how to increase that, maybe you can still glue some mobile gamers to the platform.

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