Google Stadia

[tronic44 3,642]

9 games? Are they having a laugh? I actually looked to see whether this was an April fools thing.

[phil bottle 9,757]

You have to buy the games at full price and you don't get to keep them. Yeah lol

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[GazzaGarratt 11,049]

What are they doing about all the 5G networks they're losing to Corona? I genuinely think Amazon could do what they want, when they want to. So its surprising AF that they ended up with this as their final product to market.

 

Haven't they even thought of Amazon Prime membership connections as a good incentive to play it?

[Plumbers Crack 4,062]

31 minutes ago, GazzaGarratt said:

What are they doing about all the 5G networks they're losing to Corona? 

What? Have I missed something?

[GazzaGarratt 11,049]

48 minutes ago, Plumbers Crack said:

What? Have I missed something?

 

Stadia works better on 5G...and the 5G Towers are being hacked down by people that think Coronavirus is a hoax

[J4MES OX4D 10,033]

More disastrous news for the 48 people that still use the Stadia

Cyberpunk 2077 Will Not Be Available on Stadia at Launch - IGN

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Cyberpunk 2077 will release later on Stadia than other platforms.

 

[phil bottle 9,757]

I heard about the Nvidia link up with Steam, which sounds a better proposition for this kind of thing.

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[J4MES OX4D 10,033]

18 hours ago, phil bottle said:

I heard about the Nvidia link up with Steam, which sounds a better proposition for this kind of thing

I heard about a pile of dogshit which sounds a better proposition for this kind of thing.

[phil bottle 9,757]

I heard about a pile of dogshit which sounds a better proposition for this kind of thing.

Don't hold back now[emoji28]

Sadly it maybe that Stadia or some form of it is here to stay. Not only are they getting YouTubers like Jack Frags to shill for them, I've noticed a lot of the comments on Stadia-related videos are full of people clearly paid to put across Google's point of view.

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[J4MES OX4D 10,033]

One last throw of the dice

EXCLUSIVE: Google is trying to salvage its failing Stadia game service with a new focus on striking deals with Peloton, Bungie, and others under the brand 'Google Stream'

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Insiders say Google has shifted its gaming ambitions to focus on deals with names such as Peloton in an effort to save Stadia's underlying technology.

 

[J4MES OX4D 10,033]

Google Stadia closing down in January with mass hardware and software refunds being issued🤣

Stadia is closing down in January, hardware and software purchases to be refunded | PC Gamer

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Google's game streaming platform "hasn't gained the traction with users that we expected."

 

[Riff Machine 2,105]

Cloud gaming in general is really hit or miss.  While the idea behind stadia was good, the implementation of it was an utter mess.  At least the controller is fucking awesome.  I still use that for PC gaming when I'm not using my Elite controller.   

[GazzaGarratt 11,049]

What a birthday present for me, now what am I going to play when they close their services as I open my present?!

 

In all fairness - good concept, bad timing. Launching just before Covid, with rising prices and rare availability of technology they needed really didn't help its survivability.

[J4MES OX4D 10,033]

14 hours ago, Riff Machine said:

Cloud gaming in general is really hit or miss.  While the idea behind stadia was good, the implementation of it was an utter mess. 

Yep, there was no real key benefit in choosing that over owning a traditional physical copy or licence on an established device. Not only do you burden your internet as well as requiring a constant connection, you also had to pay for the service and then a hefty price just to access the game. No platform-transferable cloud saves either so you were locked in. Instead of paying £100 for the console, £100 a year for the sub and then £50 on most older games, you may as well own a game on an existing system for £15 with the only stress being disk space. Other key games were also ruined by latency. 

 

The writing was on the wall early as Google stopped marketing it plus they didn't explore or capitalise on any unique opportunities like being able to offer game trials to prospective customers as a purchase enticement. They let it rot and it just became a system that sat awkwardly behind the Xbox and Playstation. They could've really pushed it especially with YouTube and its partners seeing that Google owns that also but instead all the marketing mostly came from negative publicity from owners or the media. 

[J4MES OX4D 10,033]

Dude looks like he's gonna lose 6000 hours worth of progress on Red Dead Online for the Stadia

 

[IRaMPaGe 3,236]

59 minutes ago, J4MES OX4D said:

Dude looks like he's gonna lose 6000 hours worth of progress on Red Dead Online for the Stadia

 

 

That's extremely harsh. For that commitment they should emburse him with a hard copy and arrange the data over to him somehow. 

It sounds a bit sickening. 

[J4MES OX4D 10,033]

Some really shocking situations outlined in this video - really hope developers can resolve and be reimbursed for their work.