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Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down

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Re: Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down

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Post by rvz »

thesuperbigfrog wrote: post #15

"there'd be no license transfer of any sort, which means that any purchases made on Stadia would effectively be nullified as the service closes down." It lasted less than three years and will leave players with nothing to show. This is what people were predicting when Stadia lauched and part of the reason why it had poor adoption.

It IS going to shut down by the end of the autumn.

I mean it 'was' a streaming platform [0] as I already outlined from the future and called it, since it failed to get anyone using it back then, even in the pandemic and lockdowns and is still struggling today.

So it was expected and very unsurprising really.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27039202

Re: Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down

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Post by spywaregorilla »

nickthegreek wrote: post #47
thesuperbigfrog wrote: post #15

"there'd be no license transfer of any sort, which means that any purchases made on Stadia would effectively be nullified as the service closes down." It lasted less than three years and will leave players with nothing to show. This is what people were predicting when Stadia lauched and part of the reason why it had poor adoption.

I pre-ordered a game on stadia over a year ago. Somehow I had a feeling the sevice wouldnt be around once the game came out.

why did you do that?

Re: Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down

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Post by jscipione »

All of the Xeons and all of the Vega 56’s in the world can do nothing to stop network latency from killing your gaming experience.

Google Stadia is a technically impressive achievement pushing the boundaries of cloud computing but it can’t change the fact that there are certain problem spaces that cloud computing is a poor fit for and gaming is (apparently) one of them.

Re: Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down

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Post by UncleMeat »

game-of-throws wrote: post #10
OrangeMonkey wrote: post #2

Three sure bets in life: * Death * Taxes * Google shutting down services Admittedly, google stadia was kind of a joke since the beginning, but I feel for consumers who buy into googles promises and even a bit for the google engineers who may be out of work soon.

Does Google usually fire people when they shut down a service? I thought they were transferred internally to help build the next messaging app.

Usually everybody gets a chance to transfer. With a hiring freeze that'll be a lot harder.

Re: Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down

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Post by permo-w »

Larrikin wrote: post #18

"The source also claims that there'd be no license transfer of any sort, which means that any purchases made on Stadia would effectively be nullified as the service closes down." There clearly needs to be a law to make such things illegal. I've refused to take the discount on digital Switch games since Nintendo has clearly shown they are willing to shut down old servers and tell you to just buy your games again. But…

>Perhaps legally allowing backups of games you purchased would help

as great as that would be, the corporate-run governments of the world would see that as tantamount to legalising video game piracy, one of the few (if not, the only) media that have actually succeeded in making online piracy difficult

Re: Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down

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Post by Lutger »

game-of-throws wrote: post #10
OrangeMonkey wrote: post #2

Three sure bets in life: * Death * Taxes * Google shutting down services Admittedly, google stadia was kind of a joke since the beginning, but I feel for consumers who buy into googles promises and even a bit for the google engineers who may be out of work soon.

Does Google usually fire people when they shut down a service? I thought they were transferred internally to help build the next messaging app.

I think youtube music is also due for a rewrite. I mean, it's almost finished!
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