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Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is highly unethical to take away copies of the game that players had to pay full price for. Stadia owes them a retail copy of the games they purchased.
of games they purchased temporary license to use* no games were actually purchased, so customers are free to take their complaints and do exactly nothing with them. (yes, this is egregious)
Yeah, I hear ya, better read the agreements you sign.
But I just can’t convince myself to pay full price for a game when it’s restricted to a platform like stadia.
I guess I’m a hypocrite because I own steam games and plenty of movies on my Apple TV. I feel like steam is a little different because I’m installing them on my own machine? (I know they can take the games away) I know I can’t trust Apple to not take my movies away but I think the likelihood that my Apple TV library won’t be accessible for the next 20 years is pretty low.
Google in particular disappoints me often. They haven’t created a great money generating product since search/ads which is the evergreen money tree which funds all other experiments.
Google gives up on new products far too often and far too easily. They seem to forget, or never learned, that unwavering persistence is a powerful foundation for building a product line. Apple didn’t give up on iCloud after the disaster that was MobileMe, they rebuilt it and kept on going.
Re: Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down
#73People don't want a lot of choice. They want iOS or Android. PS5 or XBox. Republican or Democrat. ATT or Verizon. Comcast.
Honestly I'm surprised there's not only two auto makers.
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#74I avoided checking Stadia out in the first place as I thought they'd end up shutting it down after prior experiences. This seems a difficult branding loop to break, but does them no favors.
It really doesn't! The common responses you hear in these types of threads include "I didn't even try it; because I knew it would get killed." And of course, this results in lower turnout, and eventual death of the offering. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy at this point. So what's Google to even do? * They could burn money and keep the offering afloat to "prove" they are serious (seems to be the case with Stadia). *…
What should the consumer to do? Donate their money and time to the service in the hope that this time will be different? (not to mention that Stadias pricing was pretty bad)
So yes, it's Google's turn to show commitment and keep their services running. Plus, the possible loss with keeping Stadia up should also be weighted against this cementing their reputation.
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#75This is an anonymous source (not even verified by the original publicizer of the rumor) reporting second hand on what their "regional manager" friend heard in a "seminar". Why give any credence to this? This is about as close as it gets to "my friend has an uncle working at Nintendo" level of sourcing, but it's being taken as absolute fact by basically everyone in this thread.
Mr. Killedbygoogle doesn't seem to be all that confident in this either, and is hiding behind a "I'm just a shit poster" defense: https://twitter.com/killedbygoogle/status/155293002348465766...
Re: Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is highly unethical to take away copies of the game that players had to pay full price for. Stadia owes them a retail copy of the games they purchased.
That is how all of this works. If Valve went out of business then you wouldn't have any legal right or way to get the games you purchased on Steam. If Amazon shut down Prime Video then you couldn't watch the movies you purchased on it. This is not a unique problem to Google Stadia.
You would still have your games files and be able to run them. Steam is not a rental or streaming service.
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#77You would really hope there would be some far reaching repercussions for senior leadership at Google on this one. There are lots of projects that Google has tried and failed on, and sure, that happens. But this one is probably the clearest, obvious failure of execution. There is an absolutely crystal clear playbook of a Tech company forcing its way into the Gaming business. So how Google has managed to enter, complet…
Do you think senior leadership was involved? It seems just as likely that some platforms engineers figured they could mess around with hardware on the edge and got it shipped from the bottom up.
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#78Google> we'll engineer a cloud gaming service Gamers> um have you even met us? What about the speed of light? Google> we'll beat the speed of light using genius engineering Gamers> lol Google> we're shutting down because nobody uses us Gamers> lol Yet another case of having never spoken to the actual customer
I am a customer. I played several AAA games all the way through on Stadia and it was a great experience. It was not like OnLive back in the day. If Stadia gets shut down then I'll have to switch to GeForce Now which is way more clunky.
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#79Three 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.
I wouldn't call Stadia a joke. It does in fact work quite well. But it's not really positioned to compete with the other first-party console alternatives, nor does it have compelling features that make it a better choice than products let you DIY an experience (e.g. Parsec + self-hosted gaming rig, Steam Remote Play, GeForce Now, GPU-accelerated VDI as a service like Shadow...). For a while Google was literally givin…
People like myself have been pointing out that they had no legitimate audience for years and no one listened. Zombie organization made a decision years ago and was the walking dead.
Re: Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
I had already tried Stadia with Cyberpunk, which was a great experience and better than the console launch of the game.
So I actually preordered 2 copies of the Baldurs Gate 3, as I wanted to play with my wife who does not have a gaming computer. I figured $50 gamble was better than a $1,000 computer investment. There was an early access component to the game, which is why I preordered instead of waiting for final release prior to purchase.