I actually got Cyberpunk 2077 specifically on Stadia so I could play the meta-game of "Can I win Cyberpunk before the unaccountable mega-corpo revokes my access to Cyberpunk?" I will be losing that game.
Now that is an immersive gaming experience!
Google is shutting down Stadia
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#392Just when Netflix & Amazon are increasing their focus on gaming market, Google is shying away. This is an epic failure on the Google management.
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#393Google's reputation for not supporting things long term is finally starting to affect them in noticeable ways. Developers didn't onboard because they were afraid it would get shut down. It got shut down because no one onboarded.
Ironically, I bet if that Stadia would've done much better if it had launched with the promise of "if we do shut it down, we'll refund all your purchases"
Yeah actually, same here. When Stadia launched I really liked it. The subscription was free for like 3 months. I've not owned a gaming PC in years, but really enjoyed playing Serious Sam and almost completed it. When the free period ended I could've purchased few of the games I most liked but ultimately decided against it because I knew by that time it was inevitably going to be shut down so giving Google any money was a fool's errand.
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#394https://killedbygoogle.com/ does not confirm it. EDIT: it appeared now. This is confirmed.
Takes a couple minutes for the PR to merge. :D
Re: Google is shutting down Stadia
#395Google's reputation for not supporting things long term is finally starting to affect them in noticeable ways. Developers didn't onboard because they were afraid it would get shut down. It got shut down because no one onboarded.
Super sincere question. > Google's reputation for not supporting things long term I didn't know Google had such a reputation. I mostly use drive and gmail, so it was fine to me. Does google really have such a reputation? Any place I can read more on this?
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#396I actually got Cyberpunk 2077 specifically on Stadia so I could play the meta-game of "Can I win Cyberpunk before the unaccountable mega-corpo revokes my access to Cyberpunk?" I will be losing that game.
you still got a few months
I considered that, but then I remembered finishing the game would, unfortunately, require me to play more Cyberpunk 2077.
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#397Google's reputation for not supporting things long term is finally starting to affect them in noticeable ways. Developers didn't onboard because they were afraid it would get shut down. It got shut down because no one onboarded.
Super sincere question. > Google's reputation for not supporting things long term I didn't know Google had such a reputation. I mostly use drive and gmail, so it was fine to me. Does google really have such a reputation? Any place I can read more on this?
https://killedbygoogle.com/
I miss Google Reader and Google Wave the most.
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#398At what point does working for Google (on anything released after 2008) go from being prestigious to embarrassing?
Why are so many of you here so bitter against this company?
They have/had incredible potential. Imagine what a company with Google's resources could do. They have simultaneously the sharpest minds on the planet and a vast treasure chest of unprecedented proportions at their disposal.
What do they do? They invent ever more insidious ways of extract more money from advertising. Yes there are plenty of side shows and feel good projects, but everything is drowned out by systematically abusive behavior in the ad business and a seeming inability to deliver any other product and keep it functioning.
It feels like a terrible misallocation of resources. Maybe it isn't, but it certainly feels like it.
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#399Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean, it was probably a lie. But, also, things may have changed. It's not like Google didn't just go through a big hiring freeze and budget process.
Everybody here knew it wasn't going to play out that way, so surely everybody in Google knew it too. Or should have known. Either they were lying, or were effectively brainwashed by the corporate environment (a real possibility.)
Delusional thinking isn’t just for random people living under a bridge.
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#400It was a mistake to get involved with game streaming to begin with. It was never about the players, it was "everybody else is developing a game streaming platform so we should too". In the last weeks there have been multiple streaming handhelds announce which leaves me wondering... "are there product managers who believe everything they see on TV?" Most of the fun of a portable game console is using it on the bus, as…
I actually am bought into game streaming. I subscribe to both MS and Nvidia. I travel a lot and not needing a console or gaming laptop rocks. Most of my gaming is from the hotel or Airbnb, so the connection is not a problem. Even then Stadia was dead on arrival for me with a completely unattractive consumer proposition of having to subscribe but get no games (aside from some trash freebies) and having to rebuy games…
I also made the switch to streaming (GFN) and like playing all my same games from different "terminals" a lot. AirBNB and my house obviously work great. I've found hotel wifi to range from "barely works" to "does not work", lots of crappiness. I'm still looking for a good solution to this. Maybe you stay in better hotels! :)
That said, I'm getting a Steam deck soon so I hope that fixes the story for "mobile" gaming or gaming without the network that GP pointed out. The convincing thing for me on GFN was that you're buying your games in a standard game store so if GFN becomes a non-option at some point I'll still have my games.