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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 tedivm »

CSMastermind wrote: post #7
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.

> Admittedly, google stadia was kind of a joke since the beginning I don't see anything wrong with the premise of the service or even from what I understand the technical execution. Seems like the failure was around business development, marketing, community management, and brand reputation. I haven't followed to closely though so other would know better than me.

>Seems like the failure was around business development, marketing, community management, and brand reputation.

To be fair that's normally the case for Google.

Re: Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down

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Post by thesuperbigfrog »

"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.

Re: Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down

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Post by raxxorraxor »

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.

I do feel bad for people who bought into it too. On the other hand they did not care about further normalizing not owning and running software themselves despite the negative influences streaming would have. Like excluding or monetizing and profiting from user content etc.

Perhaps it is not their responsibility but I guess they accepted the risk in the first place. I don't think Google will kill the service anytime soon though and this rumor is probably wrong. Won't get too many new users with them around either.

Re: Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down

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Post by Larrikin »

"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 there are some games that are digital only and I fear the next generation of games will be like Xbox. You buy a physical that does nothing more than connect to a server that downloads the game.

Perhaps legally allowing backups of games you purchased would help.

Re: Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down

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Post by ChildOfChaos »

I absolutely hope not.

Stadia has provided an excellent game night for me and my remote friend (who is on a Mac) this year and we've had a blast, we mostly play little party games as nither of us our big gamers, but it makes for an excellent night,i've bought a couple of games on it that i've yet to even get too and plan to buy some more and enjoy the odd hour or two in the evenings. Stadia removes all fraction and means I don't need to install/update or have gaming hardware.

The service is great. Despite it not being popular. It would be an absolute disaster for me if the service were to close.

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