What, no thread about Stadia in this subforum? (Cloud gaming - Read Dead Redemption 2 joined at Nov launch)

[paperfist]

id say its more like EA Play, then Stadia.
You still need to buy the game for Stadia, while xbox pass and EA play is a subcription based model for access to the library.

Make sure you verify the game will be available on the subscription tho.

Thanks, I never used EA pass either, just Stadia. I didn’t even know about Xbox PC pass till I read a Steam post about Humankind being on the service.

 

[paperfist]

Steam returns are really simple however this type game may take more than two hours to know.

Yup, that’s why for $9 I can play it on Xbox pass instead. I played it on Stadia a while back but at the time I wasn’t impressed.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Yup, that’s why for $9 I can play it on Xbox pass instead. I played it on Stadia a while back but at the time I wasn’t impressed.

Been watching this. What did you not like about it?

 

[paperfist]

Been watching this. What did you not like about it?

Take what a I say with a grain of salt. The Stadia version I played a year ago was a beta locked to 1 era with not much of a tutorial. I didn’t like the UI at all it was confusing. It was hard to tell terrain heights so I’d often send troops to their death cause they couldn’t scale what looked like hills.

Really I guess it was like trying to play Civ for the first time so I wont pass judgment on my limited experience.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Another Executive leaves

Stadia director for games moves to Google Cloud division

Google Stadia's director for games Jack Buser has moved over to the firm's Cloud team.

www.gamesindustry.biz

 

[aigomorla]

until people are tied down by fiber directly to the cloud server, stadia wont work in games where latancy is important, which is a lot of games.
The concept is great and all, but were just not there yet.

And even if you were tied down by fiber directly, it would also have to be local, because again latency.

Getting shot in a game, and not knowing how or why because of latency kills the game on epic levels.

To me it feels like Google wants to be the next netflix in steaming, but they need to fire the executive that keeps thinking and passing onto the board that this is the next best thing in gaming evolution. I bet you they aren't even gamers.

I miss the old days, when games were made by and for other games.
Now its all corporate "show me the money" fiasco, with very little interest in the developers that make that game.

 

[DrMrLordX]

I wouldn't even want to play old-school turn-based games in Stadia. The input lag would drive me bonkers just in the UI.

 

[Aikouka]

I miss the old days, when games were made by and for other games.
Now its all corporate "show me the money" fiasco, with very little interest in the developers that make that game.

That's what happens when game budgets balloon to levels that make you think it's a Hollywood production, and marketing isn't much different. The process becomes incredibly risk averse to avoid huge losses. Of course, trying to route out all of the potential sources of money can often make a game just feel worse like the difference you see between Square-Enix's Avengers versus the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy. We don't know how good the latter is yet, but the single-player, story-focused approach seems far more suitable than the Destiny-esque live service of Avengers.

 

[NTMBK]

I'm feeling pretty good about this prediction

Wow, we're two weeks out from launch and I am seeing ZERO hype. Not optimistic for Stadia's chances

 

[GodisanAtheist]

- it's Google. This service will be dead and abandoned with no updates in a year or two.

- Got about one more month for this one...

 

[balloonshark]

For those interested it looks like you can get the Premier Edition (Chromecast Ultra + White Stadia controller) for free if you purchase a game for $59.99 or more.

More details: https://community.stadia.com/t5/Sta...ith-a-free-Stadia-Premiere-Edition/ba-p/68708

 

[Fanatical Meat]

- Got about one more month for this one...

And I still think it is a good prediction.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

For those interested it looks like you can get the Premier Edition (Chromecast Ultra + White Stadia controller) for free if you purchase a game for $59.99 or more.

More details: https://community.stadia.com/t5/Sta...ith-a-free-Stadia-Premiere-Edition/ba-p/68708

Haha see above post. Deal sounds suspiciously like a clearance sale.

 

[balloonshark]

Haha see above post. Deal sounds suspiciously like a clearance sale.

Saw the deal on slickdeals. They said they had a similar offer last year but with Cyberpunk 2077.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Haha see above post. Deal sounds suspiciously like a clearance sale.

Remember when Steam was basically giving away Links? Peppridge Farm remembers. And those were even pretty good, still use mine on the regular.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Remember when Steam was basically giving away Links? Peppridge Farm remembers. And those were even pretty good, still use mine on the regular.

-Picked up my link for $0.99 or something like that. Still sitting shrink-wrapped in the closet. Stadia has the gall to ask $59.99 for this dumpster fire of a deal...

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Haha see above post. Deal sounds suspiciously like a clearance sale.

Yup it was.
Stadia missed their subscriber goal by a few hundred thousand. Stadia Boss wanted to compete with the new consoles so they made expensive deals to acquire triple A games and made far too many Stadia controllers.

Report: Stadia Missed Active User Targets by Hundreds of Thousands

According to a report in Bloomberg, Google blew millions of dollars to get games like Red Dead Redemption 2, but it still missed active user targets by hundreds of thousands of units.

www.extremetech.com

Interesting side note. Stadia Games were working on super complicated games that would “transcend” the ability of local hardware. Google management got concerned about the complexity the game studio was aiming for and shut them down. This is the only thing about Stadia I would be excited for.
Google reportedly is discussing the possibility of leasing out Stadia Tech.

 

[Borealis7]

let this be a lesson to all companies who think the pile of cash they sit on is enough to succeed.

 

[ultimatebob]

let this be a lesson to all companies who think the pile of cash they sit on is enough to succeed.

Of course, if you have a over 200 billion dollars in the bank like Apple does, you can be pretty sure that it will be around for a LONG time

I'm curious what happened to those extra Stadia controllers... are they going to get liquidated? Can you use them as a normal controller for non Stadia games?

 

[Stuka87]

Of course, if you have a over 200 billion dollars in the bank like Apple does, you can be pretty sure that it will be around for a LONG time

I'm curious what happened to those extra Stadia controllers... are they going to get liquidated? Can you use them as a normal controller for non Stadia games?

Well, there was this mythical place, which once held berried treasure from the great Atari Empire. The Stadian Empire thought it could buy its way into ultimate power and replace the legendary Atari Empire. But it was unable to. So it is now rumored that its vast treasures now lay berried in that same mythical place. So some day far off in the future, somebody will wonder "Was Stadia really that bad?" and search for this treasure. Where they will then learn that yes, yes it was.

 

[Stg-Flame]

Oh great, now we're going to have another Atari burial site here in New Mexico? They're still trying to clean up the last one we found in 2014...

 

[GodisanAtheist]

"My name is Atarimandias, king of kings! Look upon my works, ye mighty, and dispair!"

Found on a weathered obelisk in a vast expanse of desert.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

It’s almost dead Jim

Google Stadia has reportedly been demoted, but it might show up in your Peloton

Bungie and Capcom might be interested, too.

www.theverge.com

BTW a Peloton partnership. Hahahahahahaha, remove the hot chicks on the bikes and replace them with Stadia sounds like an awesome plan.
I will say being used as a game demo service may not be a bad idea provided the input lag doesn’t hurt sales.

 

[Stg-Flame]

https://kotaku.com/google-stadia-streaming-failing-shutdown-report-stream-1848487185

More of the same.

 

[Stuka87]

*Insert Monty Python meme here*