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

[shortylickens]

well, thats a shame but lets be fair: how much money did you guys invest in this thing?

Cuz its probably a much smaller flop than the CD-i or 3DO or Jaguar or Neo Geo.

 

[ultimatebob]

well, thats a shame but lets be fair: how much money did you guys invest in this thing?

Cuz its probably a much smaller flop than the CD-i or 3DO or Jaguar or Neo Geo.

I invested exactly 0 dollars in this. I did have fun playing playing a couple of titles that didn't have low latency requirements during my demo period.

The idea that you were going to play a twitch action game like a first person shooter or a racing game over a broadband internet connection with 50ms round trip latency was a joke.

This would have worked perfectly with turn based games like Civilization 6, though.

 

[Borealis7]

I invested exactly 0 dollars in this. I did have fun playing playing a couple of titles that didn't have low latency requirements during my demo period.

The idea that you were going to play a twitch action game like a first person shooter or a racing game over a broadband internet connection with 50ms round trip latency was a joke.

This would have worked perfectly with turn based games like Civilization 6, though.

and that is PRECISELY the problem with these kind of services! they try to market themselves as solutions for playing twitch reaction games, while in reality they should address the turn based crowd! thats what i've been saying since day -1.
there are tons of popular rogue-like games, turn-based, card collectors, board games, indie games, even AAA titles such as XCOM clones that people who are not PC enthusiasts would probably like to play on their TVs without the hassle of putting together a PC.

oh and you can also add all the first person exploration/quests/horror games, but not point-and-click since its probably not comfortable with the controllers.

 

[DrMrLordX]

This would have worked perfectly with turn based games like Civilization 6, though.

I wouldn't like waiting to see my cursor move when manipulating the mouse. That would be jarring.

 

[Borealis7]

I wouldn't like waiting to see my cursor move when manipulating the mouse. That would be jarring.

i don't think it works that way. you move your mouse in the local client app that is rendering the game, click somewhere and then a "click" event is sent to the server. so the latency would be from you clicking the mouse until the click event is registered with the server. "thin" clients for VMs and remote desktop work the way you described, not all of them.

 

[DrMrLordX]

i don't think it works that way.

Maybe not. There was pretty bad input lag from keyboard input in the FPS demo gameplay I saw but that was an FPS.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

TBF most turn based strategy games don't really need a ton of horsepower to run, you can get them working reasonably well on a lot of prebuilt PCs with IGPs and laptops.

Stadia still feels like a solution in search of problem no matter how you really slice it.

Still running on now antiquated Vega hardware as well.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Not dead yet but it certainly doesn’t look good

Google Stadia soon story? The "Games" tab in the store is no longer

The Google Stadia game streaming service has never been able to compete with better-known offerings...

www.techgamingreport.com

I still don’t understand their pricing.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

It's effectively dead at this point. Took the games tab down, not listed anymore for easy discovery, staff bailing out.

Missed my October 2021 prediction by ~6 months, but it looks like the eagle as effectively landed.

Google will sunset subscriptions and that'll be it.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Sad, but not really. People are just going to have to own their own gaming hardware and games.

 

[Stg-Flame]

And here I assumed it was dead before it ever launched...

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Another nail.
Google rumored to be shitting stadia down by end of year.

Google Stadia is Not Shutting Down [UPDATE]

Google Stadia denies the recent claims online that it would be shutting down its services by the end of the summer, promising more games to come.

gamerant.com

I still don’t understand stadia’s pricing model. I buy a game on stadia (which likely can’t be transferred somewhere else), then I pay monthly to access the game I paid for???

 

[JujuFish]

Random person on Facebook says Stadia is going under. Sure, that's reliable.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Yeah that's a no for me dawg:

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

- you have to pay for a sub, then buy the game anyway, then lose the game when Stadia goes belly up.

- everything about my internet sucks and I barely like being dependant on my internet to use Steam or other platforms, let alone actually needing the internet to actually play the game.

-Im an old man. I shook my cane when they took away my physical disks, but the convenience of steam was too much for even me to deny. But streaming is a bridge too far.

- I like how Stadia is already so dead that I wager it won't even be reported on when it officially closes down.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Random person on Facebook says Stadia is going under. Sure, that's reliable.

Random person who keeps the Google Killed list. Yes there is speculation.

 

[Stuka87]

Random person on Facebook says Stadia is going under. Sure, that's reliable.

Its not a random person though. They have been consistently correct.

Plus, its not like its a surprise.

 

[JujuFish]

Random person who keeps the Google Killed list. Yes there is speculation.

Did you even read the tweet?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1552658225207693312

This is literally on the level of "my uncle works for Nintendo and he says ..."

 

[JujuFish]

Its not a random person though. They have been consistently correct.

Plus, its not like its a surprise.

It is a random person on Facebook. Killed by Google is simply tweeting the message.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Did you even read the tweet?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1552658225207693312

This is literally on the level of "my uncle works for Nintendo and he says ..."

Okay you’re right Stadia is doing fine and will be here forever.

 

[JujuFish]

Okay you’re right Stadia is doing fine and will be here forever.

Yep, that's exactly what I said. Nailed it.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

It REALLY doesn't take insider knowledge to figure out that Stadia is one fart in the wrong direction from collapse

 

[quikah]

Shutdown Jan 18, 2023. All purchases will be refunded:

A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy (blog.google)

 

[Stuka87]

And nobody was surprised.

I bet giving full refunds for all hardware and games purchased is going to be quite the chunk of change. And it means those people basically got to play those games for free.

 

[NTMBK]

And nobody was surprised.

I bet giving full refunds for all hardware and games purchased is going to be quite the chunk of change. And it means those people basically got to play those games for free.

They're giving back money that they never even had- because you can be damn sure the publishers aren't giving back their share of the sales.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Another nail.
Google rumored to be shitting stadia down by end of year.

Google Stadia is Not Shutting Down [UPDATE]

Google Stadia denies the recent claims online that it would be shutting down its services by the end of the summer, promising more games to come.

gamerant.com

I still don’t understand stadia’s pricing model. I buy a game on stadia (which likely can’t be transferred somewhere else), then I pay monthly to access the game I paid for???

I guess this was technically true, they are not shutting down by the end of the year….