Poll: Google Stadia - CLOSING DOWN on 18th Jan 2023

Are you going to pick up Google Stadia?

  • Yes, at launch

    Votes: 20 5.3%

  • Yes, but after launch

    Votes: 24 6.3%

  • No

    Votes: 286 75.5%

  • Undecided

    Votes: 49 12.9%
  • Total voters
    379
KraniX said:
I might be remembering it wrong, but if I recall you could try Stadia on a browser or phone for free but if you didn't have any games or Pro there wasn't much to play. I wanted it on TV as a console replacement and that required a Chromecast ultra and the controller.
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Correct. But buying the hardware didn't net you any games either. Eventually Destiny 2 became free to play on the service if you had the hardware or not.

Where Stadia really shined was the free to play, timed demos of full games.
 
jrwagh333 said:
Not at all being purposefully obtuse.

Yes, you're correct on the model and while I do party agree with what you say about BL3 being over priced, there where many sales if you kept your eye on it. Granted, they never made a big announcement when a sale was on, so that's Google's fault. But BL3 Ultimate Edition was down to £9.99 at one point - I don't think anybody could complain at that price.

I agree with what you're saying about paying at not owning it. But I think that's the way many things are heading. Look at Prime Video. You pay to rent or watch the movie and it can be removed at a later date.
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Sorry I find text hard to interpret sometimes. I have fairly decent broadband but still couldn't get an experience I was happy with on the games I did try. If we could completely remedy the technical limitation of streaming an on demand service like it offered would suit me to the ground.

Perhaps as a subscription model or a PAYG basis. A bit like how you can rent a digital film for like 3 days or so. The games you want to purchase out right, the option should have course still be there, but in an ideal world it would not be tied to an account or anything. It would use some kind of NFT or an equivalent technology so that you do truly own your digital asset.
Bouton Aide said:
I don't see why this didn't take off to be honest, everything become streamable and the games should have too but never mind. I just hope they do unlock their controllers.
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I think two reasons. Our broadband infrastructure not allowing people to have a great experience with it and secondly maybe it just didn't have much attraction because it was Google.
I would be very interested to see how a Nintendo equivalent would do for example.
 
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No one knew about Stadia's closure, not game developers or engineers

Nobody knew about Stadia's closure beforehand, game developers and even Google's own engineers were kept in the dark about the service's closure.
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Wow I feel bad for games developers and engineers not told about stadia shutdown as their months, years worth of hard work on games ported to Stadia gone down the drain and lost jobs after read the announcement.
 
Bouton Aide said:
I don't see why this didn't take off to be honest, everything become streamable and the games should have too but never mind. I just hope they do unlock their controllers.
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If it had just come out the gate as a gamepass style thing, I think things would have been different.
The game prices we’re high, and it was a Google product so would likely be dead in a few years. Why even give them the time of day?
 
I only owned cyberpunk (£40) and got a Chromecast ultra and stadia controller free (worth £90). Completed the game with a pro 4k sub (also free) and couldn't fault it.

Definitely should have been sub based.

And had the usual f2p games eg fortnite on it.
 
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I'm surprised Google pulled the plug on Stadia this quickly, but it was clear from the outset that they had no idea what they were doing with it. They completely failed to capitalise on being to market ahead of the current gen consoles, and failed again to capitalise on supply issues and cost concerns of those consoles. These are massive opportunities that they let pass them by, while the media simply focused on how everyone wanted a PS5 and couldn't get one.

I like gaming, I like tech, and I have a 1Gbps connection. Stadia didn't interest me in the slightest, to the point that I've never bothered to even use the tree month trial Google apparently provide me as part of my Google One subscription. They've never even bothered to email me to encourage me to use it, despite having 20-ish years of my search history at hand to figure out that I'm a gamer. Nobody outside of gaming forums/websites has ever talked about or even heard of Stadia.

Frankly I'm glad it's gone, I despise the thought of some decent games being exclusive to a streaming platform with no option to run it on actual physical hardware in its full glory. If game streaming ever takes off it needs to be by one of the already-established players in the market.
 
Physical or virtual, everything is short term. It's all about quick money. If it doesn't generate enough what they thought it could have been, it gets nuked. That's why nothing has value.
 
Poneros said:
Holy schmackerel, no wonder they're all pivoting away from cloud for now...listen to this - avg power costs per user are in the region of $0.5 per hour!!

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No wonder they decided to close. I bet it wasn't cost effective to stream the big titles. Infact I bet they were loosing money.
 
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