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[Kotaku] Stadia Exclusivity Will Keep Serious Sam 4 Off PS4 And Xbox Until 2021
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Seriously. I'm sure they ran the numbers and found it to be worth their while.
I wish I can like this response because it so proves my point:
Exclusives suck.
Is it though? The game is primarily a PC game. It's not like it was a big known title for consoles...
There are lots of games on consoles you can't play in some countries.
You've just arrived into gaming ?
My guy...Google stadia actually doesn't work outside of the states and limited other countries. I understand what you're trying to say but doesn't even compare in the slightest.
Mate, I can create a Taiwanese PSN account anytime I want to buy a game only released in Taiwan, or any country. I can't do that with Stadia. The entire country is blocked from accessing the service.
Yeah it's more akin to Sony paying to keep stuff like FFX/2 HD and a slew of other things off PC for a year or more.
Well on the other hand they've been seeing how other companies have been doing the moneyhatting to their platforms/services and now they are just following suit. Things are going to get really stupid when Amazon, Google, MS, Sony, Facebook, Apple and others are all moneyhatting specific games to their platforms/services/ecosystems.
Have you read the rules of creating an account ?
Can you create it legally ? I am guessing you don't even know the answer.
I lowkey hope that Stadia pulls this shit with something like Cyberpunk for a month of exclusivity so people can get a real taste of the outer limits of this paid exclusivity bullshit.
I see what you did there..I chuckled a bit ;-D
But yeah exclusivity like this and in general is always bullcrap. I'd rather live in a world where there isn't horseshit like this.
Not sure it will pan out like this considering its a PC franchise to begin with historically.
Its not only weird but Anti-consumer just because google wants to keep it off consoles since its placed itself as their direct competitor. Simply paying to have the games off its competitor for a year even though stadia itself isn't that good imo.
Steam is a full Digital content platform and not just a launcher. Steam back in its early days when it just had launcher and a store could've been called just a storefront and launcher. Right now its a full ecosystem on PC with it having full native controller support, Big picture mode for a TV like interface, A whole digital market place dedicated to in-game items, SteamVR along with their Valve Index VR Device. There's no single 'digital content platform' on PC thats even close to comparing to steam objectively. GOG comes close with its true to itself DRM-Free games and now it has that so useful all-in-one launcher thing with GOG galaxy that incorporates libraries of Steam, Origin, uPlay in it and then you have Epic who were the first ones to leave PC gaming, calling it dead and calling PC gamers 'pirates'. You can't trust entities like that man. Hence a lot of people use steam because of its features and want to stay in that ecoystem due to the trust that Valve has earned over the many years by improving it and adding features and useful quirks annually.
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Have you just arrived into the era we started importing products?
And are you aware that streaming cannot be imported?
What the hell is this post
It's mainly a PC franchise - so probably no. And even if, they will have made some money from the Stadia deal.
You can make other accounts for different countries as well as import games. Stadia is inaccessible/not available in certain countries, so there's no way for people living their to access it or any exclusive games.
Moneyhatted exclusives suck. Funny how somehow there's a line in the sand here that is different than the EGS shitposting that's been going on for months.
Moneyhatted exclusives suck. It doesn't matter if I have to use a platform that isn't available in my country, one that doesn't support offline play, one that doesn't support my controller or inputs, one that doesn't have cloud saves, or a completely different piece of hardware: compromising the way I want to play purely based on a moneyhat sucks. There's no benefit to me in playing on one specific service only instead of being able to choose where to play.
Moneyhatted exclusives suck. It doesn't matter if I have to use a platform that isn't available in my country, one that doesn't support offline play, one that doesn't support my controller or inputs, one that doesn't have cloud saves, or a completely different piece of hardware: compromising the way I want to play purely based on a moneyhat sucks. There's no benefit to me in playing on one specific service only instead of being able to choose where to play.
Yeah the console Serious Sam community are going to be devastated.
I can only really speak from a PC gaming perspective, but the series is pretty well loved for PC / LAN / Coop as Doom and its mods. It's classic. So there is a lot of nostalgia for its no nonsense over the top stupidity. It's been 9 years since the last game (excluding VR stuff), and there's been a lot of teasing. Definitely excitement for it.
There was an old article about how stadia had at least 10 timed exclusives coming out by july this year, was in January this year and admittedly some of those releases may not happen due to WFH COVID delays.
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/...-than-10-stadia-timed-exclusives-by-july-2020
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/...-than-10-stadia-timed-exclusives-by-july-2020
Was SS ever big on consoles?
What? Lol. EGS exclusivity and Stadia exclusivity are two totally different things. Afaik you DOWNLOAD THE GAME on EGS exactly like on Steam, you're not playing remotely.
Yeah but it sure looks like they don't give a shit about trying to see it grow.
Oh so I guess more like this can be expected then. Doubt Google will be going for the extremely popular anticipated titles, but I guess I can see more of this kind of "mid-tier" thing happening just to make noise
Yes seems like it for now, but if they get traction/subscribers from doing this they could always try and play for something bigger.
