Nah, a subscription service like game pass would make too much sense.
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Stadia has officially gone 40 days without a new game announcement/release, feature update, or real community update. It has been out for 69 days.
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Nah, a subscription service like game pass would make too much sense.
In all honesty... its a good thing if Stadia dies. Streaming should never become the primary way to play games. If Google fails at it, it will scare other big tech companies from trying to bully their way in again.
This clusterfuck has been so entertaining to watch. It's like a massive train wreck in slow motion. It's absolutely unimaginable how they can be so uncommunicative and just pretend to move along as if nothing happened. It's unreal.
Tom Raider left Stadia Pro. You can keep it if you claimed it, but if you didn't you can't. Samurai Shodown and Rise of the Tomb Raider are leaving in 3 days, same deal.
I just don't get google sometimes, a behemoth of a company with so much smarts and such but no idea on how to brand and market their stuff. It's a company of geeks (I mean that in a positive way) and not much else?
Is the posting of "nice" some meme on here? Was just curious. Seen like 10 of that on the first page. Hopefully.
Google is deservingly so receiving criticism for a rushed, flawed release. With their track record of killing services (even if not consumer side), there's plenty to be weary about from consumers' and developers' views. Sure, some want it completely dead, you're going to see that. But Google ruined their launch and the only one at fault is Google. For that, Google deserves criticism pointing out their problems and false promises regarding Stadia. A lack of games doesn't help either.
I don't think Stadia can pivot to this business model easily. Right now there's (I think) 26 games released, all of which will have been developed for Stadia on the understanding that they'd be individually marketed and sold (so to add them to a subscription service, Google would need to negotiate a new contract allowing them to do that, with each publisher). They'd potentially also lose some games - publishers of big upcoming games might not want them to appear as part of a subscription service on day one.
Even if they succeeded moving their entire library to a subscription model, a Netflix-like subscription for unlimited access to 26 games would seem....truly pathetic. The quick by-the-numbers comparisons to other services like PlayStation Now and Game Pass (whenever Game Pass begins streaming) would be horrifying for Google. They'd have to compete on "well our numbers might be smaller but they're better", and previous games platforms needing to make that kind of sales pitch have struggled with it.
Stadia is in enough trouble that Google should definitely be considering other business models, but I don't think moving to a Netflix-like model is the answer to their problems (at least, not until they have a lot more games).
They said 120 games coming in 2020. That doesn't mean anything to most people though - anyone looking for better communication is really asking for names and dates, not numbers and years.
Maybe. They'd presumably be at least a little wary about burning people who've paid money for a Google service and strengthening their reputation for killing products. I'm not sure if a big cash dump would be the cheapest way out of that though - it might end up being simpler for them to do something like announce that the service would last for another year and give subscribers three free games of their choice as an apology. That'd let them bow out without taking much of a hit to goodwill.
So....did you enjoy punish your friends for that? Just a genuine question. 😂
Can't speak for everyone in this thread but I bought a Stadia Founder's Edition and feel like I have a right to be at least a little frustrated. But what do I know, I'm not a lawyer.
Yeap I can't wait for this to die soon. Streaming is not ready... WW Streaming is not viable in the next 10 years at least...
This thing needs a lot more to convince buyers, and they're not really doing anything.
Also, nice.
Also, nice.
A lot of us knew this would happen.
And I warned people anything Phil Harrison comes to contact with somehow turns out horrible.
And I warned people anything Phil Harrison comes to contact with somehow turns out horrible.
Lol yeah similar trolling in other threads wouldn't make you popular :p
I like Stadia, the functionality is there, but they better come out of this silent period with a huge and substantial update. This isn't working.
Gylt as the feb Pro game is nice while waiting though.
Still remember certain people ardently explaining how google don't kill projects and how this isn't going to be left to die.
I think they'll have one attempt at a relaunch of sorts and then it'll be gone.
I think they'll have one attempt at a relaunch of sorts and then it'll be gone.
Streaming is definitely the future, but it won't be Google leading or shaping the market because they're incapable of committing to their products
LMAO at everyone posting google already abandoned it when Google has been on a complete Stadia hiring spree, are acquiring studios, are building contracts behind the scenes with ISPs, just announced time exclusives and over 100 games coming this year and have yet to launch their main business model (free).
i have February 20th marked on my calendar as "cancel Stadia subscription" unless they can come up with a valid reason to start paying the monthly fee
Okay that's seriously bad, they've been there for a month, holy crap they're making almost every mistake there is to make at this point.Tom Raider left Stadia Pro. You can keep it if you claimed it, but if you didn't you can't. Samurai Shodown and Rise of the Tomb Raider are leaving in 3 days, same deal.
If you "claim" the game it's yours to keep and play for as long as you're a pro member. You just have to be a Pro member during the window it's available to claim. For instance, I have all the games since launch even though some aren't available to claim anymore.
I can't remember, but I think I saw that if you let your sub lapse but then resubscribe down the road those games come back to you as well.
You don't have to wait. When you cancel it, you have access until your subscription lapses.
But that´s their deadline, i like to think there is an analyst somewhere at Google HQ literally staring at that database row of my active sub! :D
Fair enough. I just know I have about a billion subscriptions and enjoy the ones that let me cancel and keep access until X date so I don't need to rely on my brain / an automated reminder.
Not sure where you stand, but take a look back at this article. The article basically sums up Xbox One's launch, it's launch of 28 games, 19 of which were on the 360. Only one game was released in January. It cost $100 more than the PS4. But, they managed to turn things around - eventually.
Google's "track record of killing services" is overblown. Many of them have been replaced or consolidated. Look it up. People are just used to mob mentality and outrage culture.
Now, Google did ruin there launch by calling it a launch instead of an Early Access or a Soft Launch. Their communication is piss poor. They need to hire a real person behind their Twitter Account, instead of a robot. And if that is a real person - god bless them.
The frustrating part is that the technology works really well for a good amount of people. If they just pumped a strong life line of games a features into this it could really carve out an audience and potentially be a bigger threat in a few years. I know they know this and are seeing this complaint online. Odd that they are taking their time and not really keeping people informed.
Don't. Having a great time with it. Value was amazing to be honest.
1. Anyone starting up a major console business would be, or else there wouldn't be a launch.
2. We know nothing other than one ISP offering Stadia bundles, but we don't even know if data used in Stadia will count towards a datacap (if a datacap is present).
3. 120 games with 10 being Stadia times exclusives releasing in 2020...so where are the games? I get that's a number and all, but people want to see titles with gameplay.
4. At this point, this doesn't seem like it will guarantee a success. Google has launched many free consumer facing products and services (Google+, hangouts, allo) and has killed them all due to their lack of success. Stadia is already a joke to many in the gaming community, and I don't think the free tier is going to bring in as much people as Google hopes. I don't think there is a large user base who want to play all the new AAA games, but don't already have a console or PC.
Why do I hope people get refunds? Because not everyone pays as close attention as we do, people have definitely put money into this and let's be real: this thing is capital D doomed. I want people to not have their investment simply disappear, that'd be terrible.
No it will be people who already have things in place to gradually get there. Valve has dabbled with local streaming if your games with steam link. ANd from what I have heard they are working on things for streaming certain games outside of a local network.
I can see them further developing the steam app or mobile version of their game launcher that is not just a store/friends list app. I can see them having Dota 2 among others streaming to your phones.
But like we have said we are still another 10 years off.
OnLive was actually pretty cool. Fun interface, pretty wide selection. I lost a good number of games when it went away. Oh well.