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Stadia Review Thread

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Today, Stadia is a $130 one-time purchase, plus $10 a month (after a three-month trial), plus $20 to $60 per premium game;
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Mother fucker what?

I must have been drunk when I read the pricing a while ago, I thought you paid 130 and bought games separately but you also have to pay 10 a month too? What the god damn fuck?

I got clarification! Thanks Era!
 
SmartWaffles

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LMFAO that Destiny 2 screenshot comparison, that texture quality and shadow quality is arguably even worse than the console versions.
 
sleepr

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Hobbes said:
Mother fucker what?

I must have been drunk when I read the pricing a while ago, I thought you paid 130 and bought games separately but you also have to pay 10 a month too? What the god damn fuck?
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You don't, the service is free but only streams at 1080p.
 
iareharSon

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They never really stood a chance against Microsoft, given Microsoft's ability to leverage its existing infrastructure within the industry, but if they did stand a chance - they needed to come out of the gate proper. Releasing first doesn't mean a damn thing.
 
Manmademan

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sleepr said:
You don't, the service is free but only streams at 1080p.
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"1080p."

Did you notice that I wrote "4K" and "1080p" in scare quotes earlier? For days, I've been trying and failing to get Google to admit that its servers aren't actually rendering intensive games at what I would consider 4K. For instance, here's a picture I carefully took with my iPhone 11 Pro when playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider at the highest settings Stadia seems to deliver today....
What you're looking at here isn't bad streaming; the stream is 4K. Not only that, but it's also some of the best streaming image quality I've seen, without loads of the nasty compression artifacts that make other cloud gaming services look like there's an ugly haze between you and much of the game. But where's the detail in Lara Croft's character model? And where are the high-resolution textures? Google told me that Stadia is designed to run games at the highest resolution with all of the settings turned up, but clearly, that isn't happening here.

With Destiny 2, it's even more obvious that the game isn't running at the highest settings. On a Chromecast Ultra, a "4K" stream looked closer to 1080p, and my colleague Tom Warren and I swore that the 1080p streams we were getting in the Chrome web browser looked more like 720p.
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A lot of us saw this exact thing coming from miles away. This is a disaster.
 
Pez

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Damn, this is embarrassing for Google, feel bad for the Stadia team. :(

Seriously feels like a kickstarter product launch. :/
 
Astandahl

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Tech is not even close to be ready. People also forget that lack of datacenters, mediocre wireless connection could have a massive impact on performance as well.
 
MrBob

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From the verge review:

Initially, Google told us that it was using the highest-resolution, highest-fidelity build of Destiny 2 available. But Bungie later confirmed that our eyes weren't deceiving us. "When streaming at 4K, we render at a native 1080p and then upsample and apply a variety of techniques to increase the overall quality of effect," a Bungie rep said, adding that D2 runs at the PC equivalent of medium settings. That explains why the Xbox One X build, which runs at a native 4K and with higher-res assets, looks so much better than Stadia.
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Well then. Guess high and ultra isn't guaranteed and 1080p scaled to 4k? Why is Google charging 10 dollars a month??? Garbage.
 
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Still baffling to me that Google doesn't have a Game Pass equivalent. They're missing half of the equation here. They have the sreaming, but they don't actually have the games/appealing business model.
 
Orb

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I love the bullet points on these reviews that are like "well, it works!"

Except that it straight-up doesn't for lots of people. I live in a major US metropolitan area and my internet does not support Stadia according to Google's testing tool.
 
Reckheim

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At the end of the day, streaming games its always going to have its limitations. No madder who does it.

I'm not really sure why anyone expected a different outcome.
 
Detective Loki

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For how much money and presence Google has, they sure don't know how to do things right like their fruit neighbors
 
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With Destiny 2, it's even more obvious that the game isn't running at the highest settings. On a Chromecast Ultra, a "4K" stream looked closer to 1080p, and my colleague Tom Warren and I swore that the 1080p streams we were getting in the Chrome web browser looked more like 720p.
Initially, Google told us that it was using the highest-resolution, highest-fidelity build of Destiny 2 available. But Bungie later confirmed that our eyes weren't deceiving us. "When streaming at 4K, we render at a native 1080p and then upsample and apply a variety of techniques to increase the overall quality of effect," a Bungie rep said, adding that D2 runs at the PC equivalent of medium settings. That explains why the Xbox One X build, which runs at a native 4K and with higher-res assets, looks so much better than Stadia
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Ooooof!
I was told that Stadia would provide NEXT-GEN level visual, not 1080p upscaled to 4K, medium PC setting that are worse than Xbox X.
 
mjc

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Sounds like what we expected for now, a lack of exclusives and missteps with the pricing on games affects it.

We'll see if it can dodge the Google axe.
 
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MAK11 said:
Somebody please get BlueManifest some milk please!
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I laughed hard at this, that user was so aggressive in defending this stuff it was hard not to think of them as a planted shill.

Not surprising at all, the tech is there just needs more optimization to take advantage of it. This was rushed and poorly marketed from the beginning.
 
BarryFishFinger

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Can't say any of that surprises me. All the basic 'but what about X' questions appear to have been answered and be about as bad as we all figured they would be and we haven't even got to the point where the ISPs are supposed to be allowing us to have limitless amounts of data just because.

I'll keep an eye on it and see how the free service settles, but at the moment? Nah fam.
 
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I wish Doom was out for this, I thought it looked very ugly on Stadia at gamescom. Anyone else here play it?

Have to say though the reviews are a bit more positive than I expected tbh
 

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TIL you have to buy the games at full price in addition to the monthly membership. I sincerely have no idea who their target audience is. Feels like Bill Gates and Bezos sat in a room and were like, lol check this pricing structure we about to have.
 
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Manmademan said:
"1080p."



A lot of us saw this exact thing coming from miles away. This is a disaster.
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Did you actually read?They say it's the best streaming service they've used in therms of image quality, compressions, etc. Problem is that the games are just not running at max settings on the server side, which makes no sense because the machine they're using is almost double in power of the Xbox One X.

Basically the service isn't ready to launch. Good job google.
 
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BoxingIsCool said:
TIL you have to buy the games at full price in addition to the monthly membership. I sincerely have no idea who their target audience is. Feels like Bill Gates and Bezos sat in a room and were like, lol check this pricing structure we about to have.
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You don't have to buy a monthly membership. That's only if you want "4K"
 
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