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What if Stadia is free with ads?
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That would be pretty unfortunate for the developers in the long run. The Spotify model would probably not cover costs in full.
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Given that the loading screens are severely reduced per their own words that would not be it, probably ingame advertising? Like that agressive product placement segments in House of Cards.
I think there will absolutely be a free or ad supported tier of games. I doubt all games will be free, but they would try to cast a wide net and convert people to streaming with as much free content as possible.
Watch 3-4 minutes of ads for every 30 minutes of game play ... I could see it.
Well, fuck. I've been getting ads for Clive Palmer's far right political party on Youtube (despite clearing my cache, watch history [which is just Northernlion, Chuggaaconroy, and Giant Bomb] and internet history).
But profiting from promoting far-right political ideology is Google's style, so that is a possibility.
But profiting from promoting far-right political ideology is Google's style, so that is a possibility.
Play a while and then advertisement during boss battle?
I would expect everything we see in youtube.
Didn't a dev in Twitter mention something an hourly rate?
My personal guess on this is you can play games by the hour say by purchasing "Stadia Bucks" into your account.
Different levels of games charge more or less ... a AAA studio game may be 5 Stadia Bucks per hour, an indie game could be 2 Stadia Bucks per hour.
The dev of which ever game you're pouring your hours into gets the revenue with Google of course taking a fee. There could be ads to sit through in this setup every hour or so lets say.
If its a game you know you're going to play for hours and hours, there could be an option to full out "buy" the game and have no ads and not need for hourly pay.
My personal guess on this is you can play games by the hour say by purchasing "Stadia Bucks" into your account.
Different levels of games charge more or less ... a AAA studio game may be 5 Stadia Bucks per hour, an indie game could be 2 Stadia Bucks per hour.
The dev of which ever game you're pouring your hours into gets the revenue with Google of course taking a fee. There could be ads to sit through in this setup every hour or so lets say.
If its a game you know you're going to play for hours and hours, there could be an option to full out "buy" the game and have no ads and not need for hourly pay.
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I can think of a lot of options here:
- free with ads
- free with ads for a limited (daily) time
- free with ads for some selected games (probably monthly rotated)
- free with ads in low resolutions or framerates
- free with ads in google devices
It would be nice too if they would let you link your steam/epic/uplay/whatever account you have and let you play free (with ads) your purchased and available games.
- free with ads
- free with ads for a limited (daily) time
- free with ads for some selected games (probably monthly rotated)
- free with ads in low resolutions or framerates
- free with ads in google devices
It would be nice too if they would let you link your steam/epic/uplay/whatever account you have and let you play free (with ads) your purchased and available games.
Boy people are creating impossible to deliver scenarios ahead of any official pricing
I'm not even convinced it'll be a subscription service - where is the incentive for the big third parties with that? They'll argue buying a game on stadia is no different to buying a digital Xbox/PlayStation/steam game soneill want to charge for it
I'm not even convinced it'll be a subscription service - where is the incentive for the big third parties with that? They'll argue buying a game on stadia is no different to buying a digital Xbox/PlayStation/steam game soneill want to charge for it
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