Stadia, Google's game streaming service, has been discontinued.
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CalculuS
Honestly stadia hit a point of game ownership of me.
I like having physical copies, I like having a physical object that I can insert physical objects into to play games I physically own.
Google stadia felt like one of those hyper futuristic situations where you will have 100 subscriptions, own nothing and be screwed over by a whim when a corporation decides to shelf its services.
TheDeeGee
Sadly all physical copies these days have a digital store front DRM, so despite owning them you can't play them when the store front in question goes offline.
anticupidon
Have you heard about GoG? You can download your games , legally owned and write them to physical media.
Also, DRM free. 80% of my games are bought there.
Best part, they pull off patches and updates long after the release.
Reddoguk
Wow i'm really shocked, NOT.
KissSh0t
lol.
https://i.imgur.com/Vdq3EKp.png
TheDeeGee
Seems they never notified developers, they had to find out via the media.
suty455
I must say when Google and its whole Android eco system came out I was onboard and thought it was great, now however seeing how they start projects then just kill or swap them I no longer bother to get involved, you tube is a cluster fuck now of ADs and shorts Gmail permeates all we do in the name of convenience and Chrome well I wont start on that shite with its ability to ignore AD blockers and feed ADs to me about conversations I have been having with my phone in the background, as a result I use nothing of Googles anymore, this failing was in my view a planned step once they have harvested enough Data to see a trend on controllers and tastes of gamers that they can now use on the Android eco system and chrome os system, I believe Googles ultimate aim is to become another Apple walled system. Yes I have a foil hat lol.
Alessio1989
anticupidon
Why doesn't surprise me?
Besides, not announcing development teams is really on the lowest moves that even a third world small company will not do.
Horus-Anhur
Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with nearly 6,000 hours on Stadia begs Rockstar for character transfer
Imagine playing 6000 hours on Stadia....
Venix
He will be very surprised when he figures out it is not a turn based shooter 😯
tensai28
Didn't it only release in select regions? Of course no one will use it if you don't even make it available.
KissSh0t
Just found the answer for what I previously asked, no it cannot be used via Bluetooth.... so yeah, it seems I was correct, I guess that's why you didn't respond to the question.
awesome google being awesome *shrugs*
Alessio1989
In the meantime I go making pop-corns, waiting for a devs mass class action against google in multiple continents and economic areas.
https://media0.giphy.com/media/3xkNUy3Vh8QbPmJZjK/200.gif
XenthorX
Oh my ... 😱
undorich
it makes perfect sense if you listen to the world economic forum and their slogan, 'you will own nothing, and be happy. ' added by me, 'and rent everything.'
WhiteLightning
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Alessio1989
yes, imagine how bad is for small and indie companies.
Neo Cyrus
Of course, and that's why those of us with functional brain cells resist all these rental models as much as we can. I'm not even thrilled that such a large portion of my game collection is digital only. Sure Steam/GOG are probably going nowhere, but I'd much prefer to have actual control, own an actual physical copy that can be played any time so my access can't just be stolen on a whim.
Reddoguk
6000 hours of RDR2 and he still only has 26/51 trophies. ^^
