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Stadia Pro will soon drop down to one free month

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If you have been sitting on the fence about trying out Google Stadia, you might want to decide soon as their current generous offer is about to get less so.

Back in early April, Google officially opened the gates to anyone in the currently 14 supported countries. This came with some freebies too, as anyone who signed up (and existing subs) got two free months of Stadia Pro. Google has announced today, that this offer will reduce from two months down to one on June 3. If you sign up before then you get the two months. You can cancel at any time with a few button clicks too. If you do cancel Pro, it reverts to a standard Stadia account to purchase games on it as normal.

If you do sign up, you get instant access to claim and play:

  • Destiny 2: The Collection
  • GRID
  • Gylt
  • PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS
  • SteamWorld Dig 2
  • SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech
  • Serious Sam Collection
  • Spitlings
  • Stacks on Stacks (on Stacks)
  • The Turing Test
  • Zombie Army 4

If you're interested you can sign up on Stadia.com. It works in pretty much any Chromium browser on Linux.


Not been keeping up with Stadia news? Other recent bits:

Additionally, the firefighting game Embr launches in Early Access on Stadia tomorrow. We have a key, so we will be taking a look.

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Mezron May 20, 2020
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Quoting: SchattenspiegelAs long as they want the digits upfront they can keep their trial as far as I am concerned.

I was able to use a gift card that has a few pennies on it. Then I later on cashed in some Google Pay/Play cards that I had from a local FGC event that I attended.
thoughtfulhippo May 20, 2020
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Quoting: randyl
Quoting: subIs there a free to try option?
Yes, it's free for 2 months right now. Soon it will drop back down to 1 month. The link is in the article.

That's my question. I have to check the terms of service.
I'm not looking for a contract that runs, let's say,
12 months and they just offer me the first two for "free".

That's not what I would consider "free to try". :)

You pay monthly and can cancel anytime - it's what I did with the original Pro offer. I've had 4 free months of Pro (re-subbing for the 2nd offer), and have yet to pay. And after that you can use the 'free' tier indefinitely.
randyl May 20, 2020
Quoting: sub
Quoting: randyl
Quoting: subIs there a free to try option?
Yes, it's free for 2 months right now. Soon it will drop back down to 1 month. The link is in the article.

That's my question. I have to check the terms of service.
I'm not looking for a contract that runs, let's say,
12 months and they just offer me the first two for "free".

That's not what I would consider "free to try". :)
That's exactly what free to try is. You're free to try it. Cancel the subscription when you open your trial. Anyway, that's their deal take it or leave it.
randyl May 20, 2020
Quoting: Lolo01Right now, I'm a little disappointed.
In Chrome, the maximum resolution is 1080p for the moment, but I sometimes feel like I'm playing in 720p because the games are so ugly.
I have a 1440p screen and I would like to enjoy this resolution ALL the time.
I have a strong enough connection to play in 4K...
I have a 1080p screen and it was still blurry. I had to install the mobile app to manage data and display settings. At both 4K and 1080p (data consumption) Destiny 2 was still muddy and blurry, or at the least not very crisp like it is natively. It does work in Vivaldi at least and didn't require Chrome itself to be installed.

I didn't like that I had to use the mobile app to manage some aspects. Also RMB kept kicking me out of D2 and back to the browser and that's a huge pain that I don't want to troubleshoot.
drlamb May 20, 2020
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Destiny 2 is always running at 1080P and is a bad example of the visual quality Stadia is capable of. 60FPS was definitely the priority there as it runs at ~medium settings.
randyl May 20, 2020
Quoting: drlamb
Quoting: randyl

Destiny 2 is always running at 1080P and is a bad example of the visual quality Stadia is capable of. 60FPS was definitely the priority there as it runs at ~medium settings.
Except it doesn't look like 1080p. It barely looks like 720. The native 1080p experience and PS4 Pro looks better than it does through Stadia. The performance is good. The appearance isn't that good to me, but isn't a deal breaker. The problems with mouse and keyboard input knocking me out of the game and back to the browser might be a big deal though.
Lolo01 May 20, 2020
I installed The Stadia Plus extension for Chromium, and now Assassin's Creed Odyssey is beautiful.
It looks like I'm using 1440p res now (and vp9 codec).
You need to activate both options of the extension on the Stadia tab.


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Mezron May 20, 2020
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Quoting: randyl
Quoting: drlamb
Quoting: randyl

Destiny 2 is always running at 1080P and is a bad example of the visual quality Stadia is capable of. 60FPS was definitely the priority there as it runs at ~medium settings.
Except it doesn't look like 1080p. It barely looks like 720. The native 1080p experience and PS4 Pro looks better than it does through Stadia. The performance is good. The appearance isn't that good to me, but isn't a deal breaker. The problems with mouse and keyboard input knocking me out of the game and back to the browser might be a big deal though.

I don't like the game per se but the game looked great and had zero lag input via of KB and Mouse for me. Did you try it with the Stadia+ ext by Mafrans?
randyl May 20, 2020
Quoting: RafiLinux
Quoting: randyl
Quoting: drlamb
Quoting: randyl

Destiny 2 is always running at 1080P and is a bad example of the visual quality Stadia is capable of. 60FPS was definitely the priority there as it runs at ~medium settings.
Except it doesn't look like 1080p. It barely looks like 720. The native 1080p experience and PS4 Pro looks better than it does through Stadia. The performance is good. The appearance isn't that good to me, but isn't a deal breaker. The problems with mouse and keyboard input knocking me out of the game and back to the browser might be a big deal though.

I don't like the game per se but the game looked great and had zero lag input via of KB and Mouse for me. Did you try it with the Stadia+ ext by Mafrans?
I didn't install any extensions. The Stadia page didn't reference any extension. So I would need to install a third party browser extension to make it work well and look good? While I really appreciate the suggestion to help make the experience good, it is ridiculous to me that I would need such an extension yet and another reason for me to not pay Google $10/mo.
Mezron May 20, 2020
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Quoting: randylI didn't install any extensions. The Stadia page didn't reference any extension. So I would need to install a third party browser extension to make it work well and look good? While I really appreciate the suggestion to help make the experience good, it is ridiculous to me that I would need such an extension yet and another reason for me to not pay Google $10/mo.

I don't know your setup but the game looks great prior to the ext install. The ext just adds some quality of life stuff and if you're having issues on your setup you can force to play in a format that is better.

I see it the same way I see Steam, which I'm new to also, I have to use 3rd party sites to get it to do exactly what I want it to do: ProtonDB for proper listings, SteamDB for accurate numbers of online players and SteamWiki for a list of DRM-FREE Steam games. Even with GOG I have to use MaGOG to see EXACTLY the types of games I wish to purchase.

I hear you on the pricing though and such.


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