Google's game streaming service Stadia arrives in more countries

Is any way to test Stadia for internet speed, pings, lags? Any free demo gamę available?

Is any way to test Stadia for internet speed, pings, lags? Any free demo gamę available?

The article clearly states there's two free to play titles.

In case you're curious about Stadia, here's a great deal on Borderlands 3:

https://old.reddit.com/r/GameDeals/comments/k8mynz/stadia_borderlands_3_ultimate_edition_1099_89/

By signing up for the Stadia Pro trial I was able to get BL3 Ultimate for ~$1 to keep.

I was also part of the Stadia beta ("Project S" at the tiem) so I know it works great for me (other than gobbling up my limited bandwidth) but YMMV.


Last edited by seamoose on 7 Dec 2020 at 10:27 pm UTC

(...) they confirmed these newly supported countries: Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and Switzerland

Aw yiss 😎

DANG! Did any fellow Aussies see "Austria..." and at first misread it as Australia?

I did... Doh!

Crap... BD3 on Linux via Stadia?

But still not enough to make me subscribe to a VPN service, and thanks again to the NBN for my sh!tty VDSL / NBN hybrid (mongrel bastard more like it) broadband connection - thanks Turnbull + Abbott (I'm paying for 50mpbs and lucky to get 28mpbs so no point subscribing to a 100 mbit plan).

Australia - a digital backwater...

DANG! Did any fellow Aussies see "Austria..." and at first misread it as Australia?

I did... Doh!

Crap... BD3 on Linux via Stadia?

But still not enough to make me subscribe to a VPN service, and thanks again to the NBN for my sh!tty VDSL / NBN hybrid (mongrel bastard more like it) broadband connection - thanks Turnbull + Abbott (I'm paying for 50mpbs and lucky to get 28mpbs so no point subscribing to a 100 mbit plan).

Australia - a digital backwater...

I get why the internet is expensive in Australia - a remote continent with sparse population. But it's also the third richest country in terms of overall natural resources. You'd think your government would heavily subsidize it to compenste and make high speed internet more accessible.


Last edited by mao_dze_dun on 8 Dec 2020 at 6:52 am UTC

In Hungary we have very good internet connection. eg. 1000 / 300 mbit is somewhere available for 9 EUR.
But not all parts of the country are not so lucky to have this deal.

In case you're curious about Stadia, here's a great deal on Borderlands 3:

https://old.reddit.com/r/GameDeals/comments/k8mynz/stadia_borderlands_3_ultimate_edition_1099_89/

By signing up for the Stadia Pro trial I was able to get BL3 Ultimate for ~$1 to keep.

I was also part of the Stadia beta ("Project S" at the tiem) so I know it works great for me (other than gobbling up my limited bandwidth) but YMMV.

That is a great deal! I've trying out Destiny 2 the last week or so and I've been quite impressed. Not impressed enough to start using Stadia regularly though. But spending $1 on Borderlands 3 was too good to pass up, so I bought it. Thanks for bringing that up!

I just tried "Orcs must die 3" and Sniper game... Not bad so far... List of the games could be bigger - like FIFA or some good RTS game.

The Steam hate is quite confirmed when the vocal AntiDRM users(very present on this website) are silent in Stadia posts. This is the ultimate DRM level, worst than Denuvo, worst than anything done before.
A service only thinks in first for people who have first world level internet and for some reason wants to add a layer of lag to their gaming experience(guess it does not matter for a single-player game).

I found it kinda amusing people are surprised that private ISP seems to not think about investing in rural areas, it is quite clear they work for profits, no to satisfy coverture areas that aren't that profitable, Stadia is the same, they don't want to get to every gamer in the world, just the riches ones who live in cities with 100MB connections or more.

LOL, GOG articles became somehow scarce, GOG must feel like Taiwan when China started to "donate" money, or Occidental Sahara with Morocco.

BTW some Google services on Chromium are broken, lets see if Stadia joins the broken roster, then Google not giving a damn about it.


Last edited by orochi_kyo on 8 Dec 2020 at 10:30 pm UTC

ohhhhhh cmon you need a credit card just for testing.
i am out google.... geforce now is much better and user friendly

I tested it today. Apparently it doesn't work on FreeBSD because Chromium does not provide hardware acceleration for the decoding in combination with the proprietary Nvidia software.

It doesn't require hardware accel though, most Chrome / Chromium installs on Linux do not have it with NVIDIA and it doesn't cause issues for me.

The Steam hate is quite confirmed when the vocal AntiDRM users(very present on this website) are silent in Stadia posts.

Maybe because some people have blocked the Stadia tag, or just act like a reasonable adult and don't comment and moan on posts about things they're clearly not interested in? More people should do that, and let others enjoy what they like. Hint hint.

ohhhhhh cmon you need a credit card just for testing.
i am out google.... geforce now is much better and user friendly

You shouldn't. Going to the home page, it shows me a clear link that can get you right into Super Bomberman R Online and it says "No Stadia Pro Membership or Credit Card Required".

ohhhhhh cmon you need a credit card just for testing.
i am out google.... geforce now is much better and user friendly

You shouldn't. Going to the home page, it shows me [a clear link](https://stadia.google.com/signin?continue_to=https%3A%2F%2Fstadia.google.com%2Fsetup%3Fredirect_to%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fstadia.google.com%252Fplayer%252F2847419bbb5146ed877a308d9884f504rcp1%253Ffallback_sku%253De57401bfbe4f4dd98fdfd05b0c75acb5) that can get you right into Super Bomberman R Online and it says "No Stadia Pro Membership or Credit Card Required".

thx