i know he said over 1 million and not 1 million, but that isnt impressive if we compare to any other console.

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Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: Purple Library GuyPeople didn't actually have to pay a monthly fee for Stadia; it's just Google's terrible marketing made it look like they did.

google or a bunch of influencers who lied?

All I know is what I read here, and back when it was significant news Liam regularly noted both (a) that the actual deal did not require subscription, and (b) that figuring this out from anything Google were saying was nigh impossible. He opined repeatedly both that the service itself worked pretty well and was, all concerns about the fundamental nature of streaming game services aside, a decent offer, and that in his opinion Google were doing a perfectly pathetic job of selling it. Not just the bad messaging on subscription, but terrible ads and all kinds of stuff. I'm prepared to take his word.

really? i dont think it was that confusing.
instead of paying 400 dollars upfront for an ps4, and 400 dollars again for an ps4 pro, you pay just for the game, and a montly subscription if you want to play in 4k.
with 10 dollars per month, it would take 40 months to reach the price of an ps4, 3 years and 4 mounths is almost the entire generation.
and while you do that you get exclusive discounts and some games as part of the deal.
dont seems like a bad deal for me, unless they rise the price or shutdown the service and you lose your games without a refund, that is the part that google should make more clear.

google didnt fail to comunicate that as fair as i remember, but a lot of youtubers miss interpret and repeated what they understood.

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i have mixed feelings here.
i didnt wanted cloug gaming to be a thing, but seeing the only linux solution being the first to sink still gives it a bad taste...
i kinda wished it was an success because it could help us but at the same time, now that we have the deck we dont need it anymore, and google dominating the market with android didnt helped the linux desktop much if any, so who could gurantee they would ever contribute back?
on the other hand, its one less big player relying on vulkan and helping fund it i guess.
or maybe not:

i think one of the reasons google invested on stadia was to make chromebooks viable for gaming, now that gfn, xcloud, luna and steam supports chromebooks, they dont need it anymore, so it was an win win situation for then, either they got support from thirdies or they got an monopoly on chromebooks, the same can be said about the deck, either other stores support linux nativelly or most purchases will be done on steam (steam is already the most used store on pc, but their dominance will be even higher on steamOS devices)

well thats awkward, cloud gaming seemed like an nescessary evil to make linux mainstream but at the same time an price to high to swallow, but now cloud will become even more closed.
well amazon seem to be "dualbooting" or something, and maybe others will adopt stadia tech via whitelabeling, and maybe it will even become the defactuo standard for the cloud especially considering that companies will know that their OS/tech provider cant compete with then, after the stadia fiasco no one (consummers) would trust google again, so if others want to licence this tech for their own cloud solutions they will not think twice.

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Quoting: elmapulso what happens to exclusives like guilty?

You mean Gylt, right? I guess it's better to complete it while it still works, just in case.
I played it during a free week but didn't manage to finish.
I wonder if they will refund purchases made between today and the shutdown date.

[edit] ok, so the store is now closed. Quite obvious really, as people would 100% exploit it if the above was the case.

er... nope, not avaliable on my country

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyPeople didn't actually have to pay a monthly fee for Stadia; it's just Google's terrible marketing made it look like they did.

google or a bunch of influencers who lied?

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Quoting: RandomizedKirbyTree47For example, exhibit A:

that is why i love discussion forums and comment sections, we always see comments like this.

that is funny and clever, but who talk like this IRL? IRL people are boring most of the time.

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Quoting: LoftyWith Google stadia they wanted to become private landlord barons of gaming. Rent your games forever and own nothing, kick you out and lose everything when you cant afford the admission fee or have opinions they don't like.

the rent games forever issue can be solved with piracy, so long the games arent exclusives to cloud, honestly, the censorship point of view scares me more.
i mean, a lot of people would self censor in order to not lose an account, even if they could just pirate instead.

Quoting: LoftyGlad it's finally gone. And if the financially successful Steam Deck is proving anything, it's that people actually like to OWN PHYSICAL THINGS they can touch.

not really, this just prove this market dont have space for many players, unless luna and xcloud die, then it will prove people want ownership.

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Quoting: ertuquequeI'm actually happy Stadia is dead... The whole concept of streaming games is inherently discriminatory to the majority of the world, which doesn't have good Internet connection. At least 2 entire continents are out of this business because of this.

so? the most well sold video game console, sold 157 millions of units, in a world with
6~7 billion, i would say, most people didnt had access to one either, and not all of then due to the lack of interest.
no platform was ever universal, that is not an excuse to not give an option.
maybe in a few regions consoles are too expensive, but streaming isnt or the other way arround.

Quoting: ertuquequeAlso, the idea of paying for a videogame that after some time is not going to be available... nope, not for me. That's another reason why I don't like Netflix and all these streaming services. I want to HAVE what I pay for, locally.

that i have to agree with, but i dont see how having less options would be a good thing.
the solution here should be google giving an fallback option.
make an client to downlod the games you own on pc/mac/linux in case you want to play offline, or give away steam keys, hell even they said that the most played game ever was their dinossaur chrome game, i guesses that was an hint they were planing something for offline consumers...

now that we have less options, its more likely that the ones we have may move to a cloud only future.
to be fair, the fact that the cloud only service died might send then the message.

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i remember that i used filezila ~10 years ago to upload files to my friend webpage, it was an ddl anime fansite.
amazing to see its still alive and receiving updates, long time i dont touch it.

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so what happens to exclusives like guilty?

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