Quoting: GuestFeral can't port any game they might want, they have to make a contract with publisher first. I think it's more likely that publishers that previously have worked with Feral or Aspyr are losing interest in Linux support.

It's probably a mixture of both. Feral and Publishers not so interested.

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Quoting: GuestHow is that not their own fault?

The point is if the developer does not provide DRM-free builds or Linux builds, they can't force them to.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPIt should be such a small step from Stadia to generic Linux release, shouldn't it?

Well, no. Same as always: low Linux market share, that then requires direct support across different HW and SW.

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Quoting: LinasDo we have any details on how they make these Windows-only DirectX 12 games work on Stadia? I mean, is it actually running on Linux? [Conspiracy theory intensifies]

Stadia is Linux, Debian Linux, just running in the cloud. Games need to run on Linux + Vulkan to work on Stadia. Games are ported to Stadia, just like they are for any other platform.

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Quoting: liberodarksame as bashtop :(

Do people just not bother reading the article any more or what?

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Quoting: ShmerlFirst of all, they profit off Linux in it. It's proper to give Linux gaming something back, and I don't find it not fitting to criticize them for not doing more.

Nothing to do with proper or not, you don't have to give back to open source if you use it. That's not what it's all about. It's about freedom, and it's borderline zealotry to claim any company using FOSS in their stack has to "give back" or has to keep doing more and fit into some special philosophy just because they use it.

That said, Google do give back plenty to the FOSS world anyway. Some of what's used for Stadia is open source here [External Link], and as pointed out in a previous article they also have:

• Open Match [External Link] (Apache license) - "an open source game matchmaking framework that simplifies building a scalable and extensible Matchmaker". This is something Google co-founded with Unity.
• Agones [External Link] (Apache license) - "a library for hosting, running and scaling dedicated game servers on Kubernetes". This was co-founded with Ubisoft.

And you might want to look at this big website [External Link] dedicated to Google and open source. There's a lot more that people probably aren't even aware of.

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Quoting: ShmerlSure, it can be useful. But I mean with all the money they put in it, they could give more back to actual Linux gaming. But they didn't want to.

You answer your own question with the below:

Quoting: ShmerlCollaboration is a weak point in the gaming industry

Same for a lot of industries, outside of FOSS in the software world, it's a very "all about us" attitude. It's the same as any other platform for gaming be GOG, Steam, Epic, consoles and so on. They want people to come to them. It's business, plain and simple.

To be blunt, they don't need to "give back" anything. They're providing a service.

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Quoting: ShmerlGoogle as usual is the best friend and the worst enemy of Linux [gaming] as Aaron Seigo put it about Android. Google could have done a lot more to advance actual desktop Linux releases through the Stadia effort, but they did nothing.

Depends on your point of view. This does open up more gaming on Linux, if your country is supported and your net is reasonable. I've had a great lot of fun with it.

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Quoting: NanobangThis is a fake antique. This is the equivalent of one of those phones that look like a rotary phone, but have buttons instead of holes in a dial, and have modern electronics inside.

Doesn't mean it's not cool and that people won't buy it though. Personally, I genuinely like the style of a lot of older things but I like how far things have come. Merging old styles with the new is a good thing for some. A lot of "modern" styling is junk.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPWhich, to be fair, is the only thing they can say and I don't even doubt they really mean it.
It's just not their decision when the higher-ups decide that the time is over.

Yup, pretty much. It's the expected thing to say but some people need to hear it, and no matter what even if it goes on for 10 years, there will always be people who bring up the Google Graveyard. Google just have to show with action, not words. So far though, they've gradually built it up quite nicely.

They just need to improve the web store (still no search bar wtf). They did finally, again, update the actual Stadia home page though, and it's quite a bit more clear with an FAQ and all now.

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