Quoting: drlamb

Quoting: TheRiddickAlso the whole concept of how it works is pretty bad, you pay full price for the game you can't take home, then you must pay to USE the service on top...

Your concept of how it works is misinformed. You do NOT have to pay to use Stadia, it's free. You CAN pay for a Pro subscription to unlock higher resolutions and "free" monthly games, but that's optional.

If I quit my Pro membership today I'd still be able to play Doom and RDR2 on Stadia free of charge, at 1080P resolution.

Unlock what higher resolutions? above 1080P?

"free games?" you mean those games you paid for beforehand, the pro unlocked games you don't get to play for free after the pro subscription is lost afaik.

Quoting: Liam DaweI picked up Division 2 for ~£8 and I can play it without the Stadia Pro, as drlamb said.

Again only while Stadia exists.
You didn't pick up anything, you paid a subscription free to access that game on the platform while it exists.
The only reason Steam can get away with this is
A) Its now very well established, they had huge public concerns over this initially btw!
B) Valve has already stated they will enable offline mode for all their games if the service dies, or remove drm. (Which you can do already btw!! tested, working!)

Stadia is failing because its a HUGE unknown, if they released public information about ALL peoples concerns and what they will do if something like loss of service occurs etc... people might be more willing to trust them (or not, depending on response).

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The point of my post is that people are not really caring much about Stadia or if it gets 5 new games. I may raise a eyebrow if they add 100 new games a month... but 5 is pretty crappy.

Also the whole concept of how it works is pretty bad, you pay full price for the game you can't take home, then you must pay to USE the service on top... WHY don't they just include a flat rate price per month and let people play everything much like how game services on consoles work that give you a big collection of stuff to play for free..

BUT its like talking to a brick wall...

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We need to build a list of developers and publishers who don't allow cloud gaming with your existing bought copies of games...

Blacklist them all.

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Nice, I wish I could get Virtual Desktop client on linux :(

At this point it time I might need to get into programming myself and make my own Linux Quest Oculus SteamVR streaming app... probably take me forever as I'm a bit of a dummy :(

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Linux isn't going anywhere.. damn well guess we need to get Proton further along, get DRM and multiplayer stuff working on it, get DXR and RTX... one day it will be a seamless transition, one day...

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It's so strange the voice chat bug never got fixed, or even figured out exactly what was going wrong. BIG head scratcher that one.

PS. I tested this game since early days and it DID work at one stage back in early proton days.

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It would be pretty funny if RTX was wrapped to AMD RT core stuff down the line (assuming RDNA2 cards that is).

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I wonder if RTX features can be mapped to Vulkan via proton someday, that would be VERY cool!

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I do wonder if AMD will be pimping some sort of DLSS tech with their RDNA2 release. I hope so.

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