Sorry don't believe a word you say.
For starters its NOT new technology, companies have been doing this for years and even offered much better deals, then you have Geforce Now, the console streaming game apps. AND MANY OTHERS.

Also I SERIOUSLY don't trust google for so many well proven reasons I can't get into on here.

But ultimately IMO their service doesn't offer enough value to customers.
We will see how things go but I don't understand why PAYING for a copy of a game FOR GOOGLE TO USE somehow means you can't take that hard copy of the game home with you or download it in a way like Steam does and play on your physical computer in offline mode if need be.

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Need Virtual Desktop or ALVR for Linux.. Until that happens its going to be rough going as more headsets go the standalone route with tether or wireless options.

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Quoting: t3gAlright then. I still don't know why you are white knighting for Google.

Pretty sure he/she works for Google Stadia somehow. I mean look at the icon tag, lol

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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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