Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid is a game I would like to get into. Hopefully Zombie Army 4 goes on sale or something.

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Quoting: NarcotixI am reading this so often lately. But did you already look up how many games on Steam you DO own?
There's quite a huge list of DRM-free games on Steam. https://steam.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games
Also quite some big titles on this list.
The worrying part about the perception getting spreaded about Steam game ownership is, that people might think that they don't lose anything with cloud gaming, since they already don't own any games anymore (which isn't true as you can see - especially with GoG ofc). But there actually is a loss of ownership when comparing cloud gaming to Steam.
If you might be fine with not owning games is another topic and not the one I intend to discuss in this post.

You make a great point and as a long time DRM-FREE gamer that recently got into Steam and now Stadia, I have to say that keeping my library of games working throughout the years has been a chore that I would like to avoid going forward. As a working father/grandfather with kids spread out across the US, Steam and now Stadia have made it very easy for me to connect and play with my loved ones that are not in my own home.

We still rock a good amount of DRM-FREE titles from GOG, direct from devs, freeware, itch.io, Desura (defunct), Humble Bundle and more but as time has moved forward and devs have abandoned those games and modding communities around those games shrinking or becoming vapor I've had to change my gaming diet to better stay connected with those that I love. Out of the 32 games I own on Steam 3 are not DRM-FREE. None of them work for online MP without Steam unless I use Parsec (which requires a Windows Host).

I don't see many from this generation going all in Cloud gaming and I'm still going to be getting my first first from GOG then Steam and then Stadia or bust...but I can see ppl walking away from all the other ways of gaming over time if the ease of use is not better advocated for. Shoutout to Puppy Games who does DRM-FREE the right way. Everything you need is self-contained and ready to roll.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Ahh with constant updates for sure but since my library is pretty made up exclusively of single player games I have finished them all except the ones i have no intension of playing like around 120 of my steam games were either free or thought they sounded good at the time. I wish there was a gift option for redeemed keys whether they went to new owners for free or if they sold heavily discounted by valve.

GreenManGaming had a system at one point where you could sell games back. I liked that one a lot.

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Quoting: SuperTuxIf Google decided to cancel Stadia things could get interesting, although we should not forget that it's the developers, not Stadia, who are ultimately responsible for their games, so it's not unreasonable to assume most will issue keys to other platforms, such as Steam if the event ever arises.

This is what happened when Desura went down. I did not get into Steam to really late but all of they keys I got from Desura worked when I passed them to friends. I kept playing the DRM-FREE binaries til the games were ended or if they have endless local kept them on my machines to play with my family.

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Picked up Blazing Chrome. Had enough time to install it and see that it works. Can't wait to play it Saturday morning with my wife as we finish up our last bout of VS in SoR4.

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Quoting: GeoGalvanicI was going to try to play the ranked mode in PUBG but it seems it's only for controllers. A bit disappointing since I can't even seem to get my steam controller to work with Stadia.

I don't play PUBG much but I tried a few times and I did it all via of KB + M.

Here are the controllers that I have working with Stadia:

* Steam Controller
* Logitech F310 (Wired)
* Hori RAP 4 KAI (Wired)
* MadCatz Fightpad (Wired)

I'm using Google Chrome Web Browser on Ubuntu Mate 18.04.

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Despite my hesitance Stadia has been great for my circle of friends. So far 5/14 of us are staying with Pro and 3/14 are enjoying MK11. Zombie Army 4: Dead War is just an awesome game to play with friends. Will check out Skyrim but it's been almost 20 years since I played an RPG let alone an MMORPG.

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Quoting: Duke TakeshiI just tested it just for fun and wow what a bad experience that was. I have a 200 Mbit/s connection and at the time no one except me was using the internet, so I had the full bandwidth at my disposal. I play games in 1080p and for me that's enough, but the game (PUBG) was still blurry very often, although when checking the stadia menu, it said that I have an excellent connection. I must say the video quality really disappointed me.

Also the whole thing is still pretty raw. For example, I simply wasn't able to quit PUBG. There was this menu where you could choose resume, settings etc. but there simply was no entry for "quit" so I ended up alt-tabbing out of chromium to quit it manually.
Then, once you've chosen one pro game to play, your stadia home screen is a wallpaper-sized picture of that game with a play button on it. No "pro library" to choose one of the other pro games. If you want to do that, you must go to the store and find the game in an alphabetically sorted list (as far as I've seen, there is not even a search function for the store).

I had considered stadia to become a PC alternative for me, since the monthly price is less than half of what would accumulate to get a new PC and upgrade it every now and then. But good thing I tried it first. For me the only reason to subscribe to pro for a Linux gamer would be if you're desperate to play games that are unplayable on Linux due to anticheat (and pay a hefty 120 bucks a year for that).

Otherwise I suggest you spend the money on something that's actually worth it. Like supporting GOL :)

As long as it's free though, it doesn't hurt to try I guess.

With the exception of MK11, I quit all of the games via of F11. There is also the Shift+Tab system similar to Steam.

I'm using a Free ISP in NYC that has the same speed and so far outside of 2 instances of lag when playing Zombie Army 4 during the final boss, it's been smooth sailing. I don't think anyone from my crew (all linux users) will be staying with Pro but they all have already bought some game from Stadia.

I'll be staying for MK11 as of right now it's unplayable for Steam. I got a free steam key for it but I won't activate til protondb reports get better.

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Quoting: randylI didn't install any extensions. The Stadia page didn't reference any extension. So I would need to install a third party browser extension to make it work well and look good? While I really appreciate the suggestion to help make the experience good, it is ridiculous to me that I would need such an extension yet and another reason for me to not pay Google $10/mo.

I don't know your setup but the game looks great prior to the ext install. The ext just adds some quality of life stuff and if you're having issues on your setup you can force to play in a format that is better.

I see it the same way I see Steam, which I'm new to also, I have to use 3rd party sites to get it to do exactly what I want it to do: ProtonDB for proper listings, SteamDB for accurate numbers of online players and SteamWiki for a list of DRM-FREE Steam games. Even with GOG I have to use MaGOG to see EXACTLY the types of games I wish to purchase.

I hear you on the pricing though and such.

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Quoting: randyl

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Quoting: randyl

Destiny 2 is always running at 1080P and is a bad example of the visual quality Stadia is capable of. 60FPS was definitely the priority there as it runs at ~medium settings.

Except it doesn't look like 1080p. It barely looks like 720. The native 1080p experience and PS4 Pro looks better than it does through Stadia. The performance is good. The appearance isn't that good to me, but isn't a deal breaker. The problems with mouse and keyboard input knocking me out of the game and back to the browser might be a big deal though.

I don't like the game per se but the game looked great and had zero lag input via of KB and Mouse for me. Did you try it with the Stadia+ ext by Mafrans?

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