It's going to suck more then the Epic Storefront when, not if, we finally start seeing exclusives there. First some of them will be timed exclusives, then (like EGS...) you'll have outright exclusives. Despite the corrupt backbone, I can still say you own the games you purchase (or obtain, free slime rancher!) are still yours - should Epic for some reason scrap their fucking gambit entirely then I can still play my backup of Slime Rancher. This? No.
Well, I hope Google will realize that they aren't really competing directly with PC.
I think this thing is going to be DOA, we just don't have the necessary infrastructure to support gaming like this yet.
You don't.
Streaming exclusive games would be a publishers dream, basically no piracy, next to no cheating but a customers nightmare, no modding, no fixing of bugs or modding, complete lack of ownership as you don't even have the files, no offline play, no way to adjust for special needs controllers and the list goes on.
(Ok not sure if it would be a dream now due to the massive amounts of lost sales.)
I wouldn't care if its some optional extra, but the day there are some regular PC games as exclusives on this will be a dark day for PC gaming.
I've never wanted something in this industry to fail this hard.
Stadia is going to fail, just as any other cloud-based gaming service has in the past. There just isn't enough demand for a service like this.
tell that to countries like Australia whose internet is perpetually stuck a decade in the past. if Stadia ends up launching over here i guarantee you that anyone who is interested in using it (how?) will not be able to use it to any degree close to what Google's saying its capable of.
i hate what Epic's doing with the EGS, but at the very least you own the games you buy there. they may bribe as many developers as they can, but you still get to, y'know, possess the things you're exchanging money for. Stadia is, to me, a solution to a problem that doesn't exist enough yet for it to be viable. it requires so many things to work well together - internet speed, server traffic, server distance and latency, the controller itself because it, too, is powered by wi-fi for some reason - that there's no real way for it to function well enough for most people to want to pay for it without them also having fibre internet or living next to a Google server.
plus there's the fact that, from a publisher's standpoint, Stadia is a dream come true. you don't download the game, so no piracy; (almost) no cheating, again, because you don't download the game; no modding; no offline play, the list could continue on for ages. publishers are already eating up what Epic's doing but once they get their hands on Stadia exclusivity, you can say goodbye to at least one potential favourite game you might see someday, because there will be at least one on Stadia from a publisher you like at some point. it's happened to me with the EGS and i fully expect it with Stadia too now.
i really hope Stadia goes the way of every niche Google product and it dies a slow death over the next few years. its what it deserves.
Life as a Service. Anything you want to do will now require a monthly payment. You will own nothing! How great is that!
I didn’t even have good enough internet to use the trial version
Planned obsolescence for everything that I love near and dear to my heart?
Count me excited!
Don't mind them. I'm pretty sure there's a law in Brazil that says you have to post a variation of "Please come to Brazil" once a month.
Game streaming becoming mainstream would be the final step in the terrible transformation of gaming into a "service", granting publishers complete end-to-end control and stripping away all consumer agency, most importantly modding.
I really hope software companies don’t take any notes from this.
AFAIK Brazil has a huge tariff on games consoles made outside of the country.
Streaming only service is a publisher's wet dream: they have absolute control over the content and can easily dictate what consumers can do with their paid-for content. This is the third time I've seen someone attempt games-as-a-service, but unlike the previous attempts, I think Google has the infrastructure to do it.
How much you wanna bet there'll be connection issues with the stream?
What is to say it isn't prerecorded
This will go the same way that Google+ did imo
It's not a good thing for gaming overall if this kind of service really takes off, but the ignorance in this thread from people with poor connections presuming there's not a huge amount of casual gamers who have a solid internet connection is astounding
You need more than just “solid connection” though
And even if you do have a “solid connection” you still need to consider data caps that are for some reason still a thing in 2020 in america
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