https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-BbW6zAjL0
Let's get pessimistic together!
Making gaming more accessible and the mission statement of game streaming immediately clashes with one another.
The stream has already died and/or lost resolution multiple times. There could not possibly be a worse time for them to have issues. But so fitting nonetheless, because we all know this is gonna be a disaster.
I actively don't believe the infrastructure needed to make this work reliably is available on the scale they need to turn a profit. Google is gonna push it for a few years and it'll shut down. The question is whether or not it's exclusively a subscription service or it'll be pay per game which you would be a fucking fool to buy a game on a streaming service to "keep."
They're talking a big game (lel) but I'll believe it when I see it.
That's what makes this all the more delicious. I'm on a wired connection and the video stream is still having hitches from googles servers. There was just a major outage on the east coast of the US last sunday.
There's already enough problems playing fighting games on a console itself online and they expect to be able to deliver a serviceable online fighting game experience with the addition of an extra network jump using their streaming service? There's no fuckin way.
yo what the fuck this is actually legit stuff being shown, like things that should be appearing in e3 instead
Did Google's own speedtest
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/129/95b3d66b-50e1-4eb8-8fd8-98f172293f79/image.png
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/129/ac9aae19-44df-4d3c-b83b-b7cb895cb8c6/image.png
Amazing, truly groundbreaking.
Can I say right now, not a good look for their connection when my youtube player has 1080HD chosen.
It defaults to 360p due to connection issues.
CHROMECAST ULTRA DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A FUCKING ETHERNET PORT
That.. that's it? That's what Stadia offers? You don't even have the satisfaction of handling a disc and poppin' it into your console after coming back from the game shop and waiting to go back home while excited for your new game!
I do not understand the benefit of "Streaming". You need a good connection to be able to use it to its full potential, but then again there is no point because if you have a good connection then you have no problem with downloading your game in a short time. It's not instant, but it's quick and atleast you have it and you don't depend on the company for it to work. The only advantage I can see is being able to play in multiple screen.. but I feel like this feature is not going to be that used.. Sometimes, I feel like company exaggerates how useful a feature is.
Wait what, it's free?
I guess this could be pretty popular in places with good infrastructure, especially with people who otherwise only game on phones. The performance and quality of these games will be far ahead of what they are used to.
You pay them to own nothing and to play the game they allow you to play so long as they continue to keep the streaming license. And when they inevitably shut down the service in a few years you'll have nothing to show for it.
I had xbox game pass for a few months and unless you're pinballing between like ten or more so different games then it's not worth it. If you play a game for a couple weeks and then drop it for the next thing then you'll get your moneys worth but beyond that it's one of those things where it looks like a good deal on paper until you realize you're paying ten dollars a month to play three games when you could've just bought the games to own and not pay ten dollars a month.
That's not even getting into the nightmare that is playing your games via stream over googles network that can't handle their own announcement stream and had a major outage on the US east coast just last sunday. Better hope they reimburse you for the days that the network is inevitably down.
If we ignore the whole ownership, compression, latency and bandwidth conundrum for a sec there, not having to deal with installs and disk space and on the go can be captivating.
9.99/month for subscription and I have to assume the free version comes with some form of restriction. You still have to buy the games obviously, something the phone crowd isn't used to.
Haha what
Literally what's the fucking point
"I can afford the premium internet connection required for Stadia, and I can afford the subscription package for Stadia itself, and I can afford buying all the games individually, but I could never afford a console! Those ludicrously priced beasts."
Who the fuck is the target for this
It's a pretty basic internet connection in a lot of places.
I'll bet money that even in countries with well-regulated and highly efficient networking infrastructure, Stadia won't have the proper combination of quality, latency, and consistency to actually succeed in the market.
We'll see. Maybe we'll be suprised. Maybe not.
It's a Win/Win for me at least. If it works well and works like google says it should, they're breaking some boundaries and it'll be pretty awesome to play some games on my iPad or TV in the living room.
If it doesn't work I saved 10 bucks.
It does in The powerbrick.
Did anyone try their beta with AssCreed Odyssey? Gotta say, I've trier every streaming games service in the book (I'm playing Rage 2 on a Blade Shadow PC right now) and the experience was shockingly good, even on wifi. Now that's not to say that it will translate directly to Stadia, and the factor of a much larger userbase could fuck everything up but I'm holding out hope it could work.
I'm not shilling for anyone here, I just have a bias towards streaming services like this because I really like the core idea, even if the execution has never been perfect yet. I was an early adopter for OnLive and even though it was nearly unplayable and a lame service overall I still had hopes that someone with more money would take that baton eventually.
I'm wondering though if most people hate it because it's Google, or they just don't like the idea of streaming games in the first place?
http://puu.sh/DDB73/8558288543.png
Well thank fuck for that, damn, it was almost a shit show until I read this, at least I now know I can buy my games at 3 AM in the UK, or hell, whenever I want to because they told me I can.
I/we needed that clarification.
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