GigaBowser
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Quite the spin from my personal beer holderQuite the Nostradamus there. We all thought it would be a massive success.
Stadia has been on the market for over 1000 days and I started the the thread 1 day before it closed down.

Quite the spin from my personal beer holderQuite the Nostradamus there. We all thought it would be a massive success.
Great now everyone will jump to luna...
Nothing of value for gamers has been lost
Not true at all.And nothing of value was lost
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Ah didn't see that.
which could/would have been if xbox and sony didn't start acquiring studios/publishers the last couple years.![]()
Phil Spencer: "We see Amazon and Google as the main competitors"
As Microsoft continues its shift into game streaming and digital-only, Xbox boss Phil Spencer says PlayStation and Nint…www.gamesindustry.biz
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We all talked about that before, how streaming isn't good, how when the service eventually goes out youmlose everything, because nothing was ever yours to begin with, and yet, there were still people saying this was the future of gaming and the second coming of christ.Not true at all.
Stadia customers will not get a refund for any games they bought. So not only do they lose the money they paid for the games, they can't even play the games anymore.
If anything, this whole experience will be a scathing indictment on streaming services selling full-priced games. As a business model, that is now stone-cold dead. Customers will not be fooled after this debacle.
This is literally the opposite of what Google promises in their press release. All hardware purchases made directly through the Google store will be refunded. All game and DLC purchases (since Stadia launched) will be refunded. It seems the only thing they're not refunding is Stadia Pro membership fees.Stadia customers will not get a refund for any games they bought. So not only do they lose the money they paid for the games, they can't even play the games anymore.
I always pay my debts.
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We all talked about that before, how streaming isn't good, how when the service eventually goes out youmlose everything, because nothing was ever yours to begin with, and yet, there were still people saying this was the future of gaming and the second coming of christ.
Sucks that they lost their money, but i hope this does become a cautionary tale for gamers and publishers.
This is literally the opposite of what Google promises in their press release. All hardware purchases made directly through the Google store will be refunded. All game and DLC purchases (since Stadia launched) will be refunded. It seems the only thing they're not refunding is Stadia Pro membership fees.
GFN/Luna lite (via Prime) would be great but Luna is not in europe yet.The toasted Stadia logo is a nice touch.
You switching it out for Luna next?
As a final nail in the coffin, I'd love to see someone pursue a class action against Google for this practice.
I think litigating the practice of selling full-priced games on a service, where the sold games evaporate when the servers are switched off, would be very interesting to follow.
I'd love to see how the courts might address a situation like that and if the practice of selling service content as products can be defensible legally.
That's like saying book shops should have been better competition with Amazon. Google is a billion dollar company, that was attempting to compete with Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo. They released a platform where you have to pay a monthly subscription fee AND pay for any games you want to own on top of that.Easy to rip that comment with hindsight but, Google Should have been better competition. It's not Phill's fault that Google messed it up out of the gate.
He's changed his avatar into a turdSo if I understand correctly they will refund all money spent on games? That'd be the right thing to do.
Fat Frog on suicide watch. Please remember there are reasons to live such as XCloud, GFN and PSNow.
Nah, now they pretend that Nintendo and Sony are the true competitors again so that they are 3rd.Yep, Onlive is dead, PS Now is dead, Stadia is dead but Google and Amazon are the real competitors in the gaming industry, not Playstation or Nintendo
Some people still repeat that horseshit in acquisitions threads![]()
ill slap the first who complains. they better cry quietly because we warned them.Stadia customers will not get a refund for any games they bought. So not only do they lose the money they paid for the games, they can't even play the games anymore.
The sad thing will be the job losses.https://blog.google/products/stadia/message-on-stadia-streaming-strategy/
well it is official now, I swear they said only a week or two ago, they were not shutting the service down.
I'm sure there is one or two members here who might be disheartened.
It may even had some advantages over ps5/XSX with it having more available ram.
no sympathy for anyone who actually paid for this. This was heavily criticized before it was even launched for its terrible business model that provides no value to the customer. It's essentially paying a subscription for the privilege of paying full price to rent games.Yep... all seven of em!...
Not true at all.
Stadia customers will not get a refund for any games they bought. So not only do they lose the money they paid for the games, they can't even play the games anymore.
If anything, this whole experience will be a scathing indictment on streaming services selling full-priced games. As a business model, that is now stone-cold dead. Customers will not be fooled after this debacle.
Stadia should have considered a streaming game rental service business model, where gamers pay a small sum to rent a game for 3-5 days, or a 30-day rolling subscription for the big MP games. That may have generated more revenue for them overall even will a small userbase.
The toasted Stadia logo is a nice touch.
You switching it out for Luna next?
XSX has 13.5gb and ps5 probably the same available for games.16GB is more than 16GB?
XSX has 13.5gb and ps5 probably the same available for games.
XSX has 13.5gb and ps5 probably the same available for games.
We don't know, though it being on servers it could be different.Do you think Stadia uses 0KB for things like running its OS etc? Like the slide says, it has 16GB total memory, just like the consoles.
which could/would have been if xbox and sony didn't start acquiring studios/publishers the last couple years.
He's changed his avatar into a turd![]()
We don't know, though it being on servers it could be different.
Who knows, it's dead anyway now so it won't be having any advantages.I'm pretty sure it doesn't just run the game straight on the hardware with zero OS overhead.
And does it have any kind of system UI you can access? I've never used it, but that would use up some more memory if so.
But sure, games might have access to a bit more memory than on the consoles. Just not the full 16GB.
Toasted?
That's steaming poo my friend.
Did they even try to get any exclusive games on there?