who could have expected that... #sarcasm
at least they provide the refunds...
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This is so surprising. Here is my surprised face :|
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Wow, who would've guessed that they don't want to burn money anymore on a service that died on launch!
psst... bring back Google+!
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I will get my refund on Cyberpunk+StadiaController+Chromecast 4K and still have the controller and chromecast... Also the money to get Cyberpunk cheaper, it's a win win... I only got it for the chromecast and controller anyway.
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Yeah, I now kind of regret not getting the controller 😂
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I was almost starting to believe G was serious with Stadia.
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Sux to hear that your stadia is going away. At least you get your money back.
You ever tried Geforce Now? As for me i love it and it works great [for me at least] [3080 tier<]
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Shame. The tech was good but their business model always was destined to fail.
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i know claiming that you don't need to fork out for expensive hardware then charge you full price for games and a sub to play them
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It was the usual Google hubris. They thought they'd do something somebody else did before but you know... for the casual gamers, because they are Google's people. And make them pay through the nose for it.
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for the casual gamers
But that's the part that baffles me the most in all of this debacle.
Who was this for? Who is this large base of people who want to play high-spec games but also don't want to buy a console or a PC? Everybody who wants to play high-fidelity games is already doing so, gaming is insanely accessible now. And then the people who care about a streaming experience providing great graphics and visuals on cheap hardware probably can't get over the latency that is inherent with game streaming
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Who is this large base of people who want to play high-spec games but also don't want to buy a console or a PC?
It doesn't exist. That's what Google found out the hard way with Stadia. And Netflix is about to find out the hard way too.
They are all hoping to find an untapped market, like Nintendo did with the Wii. But it's a mirage.
And then the people who care about a streaming experience providing great graphics and visuals on cheap hardware probably can't get over the latency that is inherent with game streaming
I must say I haven't experienced significant latency using Stadia or Geforce Now at home, back when my laptop got bricked and I had to wait several months before buying a new one. I wasn't playing competitive MP FPS games for sure but even AC Valhalla ran smoothly and my laptop itself couldn't have run even Far Cry 5 smoothly on low settings.
I definitely wouldn't have considered it a permanent solution though. As a quick temporary fix, it worked as intended. But I don't see a future where people are going to pay for subs and bandwidth so they don't have to pay for hardware...
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I was quite interested in the 22,22€ deal of a controller and Chromecast they were offering before, but sadly it wasn't available in my region... now I'm even sadder, because I would have it for free...
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Well, I would still have perfectly working google chromecast for less than half the price for which it is available here now... (and now it would also be actually for free)
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Good riddance. "Cloud gaming" needs to die. Even more so when Google runs it.
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^^^^ internet here is shit....
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Nvidia Geforce will keep going. It's a publicity platform and it works damn well.
Also very useful for people with potato computers.
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It gives horrible habits to people though. The habit of not having control over the hardware that runs your stuff.
As if their "GeForce Experience" horror wasn't bad enough, giving people the habit of accepting mandatory telemetry for GPU drivers in order to be able to use offline features such as custom color profiles.
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Heh when I saw that in my notifications, I was in stitches. Seriously, Nvidia, you need to get better at the data siphoning game.
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I've tried it at some point before my PC upgrade, but didn't like the fact that I wasn't actually having access to my own games and I was picking from a collection of them. GeForce Now does a better job at it, but it's not perfect. If only they provided a similar product it might have standed a chance. In the end, despite the jokes, sarcasm and stuff said around here, I feel sorry for the people who believed and worked hard on this project. It's a shame and hopefully Google or whichever company reconsiders their strategy and creates a better product/service in the future.
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I feel sorry for the people who believed and worked hard on this project.
They work for Google, they've got to be used to it by now.
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I doubt that everybody there likes when their hard work goes to waste. I don't care if it's Google, Meta or Apple. Some people really value their work and time. I doubt they shrug it off and say: "On to the next!", as we very easily can.
When you put work into something, even as shitty as it may be, you value somewhat your time and you just don't disregard it like it was nothing. And I don't necessarily mean the regular workers that maybe don't get to see the big picture, but rather the leading team that planned, organized and executed on the idea with the help of the rest of the team.
Do you think that's a wrong thing to think?
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Do you think that's a wrong thing to think?
Not at all. My point was only that I'm pretty sure anyone tackling anything at Google by now probably knows what they're in for. Google is flipping through whatever projects can make them look good with their shareholders and investors and once the publicity is reaped, they move on.
I have friends who work for companies like that. They still pour themselves into projects, I'm not going to say they don't, but they already know their commitment is wasted on their bosses.
It's a shame but that's how most big companies work now. Look at movies. They don't even care if the movie tanks. All they care about is that they get buzz from the moment they announce it to the moment the movie tanks. They don't care one bit for anyone's hard work. Publicity and shareholders are what matters.
Google almost invented that game. So yeah I feel bad for them. I am still pretty sure they expected it as much as everyone else did.
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I understand that once you're into a business like Google or other big companies, you may have to set your expectations to fail at some point as not everything will click with people.
I guess I was just sympathizing with the people who might have cared for the project to work. Oh well... life goes on. I've not lost anything from them although maybe some people did. I really doubt there was a cult following Stadia like it was their bread and butter. Although there's still a chance.
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I totally understand your point. I think right now they must be happy they work for a giant tech company and not for Facebook, sorry, "Meta" and that they are not losing their job even though their project is canceled, but it cannot be fun to see your hard work evaporate on the whims of the higher ups who care only for publicity and the bottom line.
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Totally. I doubt it's bad working for Google or Meta. I've not heard people being abused or mistreated there, or am I mistaking?
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Well apparently Meta is in a "downward spiral" (meaning they are not making as much money as their analysts projected but apparently that's like losing money now or something) so they are about to start "cutting human resources costs" (meaning they are firing people because their shareholders are not making as much as they told them they would)
I don't know about Google. I knew a guy who worked for them for 6 months and he said it felt like joining a cult, which wasn't his bag so he moved on but he said people seemed to be happy there
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Well apparently Meta is in a "downward spiral" (meaning they are not making as much money as their analysts projected but apparently that's like losing money now or something) so they are about to start "cutting human resources costs" (meaning they are firing people because their shareholders are not making as much as they told them they would)
Although this is sad to hear, it's expected. Meta is no longer how it used to be.
I don't know about Google. I knew a guy who worked for them for 6 months and he said it felt like joining a cult, which wasn't his bag so he moved on but he said people seemed to be happy there
That's a weird transition. 🤣
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Their attempt became half-hearted while it was still in beta (and without the youtube integration, it still is). all they've done is give competitors ideas to run with while they burned money and killed off their first party studios. they probably put more money into the severance packages of Shannon Studstill Phil Harrison and Jade Raymond than they actually put into making games.
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Well, when Ubisoft hitched their wagon to Stadia, I could tell it was the end. I wasn't expecting it so soon.
Can't wait to get my refund for Trivial Pursuit Live, which I bought on purpose to play with my non-gaming friends on vacation... and were completely unable to play while on vacation because Stadia kept disconnecting, blaming the "quality of the internet connection", which worked perfectly for everything else.
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Wish I could say that they at least tried but I'm not so sure if they actually did, service never even got a proper worldwide release so I never got to try it.
On the other hand GeForce Now is mostly doing what people hoped Stadia would do and I've also heard good things about the GamePass from MS.
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The Stadia controller is the one I use on PC (wired). I wish now that they release a firmware that makes the controller Bluetooth compatible with the PC.
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Wish the gaming community wasn't so pessimistic about Stadia from the get-go. Happy to have been a founder, as it worked great from day one. It just didn't have the backing from Google much past the early days and without that, and while that continued to be the case, it was sadly doomed. It was awesome tech though.
Happy about the refunds though.
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Lol, they begged me to try it multiple times. Glad I refused.
Nothing beats the ability to play games when you want to, where you want to, and how you want to
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(Google?)I hear you talking, but I don't see you.
It is as if we were waiting for the day when we would hear the legend of the Golden Hills and go out every time, and then we got a call that the Golden Hills had been converted into money and was gone.
(This is how you would feel if you had waited a long time for a service that was supposed to start in the future.)
The earth has become a little boring again.
I hate money problems.
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https://blog.google/products/stadia/message-on-stadia-streaming-strategy/
FAQ: https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/12790109
Google is killing Stadia as they usually do with most of their things.
Thankfully there should be refunds on games and even hardware?!?
So, I might get money for junk I never ended up using...
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