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No it died because its a streaming service where you still had to pay for individual games
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And like with most digital purchases, there's no guarantee of ownership in perpetuity.
They can yank your purchase any time they want if there's an issue with licensing or something else.
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If g*mers cared about that then Steam wouldn't exist.
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Steam handles it much differently though. If a game gets yanked from the store, its still in your collection and you can still play it, just nobody can buy it from steam anymore.
In fact its hard to lose your games and it was only like a few years ago did valve ever implement a refund feature.
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Yeah except I bought Hentai Nazi and can no longer download it on steam, fricking nazi's banned it because the goal was to kill nazis
Look at those positive reviews
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Funny how shitty degenerate and neurodivergent games frequently get "overwhelmingly postive", it does though supply an answer as to why more men are becoming sexless incels.
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Tbh meme games tend to get positive reviews just because "haha look I gave a funny or ironically serious review to the gay furry dating sim, am I not quirky"
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Yes and it's annoying. Meme reviews for genuinely shitty games make me seethe.
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At least with steam to have the files on disk, at worst you need to down a 50mb crack to play again
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You can uninstall and reinstall games that are removed all you want
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Why not both?
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Stadia died because it was unplayable if you didn't live directly next to the servers, it cost more than just buying the games, and because you needed to buy expensive hardware anyways so why not get a real console.
It might've maybe worked if it was 1/4 the price and in south Korea.
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I mean as long as your latency was okay it worked pretty well according to a friend who used it. XCloud is pretty decent too.
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Everyone here pretty much listed the obvious shit, but not trusting google is ultimately the root cause and its only reinforced now after the rug pulling google just did. Google's trust level is so low that it's going to be impossible for Google to build any sort of environment or ecosystem for developers to sink time and money into unless Google just straight up bribes em.
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Google repeatedly tries to branch out and then shutters these projects. Maybe that's the best move. They're already focusing on being a search engine, email provider, video platform, laptop/cell phone/OS producer, and seller space for ads, but can they really sit on that and not diversify?
They're only a multi billion dollar company that has been successful for over a decade, but maybe shutting down Stadia is definitely a sign of their impending doom.
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It's more so they also keep shutting down stuff people like and fricking up stuff that works and makes money. Google as a search engine is getting more unusable by the year.
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Yeah but they added an inclusivity checked to Google docs and turned hangouts into 4 different apps.
That's called progress
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Google is a surveileince marketing industry data advertiser, broker and router. Everything else is shmaltz.
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Ur brain needs surveileince haha
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They are trying to diversify their revenue streams to not be dependent on only ads
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Even Android is a massive shit show.
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Especially Android.
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Developers take the L on Google’s platforms in general because the people with money are using Apple products.
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didn't stadia die not because google is untrusted but because google did the thing that is why people don't trust it, i.e. killed it?
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!sd marsey pooping on a Google coder
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With any project like this, the hardest part is to convince the customers that it will still exist in 5 years. The reaction I saw from everyone before it launched is that this is a bad idea and it's going to be shut down, and even if it turns out not to be a bad idea everyone thinks it is so it will be shut down soon.
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That I am trapped in this particular irrelevancy is never more apparent to me than when I am banned from meta posts. Paralyzed by the neurotic lassitude engendered by meeting one's old meta posts at every turn, around every page refresh, inside my browser history, I go aimlessly from thread to thread. I decide to meet it head-on and sort by Old, and I view the contents on the page. A carp poll about Vampires and Furries. A Masterlawlz post, a photo of an butthole. My own posts begging to scam people. There is no final photo of an butthole for me to find. Nor is there any new polls from Carp, begging people for attention. I refresh the frontpage and look into its face, and do and do not see anything new. I close the webpage, and have another cup of coffee with Aevann. We get along very well, veterans of a guerilla war we never understood.
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The issue wasn't latency or Google's reputation, the issue was a system that doesn't give you compelling reason to switch.
What did Stadia actually offer you? Image quality and latency of a console, small game library, no ability to play with your console friends outside few crossplay games, and built in potential to be unreliable, and all for what? Lower upfront cost? You buy 10 games on it and you paid for Xbox S*x. The upfront costs aren't barrier to that many people, especially since games are expensive and you have to pay monthly subscription.
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I don’t think this is the right take either. There was absolutely a market for phone-g*mer casuals who want to play AAAs somehow. Paying full price for the AAAs was the head scratcher though - Microsoft might have a better deal with the Games Pass and xCloud library here.
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I don't think we're disagreeing too much.
I agree with this for example, but Stadia wasn't able to offer it. The game selection was poor as everything had to be ported to their in-house Linux distro, and at least initially you had to buy a Chromecast and Stadia controller, limiting portability and increasing upfront cost. It was more of a shitty console than something completely new.
Xcloud has an extensive library, and all you need to do is borrow a spare controller from a friend, install an app into whatever device you have and you're playing. It's much closer to fulfilling a niche than Stadia ever was.
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