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Read the actual articles and not just the headline?Do you guys actually subscribe to all these news sites? If not how can you read the paywalled articles.
Read the actual articles and not just the headline?Do you guys actually subscribe to all these news sites? If not how can you read the paywalled articles.
You are asking Google to do work.What Google actually needs to do to fix Stadia:
Doing the above would leverage their existing streaming tech (which is excellent) and allow them to keep their cloud-focused features without locking out giant swathes of the population that have decent PCs but terrible internet connections.
- Offer full resolution 4K streaming to customers who have purchased games. Asking customers to buy a full price game that's streaming only is already bad enough, making them also buy a subscription service to play it in 4K is just a slap in the face.
- Revamp their Pro subscription so that it's more like Game Pass, where games can rotate in and out but there's a bigger variety. They already have like 30+ games in Pro right now, many that have been there for months. I personally have like 122 games in my "Pro" library, so subscribing for me gets me a Game Pass like experience - don't punish customers just because they haven't been subscribers long term. They've already shown they can score big name titles, for example the new Life is Strange remasters are both there Day 1.
- Pick 2-4 games per month to give away to Pro members to keep. Bonus points to Google if you get to keep these games even if your subscription lapses. If Epic can afford to do it to create market share, surely Google can too.
- Build a fucking Stadia PC client. Give users the option to install their games locally. If you want to keep the service streaming-focused, you could call it a "caching client" or "buffering client" or something, but give people with poor internet connections the ability to buy into your service too. In fact, calling it a caching server might be good - because then Google could let people "stream" from their PC to, for example, their TV without having to go all the way to the internet and back. Even adding an "internet required" (check-in system / DRM / "can this user play this game?") when launching a game would be fine for most people.
This is not a bad idea. The tech is definitely better than Microsoft’s solution right now. Stadia on its own is going nowhere. It has a couple hundred games compared to thousands on the consoles.Watch Sony will buy the tech to expand on its cloud infrastructure.
Yeah the few times I tried their streaming it worked far better than Xbox streaming.It’s such a shame they didn’t go all the way. For me it had the best streaming quality, least frame drops, most functional user experience. But the worst games library… Steam on Stadia without the login crap would’ve been awesome.
What it truly needed was PC hardware, the streaming tech is fantastic but the platform was doomed the second it was clear that devs needed to port their games. Many devs never bothered doing ports or did it badly. And buying those ports at full price was never appealing. I just claimed the free games.What Google actually needs to do to fix Stadia:
Doing the above would leverage their existing streaming tech (which is excellent) and allow them to keep their cloud-focused features without locking out giant swathes of the population that have decent PCs but terrible internet connections.
- Offer full resolution 4K streaming to customers who have purchased games. Asking customers to buy a full price game that's streaming only is already bad enough, making them also buy a subscription service to play it in 4K is just a slap in the face.
- Revamp their Pro subscription so that it's more like Game Pass, where games can rotate in and out but there's a bigger variety. They already have like 30+ games in Pro right now, many that have been there for months. I personally have like 122 games in my "Pro" library, so subscribing for me gets me a Game Pass like experience - don't punish customers just because they haven't been subscribers long term. They've already shown they can score big name titles, for example the new Life is Strange remasters are both there Day 1.
- Pick 2-4 games per month to give away to Pro members to keep. Bonus points to Google if you get to keep these games even if your subscription lapses. If Epic can afford to do it to create market share, surely Google can too.
- Build a fucking Stadia PC client. Give users the option to install their games locally. If you want to keep the service streaming-focused, you could call it a "caching client" or "buffering client" or something, but give people with poor internet connections the ability to buy into your service too. In fact, calling it a caching server might be good - because then Google could let people "stream" from their PC to, for example, their TV without having to go all the way to the internet and back. Even adding an "internet required" (check-in system / DRM / "can this user play this game?") when launching a game would be fine for most people.
Yeah I claimed the free games. I bought Crew 2 cheap, got it refunded when I saw it was 30fps when it was 60fps on Geforce Now. Weak hardware combined with needing ports was a really bad combo. And there was rumors of upgrades but it never happened. Imagine if they had upgraded it above PS5 and XSX before those launched. Would’ve changed so much.Yeah the few times I tried their streaming it worked far better than Xbox streaming.
I could just never bring myself to buy a streaming only copy of a game, I never understood why we couldn't download locally aswell.
This is not a bad idea. The tech is definitely better than Microsoft’s solution right now. Stadia on its own is going nowhere. It has a couple hundred games compared to thousands on the consoles.
No. That’s impossible.I think that would have to be part of the deal.
That was symbolic. They actually still use Amazon.Sony already signed a partnership with Microsoft using Azure for cloud gaming and services on their platforms.
But Phil was supposed to buy more publishers to protect us from bogeyman Google? While they are actually getting out of the gaming business. Phil pulled the biggest con with Nadella
Now imagine what ATVI acquisition will achieveWhen Microsoft announced in 2020 that it would acquire the "Elder Scrolls" studio Bethesda, it "scared the crap out of Google executives," a former employee close to those conversations said. After Stadia shuttered its in-house games division, insiders said any appetite among Google executives to own any studios completely went away. It also had trouble luring studios to develop for the platform;
Where's Phil Harrison off to next?
"Just ... ... ... and you'll be saved!"All they have to do is put Gamepass in Stadia and it will be saved.
"Just ... ... ... and you'll be saved!"
There are plenty of similar extensions, but this is the one that I am using and it just works.Do you guys actually subscribe to all these news sites? If not how can you read the paywalled articles.
Cool idea, we could also see some cloud games on Switch using Google Stream
Everything in gaming is loosely associated in some way, doesn’t make it on topic. Talking about bait when your post was nothing but an attempt to derail
They needed to have a game made from the ground up specifically for their technology, day one. This is how every successful platform is. They tried to do it backwards. Of course it's not gonna work, even if they did a decent cost structure(which they don't). It still wouldn't be enough. Games first Google!The shame is that the actual streaming tech is the best there is. But, they have no idea what they're doing to market it to gamers.
Asking people to pay full price to stream games, with no option to play games natively, is ridiculous. Adding a monthly fee to play the games at the best resolution is worse.
Then, they close their studios, ensuring the platform won't have a single game that you can't play elsewhere.
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Nobody did, so it's all good.Poor souls that invested on this.
MS can buy everythingCan microsoft just buy the tech and make xcloud better?