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Wow I ask a lot of questions

Maybe ask for an RKD sub forum.

I could. But I won’t

Destiny 2's active playerbase down to 8000, it's dropped nearly 60% since launch.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/ ... f37602604c

https://www.reddit.com/r/Stadia/comment ... out_a_new/

"Stadia has officially gone 40 days without a new game announcement/release, feature update, or real community update. It has been out for 69 days. It's time we demand better."

Give it a rest Hearth.... wait... step out of the shadows, i'd know that big bonced silhouette anywhere! You're not Hearthly!

Unless it goes free tomorrow, with all that shit they talked about before launch, y'know, you're watching a YouTube video about a game, or an advertisement for a game and it has a 'PLAY NOW' button next to it and 10 seconds later you're playing the game? Unless that stuff comes really soon, Stadia is dead. If it isn't already.

It certainly seems pretty dead.

I find it strangely haunting when multiplayer games are still technically active but no one is around to play them, like when I tired Perfect Dark online multiplayer on the Xbox360 version (quite some time after it's release). In this big old world there was, eventually, one other lonely person like me playing this old game.

It almost felt like the sadly melancholy/creepy kinda vibe when wandering around old, deserted, childhood hangouts

Ashens Take on it

https://youtu.be/8ATutWS9FeM

Ooof.

Comment re Stadia:

Google only calculating how long to wait to save some face before shuttering this, surely.

MS brought the big guns. Google have so much money that they needed to do the same and create that 'un-bee-leeve-able' sense of value, rather than a 'what now, £40 quid to buy a game to play on my subscription' vibe they have nailed so well.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020 ... -september

A shining endorsement from Zero Punctuation.

I liked that review. It was funny.

Its very much his style - look for anything else on Youtube marked as Zero Punctuation or by Yahtzee

Here's his review of Animal Crossing

Yeah he's been going for aaaaaaaaaages, I'm sure he had a Madness track as his intro music years ago but I guess it had to be changed for copyright reasons.

Anyway, who's getting Stadia then? Lol.

Yeah I used to watch Yahtzee when he was in 240p

has anyone here actually played on a Stadia?

I saw one once.

I shout commands down the phone to D, while she kinda describes what is happening on the screen, which is pretty much the same experience going by youtube reviewers.

Playlist of all his reviews:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... ienoKTN16X

In this story, you're the caller and D is Sarah Greene, but who's the guy sat behind the screen frantically waggling the joystick based on what people are shouting in his ear?

I think you're thinking about the same 80s show as me but I'm fucked if I can remember the bloody name of it.

It was a staple of Saturday morning shows. So, "Going Live!"?

Hugo!

I reckon we could incorporate a Hugo game into a Beex Tuesday night quiz... Hmmm... That's got me thinking.

Was I dreaming, or did they play Magic Pockets remotely at some point

They did. Empires rose and fell.

And that weird dreams game about weird dreams which might have been called weird dreams.

Google launches new Chromecast.

Won't have Stadia support until 2021.

Is the plot already prepared in the Google Graveyard?

With Microsoft's 'Netflix for Games' service already up and running, it's hard to see where Stadia goes from here. Except the graveyard. I can see it going there.

Did Stadia steal your girlfriend or something?

He does hate it.

Stadia fucked my mum in the bottom!

You can sideload the Stadia app pretty easily.

I've heard the reason that it hasn't launched officially with the new Chromecast is that the streams are currently targeting a lower resolution for phones, but naturally people are going to be less forgiving on a 75inch 4k TV than on a 6inch phone.

Better a late start than a botched one.

Please note that Xcloud is also not officially supported by the new Chromecast yet either.

Well yes but at the risk of stating the obvious, the Chromecast is not a Microsoft product. I'm sure there are <insert reasons here> that Stadia doesn't currently work on the new Chromecast, but the optics of it still aren't good.

And to address the above point, I don't 'hate' Stadia, it'd be daft to hate an online game streaming service. I am however fascinated by technology, and in this instance I'm perplexed by how far short Stadia has fallen short of the promises, with the might of Google behind it.

The history is all there in this thread, I initially called 'fail' because I didn't think the world wanted another 'OnLive' (and I still don't think it will anytime soon), changed my tack when I started to understand the scope of Google's ambitions for Stadia, but now here we are at the end of 2020 and basically none of the cool shit they promised is here, it is just another OnLive, and one that Google aren't even supporting on their new Chromecast for months.

Who is Stadia for? Who wants it? Who'd recommend it to a friend or family member, and on what grounds?

Stadia gets its first foot in the Google graveyard.

Google: "Hey, publishers and developers around the globe, our own platform isn't profitable for us, but why wouldn't you give it a try?"

Hopefully all those impacted are indeed found alternative roles.

Not sure who else will want the tech, since MS, Sony and Nvidia have already got their own.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021 ... publishers

Expecting people to pay full-price for games on an exclusively streaming platform was never going to work. If they'd done a $5 a month Game Pass style service, they'd probably have a million subscribers by now

Well yes I said that back on Page 1 of this thread but apparently was being a stupid 'forumy boi'.

Don't think anyone called you stupid, bud.

The replies to the tweet about the close down are hilarious!

Haven't seen that, you got a link please?

https://twitter.com/GoogleStadia/status ... 7134068738

Focusing on Stadia’s future as a platform, and winding down SG&E : https://t.co/HsZUcGXbtZ

— Stadia (@GoogleStadia) February 1, 2021

This should do it I think?

https://twitter.com/Natewillmusic/statu ... 0254517248

Summary: Developing great games in house takes too much time and money , so we're gonna pay the developers/studios who are already great at it . Smart move . I love it .

— Nate Williams (@Natewillmusic) February 1, 2021

This one's my favourite.

I was surprised to read about this because I honestly thought it was already dead. I've heard so little about it since the launch... and did Doom Eternal ever come out for it?

They're really not doing a good job of ensuring the reporting separates the platform - not being killed - from their studio - being killed, are they?

If you're already releasing a game for all the other platforms, adding stadia *shouldn't* be that hard. Presumably it's not that much different to a PC release and console validation.

Google deciding to have their own studio to build new IP exclusively for their niche platform was an insane decision.

HOWEVER - stadia itself is clearly doomed as well, Microsoft putting gamepass on phones will do for it (and then they'll kill that, because it's an insane "format")

a) no you didn't, but you said you didn't think it would.work, and
b) you'd changed your mind by page 3

I can't think of a service or piece of hardware where that hasn't been the case. Halo, Half Life 2, Fortnight, etc. I think without it they're going to struggle even more.

I've got one, by the way. I got it free with YouTube. I've used it once, I think. It worked

AMD, Nvidia, Microsoft and Sony pay (well, paid, back in't'day) developers to support their platform and provide development resources to help. Sure, exclusives help, but when you're as late into a market as Google was, better to spend the hundreds of millions rapidly expandong the catalogue instead surely?

Huh, Fortnite?

Epic Store, innit. And Steam had HL2.

I thought Fortnite was on both Xbox and PS4 on release.