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Solar_Crimson
01/18/23 8:20:09 AM
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...In case anyone here cares (or knows) about it.

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Irony
01/18/23 8:20:58 AM
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Shouldn't have existed

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CalosiaTana
01/18/23 8:21:57 AM
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Bye, Felicia

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_BlueMonk
01/18/23 8:24:13 AM
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im mad because i got 2 of their controllers for free, but when i realized i couldn't use them with bluetooth, i threw them away when i was getting rid of stuff when i moved

but now they're releasing an update to enable it. THANKS OBAMA

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CassandraCroft
01/18/23 8:26:17 AM
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Google what now? Just had to look it up on wikipedia.

Sounds like more crap from Google just like everything else they have.

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Solution_45
01/18/23 8:28:54 AM
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lww99
01/18/23 8:29:42 AM
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Damn it just came out at the end of 2019 lol

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supervaan
01/18/23 8:31:02 AM
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I thought they just moved the resources to those chromebook laptops

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Revelation34
01/18/23 8:37:28 AM
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It was a good idea executed too soon. Maybe they can try it again in 10 years. At least I got Assassin's Creed Odyssey for free because of the beta.

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Unsuprised_Pika
01/18/23 8:38:43 AM
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Literally no one ever did care

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Ricemills
01/18/23 8:40:38 AM
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oh boy, another Google project got shut down.
shocking.

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Ratchetrockon
01/18/23 8:41:46 AM
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Rip Google stadia

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MrMallard
01/18/23 8:48:23 AM
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I feel bad for the people who bought into it. That being said, Stadia came out of nowhere one E3 and postured themselves as the future of gaming, and nothing about it felt organic or like as grand of a step forward as they were making it out to be. It was always confusing how much attention Stadia got right out of the gate.

They must have spent a significant chunk of change making that entire E3 about them, and then they delivered a subpar product they couldn't maintain - they bought the most visible ads, and they spent god knows how much putting Stadia on everything they could during the E3 it was announced at, before absolutely shitting the bed. The technology wasn't there yet, at least not on enough of a scale for Stadia to be "the next big thing" across the broader market - and frankly, I don't think the technology is there even now.

And what makes the Google hype stupider is that we already knew the tech wasn't up to par with PlayStation Now trying and failing around 2014; Google's strategy was to go "don't worry it just works", then flounder for years not only to make it functional, but to get games on the platform.

And of the small handful of like 200+ games they had, each one was being sold at full price. No-one is getting refunded for those games as far as I can tell. People paid full price for digital games with an extra step of separation, and now they're losing access to those games forever.

I will say that Stadia is only shutting down as a commercial business that interfaces with the public directly. Like how Google Glass vanished off the face of the earth and became more of a behind-the-scenes specialist piece of technology, Google is allegedly shopping the streaming service around to game publishers as like a middle-man - like rather than Capcom making a Cloud Version of the next Resident Evil game themselves, they would upload it to Google's servers and Google would handle the streaming side of things. But Stadia, as a platform and as its own unique service, is being shut down.

Google Stadia was a hollow corporate scheme that lived and died on lies, platitudes and money. They spent big to advertise a service they couldn't actually maintain, and in the span of a couple years their incompetence and unwillingness to change or improve the Stadia service showed how little they actually bought into their own hype. I feel bad for people who threw their money away on this horseshit, but Stadia always had that disingenuous, fraudulent vibe around it and I don't know why more people didn't recognise the warning signs and save themselves the trouble. It is absolutely baffling why anyone would buy into this, day one or otherwise.

In closing, rip in piss Google Stadia. You were even worse than PlayStation Now.

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Tyranthraxus
01/18/23 8:49:21 AM
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MrMallard posted...
I feel bad for the people who bought into it.

No need to. Everyone got 100% refunds.

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MrMallard
01/18/23 8:51:04 AM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
No need to. Everyone got 100% refunds.
Okay, based.

I stand by everything else I said, but at least they had the balls and the common fucking decency to put this right with their audience.

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ZevLoveDOOM
01/18/23 8:52:00 AM
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i'm sure all the 5 or 6 users who were using this service will be upset...
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Solar_Crimson
01/18/23 8:55:21 AM
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MrMallard posted...
And of the small handful of like 200+ games they had, each one was being sold at full price. No-one is getting refunded for those games as far as I can tell. People paid full price for digital games with an extra step of separation, and now they're losing access to those games forever.
Apparently, that guy who put over 6000 hours into the Stadia version of Red Dead Redemption 2 was allowed by Rockstar to transfer his progress onto another console.

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NeonTentacles
01/18/23 8:57:51 AM
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To be fair, Google Stadia faced terrible odds in the past 3 years, having to deal with a global pandemic forcing people to turn to online entertainment, as well as graphic cards and console shortages, creating high demand for alternatives.

If only they hit the market at a better time

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Garioshi
01/18/23 9:01:22 AM
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Now it really won't be taking up any space

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TwoDoorPC
01/18/23 9:06:50 AM
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and nothing of value was lost

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Jupiter
01/18/23 9:25:59 AM
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America's internet infrastructure just isn't there yet for Stadia. Not everyone has fiber. Hell, so many people have data caps. Streaming games eats up a lot of bandwidth. You're not gonna have a good time in a full household with a 50-80 Mbps speed. If fiber was the standard, and pings were low everywhere, it'd be more sustainable.

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Philip027
01/18/23 9:32:44 AM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
No need to. Everyone got 100% refunds.

Did they refund the subscriptions? All I've heard about was the software and hardware getting refunded.
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CE_gonna_CE
01/18/23 9:35:26 AM
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Just its career

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emblem-man
01/18/23 9:35:34 AM
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I truly am sad and will miss it. It essentially got me back into gaming after a 5 year hiatus.
Rip stadia. I wish Google had done better and allowed more people to experience the seamlessness of game streaming.

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Tyranthraxus
01/18/23 9:36:13 AM
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Philip027 posted...
Did they refund the subscriptions? All I've heard about was the software and hardware getting refunded.

No but that's not fundamentally different from what would happen if you cancelled the subscription.

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DeadBankerDream
01/18/23 9:37:50 AM
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I remember they announced it or showcased it at e3 or some other event and it legit sounded like the worst thing possible and the audience just clapped like moronic seals.

Blizzard fans knew how to boo at Diablo Immortal. Why are you guys being vegetable people?

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emblem-man
01/18/23 9:38:22 AM
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MrMallard posted...
And what makes the Google hype stupider is that we already knew the tech wasn't up to par with PlayStation Now trying and failing around 2014; Google's strategy was to go "don't worry it just works", then flounder for years not only to make it functional, but to get games on the platform.


I mean, it worked perfectly for me over a wide range of internet speeds, in hotels, etc. Was good to have when I was traveling for work.

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Tyranthraxus
01/18/23 9:39:38 AM
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DeadBankerDream posted...
I remember they announced it or showcased it at e3 or some other event and it legit sounded like the worst thing possible and the audience just clapped like moronic seals.

Blizzard fans knew how to boo at Diablo Immortal. Why are you guys being vegetable people?

It was showcased at their own conference. The only people there were tech journalists who have to pretend to be polite because it's their job. Fans aren't paid to be fans.

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pokedude900
01/18/23 9:41:56 AM
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NeonTentacles posted...
To be fair, Google Stadia faced terrible odds in the past 3 years, having to deal with a global pandemic forcing people to turn to online entertainment, as well as graphic cards and console shortages, creating high demand for alternatives.

If only they hit the market at a better time

What? Those sound like ideal circumstances for the service they were pushing. It's not like the problem was that they didn't have the bandwidth to keep up with demand. It was that the service didn't work as advertised for the majority of consumers. And that it was a terrible idea to begin with.

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TomClark
01/18/23 9:41:56 AM
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NeonTentacles posted...
To be fair, Google Stadia faced terrible odds in the past 3 years, having to deal with a global pandemic forcing people to turn to online entertainment, as well as graphic cards and console shortages, creating high demand for alternatives.

If only they hit the market at a better time

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DeadBankerDream
01/18/23 9:43:18 AM
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Pretty sure Neon stole that from an old tweet. The scoundrel.

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Philip027
01/18/23 10:08:50 AM
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pokedude900 posted...
What? Those sound like ideal circumstances for the service they were pushing. It's not like the problem was that they didn't have the bandwidth to keep up with demand. It was that the service didn't work as advertised for the majority of consumers. And that it was a terrible idea to begin with.

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pokedude900
01/18/23 10:21:32 AM
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I'm not familiar with the reference.

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gna647
01/18/23 10:23:04 AM
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Revelation34 posted...
It was a good idea executed too soon. Maybe they can try it again in 10 years. At least I got Assassin's Creed Odyssey for free because of the beta.

yeah maybe under a better name

stadia
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NeonTentacles
01/18/23 10:23:08 AM
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pokedude900 posted...
What? Those sound like ideal circumstances for the service they were pushing. It's not like the problem was that they didn't have the bandwidth to keep up with demand. It was that the service didn't work as advertised for the majority of consumers. And that it was a terrible idea to begin with.
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NeonTentacles
01/18/23 10:23:20 AM
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DeadBankerDream posted...
Pretty sure Neon stole that from an old tweet. The scoundrel.
Yeah I did lol. The tweet is so perfect though >_>

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Kaldrenthebold
01/18/23 10:28:02 AM
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Did KFC ever release their console?

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Tyranthraxus
01/18/23 10:31:14 AM
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Kaldrenthebold posted...
Did KFC ever release their console?

It was just an android set top box. Wasn't a real console. It's more like those console & controller combos you buy at Walmart that plug directly into to the TV.

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Kaldrenthebold
01/18/23 10:31:57 AM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
It was just an android set top box. Wasn't a real console. It's more like those console & controller combos you buy at Walmart that plug directly into to the TV.

Yeah, but does it keep the chicken warm??

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Tyranthraxus
01/18/23 10:32:54 AM
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Kaldrenthebold posted...
Yeah, but does it keep the chicken warm??

I mean probably a little yeah. Be better of just putting it in the microwave though.

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ZevLoveDOOM
01/18/23 10:33:06 AM
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wasnt there a dude who had like 6000 hours on Red Dead Redemption 2 through this service? lol
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Kaldrenthebold
01/18/23 10:35:48 AM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
I mean probably a little yeah. Be better of just putting it in the microwave though.

The truth is KFC these days is hot garbage. Wet, weird, overly salty and nothing like I remember.

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Tyranthraxus
01/18/23 10:37:56 AM
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Kaldrenthebold posted...
The truth is KFC these days is hot garbage. Wet, weird, overly salty and nothing like I remember.

Yeah when the double down was first advertised I drove way out of my way to get it and the only thing I remember was being super disappointed. The fucking thing has over 1000mg of sodium and still tasted like there wasn't enough salt.

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Murphiroth
01/18/23 10:54:10 AM
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https://twitter.com/Merryweatherey/status/1613951381421060096

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Solar_Crimson
01/18/23 11:04:10 AM
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ZevLoveDOOM posted...
wasnt there a dude who had like 6000 hours on Red Dead Redemption 2 through this service? lol
Mentioned earlier. Rockstar allowed him to carry his progress over to another console.

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J03can
01/18/23 11:05:51 AM
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Definitely don't regret my free chromecast ultra.

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meestermj
01/18/23 11:06:26 AM
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All 4 stadia customers must be devastated.

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Lordgold666
01/18/23 1:39:01 PM
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Garioshi posted...
Now it really won't be taking up any space
lmao

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Lizards
01/18/23 2:08:12 PM
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emblem-man posted...
it worked perfectly for me over a wide range of internet speeds,
Same

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Irony
01/18/23 2:09:09 PM
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I saw a poster here once say it worked perfectly when it wasn't stuttering

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