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Re:When will Google shut down Stadia? by endorphone on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:33PM (#21597619)
On the original rumors about Stadia I did think Google was going to revolutionize the industry, particularly in social/massively-multiple games. Starting with the development stack that would leverage a coherent, synchronized world that is massively malleable -- huge banks of systems connected in the microsecond latency range with virtually unlimited throughput, massive neural engines, etc. Destructables, enormous player counts, a completely dynamic environment, virtually eliminating cheating, etc -- it would change everything.

But then they come out with some hosted older games. Eh. Maybe the big reveal will come out eventually, but this far it's pretty disappointing.

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Re:When will Google shut down Stadia? by quantdev on Thursday November 21, 2019 @02:01PM (#21598000)
So what? Products improve. This one will too. Imagine seeing an ad on Youtube and immediately being able to play the game on your chromebook. I don't know that's what is going to happen and it can't work today, but maybe in a few years.
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Re:When will Google shut down Stadia? by maest on Thursday November 21, 2019 @02:18PM (#21598246)
That's such a slippery argument. You can always underdeliver as long as you promise that 'products improve. This one will too'.

How about I don't pay the monthly subscription/for the controller and tell Google that "payments improve. Mine will too"?

I'm obviously salty because I preordered Stadia (against my better judgement) and it's terrible.

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Re:When will Google shut down Stadia? by ircody on Thursday November 21, 2019 @03:13PM (#21598994)
What’s terrible about it?
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Re:When will Google shut down Stadia? by maest on Thursday November 21, 2019 @03:28PM (#21599194)
Latency is pretty bad (GFN by comparison works fine for me). Samurai Shodown, a brawler game, is mostly unplayable.

The overall quality is very beta (black screen in Stadia unless you disable hardware acceleration, which I have to do every time, Stadia can't easily handle multiple Google accounts, I have to change accounts every single time).

Probably worst thing is very Google-like support. Super long queues for "Customer Care", phonelines are closed at 10:30 AM because they're "Out of hours".

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