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Re:Stadia owners on Reddit blasting Google over radio silenc... by scotth on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @09:59PM (#22176842)
I've been following this situation somewhat, and although Google's outreach has been lacking, there are signs that they're working hard behind the scenes. Apparently they have over 100 games launching this year [1], have been consistent in releasing new games with the pro subscription [2], and are delivering a number of talks at the upcoming GDC [3].

I can see why gamers are frustrated, but from my point of view the community hasn't been particularly happy with any kind of news. Not to be derisive, but I don't really understand the tribal fanaticism both for and against the service.

Yes, the service is missing promised features, but it's actually pretty good. For someone like me (in my 30s, don't want another box that I have to keep upgraded), I've been enjoying it for what it is — with a decent internet connection, you can play a modern looking game with very little effort.

Google did promise more, but I still haven't given up on their ability to deliver. Seems like a lot of moving parts, and maybe only their community management is missing.

1. https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/16/21068913/google-stadia-12...

2. https://www.polygon.com/2020/1/28/21112300/google-stadia-pro...

3. https://www.neowin.net/news/google-announces-schedule-for-it...

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Re:Stadia owners on Reddit blasting Google over radio silenc... by 013a on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @10:09PM (#22176922)
Hype is truly a double-edged sword, and its surprising to me that companies are so cavalier about it, especially in the gaming industry where the consumers are so brutal and unforgiving.

Stadia is an amazing technology... and a fine product. Just fine. They go into marketing this thing with guns blazing, positioning it as the future to play games and the one-stop-shop, they better back that talk up hard. Stadia hasn't (yet). It very much smells like a disconnect between their business/marketing and the product development.

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Re:Stadia owners on Reddit blasting Google over radio silenc... by ethbro on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @08:05AM (#22180028)
> They go into marketing this thing with guns blazing, positioning it as the future to play games and the one-stop-shop, they better back that talk up hard.

Stadia development is expected to pick back up as soon as the Google Fiber rollout is complete...

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Re:Stadia owners on Reddit blasting Google over radio silenc... by tjpnz on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @10:18PM (#22176978)
>They go into marketing this thing with guns blazing, positioning it as the future to play games and the one-stop-shop, they better back that talk up hard.

Yes they better because their advertising was at best misleading.

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Re:Stadia owners on Reddit blasting Google over radio silenc... by smolder on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @08:19AM (#22180133)
Stadia is centralized control and even more spying on end users, which this crowd constantly complains of in other cases. Why do people want google button/key/voice logging them any time they play a game? The value proposition is crap and the input latency makes lots of games clunky, incurring a handicap on players.

It seems like a terrible product to me from a "what kind of future do we want to live in" perspective, as well as UX.

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Re:Stadia owners on Reddit blasting Google over radio silenc... by SmirkingRevenge on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @12:01AM (#22177606)
Companies might be cavalier about these things because the consumers are so often brutal and unforgiving (irrationally so, in so many cases).

There's no winning the PR game on Reddit or other social media sites when you have some motivated psychopathic shit-posters drumming up the negative sentiment - especially when the conversation gets titled that way early. There are a few sacred cows, but almost every other noteworthy game or console at some point goes through a similar phase. If the company keeps things afloat long enough while iterating on their product, the shit-posters generally get bored or move on to something else.

Many good products succeed despite it all.

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