Stadia owners on Reddit blasting Google over radio silence and lack of support

Re:Stadia owners on Reddit blasting Google over radio silenc... by rndmize on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @10:29PM (#22177053)

You're conflating two different sides of the industry (as is the parent comment.) A game dev studio is not expected to have monthly updates for any but the largest games. A store or platform, on the other hand, lives and dies by its content.

Playstation Plus has a batch of free games each month for $5 a month, Xbox has something similar, Steam has sales and endless new content on the regular, Epic has given away several games a month for a couple years now. Once a month updates at a $10 subscription is table stakes here.

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Re:Stadia owners on Reddit blasting Google over radio silenc... by ehsankia on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @11:37PM (#22177489)

> A store or platform, on the other hand, lives and dies by its content.

I agree that content is important, but if you're talking about new games, Google doesn't have much control, the developers works on those not Google.

> Playstation Plus has a batch of free games each month for $5 a month, Xbox has something similar

But this isn't about the free monthy Stadia content. Stadia has been giving 2 free games the first of every month since launch and has not slipped a single day. The two games for February were just announced.

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Re:Stadia owners on Reddit blasting Google over radio silenc... by nkrisc on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @08:02AM (#22179998)

> I agree that content is important, but if you're talking about new games, Google doesn't have much control

Doesn't matter, Google's gonna get the flak for it. People bought hardware and a subscription from Google. If they're not getting value from it, for whatever reason and whomever's fault, they're going to be mad at Google.

Why did Google release a platform if they didn't have enough games lined up and ready? I assume they're hoping they'll be able to weather this negative sentiment and do have games planned in the wings, but we'll see.

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Re:Stadia owners on Reddit blasting Google over radio silenc... by sitkack on Thursday January 30, 2020 @12:35PM (#22193328)

Give the cadence in which Stadia could release new content, it would make sense to have had that pipeline filled so that they could release a new game every day.

At some point, there will be a zero-install gaming service like Twitch/Itch and devs can connect directly to fans for realtime playtesting, etc. So much, so little.

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