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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by oivey on Monday February 01, 2021 @06:04PM (#25995365)
Steam and Epic are literally app stores. I guess you have to link an extra account to use it with GeForce Now? For that minuscule amount of extra friction you get access to a much larger set of games on stores that won’t shut down when Google gets bored in a year or two.

edit: in what way does Steam or Epic expect you to understand how to use a “gaming PC”?

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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by enos_feedler on Monday February 01, 2021 @06:30PM (#25995585)
In the way that those are apps that gamers install on their gaming pc.
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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by p1necone on Monday February 01, 2021 @07:33PM (#25996069)
You're not making any sense to me. Steam is just an app store. A "gaming PC" is just a regular PC with more powerful hardware in it, using software on it does not take any special skills specific to gaming PCs.

And as the other commenter points out, playing steam games via geforce now doesn't even require installing the steam app anyway, it's just an account link.

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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by blueblisters on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @03:12AM (#25998431)
I am struggling to find an analogy but here goes. I think it's like the difference between a console in the cloud v/s a gaming pc in the cloud. For casual gamers, a console in the cloud with minimal configuration - switch it on and start playing - makes the most sense. If GeForce Now is a hosted gaming PC, I assume running a Windows O/S, it likely has the same configuration overhead of PC games, which most casual gamers don't want to deal with.
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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by oivey on Monday February 01, 2021 @06:39PM (#25995661)
Can you elaborate? You don’t need to install Steam or the game to play that game on GeForce Now.
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