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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by akhilcacharya on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @04:43AM (#25999006)
>Nvidia and Luna both took the shortcut of just running a windows VM and running the game as is

The customer value add of anything on top of that is proving to be extremely thin. I used Now extensively in 2017, Luna extensively this year and Stadia briefly for Destiny 2 - Luna's experience isn't worse enough to provide any benefit to the Stadia lock-in model.

Stadia PM's should really consider focusing more on "Customer Obsession".

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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by ehsankia on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @03:20PM (#26006075)
In the short term maybe, in the long term, having achievements, voice chat, friends and invites may be good. I personally don't play games on Epic because I like having achievements and stats tracking for example. I'm not sure what the multiplayer experience on Luna is, can you invite people to play coop games? Voice chat with them?
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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by akhilcacharya on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @06:12PM (#26008359)
Voice chat is unnecessary to me and many folks, we use Discord or Skype.

Local co-op is a thing in Luna, but I'm not sure about online multiplayer. But in GeForce Now I just used Steam and it worked flawlessly.

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