Re:So You Want to Compete with Steam (2018)
by dontlaugh on Thursday September 22, 2022 @04:47AM
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The business model was stupid. You paid a subscription for the benefit of being able to buy games on the platform, with you couldn’t access without the subscription. And all of this only works with amazing internet and for games where latency isn’t an issue.
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Re:So You Want to Compete with Steam (2018)
by MarioMan on Thursday September 22, 2022 @09:35AM
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>You paid a subscription for the benefit of being able to buy games on the platform, with you couldn’t access without the subscription.
This was only true during the first five months of release, when you had to buy the Founder's Edition, which came with hardware to access the service. All purchased games can be accessed without the subscription via Stadia Base, and they planned it this way from the start[1]. Stadia Pro primarily provides the perk of running games on better cloud hardware, providing a 4K HDR surround sound stream instead of the baseline 1080p stereo stream.