The free tier also came later and wasn’t well publicized: one of the lessons from Stadia’s failure is that Google giving it a bad reputation at launch squandered a lot of what they did later.

Another example was the refund at the end, which would have addressed one of the most common review points had it been policy. Here’s a representative launch review listing that under “The ugly”:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/11/google-stadia-might-b...