It's genuinely amazing that it's taken Google, a company that runs an entire platform dedicated to video (YouTube), almost an entire year to get their message clear on Stadia.
Originally known as Project Stream, the game streaming service Stadia released to Founders originally back in November 2019. At the time you had to have access to Stadia Pro to do anything with it, which is a monthly subscription to get access to free games and 4K output. It took until April 2020 for the service to become open to everyone, countries supported permitting, and since then so many videos and articles have been released that didn't understand the service and how you use it. People continuously gave out wrong information on, saying it required a monthly fee but across the entire time you could stop paying for Stadia Pro and simply use Stadia as a normal store.
It's amazing then, that it's taken until October 5 2020 for Google to release a proper advertisement (below) to explain it in simple terms.
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In other Stadia news Google recently rolled out a few nice new features. If you have a USB-C headset, you can now use that with the official Stadia Controller and it works across the web browser and Chromecast. They also added Tandem Mode, which lets you connect up another controller to your Stadia Controller's USB-C port — a pretty clever way to handle more local co-op play.
Want to hear more of our thoughts on Stadia and game streaming in general? We covered it in our recent Co-Op News Punch podcast. We also have a forum dedicated to Game Streaming.
You can play Stadia on Linux in a Chrome / Chromium browser at Stadia.com.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: gabberA news about an advert? Everything for stadia I guess...If you don't like it, don't read it. Not a complicated concept. We even let you block tags on your settings if you don't like Stadia - I suggest people use the feature.
Hope this continues, and hope every new stadia game can at least have Vulkan support day 1. Two bird one stone, kill dx12 and make running on Linux easier.
This! This is the solution that I want. I know that any game bought through Stadia is yours (unlike Netflix where your show might disappear any day), but your only support is streaming. What if your game is lag-sensitive? What if your internet connection is down? What if you want to mod your game? What if Stadia gets killed by Google like most of the products they created in the past?
I know that Steam isn't perfect and still has DRM on some games, but it's the most Linux-friendly I know and they are actually contributing to the Linux community (SteamOS, Steam Link, Proton, Mesa devs).
Quoting: JolltI just wish ANY streaming service for games reached South America, I would pay it with a smile, Dollar is always high to buy electronics and most people don't have a good PC to play these games, it would be huge here :(
I thought that MS would launch xCloud here but even they didnt launch their streaming here. They have Azure here and a stronger presence than Google but they didnt.
All the others companies i kinda get why they didnt launched here, is a lot of investment for smaller companies and they prefer to invest in North America and Europe
Quoting: ShmerlApparently Baldur's Gate 3 is out for Stadia (in-development version). Please let developers know if you want a proper Linux version too
Hahaha. There's no chance in hell Larian will do a Linux version again. They only did so relunctantly for Divinity: Original Sin did it really badly and then went sulking and ignored their promise to port Dragon Commander as well. Since then, they never so much as mentioned or even acknowledged that Linux even exists.
Just see the replies by that one Larian employee in the Linux thread: he answers the question about the engine version, confirms that the Vulkan renderer is done in-house, but utterly ignores anything to do with Linux. That's how Larian behaved for years now. That tells you everything you need to know.
Quoting: DrMcCoyHahaha. There's no chance in hell Larian will do a Linux version again. They only did so relunctantly for Divinity: Original Sin did it really badly and then went sulking and ignored their promise to port Dragon Commander as well. Since then, they never so much as mentioned or even acknowledged that Linux even exists.
Just see the replies by that one Larian employee in the Linux thread: he answers the question about the engine version, confirms that the Vulkan renderer is done in-house, but utterly ignores anything to do with Linux. That's how Larian behaved for years now. That tells you everything you need to know.
The employee can't comment on their plans that management sets. And what's the issue with them making the Linux version when they already went through all the trouble of making the Stadia one? That's simply dumb.
Last edited by Shmerl on 7 October 2020 at 5:32 pm UTC
Quoting: GuestSame reason many companies aren't releasing a desktop GNU/Linux version of something already on Stadia.
They don't have the same reason, because they aren't one of those stupid legacy publishers who are into platform politics. They already released for Linux in the past.
What I don't get more, is that they released it for macOS - simply a gaming hostile platform these days. Releasing for macOS and not for Linux is bizarre.
Last edited by Shmerl on 7 October 2020 at 6:45 pm UTC
OLucasZanella Oct 8, 2020
QuoteAlso, also... what if I like the "free" games? Can I buy and play them as a free member or they exclusive to pro members only? I keep looking over the site and I'm not seeing any information on that. I suppose I'd find out if I "signed up", but I don't want to sign up for a service just to answer questions I have about the service.
Last edited by Liam Dawe on 8 October 2020 at 11:34 am UTC
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