Quoting: KimyrielleI do understand streaming music and videos. I don't understand streaming games. In contrast to music and movies, people generally play only a very small selection of games at the same time, so having access to a huge library has not a lot of appeal in the case of games.

for microsoft, the key advantage is that they will be able to sell games for android users, wich is a huge user base and keep directx as the standard for gaming and improve windows share on servers, or at least enjoy the fact that they have more servers than most companies so they will be among the few ones on this market.

for google, its good that they will be able to enter the desktop operating system market with chromeOS (since games will not be an issue anymore) and enter the hardcore gaming market.

for the players, they will be able to play anywhere, not worry anyore if their system can play the game or worry about hardware upgrades.

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Quoting: vectorIt ended up being Google which is poised to commoditize the underlying operating system, not Netscape. And it appears Stadia exists exclusively in service of the Chrome ecosystem. Perhaps one gatekeeper (Microsoft) has been exchanged for another (Google).

what scary me the most is that Stadia is powered by Linux, and if we ever enter an world where the standartd is gaming without preservation of old games, gaming without the freedom of mods to makew your own maps, characters etc. it will be google and linux fault that we were able to reach that world.

its linux communism where you fight for an better world and end up with an worse one and in some countries even up to today.

in the end of the day, letting microsoft have an monopoly is sounding less scary somehow.

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Quoting: TheRiddickSo let me get this straight... how people can't see that scenario as being a complete scam is beyond me!

because you didnt get it straight.

"you pay $50-60usd for a game on Stadia"
if its a triple A it will cost this prices, indie games tend to be much cheaper.

" can play it while having a subscription only"
you can play it forever in fullHD, you only have to pay if you want to go 4k, and once google upgrade their servers, the free tier should be updated to 4k and the paid tier should be 8k, 120fps.


"and if they shut the thing down or remove that title from the store you get your save-games so you can then go over to GOG or Steam to buy the game again on your actual PC"
that part is a little bit confusing, they said once you purchase the game is your forever, wich means they should provide you with an key if they ever want to discontinue the server, i dont know where this key will be located, if they will make an client such as steam to distribute, give you keys on steam or an store of your choice, or whetever, but i highly doubt they will leave you with nothing but your save game.

in any case i hope you can transfer your save at any moment, not only if they decide to shut it down.

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Quoting: Guestalthough it was more recently used by Ubisoft to host The Division 2 in the Cloud and support the developer's real-time triple-A gaming endeavours."

there is a difference here, they may need to "play" the game on a server for multiplayer purposes due to things like physics and who killed who needing to be processed server side, but they dont need to process the graphics of it, wich is the most expensive thing to process.

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Quoting: kaimanOne question that also comes to mind is how game streaming might change games as a whole, if it ever catches on. I'm pretty sure it's not good for business if people keep streaming the same game (they paid once) again and again. So it's either in-game advertising, micro transactions, shorter or generally less re-playable games (or a mix of those), neither of which I find potentially appealing.

running an old game will not consume google data centers so much, so they will not care.

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Quoting: GuestI think Netflix has proven that both things are not a major obstacle for most people.

there is a key difference here, if netflix stop dont renewal an contract to stream something and none of his competitors do, you can still watch it by pirating it.

but if no one is willing to stream an game anymore and this game isnt avaliable to play outside of streaming, the game is dead, no one can play it anymore.
there are a lot of games that are currently umplayable, video game preservation is an serious issue and this thing only contribute to make it harder.

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Quoting: Salvatos- if you don't have unlimited bandwidth, it's probably easier to fit some more hours of video streaming in your monthly allowance than a large game download (or several);

gaming use more bandwidth than video, since you dont have time to create an buffer and improve the encoding or waste on decoding.
and the reason why people dont surpass their data limit already today is because they bandwitdh is not used while they are playing.
downloading an 100GB game may sound like much, but you will use more than that quite fast if you keep "downdloading" it forever.

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Quoting: ixnari

Quoting: GuestIt is always funny to read the random comments.

The team at Google Stadia mentioned that privacy will be “at the user's control".

Oh, I'm sure.

so what? they will know that i'm a bad player? who cares.
when it comes to voice patterns, video patterns or knowing who i'm friend with, i can see how this could be used for evil purposes.

but spying on me while i play? why is that an issue? how can this be used for "evil" purposes?

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holy cow!

"It confuses the heck out of me every time I go to use it. Although, that's mainly due to distribution packages often disabling the core download ability (cores are essentially plugins, to run emulators and so on), which I've seen confuse many others. If you install it yourself and find you can't download cores either, go into the second menu -> User Interface -> Views -> Show Core Updater. After that, make sure you also go into the Directory menu and ensure download folders are set to somewhere your user can access."

thanks! i was stucked with this.

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Quoting: fagnerlnI see some Platinum rating with a lot of workarounds, and some "borked" games that the game runs.

if the game runs for many people but crash on your machine, why would you rate it platinum?
but i totally agree with the opposite, platinum dont mean platinum at all (as i said in my previous comment)

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