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Actually, Google completely backs Stadia. They know cancellations hurt G's image by blackwater 09/29/2022, 11:52am PDT
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the verge wrote:


Google is shutting down Stadia, its cloud gaming service. The service will remain live for players until January 18th, 2023. Google will be refunding all Stadia hardware purchased through the Google Store as well as all the games and add-on content purchased from the Stadia store. Google expects those refunds will be completed in mid-January.

“A few years ago, we also launched a consumer gaming service, Stadia,” Stadia vice president and GM Phil Harrison said in a blog post. “And while Stadia’s approach to streaming games for consumers was built on a strong technology foundation, it hasn’t gained the traction with users that we expected so we’ve made the difficult decision to begin winding down our Stadia streaming service.” Employees on the Stadia team will be distributed to other parts of the company.

Harrison says Google sees opportunities to apply Stadia’s technology to other parts of Google, like YouTube, Google Play, and its AR efforts, and the company also plans to “make it available to our industry partners, which aligns with where we see the future of gaming headed,” he wrote.

Google detailed some of the finer points of the shutdown in an FAQ. Refunds will automatically be made through the Google and Stadia stores, and you won’t have to return any hardware. Stadia Pro subscriptions will not be eligible for a refund, but you will not be charged during the shutdown period and can access games you might have redeemed as a Pro user until everything is wound down. Google has closed the Stadia store, so you can’t buy games or in-game transactions.

The writing has been on the wall for Stadia for a while now, most recently when Logitech announced its new cloud gaming handheld last week and Stadia was one of the few cloud gaming services not mentioned. But Stadia has been facing rumors of its demise practically from the start. Google has a habit of killing projects only a few years after they launch, and Stadia, a cloud gaming service from a company with few ties in the gaming industry, seemed like a prime candidate for an early demise.

Last year, rumors abounded it would shut down after the number of games released to the platform slowed and the company shuttered its in-house game development studios. When those rumors popped up again this year, Google insisted that Stadia was not shutting down. “Rest assured we’re always working bringing more great games to the platform and Stadia Pro,” the company said in a tweet. Which was true... until today.

Microsoft, which has also invested heavily in cloud gaming, declined to comment. Nvidia (which makes the GeForce Now cloud gaming service) and AT&T (which used the Stadia tech to power a couple game trials) didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
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I'm sure Google Stadia will be great. NT by I like ads during games 03/20/2019, 6:34am PDT NEW
    I also think it will be great. NT by Guy Who Likes UI Changing Every 4 W 03/20/2019, 11:05am PDT NEW
    I just wish there was a game service that spied on me constantly by Guy Who Is About To Realize That Go 03/20/2019, 11:06am PDT NEW
    Serious analysis by Mysterio 03/20/2019, 11:09am PDT NEW
        How much of this hate is because Google is doing it? by Judge Berry 03/20/2019, 11:39am PDT NEW
        Re: Serious analysis by Wow, Caltrops. Just wow. 04/03/2019, 8:37pm PDT NEW
            Did this even work? by Mr. 3000 and his blob 07/29/2022, 7:33am PDT NEW
    Reset Era has a great discussion on this actually! by Mysterio 03/20/2019, 11:41am PDT NEW
    Discordapp.com log on this by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/20/2019, 1:56pm PDT NEW
    Let's check in on Stadia. by blackwater 03/01/2020, 12:46pm PST NEW
        It's good that there are consquences. by Oh 03/01/2020, 3:07pm PST NEW
    Google Stadia update: not dead yet, but starting to smell bad by blackwater 02/01/2021, 3:52pm PST NEW
        Re: Re: Google Stadia update: not dead yet, but starting to smell bad by blackwater 02/22/2021, 8:14pm PST NEW
            Google: now a worse 3rd party patch process than Microsoft? NT by semen stained ballpit 02/23/2021, 10:20am PST NEW
    The postmortem begins by laudablepuss 02/26/2021, 7:57pm PST NEW
        Ok, hear me out by Rafiki 02/26/2021, 11:26pm PST NEW
    Rumors are that they are going to completely kill it. by Mr. 3000 and his blob 07/29/2022, 7:38am PDT NEW
        Actually, Google completely backs Stadia. They know cancellations hurt G's image by blackwater 09/29/2022, 11:52am PDT NEW
            A few years ago, we haunted the digital airwaves with a very hard very loud sell NT by Today, no regrets and fuck you all 09/29/2022, 12:01pm PDT NEW
                At least they let their partners know in advance by blackwater 09/29/2022, 7:29pm PDT NEW
                    Those devs lost out on reaching dozens of potential customers. NT by Brianna Wu 09/29/2022, 7:42pm PDT NEW
                        OK Just one more post on Stadia and then I promise, I will let it go by blackwater 09/30/2022, 11:02am PDT NEW
    Looking back at Stadia by blackwater 12/24/2023, 9:06am PST NEW
 
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