Google is shutting down Stadia, will refund all purchases made on the service

tatumanu · Sep 30, 2022

I played RE Village on stadia , because my pc could not handle it, and had fun and the service was decent enough for me ( as long as I was using Ethernet). But yeah far from perfect so I’m happy about the refund, although I do believe streaming can be viable alternative if done well. Wouldn’t Google risk a lawsuit if they didn’t refund ?

kisamesama · Sep 30, 2022

when Stadia was about to launch, I was saying wait for google to cancel it... but it lasted longer than I thought...

Spider_Man · Sep 30, 2022

Exactly why people should stop supporting these digital platforms.

You dont own shit
Your throwing money away for shit you dont own
The service can be pulled at anytime and again, you dont own shit

Stop funding these greedy companies wanting to maximise profits by cutting costs, because you never see them reduce its cost.

And all your doing is paying to lend a game, when they decide its not making money for them, they can pull it.

Where as, if it is physical you own it forever, so dont support digital and give consoles the excuse for them to maximise profits and go digital only.

Guacaholey · Sep 30, 2022

X3gold said:
So a nonsense I and others can not necessarily afford a PC for a few thousand there is the cloud alternative really handy as in my case GeForce Now.

You don't need to spend a few thousand to build a PC. You can run everything but the most unoptimized crap on a PC that's like $800-$1000 USD. You won't be playing maxed out 4K 240 FPS, but you'll be able to make most stuff be playable (you might have to settle for low-mid settings).

Minox · Sep 30, 2022

The reason Google's new products never gain any traction is because Google always abandons their new products.

Marc_LFD · Sep 30, 2022

mrdude said:
That's even worse - I wonder if they made any money? It blows my mind on why anyone would ever pay for this.

A few honestly liked and they thought it'd survive despite.

Unsurprisingly, it has been added to Killed by Google.

VashTS · Sep 30, 2022

all digital is the issue. gaming can't sustain on no physical media. the streaming part is fine, but we need options.

Bladexdsl · Sep 30, 2022

Guacaholey said:
You don't need to spend a few thousand to build a PC. You can run everything but the most unoptimized crap on a PC that's like $800-$1000 USD. You won't be playing maxed out 4K 240 FPS, but you'll be able to make most stuff be playable (you might have to settle for low-mid settings).

why even bother might as well get a ps5! if your not willing to go big to get max results on a pc than stick to consoles

Maximumbeans · Sep 30, 2022

Well, refunding purchases is very sound. That's more than I'd have expected.

Spectremint · Sep 30, 2022

Honestly, this is literally the most accurate, on point example of Google's product philosophy. If it doesn't become stupidly popular on day one, Google calls it a flop and stops supporting it after a year or two.

As someone who actually used Stadia on occasion, it worked surprisingly well, and I think that the Stadia controller is a fantastic piece of hardware (although I don't actually own one, but my stepbrother does) and the ability to use a web browser to play cloud games is a neat concept.

Dimensional · Sep 30, 2022

Chary said:
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How many people get to exclaim that they called it? Because in January 2023, Google will be shutting down Stadia, its cloud streaming game service. Stadia launched back in 2019, and allowed users to purchase games through the service, and have them streamed to their device via the cloud. It also offered a subscription service that cost $10 a month, and featured 4K resolution support and a library of free games each month.

Things began to get shaky for Stadia in early 2021, following the departure of the project's VP, and then the prompt closing of all internal Stadia game development studios. After the decision to not develop any indie games in-house after that, it was reported that Google paid "ten of millions" of dollars to secure AAA Stadia ports. Back in July of this year, the official Stadia Twitter account assured fans that it was not shutting down amidst rumors and reports that the opposite was true.

Google's reasoning behind shutting down Stadia is that it never gained the traction that the company expected it to. Anyone who has purchased any Stadia games will have until January 18, 2023 to play them, and after which, the service will be shuttered. Customers that made any purchases, whether it was Stadia games, add-on content, or even hardware, will be fully refunded by the end of January 2023.

Source

Articles are stating you get full refunds if you made purchases through Google or the Stadia store. That doesn't necessarily mean you get a full 100% refund, and very likely won't get one with purchases made elsewhere, such as redeeming a code.

LainaGabranth · Sep 30, 2022

a32bitmint said:
Honestly, this is literally the most accurate, on point example of Google's product philosophy. If it doesn't become stupidly popular on day one, Google calls it a flop and stops supporting it after a year or two.

And if it is stupidly popular, it gets killed because of critical API bugs that expose user information. There's really no winning with this dogshit company.

Spectremint · Sep 30, 2022

LainaGabranth said:
And if it is stupidly popular, it gets killed because of critical API bugs that expose user information. There's really no winning with this dogshit company.

cough cough Google+

Xzi · Sep 30, 2022

Not at all surprising that it's being shut down, but I am well and truly surprised that they're giving out refunds. No other game streaming service has done that, to my knowledge. Then again, no other game streaming service has had the kind of funding that Google does.

MikaDubbz said:
One day a streaming only system will be a great viable product for the masses that could be future-proof, but we're still a long ways from that time.

Why streaming only, though, when Steam's options for game streaming are already perfectly functional and give the user far more control over their own experience? Seems like trying to reinvent the wheel for no good reason.

linuxares · Sep 30, 2022

Minox said:
The reason Google's new products never gain any traction is because Google always abandons their new products.

Honestly, the Stadia was DOA. It should have just been a Xbox Game Pass type of service.

codezer0 · Sep 30, 2022

Minox said:
The reason Google's new products never gain any traction is because Google always abandons their new products.

Google has this mentality that everything has to be an immediate smash hit, or they can't even pay attention to it long enough to make it a viable product.

That stuff like Gmail and YouTube has lasted as long as it has feels like the same level of lighting in a bottle fortune as it was for Zuck to create Facebook all those years ago. But now we have investors who think everything has to be profitable or it doesn't deserve to exist ever.

MikaDubbz · Sep 30, 2022

Xzi said:
Why streaming only, though, when Steam's options for game streaming are already perfectly functional and give the user far more control over their own experience? Seems like trying to reinvent the wheel for no good reason.

Oh I'm with ya, heck the Switch can both stream and play propper copies you own. That would be my ideal system when the means to cloud game is actually reasonable no matter where you go. I'm just saying that if some dev truly wants to only be a cloud-based system, I do think at some point in the future everything will finally align for that to be completely viable. But going after it when Google did was still much much too early.

Taleweaver · Sep 30, 2022

Full refunds? Damn... I should've gotten one.

Seriously though: i think i called it ahead of its time. All this "waah... You don't own your software" comes from a demographic that was never the target. They said the same thing of steam, and look where that ended up being. All stadia really needed was a stubborn demographic to try it out rather than dismiss it in advance.

Okay... USA's third world country network infrastructure doesn't help. But ey... Lots of other markets.
Haven't tried it myself, but my nephew(roughly 25 upon its release) called it the future of gaming. I'm kind of sad that it isn't, though the steam deck seems more robust than this.

depaul · Sep 30, 2022

What a miserable failure.

Marc_LFD · Sep 30, 2022

Taleweaver said:
Full refunds? Damn... I should've gotten one.

For a cheap ass controller it was well worth it. I love it.

Unfortunately, you can't use it wireless unless someone figures out a solution as Google made wireless exclusive to the Stadia service.

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