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I’m more surprised that many people are still using stadia to be honest. I thought Google have been winding it down for some time.

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I use it at least multiple times a week. It's awesome.

It is currently awesome and could remain awesome at any other company then google.

Same here. Super convenient and works flawlessly with my connection

Yeah that's exactly what I was going to say. Surprised anyone thought Stadia was a good idea (both internally at Google and customers thinking it was worth trusting their hard-earned cash to buy games that only live within the walls of the chocolate factory given Google's long established track record of pulling the rug out whenever people come to rely on them in that fashion).

I think we need to backport "rugpull" from the crypto world to describe shutting down services that people have invested in.

I don't even use Steam's cloud save feature. Too many stories of game servers or other data servers disappearing over the years. I'd rather rely on myself to backup my saves, even if I'm not that trustworthy of a custodian of this. At least if I lose something it's my fault.

As a bit of a "privacy nut", I'm more careful about what I leave on other people's servers than most people I know, though, so I acknowledge I'm not anywhere near the median on this.

Stadia controllers bundled with a Chromecast are (often) less than the cost of the Chromecast on its own and come with 1 month free. So not exactly a big risk to take.

The risk is not the cost of the controller or the subscription service fee it's the cost of the games which for AAA is $60 a pop. People who bought those games on Stadia will soon have nothing to show for it.

My understanding is subscription services from Microsoft, Sony and Epic give free games every month which you own once you have downloaded them. By contrast Stadia is a subscription which gives you the right to play games on their servers but you have to purchase the games first, and if the servers get switched off (as will soon happen) all you have afterwards is a dead controller and your memories.

I tried using it once to play a game that wouldnt run on linux. However, it was laggy as hell and crashed every 20 minutes.

They did give me my money back, at least.

James says their winding down has, "escalated to a higher tier of support..." ;p

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