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They did, they always said that they would refund the games if the service shut down, but i guess they didn't make it clear enough, marketing was horrible and onboarding / interface was awful. It's crazy how amazing the service was, but how terrible they handled everything else.

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They were asked repeatedly, in several interviews starting from the day they announced it, and they always sidestepped the question entirely. At some points they even framed it as the customer or interviewer being afraid/not ready for the future and other patronising ways of saying "clearly we simply won't ever shut down" instead of answering the question.

> It's crazy how amazing the service was

It wasn't amazing though. GeForce NOW is so much better, at least for me. Higher resolution, more responsive, better selection of titles.

I'm an early adopter of cloud based GPUs. I've tried them all. Inn the last ~6 months GeForce NOW has finally made it so I can play AAA titles seamlessly. I can't tell the difference between local vs. cloud. Your experience may differ if you play competitive online games, but for single player games -- it's replaced any desire I have for a gaming PC.

GFN has the better quality nowadays, but back when they both launched it was pretty similar. However GFN 's UX has always been subpar because their abstraction layer over Windows regularly leaks - I've had Windows crashes which resulted in lost game progress, I've had to reauth, including random password and MFA to game launchers, shortcuts doing the wrong thing on the wrong layer.

No it's not, Geforce now is rubbish and more expensive.

I tried it yesterday and it crashed within 30 seconds after multiple issues and the image quality is far worse than Stadia, it also doesn't have all the nice features Stadia has.

I was using Geforce now when it was beta, but you can tell it's just streaming a PC, where as with Stadia everything was purpose built and worked great from Chrome.

Geforce now sucks compared to Stadia.

Nah. You may be using it wrong.

> always said that they would refund the games if the service shut down

Link? I remember lots of people asking about this at launch and I don't remember there being a public statement from Google.

Do you have a source for that, that they had said that from the start? This is the first I've heard of it.

It's amazing to see that, for how good Google is at software engineering, it's horrible at products & follow-through.

Like, look at the ongoing train-wreck that is the messaging (Gtalk/Hangouts/Chat/RCS/...) strategy.

They cleaned up the chat mess, at least. Only Chat and RCS ("Messages") now.

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