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This Week on Stadia: Play Borderlands 3 for free

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Free stuff! Free Play Days have returned to the Borderlands. From 9 AM PT on Thursday April 8 to 9 AM PT on Monday April 12, play Borderlands 3 free with your Stadia Pro subscription. Vault Hunters… assemble your friends and prepare for all the four-player mischief, mayhem, and madness you can muster. Not yet a Stadia Pro member? Try it free for a month right now.  

If you want to join some of your favorite YouTube Creators in some scrumptious Borderlands 3 chicanery, hop onto the official Borderlands YouTube channel at 11 AM PT April 11 and use Crowd Play to get into the game. Hosting Creators will also be giving away Borderlands 3 Ultimate Edition codes during the stream to select viewers. Don’t miss it!

The Darkside Detective

Point. Click. Laugh. Classic graphical adventure gaming and puzzle solving with a hilarious bent that will keep you chuckling while you puzzle out the clues. Buy it in the Stadia store Thursday April 8 for the special price of $11.69 USD for a limited time.

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV 

In a world ablaze with war, heroes must unite! The members of Class VII return to full-scale battles, political intrigue, and terrifically tuned turn-based mechanics. Dive deep into the latest entry in this hardcore JRPG series. Purchase it in the Stadia store Friday April 9 for $59.99 USD.

Stadia Pro member discounts

Stadia Pro subscribers can save right now with these special Stadia store prices. If you’re signed into your account, you can click here to see all of today’s Stadia Pro deals.

More deals for everyone in the Stadia store

Want to get more games on sale? Everybody can save on these deals in the Stadia store!

That’s it for this week. Subscribe to Stadia’s YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for more news, and see you on Stadia!

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ViviFFIX
Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

Oooh! A Youtube event!

Haven't had one of those in a while!!

ravenanime
Founder
Founder

Pika amazing games  time to get my card out 

Magmaboy1
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Awesome news to hear. The 2 new games seem fun and Crowd Play for Borderlands 3 is a big deal for this free play.

Descenter
Founder
Founder

I love it

TheeMM2K
Founder
Founder

Good Stuff!

 

warchaos84
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

peut ont avoir des jeu de playsation newt gen  comme nier automata le nouveau nier resurection 

des jeux comme nioh /2 des jeux de strategie spacial ect

a2zKiller
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

The Pro sales link leads to umm... just 1 Game?

Classic-Rando
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I really can't even be bothered to think up anything to say about this news, apart from I'm playing Outriders on the Xbox, and I haven't paid a penny.

It's not a special demo to show off the game, I'm just playing the beta game, and anyone with an xbox game pass can do the same.

What playstation and the Xbox are doing, is destroying stadia, with the game pass, I can cloud stream, play games on the console, or on my PC, sure, it costs a couple of pounds more (but the playstation costs less if you pay yearly (even less if you use websites like CDkeys etc), but what you get for your money is not at all comparable, and for those saying you still can't get a console, there are plenty of places with the Series S in stock, I'd say it's worth it until you can buy a Series X, then you can stick one in the bedroom.

Stadia is dying, and things like this post, are it's death throws, it could of been great, but the suits may as well have put the metaphorical bullet to the back of its head with their mismanagement.

Sigh, so disappointing.

So disappointed. 

Chuyqwerty
Founder
Founder

@Classic-Rando Nice to see you back. I like the new profile photo.

Reddeviluk
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@Classic-Rando aside from not being able to spell, you also very misinformed. So you're playing Outriders and it's not a demo.. I'd hope not, you're paying for it every month, just like we Stadia owners were playing Little Nightmares 2 a few weeks ago, for "free" (not free, just using your incorrect parlance). So, basically you're comparing apples to oranges and coming up incorrect. I own PS , Switch and Stadia and seem to be preferring stadia, don't be childish, if you don't like it, don't use it... Don't type tripe, starting out your BS with "I can't even think of anything to say", before saying too much.

Don't like it, don't use it.... Looking at your photo you're far from the 12 year old child you come across as.... It's a toy, a game... Move on.

Deleted User
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I loveee game new game release drops. That Darkside Detective Season 1 news made my week. :red_heart:

rawrhar
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I'm playing through, and absolutely loving, Trails of Cold Steel 3 right now. The game looks awesome on mobile+Kishi controller. I love being able to plays games at this quality on my phone.

Trails of Cold Steel 4 is an instant purchase for me.

 

chubbichibbai
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Wow. Each week there are great surprises. 

Borderlands 3 is so much fun. Hopefully lots of people take advantage of this. 

Nightcrow
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Ooh new pro games on sale.... But just 1 game that also was on sale last week :face_with_tears_of_joy:

But lucky me that is a good thing thanks to in this corona boredom i ordered  a new sofa yesterday :beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:

SQUiDzzz
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Nice!! Youtube Event!! That is amazing great way to get more positive exposure for this amazing innovative groundbreaking pioneering platform! Great for Cloud Gaming! Woohoo!

Chuyqwerty
Founder
Founder

@Classic-Rando Mmmm gurl. Can't wait.

MRLNLY
Founder
Founder

Borderlands has crowd play?! That's awesome!

Schauschau
Founder
Founder

Don't like it, don't use it....

Ah, thats why stadia has a very little playerbase :face_with_tears_of_joy:

To be fair, not every Post can be the best **bleep**.

And the Word "awesome" in the stadia World is like "nah" at other Plattforms :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:

We will see, i will stay Till Luna. And After the Luna Lunch we will see us all there :victory_hand:

Chufu
Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

Time to have a look into boooooorderlaaaaaaands!! :beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Another good week, thanks!

Classic-Rando
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@Reddeviluk

I'm comparing a few free days of an old game, to beta access to a brand new one. 

You can try and twist it anyway you want, but what the Xbox and playstation offer for their monthly fee, is vastly better (in quality, quantity and communication with the customer base) than what stadia offer. 

Prove me wrong, show me the error of my ways, please, I'd honestly love for all this to be some kind of misunderstanding, and that tomorrow I'd wake up, and find stadia is a wonderful service. 

 

Oh and PS, yes I do the occasional typo, I'm 6'4,it's difficult for me to press just one button on my oneplus 8 pro screen (which apart from a tablet, is about as big as phones get), that and auto correct, means sometimes, I'll make an error when typing, if that's your best comeback to defend the actions stadia has taken since launch, it's pretty weaksauce. 

 

DaChoupana
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@Classic-Rando dead silence during the last weeks.....a quite week comes on and you bring your negativity back. Mate, in all honesty, leave stadia and keep using that xbox of yours. I get your argument but it seems that you love to hate on something you don't want to use, don't use it then. It's not that hard. We are speaking about a gaming platform and not about a pension scam you've been paying for 5 years. Don't like it? Then just move on buddy. I think it would do you good. Best of luck.

Classic-Rando
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@DaChoupana 

I point out what I see as being bad in-stadia because I'm invested in it, if they do good, I'll say well done, I want stadia to work, I want the keyboard, mouse and pc software that they were talking about months and months ago before they dropped in house development.

in short, I wanted to be able to do my accounts on stadia, I wanted to use photoshop, and chrome on stadia.

what I got, was a badly run games platform only, and that seems to be being managed straight into the toilet.

I am however invested in stadia, you don't abandon things that you're invested in if you had a child who was behaving badly, would you abandon him, and go to your well-behaved child, or would you point out the bad behaviour?

if you take my comments about the vast difference between how stadia is doing and other platforms as hate, you couldn't be more wrong, it's disappointment, disappointment in something that I thought was going to be special, and ended up letting me down in almost every aspect, but hey, Amazon are on the case now, and they'll probably get it done right in half the time, with the added bonus of telling people about its features etc.

DaChoupana
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@Classic-Rando  fair play man. 

Classic-Rando
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Sorry, but this is just such good timing, I just got an email from playstation Now, informing me that, among other things, I now have complete access to Borderlands 3, the whole game, Stadia are offering "free play days".

Do other people see my point?

Stadia NEED to do better, to COMPETE, to offer a service that doesn't make me laugh at how half assed everything is!

It's either that, or get ready for no Stadia at all. 

DaChoupana
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@Classic-Rando I do see it buddy. But you have to take in account that ps and xbox have had lots of years and #### ups in the industry and stadia is barely a toddler. Dont you think?

Classic-Rando
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@DaChoupana

II completely agree, that's why Stadia needs to learn from playstation and xbox, and what they should be doing, is basically stealing their platforms, and just changing them enough to be legally distinct.

The idea that they're going to create a new type of platform, just means that they are going to run into years of **bleep** ups like platforms like Sega did, remember the Megadrive/Genesis (name may vary depending on where you lived at the time), it was Nintendos main competitor, the **bleep** ups they made, destroyed Sega, almost destroyed Nintendo (and turned them into a niche platform), leaving the sharks Microsoft and playstation to dominate the market.

Instead of learning from this history, and putting out a platform that is proven to work, stadia is metaphorically walking blindly towards a cliff. 

Reddeviluk
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@Classic-Rando 

"Prove me wrong, show me the error of my ways, please"

 

Easily done...I mentioned Little Nightmares 2, which was released free on Stadia Pro for "free" (again, not free).

You replied:

"I'm comparing a few free days of an old game, to beta access to a brand new one."

 

YOU'RE WRONG.

There you go, that was easier than I thought.

I'm 6'6 and manage to type on my phone ok, without error. What is the old saying about a bad workman blaming his tools.

 

If you're not a 12 year old child, I still don't understand why you'd come on here to moan about a service, stick to the Xbox groups of that's your preferred service, coming here complaining about something you clearly don't like is about an childish as it seems, but then reading further apparently you're here quite often doing the same thing. I guess that speaks volumes about you, now you prove ME wrong...

 

Primajin
Founder
Founder

Great! Going forward, can you maybe put UTC times in brackets for easier global time difference calculation in my head :grinning_face_with_sweat:

silentwolf32
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@Classic-Rando Borderlands 3 ultimate was on sale for 9,99€ during Christmas, also when you buy It on stadia you don't need to pay a subscription to play it and there isn't an expiry date like in the ps now.

Gamepass and ps now streaming service is also fare behind stadia as of today (720p, 30fps) in quality. Subscription service is not for everyone, i need a lot of time to finish a game and personally i prefere to buy the game and play it when i want instead

You can use stadia when you want with the game you bought so i can'tunderstand why start a service war here in a news section.

Classic-Rando
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@Reddeviluk

Saying "you're wrong", and trying to twist something I quoted into meaning something else doesn't work, I wasn't talking about little nightmares, I was talking about borderlands, and Outriders, and good for you if you never make the odd typo by mistake, personally, I have big hands, and pressing tiny buttons occasionally results in an error. You really showed me how stadia is outperforming the other platforms by giving away "free play days", on a game that playstation are just giving away.

You can't "own" me like this, rather, you're making yourself look like the child that you are kind of implying I am.

 

When I said prove me wrong, I was clearly talking about the vast difference between a Stadia gaming experience, and that of one on either side playstation or Xbox, but it's ok, I'll let you have a small victory, when I talk about stadia giving away free play days for a game playstation are just giving away, to xbox giving beta access to a brand new game, you can twist it so little nightmares is somehow relevant, good one, you must have had to think really hard to get that gem out.

Anyone sensible, clearly knows what I'm talking about. 

Captcrunch
Founder
Founder

@Classic-Rando Xbox and PlayStation are frantically trying to keep their player base. They see what Google is doing with cloud gaming and understand that if they don't pivot fast, they are done for.

Xbox game pass is not free, you pay a monthly fee for it just like Stadia pro. Plus you needed to invest several hundred dollars on a console...

The downfall of those systems is data storage, you still need to download and store all of those games on your console or PC. Pretty sure COD warzone is now larger than an Xbox hard drive.. meaning if you don't have a ton of external storage you can essentially only play a single game. That is why I left Xbox.. I had game pass and it was great, but I hated deleting games so I could try something new. With Stadia you don't worry about that. I have close to 100 games on Stadia now and I can play any of them at a moments notice, from anywhere, on any device. 

Bottom line, I don't think Google is worried about Stadia failing, people will catch on eventually and understand they are getting screwed with the old school consoles. It just takes some people a little longer to catch up to reality. 

Classic-Rando
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@silentwolf32

Borderlands 3 has been on sale forever, now if you have PS now and PS play (grand total of ÂŁ100 a year, 60 - 70 if you go to CDkeys etc) it's just free, you don't need PS now to have bought it in a sale, just PS play(if you want to play onlibe/multilayer), ÂŁ49 a year, ÂŁ35 if you use CDkeys.com etc, that's the cost of a game, and what you get is so much more than you ever get out of Stadia pro

Reddeviluk
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@Classic-Rando ...I didn't claim to "own" you, just pointing out that you're wrong, as you asked me to, you were, so I did. Happily.

That's twice you've said I've "twisted" something, there is no twisting, maybe you should just up your game, so at least you can complete while trying to put your argument across online. 

I already own Borderlands on Switch, Xbox and PS4, so for me this is pointless. Personally I hope all Stadia users try it, enjoy it and buy it... No twisting there.

Personally I prefer Stadia over the competitors, it's truly next gen compared to an expensive box that costs hundreds of pounds, I hope it goes far, since becoming a customer I'm happily diverting my gaming money and have enjoyed being a customer.

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Classic-Rando
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@Captcrunch

II have 23 gig storage on my PS5, only 3 is ssd, I haven't come close to even filling up the ssd, also, you don't have to keep all your games on your console /pc at once, you can download them when you want to play them, I recently downloaded Outriders, it took 15 minutes, I made a drink and it wae done, wow, such inconvenience.

The streaming aspect of Stadia is vastly overrated, without the game (and player) base to back it up, and guess what it's missing, games, and players. 

Classic-Rando
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@Reddeviluk

When I said prove me wrong, I was clearly talking about stadia being outperformed by xbox and playstation, not one specific sentence, that you twisted into involving a game I never mentioned.

If it wasn't clear for you before, I'll try again, prove me wrong that Stadia hasn't been mismanaged, that it hasn't lost so many users, that it's resorted to giving away CCUs and controllers free at least twice, tell me that codename Sabrina wasn't mismanaged, with devs saying that it would be stadia compatible at launch, guess what, I own 4 of them that sit unused, because the triple layer OS, kills stadia, and the devs don't seem to know how to fix it.

I'll make it very simple, prove me wrong, that you're not just better off investing into a playstation or Xbox than Stadia,

As someone mentioned, I've been quiet for weeks, but when the big news is free play days on a game playstation are just giving away, then I say hey, xbox have beta access to Outriders, one of the big games at the moment, but stadia have free play games on Borderlands 3, wow, can you not see the difference between the 2?

 

Edit.

You clearly tried to "own" me, you did it in the way you pointed out a typo, in your first post, as if it somehow lessened the point I made, and you did it again, when you "proved me wrong" by using a quite from my first post, before you had even mentioned little nightmares, as if I was directly comparing the two, that's how you "twisted" what I said. 

Reddeviluk
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@Classic-Rando 

 

What's the cost of PSNow?... You know they're not "giving it away" don't you, in each of my previous comments I've highlighted this but you seem to be struggling... Again, nothing is being twisted here, but IT'S NOT FREE AND THEY'RE NOT GIVING IT AWAY.

I WAS talking about Little Nightmares 2, it was a counter arguement to your ill informed comment, but because you disagree with it (even though it's factual) you come back with a further comment saying that I'm twisting your comments, it's not twisting it SOMETIMES STADIA ALLOW FREE USE OF GAMES TOO THEIR PRO USERS, maybe alternative games, but they can't please everyone can they, who could... Not Sony, not Microsoft.

"I'll make it very simple, prove me wrong, that you're not just better off investing into a playstation or Xbox than Stadia,"

I have all and Switch but prefer Stadia, so from my point of view, you're proven wrong, I don't expect you to fold and but a stadia or change your opinions, again, it's childish, bit what do you expect everyone to do?

EVERYONE, STOP READING NOW, THROW YOUR STADIA IN THE BIN, @Classic-Rando  HAS SPOKEN, GO AND BUY A PLAYSTATION OR XBOX. 

My opinion would be the exact opposite, buy stadia, it's great, better priced, better hardware, better streaming service than all of the competitors, but you won't agree... NO ONE CARES.  I'm guessing anyone reading this items stadia, is happy with their purchase and enjoying the experience, as am I.

You clearly have the mentality of a Yorkshire Pudding who can't actually hold a conversation without saying someone is twisting something that you disagree with, tell you what... I'll leave it there and go and argue with a child, see if I get a better response, guessing I will.

Classic-Rando
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I see a lot of projection in your posts, you're accusing me of exactly what you are doing, taking things out of context and saying "I'm right".

At this point, you may as well be shouting "I'm rubber and you are glue" to me.

I never said that PS now and pro or Xbox game pass were free, just that pound for pound, stadia I pro is giving away free days, whilst the playstation is giving away the game (among with countless other games etc) and xbox is giving beta access to the big shooter looter of the day (again, along with countless other games. Also if you pay for PS now and plus yearly, they come combined to almost half of Stadia Pro (assuming you have the intellect to buy the passes on offer from CDkeys.com.

You can try and insult my intellect all day long, it's just making you look petty, and throwing a fit because you're angry and don't seem to know how to process your emotions, so insult me, it won't change the fact that Stadia isn't doing so well, and all the fanboys like you in the world, that will put up with the poor service they provide will not save them, because for everyone of you, there are a hundred of me, and I'm someone who wanted to see stadia succeed for gods sake! 

Appelflap
Founder
Founder

Great stuff! Keep it coming :beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Reddeviluk
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Jesus.... Anyone got a potato I can talk too?....I need intelligent conversation.

Classic-Rando
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

The trouble is Devil, that I'm saying one thing, you've come along, and started talking about something else that I don't care about, you don't seem to want to acknowledge my original point, rather you seem to want to point out typos, and change the meaning of what I'm saying, your point seems to be that I still pay for PS now, and I do(if you look, I mention it in the first post), it costs me something like ÂŁ3.50 a month, and for that, I get beta access to the big shooter looter of the day, I don't care about stadia giving you access to little nightmares, PS now give you access to hundreds, maybe thousands of games.

I'm comparing the attractiveness to the average gamer of on the one hand, free play days to Borderlands 3,on the other hand, either full access to Borderlands 3, or beta access to Outriders, if you don't understand that, I can't help you. 

almlof
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

It says ”Stadia Pro member discounts” yet there is one...from last week? Why even mention it at all? Did someone f up?

a1
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

If you really want to make stadia popular, make "free weekends" actually free and don't require a Stadia Pro subscription. Some of us can't wrap our heads around the many wrong strategies Stadia has had since it started. 

Classic-Rando
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Many, many, many wrong things they've made in the past, and continue to do so to this day.

 

ChariotMan
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

This is SICK!!!

Meendogg
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Awesome news for Borderlands 3. I nabbed the ultimate edition on a big sale for $11 as Stadia was trying to gain some solid footing and rise, however,  the multi-player is pretty dead on there as with many of Stadia's multiplayer games. So I'm really looking forward to crowd play, and see how it works. 

JDDOS
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I don't know why anybody is bothering to have a debate with @Classic-Rando ....

Just look at his profile picture. It says it all!

WehypeChris
Founder
Founder

LET'S GOOOO!!!

Classic-Rando
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@JDDOS

Yes, having a picture of yourself, instead of a random cartoon avatar, just screams insincerity!

🤦

Chuyqwerty
Founder
Founder

@JDDOS What's wrong with his profile picture? All I see is alpha male. He will get haircut soon followed by OnlyFans. Don't ruin it for me.