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What today’s message about Stadia means for players

StadiaTeam
Stadia Employee
Stadia Employee
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Stadia players, you may already have seen the message shared on Google’s main blog just now. This is a short recap of the most important information for players from the main post:    

 

  • You will continue to have access to your games library through January 18, 2023 so you can complete final play sessions and move your progress to alternate platforms where possible.

  • Commerce functionality (the ability to buy games, new subscriptions, add-ons or in-game purchases) on Stadia has now been disabled.

  • Google will offer a full refund of all Stadia hardware purchases (Stadia Controller, Stadia Founder’s Edition, Stadia Premiere Edition, or Play and Watch with Google TV Package) made in the Google Store and all purchases of games and in-game transactions made in the Stadia Store. 

  • The refund process will take us some time to complete, and we expect to have the majority of refunds completed by the middle of January 2023. Please allow us until this time before contacting our support team regarding the status of your refund(s).

  • Stadia Pro subscription payments will not be eligible for refund, but if you are an active subscriber, you will continue to have access to your library without charge during the shut-down period.

 

As we begin the work of processing refunds to customers, Stadia customer service agents will not be able to provide more information to you at this time. For information and updates, please review the information on our Help Center, which will include new information as it becomes available. We’ll also contact players directly via email shortly with more information.

 

We want to thank you for taking this journey with us: in particular, the Founders and fans who have been with us from the beginning. The Stadia team poured the same passion for games into our work building and supporting Stadia as you have shown us each day in your play. 

 

Posted by Stadia Team

423 Comments
KonquererDon
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I would love to give you kudos but I can't ...

I had amassed a massive library of 250+ games now.

I was so hyped after seeing HOT WHEELS up on Pro Line-up and for nothing ...

But I did have a good 3 years. Thank you!

Back to Xbox then

Marxally
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

My best wishes go to the Stadia Team. Thanks for these 3 years.

lordkensal
Founder
Founder

Gutted..... Big thanks to Stadia team over last few years. I've had a blast ,....

bmatthew1
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Sad to see it come to an end, I've been playing regularly for a couple of years. Recently however I've been spending more time on 'GeForce Now' because of the ability to play games like Fortnite.

xPredatord
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

It will be hard to get back into gaming. I will probably never be able to do it

cereal
Founder
Founder

Very sad day. Sad to see Stadia go.

BoopCatt
Founder
Founder

Well I guess with all the refunds I'm about to get I'm going to go buy a new series X, it's a shame I have to rebuy all these games tho

RXShorty
Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

Going to miss all of this. 🥺

KoshkaBelka
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Im going to have a breakdown rn

I was playing eso on stadia and it sucks to see my 50 bucks get lost in this game bc i wouldn't be able to play it anymore. I hope to get my money back, but thank you stadia, for introducing me into those games. 

Amphoterism
Founder
Founder

Can't have a successful platform if you don't have AAA games to run on it. Stadia never got the latest games and it killed off this amazing piece of technology for us to use. 

LordSuricato
Founder
Founder

I go back to Xbox

Gian
Founder
Founder

Horrible news, Stadia was just ahead of its time. 
Will miss booting up my games immediately in any device I wanted.

Thanks for these past 3 years full of joy. 

RJS
Founder
Founder

Ouch.  I haven’t played Stadia in a while, I thought Google would hold the line because the industry has so much money up for grabs.  But I was wrong.

WolfeSagas
Founder
Founder

It has been an awesome ride, truly. Stadia is what kickstarted my streaming and It will always be awesome to me! I do hope that the tech is used in the future, and as I've said before, A founder and supporter til it dies!

Too many people hate Google for no reason and sought to see it fail, and it seems they won, but oh well, the tech has been proven and Google forced Nvidia and Microsoft into the cloud gaming scene.

Appreciate you all at Stadia!

Blackgem
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I don't want to talk much, the best platform, the one that worked best, and that I will have her and her community in my memory forever. I always had hopes that it would become another product accompanied by a bigger one, but the decision has been made. For my part, I will continue recording videos and enjoying myself while I can.

Beachy
Founder
Founder

This is obviously devastating, but thanks for the few great years and I'm sorry it was for nothing. 

JohanCali
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Thanks for all great work and leading the business to become more cloudy :slightly_smiling_face:

Stoked4Good
Founder
Founder

:loudly_crying_face::loudly_crying_face::loudly_crying_face:

JamieLeeWV
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Don't care about refunds, money doesn't get me my time back does it? 3 years wasted. Thanks for nothing. Won't trust a Google product ever again. 

 

You should refund people straight away and why aren't you refunding Stadia Pro subscriptions? Absolutely terrible 

Spider
Community Member

Sad that it didn't workout.  It's a good service but people and companies just have little trust.

Lxapeo
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

A sad day I hoped wouldn't come. Thank you for doing the right thing with refunds. I had great times through these years. Please unlock Bluetooth on the controllers so they can be used wirelessly with other devices?

KillaTeam
Founder
Founder

So basically all the nay sayers were right? Sheesh way to go Google. This is extremely disappointing. Add this one to the Google graveyard as well

TheRigger
Founder
Founder

Sad that this could've been huge with a few tweaks at the beginning. But thanks for sticking through the toughest parts! It was clear it wasn't going to make it after this year's though...

 

Had a lot of fun on the platform! I just wish more games had cross progression 

RinzlerTron
Founder
Founder

Such a shame I love it and had such great fun with it over the years. Thanks for all the memories

Captcrunch
Founder
Founder

Wow... Just wow... Will I be receiving full refunds on all the games I have purchased as well? I have a backlog of 200 games to get through I'm very upset about this. Thanks for proving all the haters right, you had so much potential...

rolexdpracer
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I really enjoyed the platform. I'll miss it for sure 

TDCinHI42
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

This sucks! Stadia has been my only platform for new games. It's lightyears ahead of all the competition. And I had lots of games! At least I'll get a nice refund, but still, I'd rather be able to keep playing Stadia. Definitely the saddest day in gaming for me :disappointed_face:

Barclay
Founder
Founder

tnx anyway for 3 great years, cloud IS THE FUTURE, sadly is that google is not a part of it. bye

Doghouse
Founder
Founder

Gutted. I loved the service. To the hard working staff behind the scenes, thank you for giving me my favourite gaming system for the last three years

Finne
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

That's really sad.

I have a new credit card now how would the refund work in this case ?

javactive
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Why? :sad_but_relieved_face: Stadia was the only the best cloud gaming platform and the best cloud gaming service! 
Google don't kill Stadia.

Ericstreameru
Founder
Founder

**bleep**, now I need to go back to playing on pc or consoles with updates and crap. Also a pc consumeing much power and generating heat.  

i wish you could have expanded faster to other countries... maby it would generate enough money to make stadia profitable.

JoDN
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

This hurts on so many levels. I really loved being out and about playing my games on the go. I really saw the future of technology and gaming as a whole through stadia. I could see massive tournaments and YT integration were going to take the world by storm. I really think y'all should give it one more year. Shoot for a massive multiplayer title like Battlefield or Star Wars Battlefront that really take advantage of your servers. to bring in New Players and hire influencers to promote the platform. Hire me to do the Marketing. Ill do it for free. Just don't let stadia die. 

Ivan
Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

One thing to emphasize

Q: Are you refunding my Stadia Pro subscription? 

A: We will not be refunding Stadia Pro subscriptions. Players who held an active Stadia Pro subscription as of September 29, 2022 will not be charged for access to their Pro library or other subscription entitlements during the shut-down period.

Most of you probably cancelled Pro after hearing this news today (like me), but most likely your end date will be sometime in the next month, which means you will still have access to Pro games until official shut down in Jan 2023.

Yes the news sucks, but might as well take advantage and enjoy the games to the max. Let's go out with a bang!

Kane
Founder
Founder

Welp, that sucks. Appreciate all the work y'all did. Been here since day 1 and it's been fun playing AAAs on my phone and then jumping them to the TV, airports etc. 

Good luck in your future endeavors, Stadians and the developers.

o7

 

 

JAQK
Founder
Founder

Aw, god **bleep** it. Thanks, Stadia Team, you did your best with what you were given.

razfaz23
Founder
Founder

It was awesome while it lasted and I was hoping for the Proton-like Windows binary emulator that was announced and in the making to be the game changer 

Stadia devs and team have done a great job. Thank you for the dedication and awesome time. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Sadly, Phil Harrison doesn't appear to have a vision and the audacity for what Stadia was heading towards...or overall gaming industry. GFN or Xcloud it is than I guess.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Raz

FangerZero
Founder
Founder

I didn't use it often but I kept my pro membership all this time because I believed in what Google was trying to do, and then all the others really dug their heels in and made their own services. Thank you for proving that the technology exists for this market, I only wish there was a better way so that more games were available. I know there's Nvidia but I don't like the one-sidedness they would provide where I felt stadia owned by Google was more "open"

Stainamar
Founder
Founder

Its been a ride and an interesting concept.

Best wishes from now on

mentalist
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

show me the money

MatchooW
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

All in store purchases? Even ones with cross platform support? Wow.

AgentShield
Founder
Founder

Sad news indeed. Stadia has been my go to gaming platform since it came online and it will be sorely missed. A product that was in some ways ahead of its time that the media never gave a fair look at.

Merlin
Founder
Founder

I am extremely disappointed, not that I haven't seen this coming this last year. I thought Google had changed, i talked about stadia as a platform for players that goolgw wouldn't give that up. This will literally be the last time I will ever recommend anything from Google, and i will start to leave this platform, f a company that do this to its platforms... I want everything I've ever spent on this platform back, games subs and my founder edition back..

Valhyr
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Well that's a shame

Ithuviel
Community Member

Noooooooooooooooo!! :face_screaming_in_fear::loudly_crying_face::loudly_crying_face:

Matt1
Founder
Founder

Best gaming concept I’ve seen. What a shame, it worked so well for me, but the lack of games was always a problem.

Basdardos
Founder
Founder

Sad sad news :disappointed_face: 

 

If this turns out to be a really mean trick for Halloween I will hunt you all down and give you a slap .......:rolling_on_the_floor_laughing::rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:

 

Seriously though .,one thing that hasn't been said ...is why?

Artfulthinkr
Founder
Founder

You literally just proved to everyone why they didn't take stadia serious in the first place! They said it was just a project and will shut down. The stadia community chose to believe and support you all for this?! Such a joke! I should have never put a dollar and invite my friends to join. I spoke so highly of this platform only to look stupid. Thanks Google

BUDEVOLLPEOPLE
Founder
Founder

This is sad.

dak
Founder
Founder

I thought for sure the Logitech Cloud G and new Razer thing was a good sign for cloud gaming, or was XBox Game Pass the actual killer?

All this refund money -- a few games, a wasabi controller, and a Founders edition -- will be going straight to Valve I guess. I was really enjoying Stadia on my Steam Deck. 

Nice wired controllers, wish they were able to activate the Bluetooth before their service dies. 

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