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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
feisalm32
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Hoping to buy standard version fifa 23 tomorrow you give bad news its finished. Now good piece of technology the fact I didn't buy console it was alternative. Its shame hope. 

Grimo
Founder
Founder

Grazie per gli anni passati assieme ragazzi!

revolutions are often not understood immediately, I have been a revolutionary from the beginning. Thank you!

ChiikenBeacon
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I am really sad to hear that stadia is coming to an end. I really think that this platform was way ahead anyone else and I'm sad to see it go. 

 

For what it's worth, thanks everyone at Stadia, your work made a difference. Thanks. 

Enzo2003S
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

What's going to happen with Gylt and pixeljunk raiders now? Just lost media?

waspharderfast
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I can´t believe what I'm seeing this evening... I loved Stadia from the beginning and I never imagined this ending. Why didn't anyone fire Phil one day in the past? Very sad, what a pity.

WatchingLeader
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

At least activate bluetooth for the stadia controllers and make chromecast with google tv compatible with games from google play . Only few games are playable. But please consider this too, to work on a marketing strategy before shutting down.

For this short time period i was able to enjoy the service i have to say a big thank you. 

NyteRazor
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

So that means all these free games Stadia Pro members got every month since the start of Stadia  are going to disappear?  Devastating to say the least.

Znipster
Founder
Founder

So long, and thanks for the all the fun times. :slightly_smiling_face:

OpticBlastForev
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I'm gutted :disappointed_face: :disappointed_face: :disappointed_face: thank you all for 3 great years.  From the first moment I played the test years ago, AC:Origins I think. I knew I would love it.  I bought 3 of the pro sets, extra controllers, blrg!!!!  I have a Chromecast ultra and stadia controller in every room, FLIPPING DIP THIS SUCKS!  I'm thankful for the great times, and thankful for google trying something like this.  I would legitimately pay $50+ a month to keep access to my games, I'm sure it takes millions to keep the servers up, but ughhhh.  

I'll miss you, Stadia.

ModoXenomorfo
Founder
Founder

Thank you for all the support you have given over the years. It has been a bad taste in your mouth that you close and more than I trusted Stadia above all, the project. I sold the other platforms to continue focusing on Stadia. Thank you for this time

Aggerzz
Founder
Founder

:sleepy_face:
Thanks for the memories 

MAXT3R
Founder
Founder

It's a shame that Stadia could have been so much more than a glorified "remote play".I was really hoping for killer applications with hundreds of players, as well as true 4k60fps.

 

Well, you know what they say about over promising and under delivering!

 

Too bad :disappointed_face:

TheQGuru
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Love the way you shut down Stadia. Just as I thought things were getting going. But in typical Google fashion they just decided to shut things down without any warnings to subscribers and apparently without any though. Instead of shuttering the service down maybe they should have approached Ubisoft to take over management and operations of the service. As a founders Ubisoft+ subscriber I thought there plan offering was an option incredible deal even though it was an additional $20 a month. If they were to have taken over Stadia I would have been prepared to pay a higher price for additional Stadia services...

Just another example of Google thinking only of themselves. Thankfully it happened today as I was just about to go out and buy a new 55" TV with Google TV builtin just so I could really enjoy playing Stadia. Now I will just get rid of all my Chromecast equipment and buy myself a new 55" Amazon OLED Fire TV and switch to Luna so that I can.continue to enjoy playing my Ubisoft games...

PS Do to your actions you have lost me as supporter of all Google products and services. Will be switching to iPhone and iPad and iWatch when I upgrade my cell services next year. Really tired of supporting self serving companies like Google.  I hope more people like me finally have had enough of your broken promises and decide to switch to Apple and Microsoft...

Prof_Soggy
Community Member

So can we just start refunding all our games today? Cause that'd be a lot of money their losing.

Macd1977
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Sorry to see the service go and I personally loved not having to splash out huge on a console to get high quality gaming. Guess i will be now once the refund has been issued...rip stadia, hopefully don't refer to this as hilariously as the ouya II

HelixPlaysGames
Founder
Founder

See you in the clouds everyone! :red_heart:

MercerTwiSky
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Ii find it weird that they just released pro game and then moments later there shutting down? ima wait a bit before i take stock in this post

Tixelpip
Founder
Founder

Super glad the refund stuff is going ahead, at least feels like it makes up somewhat for the roadmap never really turning out. It's been fun, been here since Day 1, but sadly it didn't turn out the best. Onto the future I suppose! Farewell, Stadians.

Cappomutato
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

You know, I'd happily forgo any type of refund if you'd unlock our controllers so that they can function as normal Bluetooth controllers. If you could turn it into a Luna controller, all the better. I'd hate to see these wind up being trash just because blah blah blah legal thinks protecting marginal IP is better than avoiding waste or whatever. Oh well, put it next to the Ouya, I guess.

Suckit
Community Member

That sucks for the people that used the service. Sorry for them. 

 

However I did enjoy the hardware. I'm sure there's some controllers left. Please let me buy a couple since they're my favorite controllers! 

FoxSoul
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

This sucks, I use stadia every day and now idk what I'm going to do. I use stadia as my main gaming platform

Wayren
Founder
Founder

I just wish I wasn't surprised. 

Dice_for_Death_
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I guess consumer sentiment determines what lives and what dies, but I appreciate what #TeamStadia tried, and while the service worked marvelously and made this awesome community what it is, the consumer will remains fickle. I feel the tech space has lost something special with today's announcement. None of the competitors feel like they offer a service quite as solid, quite as resolved as a platform. Integrated messaging, achievements, tracking with profiles of certain game metadata; it felt complete, and every odd announcement hinted at neat evolutions of the tech further powering Stadia's future. But, again, today happened.

I want to thank all of you for making this possible; each engineer, team lead and community member - Stadia felt magical because of the sincere humanity behind it. The corporate decision, coldly calculating with emphasis on profitability, I'll never embrace, but that's one brick in pharaoh's pyramid. **bleep** IT!! But what a wild ride it was. I wasn't excited about tech quite as much before Stadia, but Stadia gave me the console experience with a browser or a dongle that I had often easily forgotten was there. And that felt like something technology was trying to achieve - to go beyond the dependency on boxes, hard drives, and wait times. We lost something special.

Love you for trying. I'll sorely miss this space in gaming. 

Best of luck to everyone personally affected by today's news, within or without of Google.

-Not a founder, but a Stadian nonetheless.

Falcon
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I’d like to update my previous statement. I’m very disappointed that Google did not support Stadia. However, I’m very appreciated to all the employees and staff on the Google Stadia team that worked so hard to give us an amazing platform. I’ve enjoyed the service very much for the last few years and I’m sad to see you go. It is not in the staff google stadia. Default using Google itself. Maybe with pandemic may was cost cutting maybe maybe business management. We all unfortunately will suffer with this great life.

You created in industry that you will not be able to participate in.

Airey
Founder
Founder

This is the worst news. I have to break the news to the kids that they can't play those games any more, PJ Masks, Cake Bash, Dragons and the rest. Their custom stickered stadia controllers worthless. 

In the new year I will be replacing their Chromebooks with Linux machines, ditching Google One for offline phone storage, replacing the android phones with e phones and dropping my Gmail account from existence once the refund comes in. DuckDuckGo has already replaced Google as my default search engine.

I'm sorry to say but the haters were right, Google can't see anything through. The best I can do is shield the next generation from their whims. I will never trust Google again.

Do No Evil.

What a load of nonsense.

RagingSamurai
Founder
Founder

Going to miss Stadia but I’m glad Google is refunding people. That’s a great move on their part. 

LiquidSnake2142
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Will you guys at the very lest before the shutdown time, update the Stadia controller to allow it to connect to other devices over Bluetooth like PCs, Android, Apple, ext. I for one( even it's just a few of us), actually like the controller but having to always keep it plugged into my Laptop or Android Samsung Galaxy fold 3 5g is kinda annoying. 

CloudKing26
Community Member

I have bought every car you can buy plus a massive amount of accessories and upgrades to them on Crew 2. Do I get all those back? 

Leon2165
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Myself, my wife and my daughter thank the Stadia team so much for an amazing 3 years! It was fantastic to play games together during our insanely busy schedule and love that your were here for us. 

Although saddened, I hope your experience will lead to a bigger and better product in the future and we can all come back to enjoy the awesome games or whatever is next!

Warmest Salutations,

-Richard & Family 

MrPointToProve
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Add Stadia to the Google graveyard 🪦 This is just sad. Google needs to stop killing great products. Or at least learn how to ADVERTISE to get more users.

TokiTokiPrii
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I am so incredibly sad it's shutting down. We've amassed so many games, the whole family plays. Stadia plays so well :pensive_face:

This seems so out of no where.

Could you reconsider Google?

Randy1011
Stadia Player
Stadia Player
  • Wow I can't believe this! Outer body experience... I'll miss it that's for sure. 
Hostile
Founder
Founder

Please Google, do not give up on this tech! Maybe it's not viable yet for gaming... at least not how you tried it with Stadia as a business model, but consider its commercial and military applications for much lighter drones. Consider car alarm systems that can upload video images to the cloud whenever you're pulled over or in an accident, where the footage cannot be confiscated and destroyed by anyone. You guys have so much potential with this tech that is unrealized. SO MUCH!!!

I get that Google is a research company, but please, as a tip... do not neglect the end user experience. This is a constant frustration as a long time Google customer. Google home, nest, Fi... I use MANY google products and much of it is way too confusing for the end user. This included Stadia for many reasons. 

This isn't over. Rethink, regroup, retry. I'll be there when you do.

OasisVic
Founder
Founder

I will never forget my time with Stadia..

Danrulez129
Founder
Founder

After making Stadia my primary gaming platform go to back in 2019. I will miss it greatly. I am back to Xbox :pensive_face:

 

But me and my family have enjoyed all the times we had play all the family games and all that time playing band having fun together. 

 

Even though Stadia is coming to an end those memories I had will live on. Thanks again for the 3 years of fun. 

vetcloudgaming
Founder
Founder

Team Apple #AppleArcade #Apple #iOS

vetcloudgaming
Founder
Founder

Hey Google, "Why did Google Cancel Stadia?"

vanian
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Sad to see it go, I thought it was excellent.

However...you'd better refund to the payment method. Don't you dare try pull something like giving us Google credits! Do it properly.

Blazan420
Founder
Founder

Very sad day, I loved being a founder and was ready to enjoy a winter being able to use the service. I really hope someday we can see this service again.

Prenge
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Been a loyal pro subscriber with kids which played more than I did. This has shattered my trust in all things Google/Alphabet. I was really looking forward to playing the expansion to CyberPunk, now I hope to find a way to transfer my saves to another platform and re-purchase the games. 

All the anger and frustration aside, I will have many good memories of playing Stadia on whatever device I could. It was also fun seeing what crazy devices others were able to get it to run on. 

Grinsekatze93
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

What service should I now take?

Does the controller work with GFN or xcloud? And how.?

vetcloudgaming
Founder
Founder

@Grinsekatze93 The Stadia controller works with xcloud, GFN, Amazon Luna, Boosteroid Cloud Gaming. I have used the stadia controller with all those services. The way to get it to work, is to have it plugged in via usb cable.

WatermelonLove
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

**bleep** you, Google!

Crakos
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I don’t know what to say . Yes I am sad to see this amazing work going away . During all my high school you helped me make friend on the night I can’t tell how many good people I have trough stadia .

I was finally able to play game on a good quality on my old laptop. Now I am gonna be alone , on voice call with my friend all playing and me watching.

 

thanks you @StadiaTeam for all your hard work . Thanks you for this amazing concept and all the new features that everyone was waiting . Thank you for all this free game week where could try game .  

 

thanks you again for this 3 year of intense and happy memory . 


SonWill
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

This really blows for someone that's been deep into this gaming platform. I've enjoyed playing stadia each day and have put so much time into each game and told many people who joined cause they seen me enjoying it. It really sucks this is really gonna just up and leave. Can't enjoy nothing these days... Thanks for all the good times. I guess you gotta say goodbye. This is the last Google thing I'll invest time in. It's for real like losing another good pal. I give up manz. Let me know when I can get that refund. Maybe Xbox will stay long enough to not disappoint. 

WatermelonLove
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Thank you to the Stadia team, developers and players.

In the first week of August, I bought a Nintendo Switch. I never dreamed I'd buy another console again, especially after not owning one since 1994, when I sold a SNES and games to buy my first computer. But I finally got sick of the news that games that should be on Stadia weren't coming. NBA 2K had long stopped coming, and now Madden wasn't coming. Still no NHL or any baseball game.

I bought 120 Switch games in less than two months and even started buying some, in the past week, I have on Stadia. It's as if I could feel the news coming, just like how I felt a nudge to buy a hand-size Washington Redskins helmet (oh, the memories of the glorious 1982–1991 run) the night before the news broke that the team was dropping the name, with merchandise being pulled immediately.

I even caved and bought a PlayStation 5, just so I could play NHL, my all-time favorite game, as it was clear it was never coming to Stadia or Switch.

So long, Stadia.

I am happy that Google is giving refunds. If it didn't, I'd abandon Google for everything.

VRTalon
Community Member

I've been trying to make Stadia work with varied results on my Starlink connection for a long time now.  Life happened and now i have a cable modem.  Just when I was about to be able to make full use of the investment I've made in controller(s), chromecast ultra(s), and membership, this happens.  It is very unfortunate because it's such a great idea.  It must have been too much risk/effort to make it a profitable idea.  I'll wait to see what happens, but it seems like  at least they're going to step up and refund we who chose to take the chance.  Thank you for that, and I am sorry it didn't work out.

Edee
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Stadia had always been my favorite cloud gaming service. Was really looking forward for offers on games like Village and little nightmares. It always managed to run really smoothly on slow internet speed, but I guess not anymore. This is a really dissapointing day for me..... :disappointed_face:

Whito
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

OK

wally7335
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

:coffin: R.I.P.  -  Stadia - On the crowded Google Services Graveyard as #199 of the “killed-by-google” Service-Grave. Hope you got a nice spot, perhaps between Google Hanghout, or Google Play Music, or Inbox, or Google+, or…… oh well. Too sad….

It has been a pleasure to me to play with you - always. Hope you are doing better in the place you are now. Google didn’t love you enough and let you down. A shame. 

Good luck to you, Stadians - and I wish all the best for the community, and the great Stadia Staff. You are great and you did an excellent job. Hope Google found a new and nice work environment for you all.

Cheers - I am signing off.

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