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Dour_power
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Family sharing

Is this ever happening or what? It's getting ridiculous at this point to be honest. 

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Chufu
Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

Agree with you, "early 2020" as announced 2019 is over by far.

Still sad though to not hear any communication about it, something like "Hey guys, we're sorry we couldn't give it earlier to you, but we're actually thinking about bringing it around XX.XX.2020/21" that would be great, just to set expectations. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Matt1
Founder
Founder

Or at least to give some level of insight into what the issues are with getting it sorted...e.g. technical, legal, etc.

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Nuriel
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I have to agree with you. I hope it is coming with Stadia's birthday. There is some code already in the Stadia phone apps showing support for a family subscription where you can buy a game once and share it with family members. I bet what is taking so long is not only the Stadia Team's general slowness and horrible timing marketing-wise, but also game studios being arrogant with their licensing stuff. But the Stadia Team once said it would come in 2020, let's hope they can make it true.

I'm also beginning to worry that Stadia is heading in a dubious direction seeing the lack of reaction to the console launches and a new Chromecast without Stadia and ethernet connection. There's something seriously wrong in Google land if you ask me. 

 

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Nuriel
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Family sharing is now here but it is not what I had hoped for. It is nice for single player games but you should understand that families like to play multiplayer games together. Now players cannot play the same game at the same time. Why not have a family pro plan where you are able to play games together as a family. Pricing can vary according to the number of users in a family. Off course the total amount a few percentages lower than the number of pro subscriptions. 

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Matt1
Founder
Founder

But you can still play all local multiplayer games locally....family sharing wouldn’t give you another licence to play a game so why would you be able to play the same game at the same time without buying a second copy of the game? You couldn’t do that on any other platform...

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Nuriel
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Nintendo lets you play the same game on a primary switch and your secondary switch. The user on the primary switch can play the game and I can play with my user the same game on the secondary switch. So you have one license and two players. Now this is not something that I would promote but surely it should be possible to have similar functionality where your family members basically can play the game at a reduced license cost. 

Another example is Spotify family subscription. Each family member can play the same song at the same time there too. Now it kind of sucks if you want to play a multiplayer game you share with your family. You can't play together on each their device and account. Each family member has to buy the full game. Surely a family of 5 doesn't buy the monopoly board game 5 times for the full price. 

Surely people will reply that it is all workarounds and not comparable but think about it from a publicity and marketing perspective. The way things now are okay but it doesn't make me run to stadia shop to buy full licenses to all the games I want to play together with my family members. 

Also "You couldn't do that on any other platform".... Honestly..... If companies are all going to do what others do there isn't much progress. If Stadia wants to get or stay ahead in the gaming streaming market you cannot sit there and copy what others do. You should have other companies wanting to copy your ideas. 

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Matt1
Founder
Founder

I don’t agree with your analogies. Online services like Spotify as far as I know charge more for a family subscription than a individual subscription (at least I’ve use Apple and Amazon Music and both work like this) so you pay more for family members to play the same thing at the same time. For the switch I didn’t realise that, but then again you have to buy a second console to make it work - here you don’t buy a second stadia pro subscription. And surely with monopoly a family isn’t going to play on 5 separate TVs or devices potentially in different rooms?! Why wouldn’t they play on one screen remotely! In any case I think the fact here is it’s a licence with the developer and not a Stadia permission issue...not sure how or why developers would agree...

but I do agree with you about change. Yes you need new ways to do things and new ways of thinking about things for progress. If they offered what you want I think it’d be great, but I don’t think it’s a reasonable expectation rather a great upside if they were able to do it!

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THEDUDE247
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

:face_with_rolling_eyes::face_with_rolling_eyes:Some people will never be satisfied....

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