Thinking this over last night. And again, my feelings are the same. First let me say that I am fully invested and dug in with Stadia.
I am not in the least concerned about games that we are losing that never existed. At the end of the day it is what the service offers me and what I get out of it.
Over the past few months I have spent more time online with my friends playing stadia, than i have in person years combined. It's been amazing. Every month we add another person or two to our group. These are men in their 40's who don't typically game. But the service makes it so easy and the experience is nearly perfect. But at some point, they are gonna get bored of Sniper Elite.
So I guess what I am frustrated by is still the difficulty finding what and when games are coming to the platform. Things to be excited for. Ways to keep my fair weather gaming friends interested in playing. Most of what we are getting now are things that were promised at launch or almost a year ago.
I would be happy with even a vague schedule. I don't know. Anything to keep the momentum. People are excited about the new Resident Evil. We are supposed to be excited about Madden, two weeks before the Superbowl.
Whatever, thats my opinion that no one asked for.
I feel the same way, I just can't see stadia surviving now, no other major contributor in the games market doesn't have originals/ exclusives.
This has really put me down. It just seems a bad business move in every way
Stadia without a cloud native trajectory looks like a GFN full of weaknesses.
Where is the long haul, the long term vision.
This is a risky move for all future products of alphabet as it give credit to google's graveyard septicism...
I'm not going to buy any new games for now. Let them finally come with a roadmap, more connect, more transparency. This project just took a massive dip in consumers trust.
And, with the exception of Founders, trust in the project was already very low. Starting to creep up after Cyberpunk + new features at the end of 2020, but this has absolutely tanked its public perception which I can only assume was intentional.
what Stadia also needs are exclusive games and a vision. For me it is not a vision if you just want to be a platform for other partners.
It Show one Thing. Google still dont believe in stadia. For Build up a product u need money. Google dont want to invest it.
I will give stadia one more year. After that we will stay on reddit and will discuss how bad Google is, without games, saves and so on.
For me it's a standard product life cycle decision. The problem is that is not how gaming works. You don't need only money and good software engineers. You need great partnerships with publishers and you need a plan what is your key selling point. Exc. IPs like sony? Gaming Hub like steam? Unique Hardware like Nintendo? Only cloud gaming with old hardware, it's not enough for core gamers and not for casuals. Cloud gaming will be the future but only with an great ecosystem for devs, publishers and gamers.