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Viriato
Founder
Founder

New Country Blocking

Hey guys,

Huge Stadia founder here, day one pre-order and continuous Pro subscriber.

I've moved out of the UK a few weeks after i received my founder's edition.

In the country where i'm living at the moment (Portugal) i was able to play and buy Stadia games without any issues.

I've around 14 games bought in the Store, and i can tell you that latency wise the experience was seamless.

In the last two days i've been getting blocked out of the Stadia website and without understanding what was going on i contacted customer support.

It seems that Google sneakily added blocking to the Stadia website to anyone accessing from Portugal without a previous warning or any apparent reason. Support told me that since it is an unsupported country there's nothing they can do and they have "no news to share" at the moment.

I'm now blocked out of all my game library that i've builted and used without a single issue for a FULL YEAR.

This is my warning to all of you guys, as much as i like Cloud Gaming be wary if Google wants they will just block you out and give you no apparent excuse besides "fill our feedback form".

It was a sad day for me, for sure...

Take care

@ChrisFromGoogle @GraceFromGoogle 

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Chufu
Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

I've mentioned it already in this thread, but I think the problem is that it was lucky before that people were able to play Stadia even when being in an unsupported country. Now that this is not possible anymore it's of course bad for the people who were using this, but on the other hand side this was intended from the beginning on, that it shouldn't be possible to play Stadia in an unsupported country (for whatever reason).

Still hoping for you that it will be supported soon in Portugal, but as the customer support already mentioned to you, best here you can do is letting the developers know with the feedback form that you want to see it in Portugal.

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Whito
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

stop promoting VPN

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