I was lucky enough to be a Founder member which is awesome. I love the service, the fact I can take it anywhere and play it, and I have been broadcasting this to all of my fellow gamers. I know that the game library was lacking for most people who had they Xbox or Playstation 2 convert over, however they were always really jealous about me being able to play it anywhere. I had a game day at a bar that I work in and hooked the stadia up to the television there so that people could play some games that I had and it went great. Hotels are starting to discontinue having TV service or having like a Roku. I've seen more Chromecast in hotels so that you can cast your own stuff. How cool would it be to be able to rent a stadia controller from a hotel room for children that are staying with you. That way they have access to the growing Pro library at the hotel you know pay for that service. There is so many ways and directions this service could go and I would hate to see a thing.
For me, I am not much of a group of gamer or play games with people so the library that I was building was games that I would play overtime as I had time to play them. So I'm really bummed that not only is stadia shutting down oh, but they're also getting rid of everything. I think it would be cool with the games that I have that don't need updates to just still have the service and I can have access to those games and play them as I will. For me paying the minimum stadia fee would be enough to at least keep that going. I mean I have lots of games that I pupurchased to play later. I think if we can have a petition to maybe provide that option to our members oh, that would be great. I think a lot of people would appreciate that the things that they bought they will have on the server that can play on the server whenever they want just knowing that knew things weren't going to come out or updates weren't going to be available.
What do you all think?
@LatentwolfKc there are a few petitions already going on
https://www.change.org/p/keep-google-stadia-alive
https://www.change.org/p/save-stadia
As much as I'd love for Stadia to continue on as I've been here from day 1 and have been heavily involved in the community, I don't think any kind of petition would work.
Even if Google did cancel the wind down, the damage to reputation has been done and they will have lost the trust of the customer base. I doubt there's even anything Google could do at this point.
Let it go. Take the refunds and buy Steam games to play on GFN, Steam Deck, PC etc. The flexibility is there and more varied.
Even if Stadia survived, I for one wouldn’t feel comfortable in purchasing another game now. The damage is done, time to move on with fond memories to more established services.
With the much ballihooed death of Stadia from Day 1, it was always destined to never get the traction it needed (despite Google's best efforts to sacrifice it from the beginning and continued missteps). There isn't any other service currently like it (in my opinion) but there are certainly other options out there that you can sorta game on like it. The needle won't get moved much in gaming now, but that seems to be what the gaming industry and community always wants overall.