Stadia has influence - A positive note

[Chiram]

My cousin decided to pay me a surprise visit and raid my scotch reserves. He's a pretty avid gamer, I wouldn't call him die-hard but he owns an xbox and also a PC. I happened to have a game of metro paused on my dual 65 inch curved upgraded displays. He sat down and goes METRO! I have this on my PC. Still haven't beaten it. So I played a bit, " Oh this is the stadia thing you were talking about". 

"Dang this looks way better than my PC, wow"

I said wanna play something? I quickly switched over to Orcs Must Die 3. Told him to fire up the controller in the charge bay next to him. It booted up the second display. 

His daughter comes around the corner and asks to join, I hand her a controller tied to a google pixel 3A XL. She fires it up and then I show them how to cast display to the other tv. 

They had a blast together. "Yo I gotta get me one of these, how much". I told him the price and he about flipped. "Why are people knocking this?!".

I showed him the phone app. 

He then asked the one burning question that I have no answer to.

"How do you stay connected and talk to people"?

*You don't* Maybe through reddit or forums. There's no way to text or group voice.

"Oh". "I think I will pass then." "That seems very archaic" Let me know when the social part gets useful. 

Stadia has the influence but needs the social integration majorly

[Chufu]

Cool story @Chiram!

Can understand it in a way, messaging is a very big part in online-games, especially when searching for friends or asking stuff, etc. I've read as well somewhere that the code within Stadia apparently has messaging-strings already, which might be an indicator that this is planned or worked on. But I guess we need to have a bit more patience.

Have no doubts thought that this will be introduced at some point to Stadia, the question is just when.

[Babaganuche7]

• @Chufu i don't think anyone doubts that it will eventually arrive. The problem is it's way overdue and whether or not it will matter by the time it arrives. For me it's not as big of an issue, I just use discord, but I understand that for a large chunk of players that NEED messaging to hit up their friends list, if the stadia team takes too long, those players will go elsewhere and all that will be left is us few.