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DARKSTAR
Community Member

Stadia is TRULY a love/hate relationship

I am not asking for tips on troubleshooting. I am merely venting here...

I am a founder. I am a very PROUD founder. I love the concept of Stadia and I am very excited to see how it grows into something solid. However, I feel like I am about to rip my hair out with the constant issues I have with the platform and with the hardware. Let me give a rundown of the issues:

  • Intermittent drops in framerate "lag" on Chromecast and PC on ANY NETWORK "home or office"
  • Controller disconnecting from wireless on a stable home network "Google Nest - 100gbps Fiber"
  • Session expired notification on laptop "Google Pixelbook Go"
  • Game just... NOT starting until I clear all my cookies from a previous session
  • Controller not reacting to input MID GAME "seems to LOVE to do it in the middle of a raid or trials in D2"
  • Plugged in to ethernet solves SOME issues as far as lag, but hardware issues are still the same even if the controller is plugged in with the provided cable or third party cables
  • SO MANY missing features that were supposed to roll out but are still unheard of "streaming, in-game messaging, family sharing, etc..."
  • There are PLENTY more, but I mean... what seems to be the point?

I moved from Xbox to Stadia because I wanted a breath of fresh air and LOVE to be on the bleeding edge. I hate that this is the state of the platform right now. There are some WONDERFUL and non-toxic people that play on here and I WANT TO STAY. I WANT TO LOVE THIS!!

I have communicated with tech support, I have went through the GAUNTLET that is exchanging some hardware, I have REVAMPED MY HOME NETWORK to accommodate Stadia. But nothing seems to fix it... It hurts my heart. All I wanted was something simple that worked. On paper, it sounded great but in reality... it is QUITE complicated when troubleshooting takes up more time than my gaming sessions.

My most recent feedback included a volunteer application to any new behind-the-scenes improvements that haven't rolled out to the public yet. It is my last ditch effort to not give up. I want to help improve this. I want to be able to sell this to even MORE friends and family. But I currently look like an idiot to the people I have had switch to Stadia, and I can't argue with their complaints. We are all experiencing the same issues and I see these complaints unresolved in this community and... it scares me. I do not want this to go away. I do not want people to lose hope.... but dang... Next-Gen consoles are right around the corner, Google. Some serious improvements need to be released or you'll see your player-base drop like a rock and it will be VERY difficult to get them back.

Let me know if I am alone in these thoughts. I want to help and will volunteer my free time to making sure things improve if given the opportunity. Thanks to anyone that made it this far in my rant.

Peace.

@GraceFromGoogle 

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ARGAH
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

You are not alone brother, we all tried to push this but now, actually since around March it's embarrassing to tell anyone you play on stadia, they messed up, I also remember my shock the first clip recorded and had to do like a 5 step process just to upload a clip to YouTube, it wasn't even integrated when on playstation and Xbox you can do it, embarrassing but as long as the Google team can reply to a hundreds of pictures of controllers and whatever screen on Reddit that's been upvoted everything is ok.

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RXShorty
Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

Understand your frustrations... I also tried to love Stadia, somehow it didn't work as well I hoped. Until I took my controllers to my brother and played on a other internet connection (ISP) and it runs without any issues.

When I got home got the same internal setup but different ISP.

Contacted the ISP a lot of times because yes I got the bandwidth I pay for but the latency was not all that good.

They fixed the neighborhood network infrastructure and now I am able to enjoy Stadia as it should.

Hope you will find your issues why it isn't right for you.

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ARGAH
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@RXShorty the playing games works perfect for me but is that all we want, all consoles play games perfectly but in 2020 that is not enough, stadia works if all it is to play games on, so does blacknut gaming but they don't try to be a "console in the cloud" they just play games instantly.

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