I, along with many others, have expressed frustration with the lack of transparency regarding the platform's roadmap and games coming to the platform. The lack of transparency from the stadia team regarding what games are coming to the platform is as frustrating as it is disappointing. My remote is starting to collect dust, and I'm afraid my attempts to get my friends to join me in stadia (I gifted six remotes to different people) have failed. I'm not sure what about stadia's business model prevents the team from being transparent and giving us timelines and titles that we can expect; but what I will say is that I have tried to reach out on so many different avenues to get answers and have just been met with silence. It does not feel like stadia values their customers, or is even listening to what their base is saying. I mean seriously, how long have we been asking for a search bar in the app. That is not a hard thing to develop, yet it is consistently one of the most requested features. Stadia's disconnect from their community and the lack of transparency is appalling and atrocious. I don't think I will be renewing my pro membership until more games arrive or until stadia becomes more transparent with their roadmap.
It would be refreshing for stadia team member or a representative from Google to at least explain to us why stadia does not value transparency as a company value and why they cannot give us answers to questions like "where is madden?" "Where is FIFA?" "Is rocket league or GTA 5 being planned for a Stadia release" "why are my NBA 2K rosters outdated and infrequently updated?"
These are questions that have been consistently met with silence. Along with the lack of receptiveness to basic feature suggestions, like a very simple search bar, I no longer feel like stadia is the beloved community that the Google team is pretending it is.
Stadia is also not being transparent enough about it's future availability in other countries. For example, i am still waiting for a precise date about when Stadia is going to be made available in Turkey. Aside from an answer about how hard it is to make it happen, i did not hear anything else about this issue for more than one year - since the end of 2019 and throughout 2020.
Exactly! There are so many examples, just like this one, of the Google and stadia teams being absolutely silent. Maybe I'm missing something, but I can't really think of anything that would inhibit transparency other than company policy. Stadia has put so much work into its PR & public image; it's a real shame that we're seeing it slowly go down the toilet.
Silence still from the Google team. Can someone please address this? @GraceFromGoogle
Fully agree.
Thank you for chiming in! I am hoping we can get this thread to gain some traction so they have to address it.
Game industry is, as many others business, full of non-disclosures and NDA. Do you pretend Google Stadia shows all its future plans to competitors?
About games, in some case they're in a similar situation, maybe. Yo only need to see the Capcom infiltration issue. I'm pretty sure Google Stadia would love to shout they are going to have that games. But probably the contracts signed have some type of NDA. With games that they said they're coming Fifa, Madden, probably is a developers issue. Actually now is not the best time to developers :D.
About inside games, when you have a franchise, you can publish new games for years. If you are making a new franchise, you cannot publish it, because competitors can burn it first.
I understand your complain, if you really finished all games you like in the platform. But seriously, don't expect Google Stadia shout in public all theirs future plans. ![]()
I appreciate a good devil's advocate. They announced Madden and FIFA almost a year ago. they provided no updates on the timeline or roadmap for those games other than the announcement and the delay for FIFA. The affairs that they are public about they do not communicate to their community. They're not receptive to basic demands from the community such as game recommendations, and simple features like a search bar. You saying that stadia has ndas and competition doesn't really make any sense to me. Maybe you can elaborate a little bit on that point, or fix the grammar.
Stop all the search bar BS, please.
This has been said a BILLION times before, however, I will said it again:
The reason why there is no search bar is pretty clear (always has been): forcing the user to scroll down into the Stadia store. Marketing, basically.
@Dragondeath "The reason why there is no search bar is pretty clear (always has been): forcing the user to scroll down into the Stadia store. Marketing, basically."
This statement has no logic behind it. Why, you ask?
Because forcing people to do something they don't want and/or need to do in the first place to buy and use something, when there is a quicker, better and more efficient way of doing the same thing - such as a search bar, will only push the potential customers away.
In my opinion, if Stadia becomes available in Turkey in the future and there is still no search bar and filter options for me to use to find, buy, and play the games that i want to play in the first place; i might as well just use Steam to play games. Yeah, user experience is important.
Stadia has learned the hard way that transparency causes bad press. Talking about plans, dates, features - all came back to bite them. In the end of year post John Justice acknowledged that - they will simply announce features at the point of release.
As for game releases - to my knowledge, with the exception of pro games that launched as such, the publisher has always been the one to announce dates of Stadia launches.