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Stadia players, you may already have seen the message shared on Google’s main blog just now. This is a short recap of the most important information for players from the main post:    

 

  • You will continue to have access to your games library through January 18, 2023 so you can complete final play sessions and move your progress to alternate platforms where possible.

  • Commerce functionality (the ability to buy games, new subscriptions, add-ons or in-game purchases) on Stadia has now been disabled.

  • Google will offer a full refund of all Stadia hardware purchases (Stadia Controller, Stadia Founder’s Edition, Stadia Premiere Edition, or Play and Watch with Google TV Package) made in the Google Store and all purchases of games and in-game transactions made in the Stadia Store. 

  • The refund process will take us some time to complete, and we expect to have the majority of refunds completed by the middle of January 2023. Please allow us until this time before contacting our support team regarding the status of your refund(s).

  • Stadia Pro subscription payments will not be eligible for refund, but if you are an active subscriber, you will continue to have access to your library without charge during the shut-down period.

 

As we begin the work of processing refunds to customers, Stadia customer service agents will not be able to provide more information to you at this time. For information and updates, please review the information on our Help Center, which will include new information as it becomes available. We’ll also contact players directly via email shortly with more information.

 

We want to thank you for taking this journey with us: in particular, the Founders and fans who have been with us from the beginning. The Stadia team poured the same passion for games into our work building and supporting Stadia as you have shown us each day in your play. 

 

Posted by Stadia Team

Comments
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I would love to give you kudos but I can't ...

I had amassed a massive library of 250+ games now.

I was so hyped after seeing HOT WHEELS up on Pro Line-up and for nothing ...

But I did have a good 3 years. Thank you!

Back to Xbox then

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

My best wishes go to the Stadia Team. Thanks for these 3 years.

Founder
Founder

Gutted..... Big thanks to Stadia team over last few years. I've had a blast ,....

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Sad to see it come to an end, I've been playing regularly for a couple of years. Recently however I've been spending more time on 'GeForce Now' because of the ability to play games like Fortnite.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

It will be hard to get back into gaming. I will probably never be able to do it

Founder
Founder

Very sad day. Sad to see Stadia go.

Founder
Founder

Well I guess with all the refunds I'm about to get I'm going to go buy a new series X, it's a shame I have to rebuy all these games tho

Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

Going to miss all of this. 🥺

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Im going to have a breakdown rn

I was playing eso on stadia and it sucks to see my 50 bucks get lost in this game bc i wouldn't be able to play it anymore. I hope to get my money back, but thank you stadia, for introducing me into those games. 

Founder
Founder

Can't have a successful platform if you don't have AAA games to run on it. Stadia never got the latest games and it killed off this amazing piece of technology for us to use. 

Founder
Founder

I go back to Xbox

Founder
Founder

Horrible news, Stadia was just ahead of its time. 
Will miss booting up my games immediately in any device I wanted.

Thanks for these past 3 years full of joy. 

Founder
Founder

Ouch.  I haven’t played Stadia in a while, I thought Google would hold the line because the industry has so much money up for grabs.  But I was wrong.

Founder
Founder

It has been an awesome ride, truly. Stadia is what kickstarted my streaming and It will always be awesome to me! I do hope that the tech is used in the future, and as I've said before, A founder and supporter til it dies!

Too many people hate Google for no reason and sought to see it fail, and it seems they won, but oh well, the tech has been proven and Google forced Nvidia and Microsoft into the cloud gaming scene.

Appreciate you all at Stadia!

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I don't want to talk much, the best platform, the one that worked best, and that I will have her and her community in my memory forever. I always had hopes that it would become another product accompanied by a bigger one, but the decision has been made. For my part, I will continue recording videos and enjoying myself while I can.

Founder
Founder

This is obviously devastating, but thanks for the few great years and I'm sorry it was for nothing. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Thanks for all great work and leading the business to become more cloudy :slightly_smiling_face:

Founder
Founder

:loudly_crying_face::loudly_crying_face::loudly_crying_face:

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Don't care about refunds, money doesn't get me my time back does it? 3 years wasted. Thanks for nothing. Won't trust a Google product ever again. 

 

You should refund people straight away and why aren't you refunding Stadia Pro subscriptions? Absolutely terrible 

Community Member

Sad that it didn't workout.  It's a good service but people and companies just have little trust.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

A sad day I hoped wouldn't come. Thank you for doing the right thing with refunds. I had great times through these years. Please unlock Bluetooth on the controllers so they can be used wirelessly with other devices?

Founder
Founder

So basically all the nay sayers were right? Sheesh way to go Google. This is extremely disappointing. Add this one to the Google graveyard as well

Founder
Founder

Sad that this could've been huge with a few tweaks at the beginning. But thanks for sticking through the toughest parts! It was clear it wasn't going to make it after this year's though...

 

Had a lot of fun on the platform! I just wish more games had cross progression 

Founder
Founder

Such a shame I love it and had such great fun with it over the years. Thanks for all the memories

Founder
Founder

Wow... Just wow... Will I be receiving full refunds on all the games I have purchased as well? I have a backlog of 200 games to get through I'm very upset about this. Thanks for proving all the haters right, you had so much potential...

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I really enjoyed the platform. I'll miss it for sure 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

This sucks! Stadia has been my only platform for new games. It's lightyears ahead of all the competition. And I had lots of games! At least I'll get a nice refund, but still, I'd rather be able to keep playing Stadia. Definitely the saddest day in gaming for me :disappointed_face:

Founder
Founder

tnx anyway for 3 great years, cloud IS THE FUTURE, sadly is that google is not a part of it. bye

Founder
Founder

Gutted. I loved the service. To the hard working staff behind the scenes, thank you for giving me my favourite gaming system for the last three years

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

That's really sad.

I have a new credit card now how would the refund work in this case ?

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Why? :sad_but_relieved_face: Stadia was the only the best cloud gaming platform and the best cloud gaming service! 
Google don't kill Stadia.

**bleep**, now I need to go back to playing on pc or consoles with updates and crap. Also a pc consumeing much power and generating heat.  

i wish you could have expanded faster to other countries... maby it would generate enough money to make stadia profitable.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

This hurts on so many levels. I really loved being out and about playing my games on the go. I really saw the future of technology and gaming as a whole through stadia. I could see massive tournaments and YT integration were going to take the world by storm. I really think y'all should give it one more year. Shoot for a massive multiplayer title like Battlefield or Star Wars Battlefront that really take advantage of your servers. to bring in New Players and hire influencers to promote the platform. Hire me to do the Marketing. Ill do it for free. Just don't let stadia die. 

Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

One thing to emphasize

Q: Are you refunding my Stadia Pro subscription? 

A: We will not be refunding Stadia Pro subscriptions. Players who held an active Stadia Pro subscription as of September 29, 2022 will not be charged for access to their Pro library or other subscription entitlements during the shut-down period.

Most of you probably cancelled Pro after hearing this news today (like me), but most likely your end date will be sometime in the next month, which means you will still have access to Pro games until official shut down in Jan 2023.

Yes the news sucks, but might as well take advantage and enjoy the games to the max. Let's go out with a bang!

Founder
Founder

Welp, that sucks. Appreciate all the work y'all did. Been here since day 1 and it's been fun playing AAAs on my phone and then jumping them to the TV, airports etc. 

Good luck in your future endeavors, Stadians and the developers.

o7

 

 

Founder
Founder

Aw, god **bleep** it. Thanks, Stadia Team, you did your best with what you were given.

Founder
Founder

It was awesome while it lasted and I was hoping for the Proton-like Windows binary emulator that was announced and in the making to be the game changer 

Stadia devs and team have done a great job. Thank you for the dedication and awesome time. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Sadly, Phil Harrison doesn't appear to have a vision and the audacity for what Stadia was heading towards...or overall gaming industry. GFN or Xcloud it is than I guess.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Raz

Founder
Founder

I didn't use it often but I kept my pro membership all this time because I believed in what Google was trying to do, and then all the others really dug their heels in and made their own services. Thank you for proving that the technology exists for this market, I only wish there was a better way so that more games were available. I know there's Nvidia but I don't like the one-sidedness they would provide where I felt stadia owned by Google was more "open"

Founder
Founder

Its been a ride and an interesting concept.

Best wishes from now on

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

show me the money

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

All in store purchases? Even ones with cross platform support? Wow.

Founder
Founder

Sad news indeed. Stadia has been my go to gaming platform since it came online and it will be sorely missed. A product that was in some ways ahead of its time that the media never gave a fair look at.

Founder
Founder

I am extremely disappointed, not that I haven't seen this coming this last year. I thought Google had changed, i talked about stadia as a platform for players that goolgw wouldn't give that up. This will literally be the last time I will ever recommend anything from Google, and i will start to leave this platform, f a company that do this to its platforms... I want everything I've ever spent on this platform back, games subs and my founder edition back..

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Well that's a shame

Community Member

Noooooooooooooooo!! :face_screaming_in_fear::loudly_crying_face::loudly_crying_face:

Founder
Founder

Best gaming concept I’ve seen. What a shame, it worked so well for me, but the lack of games was always a problem.

Founder
Founder

Sad sad news :disappointed_face: 

 

If this turns out to be a really mean trick for Halloween I will hunt you all down and give you a slap .......:rolling_on_the_floor_laughing::rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:

 

Seriously though .,one thing that hasn't been said ...is why?

Founder
Founder

You literally just proved to everyone why they didn't take stadia serious in the first place! They said it was just a project and will shut down. The stadia community chose to believe and support you all for this?! Such a joke! I should have never put a dollar and invite my friends to join. I spoke so highly of this platform only to look stupid. Thanks Google

This is sad.

Founder
Founder

I thought for sure the Logitech Cloud G and new Razer thing was a good sign for cloud gaming, or was XBox Game Pass the actual killer?

All this refund money -- a few games, a wasabi controller, and a Founders edition -- will be going straight to Valve I guess. I was really enjoying Stadia on my Steam Deck. 

Nice wired controllers, wish they were able to activate the Bluetooth before their service dies. 

Founder
Founder

🥺 I am having a hard time finding the words to describe how I feel about all this. It's a lot, you can't imagine how I will miss this platform and the community we were all part of. :loudly_crying_face:

Why did we even get a new UI just to kill it in a few months ? :skull:

I always said that I would play on Stadia until the day came that I couldn't. When that day comes, I'll move on. That's what I'm going to do. I met some really cool people along the way and made some long term friends beyond gaming. 

It was a fun ride and I'm glad it brought me back to gaming. Thank you to the Stadia team and everyone involved for all your hard work. It was fun and I appreciate all the fun we had. 

Community Member

Nobody cares, surprised to see that this **bleep** lasted this long :skull::skull::skull::skull::skull:

Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

I love you all. Made some of my best friends on this platform. 

Very thankful to the team for making it a fun 3 years.  

 

Slightly annoyed with the senior leadership for some decisions made along the way, but on balance, happy.

Founder
Founder

Turns out hope in and of itself was not enough. Current refund is a good start but stubborn founders do deserve an extra imho.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Thank you for the great time! I am very happy with the refund.

 

My assessment is that Sony or Microsoft continue to use the technology. And the Stadia Service has to be discontinued. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Worst news ever in my 40 years gaming

Silver Stadia Guide
Silver Stadia Guide

Definitely devastating news. We've build up such an amazing community. I hope that the Stadia employees get to find something that they're as passionate about. This technology was definitely ahead of its time and I will miss it. Thanks for the 2 years of fun that I had with with platform! I would relive it again in a heartbeat.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Glad to have met so many amazing people who are now friends.  Good times for sure, much love :red_heart:

Community Member

What is the point in believing in ANY Google projects?

There are no words. So I shall just simply leave it as....

 

:disappointed_face: 

Founder
Founder

Gutted.. this is by far the best platform for maneuverability.. It was so awesome to be able to just bring my controller and laptop (or, planned to buy new pixel tablet....) over to friends or family to have gaming sessions.. so sad this is the decision.. 

While I'm disappointed in the decision to shutter Stadia, I'm glad I got the opportunity to pilot such a groundbreaking service. I've felt liberated by the ability to stream some of my favorite games across all my screens, at home and on the go, from plundering in Destiny 2, surviving Little Nightmares, to planet jumping Fallen Order to name a few. I'll miss gaming with my family the most.

Stadia team, if you are reading this, please unlock the ability to use your stellar hardware controllers with other systems.

Thanks again, it's been quite the ride! 

Founder
Founder

I really appreciate the refunds. Sucks to see stadia go. Also if anyone wants to catch me on another system. I am MRLNLY everywhere. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Sad day for people like me that are returning to gaming with limited time to play. My boss will be happy because now when he opens my door office, I will not be playing Outriders!! LOL. The other part of the fault is from Game developers like 2K studios, where Mafia games have glitches that do not make the game continue from a level. Some fixed needed to be made with latency. The marketing was so bad that I had never heard of Stadia. I bought stadia by recommendation from a coworker that told me Stadia was a Netflix for gamers, and that was true. I liked it so much, but that came to an end. I hope the Stadia teams be split into companies that help them grow.

Founder
Founder

It was a good journey especially during lockdown shame it had to end. Eyes on Microsofts cloud venture now.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

This is so **bleep** sad. Stadia plays better than xcloud or any other cloud service. Library sucked but actual streaming and input amazing....this is very sad for me and my son

Founder
Founder

Well this sucks, it was a game changer for me (no pun intended)

Just ahead of its time i guess...... i'm a founder and have paid subscription from the start so approx 33 x £8.99...i never cancelled as i had faith :disappointed_face: .. i've bought 4 controllers with ultra casts and some games inc cyberpunk which i love.........

.......Its been a great time.

I'm truly sad.

I know i'll get refund except the subscription, but i'd rather have stadia.

 

Founder
Founder

 

Peace out Stadia crew and members 

ALL YOU HAD TO DO FOR MAKING THIS IS A SUCCESS IS INTEGRATE INTO GOOGLE PLAY. 

No vision. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Founder
Founder

It's the place I feel most comfortable playing games with my son since it's so hard to find family friendly content. 

Sad day

Founder
Founder

Sad to see this news, the portability and pick up and go without having to wait for updates will be sorely missed for sure. 
Thanks to everyone at team Stadia for the good times while they lasted.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Would've been nice to have known about this before I invested in two Stadia Controllers with chromecast ultras last year.  $100 invested in Red Dead Online, almost as much invested in Elder Scrolls Online and numerous other game titles and a year and a half of Stadia Pro.  With all we've spent here, we could've gotten a PS 4 Pro or Switch.  The only reason we didn't was because being old and on a budget, we couldn't afford to do that.  Thanks for taking our money, driving us out to the desert and tossing us out on the side of the highway.  We can't even go back to playing on PS3, now.  F*ck you, google.

Silver Stadia Guide
Silver Stadia Guide

Terrible, I'm so sorry that Stadia is being shut down, although I've been less active here in the forum as a product expert, Stadia has always been a part of me, it was just cool to sit on the couch and turn on the TV and play games.

Unfortunately, this will no longer be so easy and I think that's a shame :disappointed_face:

In the last 3 years I have met a lot of nice people here and also nice team members at Stadia and it was a lot of fun working with them.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

It is an amazing technology and hopefully in future it will come back.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Google is one big joke at this point. People down voted me so much when we all predicted this literally a year after it came out. I'm glad I didn't invest into the ecosystem. Google is incompetent, lazy, and misleading on everything they do. From software to hardware they can't do anything right. How can consumers trust Google at this point? Pixel 7 series and Pixel watch is coming out. I was thinking about getting the 7,but not anymore. I can't trust Google for anything. Canceling my Google paid services and moving out this hell hole of an ecosystem. I swear they need to get rid of Sundar. I see some legit lawsuits popping up for Google in the future. Google is garbage at this point. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I'm disappointed! Google could have done better! 

Founder
Founder

At least if we didn't have a active pro subscription give us access to the games we claimed before today's news

Founder
Founder

What about the games we PURCHASED on Stadia?

 

Never mind... I was so hot, I didn't read the post properly the first time. 🤷🏾‍:male_sign:

Founder
Founder

Stadia got me back to gaming - it was a light in COVID - I found an amazing community - I joined events and panels - I came out of my shell - I met friends and went to wedding from people I met on stadia - iv had deep talks with hurt people on stadia chat - I've laughed with friends and shared victories with mates across the globe - stadia was a part of my identity - I enjoyed being a part of this world of cloud gaming - I believed it because it worked for me - I would have been much more alone without stadia - I am lost with this news - It is sad - I will be grieving - I have lost a part of myself today - the walls in the world of fun I had come to love have crumbled today 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

So sad :disappointed_face:

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

No pls I understand but where should I move now I just planned to use it for the rest of my life  :-: 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I've played Stadia from last year to now when I heard this news I went full on crying mode that Google Stadia keep me going and streaming on YouTube was fun but now it made me even more sad that it's finally coming to the end. Sorry if I'm crying rn while typing this post up but thank you everyone.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Don't tell me that both of my controllers will just become e-waste? It would be amazing if a firmware update could unlock bluetooth functionally.

You have stolen the jam from my doughnut 

Huge thank you to everyone on the Stadia team for all the hard work you have put in. I've made so many friends because of Stadia and the community is phenomenal. Memories that will stay with me for a lifetime.  

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Truly sad but expected given what a terrible year 2022 has been for Stadia in terms of lack of games and reduced player base. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

This hit me even harder than I would have guessed. Bad pub off the hop doomed Stadia early (thanks for nothing IGN), and even though it was pretty much always awesome, without a strong player base I can see why this decision was made. I will always remember Stadia, especially since it got me through the darkest depths of COVID shutdown. Thank you to all who worked so hard to make Stadia great. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Sorry to see it end, as so many others have expressed over the years, you never really cared about gamers it was all about money. This platform had such a great potential and still does, so why don't you sell it off to someone who can make it work... Glad I did not pursue a business opportunity that would have been dedicated to promoting this platform. Your decision to shutter Stadia is one of the reasons there needs to be greater governmental regulations on companies like yours. Great thing about the US I am sure someone will launch a class action suit against you soon...

Looking ng forward to getting refund for games purchased will be using money to buy Xbox Series X...

PS I recently ditched all my Chromebooks and Android tablets for similar reasons and gone back to using windows and office products exclusively and will be switching to an iPhone when contract renews next year. Thankfully I never bought a FitBit watch, looks like they are going down the same path ad Stadia. May Samsung be your savior because pretty well everyone else has left you behind...

M.Mann the perpetually evolving Mo'Joe Mann and former Stadia Maniac

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@Xevioso did you read the post?

Founder
Founder

@truferblue22 actually I did... AFTER I posted and before you wrote this, lol. I guess I was just so angry the first time around that I missed that part. This really stinks.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Sad day with sad news, but I'm glad it happened. Some good days and smiles. Some small part of me still hopes, but I'm not sure that'll do much. Thank you everyone who has been a part of stadia in the past 3 years.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@Xevioso fair enough. I feel your pain, friend.

Founder
Founder

I have been a founder since this started, and it is disappointing seeing this shutdown. But it shows Google never understood its customers. People got into streaming because they did not have the system to play demanding AAA games. So why didn’t they focused on getting old AAA games like the Witcher 3 if they couldn’t afford newer titles? Why bring indie games that even a potato could run? Google lost a lot of face with this one.

Founder
Founder

Phil Harrison is just the worst person the gaming industry ever had. 

He really made Stadia fail. Wow.

If I don't get back every single payment I made for FIFA Points in FIFA 21,22,23 I'm glad I got a legal protection insurance.

 

**bleep** off 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I cant believe this. From all companies this was one i hope i didnt see happening! So google is the least trust worth company i can think off! U guys and absolute loosers cannot fufill a single promise and now kill the best streaming platform that exists! Stadia was absolute awesome and it needed big games! There was nothing to look forward to! Im in total shock because there are **bleep**ty streaming platforms and they still going for years!!!! 

Founder
Founder

I'm very proud of the Stadia team and very disappointed in Google. Google keeps shutting too many things down. 

Community Member

Sad day. I hope the technology developed will go to a good use somewhere else. Sad the subscription won't be refunded. but I get it, and I got my money's worth out of it. But my hardware and game expenditures are coming back, so I'm good.  So long. I guess the founder's controller will be a bit of a collector's item now.....

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

This one really done it for me! Ill never buy a google product again! This one really pissed me off…

Founder
Founder

Over the years, I believed that this platform would last. There were comments from the trolls and the nay-sayers and I always believed that they were wrong and Google wouldn't invest their time in convincing me to join this community knowing the damage that would fall out if they betrayed this trust.

But that's what I feel. Betrayed.

I defended the company, the platform over and over again and they betrayed me. 

My house is filled with Google smart tech, I'm a premium YouTube subscriber, I pay a premium fee for Google photo storage. I have a Gmail account. I use Chrome and Android exclusively.   And Google has betrayed me.

I've never been a passionate gamer but I was happy to have a great selection of games to play whenever me and the family wanted and now, I'm betrayed.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Founder
Founder

So long and thanks for all the fish.

 

No seriously, I have found the Stadia Pro service to have exceeded my expectations. 

Yes the early days were a bit shaky at times, but my experience of how the platform improved and brought the hardware demanding games to me, even when mobile has been nothing but amazing.  

So again thanks, I suppose I need to dust off my old PS4 that hadn't had the use it once did thanks to you guys and start hunting down some of my favourites from the 200+ Pro games I have had the pleasure of having access to during my time.

 

Community Member

Sad for all the people who poured their time into this. It became pretty clear after the first year the stadia/Google higher ups weren't willing to fully invest in what it would take to give gamers something special for the long term. Stadia will be missed. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Dang. I'm so sad but not too surprised. Very generous to refund purchases. I wish Xbox would let me purchase games in the cloud. There really isn't a competitor that does what Stadia does. And Stadia's cloud is just unparalleled. It works so well! I am so sad that we're backing down from the future! Probably going to have to wait 10 to 15 years for the others to catch up (like freaking Nintendo). I honestly wish Stadia servers would just stay up and running because I love my library there so much! Dang, dang, dang. 

 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Thank you Stadia team by far the best cloud platform it just works and works better then any of the other cloud services that I have tried. Going to miss turning on my TV and playing without a console cluttering up my living room.  Maybe one day you'll be back.  So glad to see everyone able to get refunds I'd hate to lose all the money I put into buying the games.  Well so long Stadia. RIP.

 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

good luck making ppl trust google products in the future! google killed the platform when they shut down GSE!

 

 

Founder
Founder

Stadia you will be miss

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I’m devastated. I rediscovered my love for gaming thanks to Stadia, putting hundreds of hours into amazing AAA games and DLC. All those moments will be lost in time. Like tears in rain. 

Founder
Founder

I only every bought 3 games on stadia but I've been paying for pro since launch. I stopped using it when I upgraded my gaming PC but contrived paying because I believed in the platform and the promises made by Google. Shame that poor advertisement and lack of clarity on what the service was (especially pro being optional) left so many people hating the service without ever trying it. It will be missed greatly. While pro refunds would be nice I understand why it's not happening. Would be cool if us founders that stuck all the way from beginning to end got something to say we were here the whole time.

 

Oh well.

Founder
Founder

@Basdardos they've probably scaled up enough behind the scenes, and with the industry ever evolving, someone at Google somewhere figured out it's more lucrative for the bottom line to license it out commercially for clients to do what have you with. My best guess anyway. 

:clinking_beer_mugs:

Founder
Founder

For me personally this was the last time I paid for any Google service. 
You have disappointed me one too many times by closing services that failed because you didn't put in the time and effort necessary to make them a successful product (like cancelling your game studios before Stadia even had a chance to take off etc. pp.). 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Sundar Pichai if u are reading this..you should resign. You just undermined your pixel 7 release and gutted google big time. This is a massive failure.

Founder
Founder

What a disappointment :disappointed_face: so sad to see.Stadia go! I was under the impression things were ramping up actually 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Really sorry to hear about Stadia, but as others have commented if you don’t have the big hitters in games then you’re always up against the likes of XCloud.

RIP Stadia, at least they are refunding which is the right and moral thing to do.

 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Just got into using it a week ago and bought a controller and games, this really sucks.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

It was a great service with supreme experience. I started playing bigger single player games thanks to stadia. 

Stadia was best cloud gaming platform with seamless experience. I'm going to miss it :loudly_crying_face:

Thank you all for this three beautiful years.

I hope future of cloud gaming will look like stadia.

Founder
Founder

Shame on phil Harrison.

How is it possible to give all thise awfully moves?

Google should fire him the third month after launch.

So dad.

Confidence brocken with Google.

Founder
Founder

Thank you Stadia team for these past three years. I wish you all the very best in your future endeavors. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. *breaths* hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

And yet another cross :latin_cross: on the google-services-graveyard :coffin:

What a shame - but it has been foreseeable for quite some time: Almost no new Plattform features (Raytracing, etc). Almost no AAA games….no commitment from Google side and thus (of course!!) no commitment from gaming studios……

It simply is yet another Google-tragedy.

Sorry Google… you **bleep**ed up……yet again.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

i didn't understand one thing: i bought cyberpunk at full price and so did fifa 2022 and red dead redemption. What will happen to the games that I have purchased regularly? Google says I'll be reimbursed for the hardware ... and for the software? I want to hope that at least they give me the copy for Stream or for Epic Games ...

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Nah, you guys don't get a kudos for any of this. Stadia was my first and (until Ubisoft ditched) favorite cloud service. Easiest to use with great performance. Stadia showed me how great cloud gaming could be, but Google constantly shuts down their best services and I'm tired of it. 

 

It's great I'll eventually be seeing a refund for the $1000+ I've spent on games and hardware, but not even having the stones to give us back our subscription costs? You owe us back EVERY PENNY for this stunt. 

 

Worst part is you did nothing but blame the developers and didn't even try to save Stadia. You let it die. This is YOUR fault, not ours. While GeForce Now 3080 is the best on the market for cloud gaming, Stadia still held a very close place for me. 

 

What's the point in "still being able to play my purchases/games" if all my save files will be killed? Why would I invest another second into it?

 

I subscribe to Google One cloud storage, but will be cancelling immediately. Google can't be trusted with anything nice.

Founder
Founder

I am so sad to hear the news. In my mind Stadia had so much potential...

Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

Sad to see, I was happy with Stadia actually :disappointed_face:

Glad though Google is refunding HW purchases on the Google Store and purchased games!

Founder
Founder

Today must be hard for the team. I want to say thank you for everything during the past (almost) 3 years. It's been unreal. And it is such a shame that it has come to this. I wish you all the best in whatever the future holds for you. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Just because you didn't want to invest like microsoft

Community Member

So sad, ahead of its time and was pushing the “big boys” into the cloud. I wish you all the best Stadia Team, but absolutely gutted!! :pensive_face:

Stadia Player
Stadia Player
  • What does it mean by in game purchases? Like skins, dlcs, fifa points???

I'm absolutely gutted hearing this, Stadia was a release for me from work and life, the community has been great. 

Just bought fifa 23 two days ago too. No point playing if you can't take your fut team elsewhere 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Such a shame. I was able to play modern games without having to spend a fortune on a new console. The gameplay and graphics were great. How didn't that take off?! Well actually the answer is simple, mistake 1: they didn't invest in enough marketing, nobody outside of Google fan base knew about it. Mistake 2: not enough investment in new AAA titles to lure customers over. At least I get my money back. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

It's been fun, Take care everyone. 

thanks for all the playtime 

Community Member

XBox, Playstation, or PC?

Founder
Founder

Thank you Stadia team! You have pushed the envelope on the future of Gaming! It has been a great run!

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Sticked to Stadia pro cause I believed google's denials of rumours about shut down coming. Bought two additional used controllers and paid for 16 months of subscription. Even paid when I hardly had time for gaming, because I believed the lies about building up a library, cause stadia is going to stay.

Stadia was such a great and well designed platform. Just tried to start a session on geforce now and was greeted by a log-in screen for Ubisoft Connect on my living room TV. This is so sad and disappointing.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I love how fast the google graveyard website was updated :face_with_tears_of_joy:

I definitely want to know how refund will work. I’m onto a new card now as previous one replaced or expired.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Devastated this was one of the best platforms going,  the pandemic had a huge impact on things but to just give up like that is really rough, The platform didn't need to be like Xbox or Ps. it was a good 3 years and had a blast but I think this will deter others from investing in future google products 

Founder
Founder

So I'd love to know what kind of timeline we are looking at for full refunds... It's horrible to see this go I've spent so much money here and brought so many people along for the ride. But now I feel like a joke because I stood up and feel like I've been done kinda dirty now....( Again from Google)

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

The best cloud gaming and best technology and just about to expand to more countries and just released fifa 23 and now no one else can purchase fifa. Geez! New UI. All this and then announced shut down. What are you doing? . Things are about to blow up with new stadians. Refunds are nice but Stadia is worth way more than that money! Thank you for breaking my soul. I gave you more than 4 hours a day everyday for years and purchased pro. Thank you for the little time we had together. I'm sad that someone else is gonna rise up to take stadia's spot in the history books. I feel so let down.... 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I have been playing Pubg on Stadia since late 2022. I have made many in-game purchases (over $500) and now want to be able to save my Pubg account with the purchases I've made. I have only ever played Pubg on Stadia, so this is my only account on Pubg. I have really come to enjoy the game and wish to continue playing it, but I want to keep my account. Is there a way to save my account - carry it to a new platform?

 

PS

I've tried to send an email to Pubg, however they cannot recognize my Stadia ID (don't know what my ID is) 

 

Thanks,
AtlasJames

Community Member

First and last time the "founder" badge will show up anywhere.

Not to self: never buy Google hardware, ever again.

 

Peace stadia fam

Founder
Founder

Yeah this sucks. I appreciate all the effort the Stadia team put into it. For the majority of the time I had no issues and it ran very smooth. Loved the games. It's true that there should have been more AAA games but overall I loved the service and kept my sub going til the end. I very much appreciate the refund of purchases. That goes a long way. Was a great ride.

Founder
Founder

Unfortunate stuff.

 

Sadly, Stadia really died on February 1st 2021 when Google announced they were changing directions and gave up on the original vision that held all the long-term potential.

That announcement was a huge surprise and major disappointment at the time after all the positive momentum Stadia was seeing on the consumer side following the launch of Cyberpunk 2077 and how well it was running on Stadia compared to other platforms. Then, a few months later, my boy John Justice left Google. Was sad, and disappointing that the higher-ups at Google these days gave up on fulfilling the original vision of Stadia and having Stadia be a true competitor to other brands like PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

It was good while it lasted, albeit, for a short time.

Nothing like turning on my TV and booting right in to my games without waiting for a console to start, updates to install, etc. Stadia's concept was certainly different than standard PC or console affairs. Disappointed things can't continue on in to the future.

Best of luck to everyone on the Stadia team in the future. 

Deleted User

SMH . Sad to hear Stadia is shutting down . It was fun while it  lasted . About those refunds / reimbursements , Hope I get some google play credit /or a Gift Card because that how I purchased my games . 

Founder
Founder

It's been a great 3 years. Thanks to all the Stadia staff who were so committed to making Stadia my favourite gaming platform.

 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Thank you, Stadia. You did amazing during these years and I ain't never forgetting that!

Cheers. :clinking_glasses: 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Sad news because the platform is great.

Come on Google, do the right thing and enable Bluetooth before your wrap it up

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Für mich nicht nachvollziehbar. Stadia hatte Potential. Stream-Gaming ist die Zukunft. Die Technik ist doch vorhanden? Wieso wird sie nicht mehr genutzt? Wirklich sehr schade. Ich bin enttäuscht von dieser Entscheidung.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Sad to see it come to an end.  Was a new-ish user, and was truly loving the experience.

I really respect how you're going about the shut down; there's only one thing I'd change:  

FIFA 23

We pre-ordered Fifa 23 standard, and my son and I were planning the weekend around a bunch of matches.  If you would have announced this shutdown 1 day later, we would have access to the game (been charged) and would have ~4 months to play.  We'd also have ~4 months to figure out what console/service we want to move to.  

However, from the sounds of it, you're canceling pre-orders; meaning the people who bought FIFA 23 ultimate (3 day earlier access) will have the game and can play for months + get refunded.  For us though, nothing.  

If anyone sees this, would be great if you just honoured the pre-orders (make the game available / no charge) so we can play while we transition.  

That's my 2 cents anyway.  

Wishing the team the best. Thanks for everything.

Founder
Founder

Today's announcement makes me sad.  Through my pro subscription I had entitlements to a wide variety of games, some I played to completion, some I just sampled.  I have spent more time playing stadia than all of the other stream options combined, and it's the one I continually came back to - even with the limitations of not being associated with a local play option. 

 

I'm sad that the product never found "it's voice" - it's obvious that the team put a ton of love into it.  The technology works, and again works better than anything else on the market.  Only the best to those dedicated employees that are moving on to new jobs, that they can bring this level of passion to new projects.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Very sad. But instead of killing a service like you always do, how about for a little change and work on your marketing strategy?

It is not a shame to bring help from outside who knows how to do this.

Me for example dont ever heard of stadia before. I searched for NVidia and my browser recommended stadia and other cloud gaming services.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

:crying_face: you will be missed

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Hoping to buy standard version fifa 23 tomorrow you give bad news its finished. Now good piece of technology the fact I didn't buy console it was alternative. Its shame hope. 

Founder
Founder

Grazie per gli anni passati assieme ragazzi!

revolutions are often not understood immediately, I have been a revolutionary from the beginning. Thank you!

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I am really sad to hear that stadia is coming to an end. I really think that this platform was way ahead anyone else and I'm sad to see it go. 

 

For what it's worth, thanks everyone at Stadia, your work made a difference. Thanks. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

What's going to happen with Gylt and pixeljunk raiders now? Just lost media?

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I can´t believe what I'm seeing this evening... I loved Stadia from the beginning and I never imagined this ending. Why didn't anyone fire Phil one day in the past? Very sad, what a pity.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

At least activate bluetooth for the stadia controllers and make chromecast with google tv compatible with games from google play . Only few games are playable. But please consider this too, to work on a marketing strategy before shutting down.

For this short time period i was able to enjoy the service i have to say a big thank you. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

So that means all these free games Stadia Pro members got every month since the start of Stadia  are going to disappear?  Devastating to say the least.

Founder
Founder

So long, and thanks for the all the fun times. :slightly_smiling_face:

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I'm gutted :disappointed_face: :disappointed_face: :disappointed_face: thank you all for 3 great years.  From the first moment I played the test years ago, AC:Origins I think. I knew I would love it.  I bought 3 of the pro sets, extra controllers, blrg!!!!  I have a Chromecast ultra and stadia controller in every room, FLIPPING DIP THIS SUCKS!  I'm thankful for the great times, and thankful for google trying something like this.  I would legitimately pay $50+ a month to keep access to my games, I'm sure it takes millions to keep the servers up, but ughhhh.  

I'll miss you, Stadia.

Thank you for all the support you have given over the years. It has been a bad taste in your mouth that you close and more than I trusted Stadia above all, the project. I sold the other platforms to continue focusing on Stadia. Thank you for this time

Founder
Founder

:sleepy_face:
Thanks for the memories 

Founder
Founder

It's a shame that Stadia could have been so much more than a glorified "remote play".I was really hoping for killer applications with hundreds of players, as well as true 4k60fps.

 

Well, you know what they say about over promising and under delivering!

 

Too bad :disappointed_face:

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Love the way you shut down Stadia. Just as I thought things were getting going. But in typical Google fashion they just decided to shut things down without any warnings to subscribers and apparently without any though. Instead of shuttering the service down maybe they should have approached Ubisoft to take over management and operations of the service. As a founders Ubisoft+ subscriber I thought there plan offering was an option incredible deal even though it was an additional $20 a month. If they were to have taken over Stadia I would have been prepared to pay a higher price for additional Stadia services...

Just another example of Google thinking only of themselves. Thankfully it happened today as I was just about to go out and buy a new 55" TV with Google TV builtin just so I could really enjoy playing Stadia. Now I will just get rid of all my Chromecast equipment and buy myself a new 55" Amazon OLED Fire TV and switch to Luna so that I can.continue to enjoy playing my Ubisoft games...

PS Do to your actions you have lost me as supporter of all Google products and services. Will be switching to iPhone and iPad and iWatch when I upgrade my cell services next year. Really tired of supporting self serving companies like Google.  I hope more people like me finally have had enough of your broken promises and decide to switch to Apple and Microsoft...

Community Member

So can we just start refunding all our games today? Cause that'd be a lot of money their losing.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Sorry to see the service go and I personally loved not having to splash out huge on a console to get high quality gaming. Guess i will be now once the refund has been issued...rip stadia, hopefully don't refer to this as hilariously as the ouya II

See you in the clouds everyone! :red_heart:

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Ii find it weird that they just released pro game and then moments later there shutting down? ima wait a bit before i take stock in this post

Founder
Founder

Super glad the refund stuff is going ahead, at least feels like it makes up somewhat for the roadmap never really turning out. It's been fun, been here since Day 1, but sadly it didn't turn out the best. Onto the future I suppose! Farewell, Stadians.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

You know, I'd happily forgo any type of refund if you'd unlock our controllers so that they can function as normal Bluetooth controllers. If you could turn it into a Luna controller, all the better. I'd hate to see these wind up being trash just because blah blah blah legal thinks protecting marginal IP is better than avoiding waste or whatever. Oh well, put it next to the Ouya, I guess.

Community Member

That sucks for the people that used the service. Sorry for them. 

 

However I did enjoy the hardware. I'm sure there's some controllers left. Please let me buy a couple since they're my favorite controllers! 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

This sucks, I use stadia every day and now idk what I'm going to do. I use stadia as my main gaming platform

Founder
Founder

I just wish I wasn't surprised. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I guess consumer sentiment determines what lives and what dies, but I appreciate what #TeamStadia tried, and while the service worked marvelously and made this awesome community what it is, the consumer will remains fickle. I feel the tech space has lost something special with today's announcement. None of the competitors feel like they offer a service quite as solid, quite as resolved as a platform. Integrated messaging, achievements, tracking with profiles of certain game metadata; it felt complete, and every odd announcement hinted at neat evolutions of the tech further powering Stadia's future. But, again, today happened.

I want to thank all of you for making this possible; each engineer, team lead and community member - Stadia felt magical because of the sincere humanity behind it. The corporate decision, coldly calculating with emphasis on profitability, I'll never embrace, but that's one brick in pharaoh's pyramid. **bleep** IT!! But what a wild ride it was. I wasn't excited about tech quite as much before Stadia, but Stadia gave me the console experience with a browser or a dongle that I had often easily forgotten was there. And that felt like something technology was trying to achieve - to go beyond the dependency on boxes, hard drives, and wait times. We lost something special.

Love you for trying. I'll sorely miss this space in gaming. 

Best of luck to everyone personally affected by today's news, within or without of Google.

-Not a founder, but a Stadian nonetheless.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I’d like to update my previous statement. I’m very disappointed that Google did not support Stadia. However, I’m very appreciated to all the employees and staff on the Google Stadia team that worked so hard to give us an amazing platform. I’ve enjoyed the service very much for the last few years and I’m sad to see you go. It is not in the staff google stadia. Default using Google itself. Maybe with pandemic may was cost cutting maybe maybe business management. We all unfortunately will suffer with this great life.

You created in industry that you will not be able to participate in.

Founder
Founder

This is the worst news. I have to break the news to the kids that they can't play those games any more, PJ Masks, Cake Bash, Dragons and the rest. Their custom stickered stadia controllers worthless. 

In the new year I will be replacing their Chromebooks with Linux machines, ditching Google One for offline phone storage, replacing the android phones with e phones and dropping my Gmail account from existence once the refund comes in. DuckDuckGo has already replaced Google as my default search engine.

I'm sorry to say but the haters were right, Google can't see anything through. The best I can do is shield the next generation from their whims. I will never trust Google again.

Do No Evil.

What a load of nonsense.

Going to miss Stadia but I’m glad Google is refunding people. That’s a great move on their part. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Will you guys at the very lest before the shutdown time, update the Stadia controller to allow it to connect to other devices over Bluetooth like PCs, Android, Apple, ext. I for one( even it's just a few of us), actually like the controller but having to always keep it plugged into my Laptop or Android Samsung Galaxy fold 3 5g is kinda annoying. 

Community Member

I have bought every car you can buy plus a massive amount of accessories and upgrades to them on Crew 2. Do I get all those back? 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Myself, my wife and my daughter thank the Stadia team so much for an amazing 3 years! It was fantastic to play games together during our insanely busy schedule and love that your were here for us. 

Although saddened, I hope your experience will lead to a bigger and better product in the future and we can all come back to enjoy the awesome games or whatever is next!

Warmest Salutations,

-Richard & Family 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Add Stadia to the Google graveyard 🪦 This is just sad. Google needs to stop killing great products. Or at least learn how to ADVERTISE to get more users.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I am so incredibly sad it's shutting down. We've amassed so many games, the whole family plays. Stadia plays so well :pensive_face:

This seems so out of no where.

Could you reconsider Google?

Stadia Player
Stadia Player
  • Wow I can't believe this! Outer body experience... I'll miss it that's for sure. 
Founder
Founder

Please Google, do not give up on this tech! Maybe it's not viable yet for gaming... at least not how you tried it with Stadia as a business model, but consider its commercial and military applications for much lighter drones. Consider car alarm systems that can upload video images to the cloud whenever you're pulled over or in an accident, where the footage cannot be confiscated and destroyed by anyone. You guys have so much potential with this tech that is unrealized. SO MUCH!!!

I get that Google is a research company, but please, as a tip... do not neglect the end user experience. This is a constant frustration as a long time Google customer. Google home, nest, Fi... I use MANY google products and much of it is way too confusing for the end user. This included Stadia for many reasons. 

This isn't over. Rethink, regroup, retry. I'll be there when you do.

Founder
Founder

I will never forget my time with Stadia..

Founder
Founder

After making Stadia my primary gaming platform go to back in 2019. I will miss it greatly. I am back to Xbox :pensive_face:

 

But me and my family have enjoyed all the times we had play all the family games and all that time playing band having fun together. 

 

Even though Stadia is coming to an end those memories I had will live on. Thanks again for the 3 years of fun. 

Team Apple #AppleArcade #Apple #iOS

Hey Google, "Why did Google Cancel Stadia?"

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Sad to see it go, I thought it was excellent.

However...you'd better refund to the payment method. Don't you dare try pull something like giving us Google credits! Do it properly.

Founder
Founder

Very sad day, I loved being a founder and was ready to enjoy a winter being able to use the service. I really hope someday we can see this service again.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Been a loyal pro subscriber with kids which played more than I did. This has shattered my trust in all things Google/Alphabet. I was really looking forward to playing the expansion to CyberPunk, now I hope to find a way to transfer my saves to another platform and re-purchase the games. 

All the anger and frustration aside, I will have many good memories of playing Stadia on whatever device I could. It was also fun seeing what crazy devices others were able to get it to run on. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

What service should I now take?

Does the controller work with GFN or xcloud? And how.?

@Grinsekatze93 The Stadia controller works with xcloud, GFN, Amazon Luna, Boosteroid Cloud Gaming. I have used the stadia controller with all those services. The way to get it to work, is to have it plugged in via usb cable.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

**bleep** you, Google!

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I don’t know what to say . Yes I am sad to see this amazing work going away . During all my high school you helped me make friend on the night I can’t tell how many good people I have trough stadia .

I was finally able to play game on a good quality on my old laptop. Now I am gonna be alone , on voice call with my friend all playing and me watching.

 

thanks you @StadiaTeam for all your hard work . Thanks you for this amazing concept and all the new features that everyone was waiting . Thank you for all this free game week where could try game .  

 

thanks you again for this 3 year of intense and happy memory . 


Stadia Player
Stadia Player

This really blows for someone that's been deep into this gaming platform. I've enjoyed playing stadia each day and have put so much time into each game and told many people who joined cause they seen me enjoying it. It really sucks this is really gonna just up and leave. Can't enjoy nothing these days... Thanks for all the good times. I guess you gotta say goodbye. This is the last Google thing I'll invest time in. It's for real like losing another good pal. I give up manz. Let me know when I can get that refund. Maybe Xbox will stay long enough to not disappoint. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Thank you to the Stadia team, developers and players.

In the first week of August, I bought a Nintendo Switch. I never dreamed I'd buy another console again, especially after not owning one since 1994, when I sold a SNES and games to buy my first computer. But I finally got sick of the news that games that should be on Stadia weren't coming. NBA 2K had long stopped coming, and now Madden wasn't coming. Still no NHL or any baseball game.

I bought 120 Switch games in less than two months and even started buying some, in the past week, I have on Stadia. It's as if I could feel the news coming, just like how I felt a nudge to buy a hand-size Washington Redskins helmet (oh, the memories of the glorious 1982–1991 run) the night before the news broke that the team was dropping the name, with merchandise being pulled immediately.

I even caved and bought a PlayStation 5, just so I could play NHL, my all-time favorite game, as it was clear it was never coming to Stadia or Switch.

So long, Stadia.

I am happy that Google is giving refunds. If it didn't, I'd abandon Google for everything.

Community Member

I've been trying to make Stadia work with varied results on my Starlink connection for a long time now.  Life happened and now i have a cable modem.  Just when I was about to be able to make full use of the investment I've made in controller(s), chromecast ultra(s), and membership, this happens.  It is very unfortunate because it's such a great idea.  It must have been too much risk/effort to make it a profitable idea.  I'll wait to see what happens, but it seems like  at least they're going to step up and refund we who chose to take the chance.  Thank you for that, and I am sorry it didn't work out.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Stadia had always been my favorite cloud gaming service. Was really looking forward for offers on games like Village and little nightmares. It always managed to run really smoothly on slow internet speed, but I guess not anymore. This is a really dissapointing day for me..... :disappointed_face:

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

OK

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

:coffin: R.I.P.  -  Stadia - On the crowded Google Services Graveyard as #199 of the “killed-by-google” Service-Grave. Hope you got a nice spot, perhaps between Google Hanghout, or Google Play Music, or Inbox, or Google+, or…… oh well. Too sad….

It has been a pleasure to me to play with you - always. Hope you are doing better in the place you are now. Google didn’t love you enough and let you down. A shame. 

Good luck to you, Stadians - and I wish all the best for the community, and the great Stadia Staff. You are great and you did an excellent job. Hope Google found a new and nice work environment for you all.

Cheers - I am signing off.

T

Founder
Founder

"A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy."

 

WOOHOOO:exclamation_mark::exclamation_mark::exclamation_mark::exclamation_mark::exclamation_mark:

FINALLY...(beta period over)

 

YOUTUBE GAMING HERE WE COME!

 

"Gaming creators are reaching audiences around the world on YouTube through videos, live streaming and Shorts. And our cloud streaming technology delivers immersive gameplay at massive scale."

 

 "The underlying technology platform that powers Stadia has been proven at scale and transcends gaming."

 

 "We see clear opportunities to apply this technology across other parts of Google like YouTube, Google Play, and our Augmented Reality (AR) efforts — as well as make it available to our industry partners, which aligns with where we see the future of gaming headed."

 

 "We remain deeply committed to gaming, and we will continue to invest… Many of the Stadia team members will be carrying this work forward in other parts of the company and we look forward to continuing to have an impact across gaming and other industries using the foundational Stadia streaming technology."

 

 ~P.H.

 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

This happens if you dont make proper marketing like commercials everywhere. All the haters buried stadia from the beginning, but google doesnt care. It is normal that a gamer that wants to decide try stadia will to the end leave his fingers from that.

This all dont matter now. Now Google has to kill stadia for sure, because how can you trust them if they dont do it now. No one will be trust them again.

I want now only my money back like they promised and switch to another service (not from Google). I even wil consider to switch to Apple.

Google is the only company i know that is given up sp easily to its products. Why to spend hard working money to them?

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

NOPE

This is a BAD move.

Despite every time when Google has announced that whatever product was going to be discontinued, we trusted you and we trusted the infrastructure with Stadia. I guess this is due to some enlighten as*h*les that have made some profit calculations and have decided to stop the project. Yeah, I hope that these data analysts will take into account the cost of their decision when we decide if it's or isn't worth purchasing a Fitbit Pro subscription, now that belongs to Google. How about purchasing the next Google Watch? Is Google committed to their products? Nah... better buying another brand, right? Have all the brilliant analysts haken THIS into account? Another service that closes... Just imagine all the "specialised media" showing their doubts about the next product/service release. Now they have more reasons to claim a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Honestly, what a shame...

Founder
Founder

Great job pioneering into the void of space in the cloud gaming sector. You truly paved the way for the industry and for your competitions - which I hear is doing quite favorably, albeit not without your hard work, perseverance, and bold stance behind it. Think not of this as a failure, but as an experience. You are all better for it. I will honestly be proud to own a Stadia controller because of the impact it has had, even when it doesn’t work after shutdown

Founder
Founder

Google, with regards to the hardware, please do not avoid your WEEE compliance obligations as a manufacturer and distributor of electronic equipment to behave responsibly with regards to their disposal.

I'd also like to vote (like many others) for Google considering spending a bit of dev time to make controllers work with Bluetooth so they can be repurposed and used as more than just wired HID controllers, provided there's no technical limitation in doing so. Don't get me wrong, HID is still at least something, but lets not miss this opportunity to repurpose them before people start throwing them away. I hate the thought of potentially millions of these devices being thrown away and ending up in landfill. Also, there must be some remaining store stock that's just going to get thrown away. It would make sense to pay a few developers a small amount to get these more broadly usable, as they are good controllers. Then people can use them, sell them on ebay, or give them to friends/relatives who have consoles that can make use of them. They could possibly even sell off the remaining stock cheaply as general use controllers, but at the very least they should be providing free post options to send them to regional recycling centres, where they can be recycled.

 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I'm sorry 3 years that's it nothing else everybody says it's been a great ride and I think that's kind of tapping out you started a business or concept that you quit what you found something else to make better money I think this is ridiculous. I don't have a big library but I do like the games that I have so I don't get to keep them now right that's it steady is solved my Xbox issue so I guess I have no recourse but just to be happy with my refund whatever I'm sorry I can't get over this this sucks. no it hasn't been a great ride!!!!!!! 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

if you knew how many guys played through vpn in countries where stadia never reached. It's painful and sad because stadia was ahead of its time as the most promising and affordable way to play your favorite games.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

It feels like a good friend has died. I'll miss you. :disappointed_face:

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Stadia's cloud hardware (GPUs, but maybe also CPUs) has noticeably worse performance and lower resolution than GeForce Now, making Stadia less competitive. The bifurcation point might have been whether to upgrade Stadia's hardware to match GeForce Now or whether to shut down Stadia. After computing the potential cost of all the hardware upgrades needed, shutting Stadia down might have turned out to be the only logical option.

Founder
Founder

To all founders with not a month not payment missed for are PRO membership We are losing so much. Nothing personal But i believe google should do something special for the the people who went out of the way in the good and the bad to pay and promote and stay with there services. I simple refund on games and hardware is kind of an insult for the founders that kept the hope alive for the service. My son and I will truly miss the service. With alll the choice for claimed games that we will  lose after being a pro customer from DAY 1. Sorry but not acknowledging us as founder with uninterrupted service is a true insult in emerging technologies. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Just say it ain't so!

Man oh man, so many thingzzz running through my head. But really just glad I met all the amazing Stadianzzz and just can never be grateful enough for the joy the platform bringzzz. Big shout out to the @StadiaTeam You guyzzz rock and good luck with the future! Thank you for all the time you helped me save with no downloadzzz or updatezzz! Oh well im used to it! I'll still be gaming and left and right so don't worry! I love you all and see you in da cloudzzz! #Stadia100 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

BAD MOVE

I’m angered, upset, and betrayed. We had a good thing. We were a community. We thought Google cared about long-term vision. I’ll be retaliating.

Thanks to the people who made this work for 3 years. And a big middle finger to those who killed it. 

- Sparrow

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

:face_with_open_mouth::dashing_away:

Community Member

It is a very bad decision for the community. Stadia was the best gaming platform for the whole family. It turned every screen at home into a gaming device. The technology was great i had never any issues with it. I don't understand why Google have such an short time frame for the service to succeed?

Actually there ist no alternative at home for me to have the same flexibility. I have an Android TV and two Google TV and now other service have such a functionality. Maybe Xbox Gaming will release an App for both, it could be the successor for Stadia.

Thanks for having fun all the time with Stadia... it was really a superb service for my Kids and me. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Something to recall if Google does promises, to rest assured - Just two months ago on 29th July 2022: 

https://twitter.com/GoogleStadia/status/1552989433590214656 

So much to the value of Googles word…..

(No blame on Stadia Staff -  they were told so say so - for sure under NDA)

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

A Ubisoft plusz-al mi lesz így gondolom az így megy a levesbe persze ami csak stadiàn elérhető volt.

Hát most úgy érzem magamat mintha beleszartak volna a számban :disappointed_face:

Sad to see the service bow out like this.  Hope the folks on the Stadia team are taken care of by Google and found alternative roles within the company.  Farewell Stadia.  Gone too soon!

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Well this is a real shame. I saw this coming though. Google have an awfully bad reputation for starting up amazing things, like Stadia, and then just pulling the plug on them. This leads to distrust from a consumer point of view towards Google. Google really need to be building consumer trust and putting the axe on stadia really isn't going to help this. People will just see a new product launch by Google and not bother with it, no matter how good it is, as they will think that it won't be around for long anyway as Google has a track record of just pulling the plug on things. It's a vicious circle that Google need to somehow break. It's a real shame. I'm normally an Xbox gamer, but I saw so much potential in Stadia. Great platform and ideas, plus great team behind stadia. Such a shame that Google lacks long term vision and commitment. This long term vision and commitment is what keeps companies like Microsoft and Apple going, as people trust that these companies are in it and committed to their products, even when things get rough. Google need to turn things around to gain this and like I said before, putting the axe on stadia, isn't helping or improving that consumer trust in Google. Come on Google, you come up with some great ideas and concepts. You must start learning to stick with them and commit. Fair play though that Google are issuing refunds. That is the decent thing to do.  

Really sad this decision has been made after all.

 

Economically speaking it probably makes sense. But **bleep**,.... A company with this big muscles being unable to make it in gaming is a sad sign for the future for everyone. 

Best tech for the users, good experience, so much potential. 

Thanks to all who put their heart and mind into it, your efforts will be missed. And thanks for trying Google. 

 

It's been a fun time.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I have 1300 hours on DBD on Stadia. I used the platform almost everyday for 2 years. It was by no means perfect, it was fine. I’m still sad it’s coming to an end, the money is nice tho. 

Founder
Founder

A real shame, I still think Stadia is amazing, and my kids love playing some of the more kid friendly Pro games, they will be sad

Thanks for the hard work from the Stadia team, shame it has come to and end, hope you all find other roles inside Google (or outside of Google)

Been a Pro subscriber since day 1, I sure will miss that great library of games I have been amassing, still got many I have not found the time to play but thought I would one day... oh well :disappointed_face:

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

No effing way .. are you kidding me I love this system and to fking pull the plug on this is really anger inducing. Ive been trying my hardest to get people to join and i never got to finish not one of my games. Now i gotta grind rdr2 and cyberpunk and **bleep**.... frick... why?....because i purchased so many games and a controller will i get a refund? That eases the burn if thats true but still Google.... wait it out a bit more. Do i get a refund for all the add ons and everything? **bleep** **bleep** **bleep**..... c..ks..cker..m..therf...er p..ce..of.s..t **bleep**.....

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Google no sabe invertir, ni publicidad ni nada y se rinden antes de tiempo, y todavía la gente lo celebra, deberíamos dejar todos sus productos, en cualquier momento nos cierran cualquier servicio

Community Member

Hope you guys land somewhere nice. Thanks for all the hard work. 

Founder
Founder

So long guys. Thanks for all the fish (and the good times). 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Google support told me for wishes like enabling bluetooth for the Stadia controller to mention it on stadia.com

So, if someone is interested have a look and do this. But, to be honest i think they will ignore us since they dont care.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Why. And will I be able to get the money I spent on upgrading my broadband because the broadband speed advertised was not enough to actually play the games properly without lagging or being chuked out of the game for no apparent reason. This news is a completely sucks.. but thanks to the stadia team for trying to make it work you tried so hard.. but Google didn't seem to know how to make it work no vision. Very upset :pouting_face: 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

a salute to stadia for these amazing years o7

Community Member

Hey Stadia,

I'm **bleep**ing sad to see the service stopped.

Everytime, I prefered to buy a game on stadia than on any other plate-forme (ps4, switch) as the gaming experience was so much better in the cloud and I did not have to wait for downloads and updates.

Thank you very much in advance to refund us, it shows you care that we supported you from the beginning and that we always will support you.

You'll stay in our hearts Stadia:red_heart:

Community Member

I was just charged for Stadia Pro yesterday. Give me a refund for that immediately.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Nooooooooooo...

I want Stadia to exist... the best gaming service :disappointed_face:

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

So I've thought about this news overnight and whilst I am disappointed that the service is ending, I am pleased that refunds will be due.

Having said that, if that is the decision, I'd rather have the option of receiving refunds sooner rather than later because personally I'd rather not continue playing on a platform on a game that I might not finish by the 18th Jan (I play occasionally).

I'd rather take the refund and invest elsewhere now to then start any games and build up progress....rather than wait until 18th January.

This to me would be a more reasonable approach given that any time between now and the 18th Jan, I'm not going to finish anything anytime soon!.

Therefore, perhaps give people the option to play up until the 18th Jan -or- they can elect to take the refunds sooner.

Like if you agree :slightly_smiling_face:

 

Founder
Founder

This is so sad.
Stadia was the perfect gaming service for me.

Back to my old PS4 and mobile games now then. :disappointed_face:

Founder
Founder

Shocking and totally unexpected news! Was so excited about the Stadia streaming model. Very easy to use across multiple devices. Convinced it was the ‘YouTube’ for gaming. Delighted to support this as a founder member, sad to see it out as a failed project. Perhaps some day it will get a reboot. Good luck and thanks to the Stadia team.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Raz coś Google zrobiło dobrze i zamyka ponownie swój biznes. Jestem rozczarowany i prawdziwie wkurwiony, specjalnie dla Stadi kupiłem Nvidie Shield. Już więcej nie zaufam Google kupiłem właśnie Xboxa S i czekam na cholerny zwrot pieniędzy. Nie pozdrawiam i nie będę miły, nie napisze do was po angielsku użyjcie sobie swojego Google Translatora.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

We should have our subscription money refunded. I’ve invested monthly into your service and know I have to come up with the cash to buy an Xbox because Google decided to give up on another project. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Aww man I don't know how I'm going to be able to play games anymore can't afford a better pc, but man it's been a good 3 years, sad to see it go :disappointed_face:

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Thanks for the refunds.

Founder
Founder

Thank you Google for an awesome experience. I am devastated at the news of the discontinuation of Stadia because it is a truly great platform. I was lucky enough to be able to pilot Stadia before it became Stadia and I thought it was groundbreaking. I couldn't stop telling people about how awesome it was. Of course I had to become a part of the Founder's edition because I was amazed by the quality and speed. I even switched to a Google Pixel phone because initially that was the only way to play on a mobile device and I loved it. Even though this project is ending I just want to say thank you to all involved in the project because as a user I had a fantastic experience. Google is a company that paves the way for new ways of seeing and doing and Stadia has set the framework for the next level in gaming. While I knew this day could come (based on Google's history) and I am sad that it is here, I am also happy to have had such a positive experience with Stadia. Thank you again @StadiaTeam !

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Thank you stadia for three years of easy access to games. I love gaming and when I didn't have a console this was the best thing around. I've made gaming memories with this app and wish you guys the best of luck it's been fun; but sad to see it ending. :disappointed_face:

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Hi I'm back. Does anyone know which gaming cloud/console is the best way to play games. So upset. When is Luna coming to the UK :united_kingdom: it's depressing enough in Britain at the moment, stadia was my escape. So thank you google bosses. :loudly_crying_face::loudly_crying_face::loudly_crying_face:

Community Member

I am devasted, as I imagine must be the Stadia team.

Sold all my game consoles and only played on Stadia, this hurt!

Community Member

I chatted with John about trying to activate a Stadia Pro account today (yes I'm late to activating my account but life got in the way) and John informed me that the service to activate accounts has been shut down. Now I'm unable to use my awesome Wasabi green Stadia controller to use the awesome cloud gaming service that I never got to experience because I hadn't had enough free time to get around to using until now because I work allot. I had very high expectations that the service would stay alive for several decades and be the number one source for cloud gaming. My only feedback I had with the service is they needed to offer all game's on a subscription model to be as a pay this amount and you have access to every game on the cloud gaming service. The negative part was paying for a service and then having to pay again for owning a game. That part never made any sense for a streaming service. I hope the technology goes to good use in the future and hopefully one day it will come back stronger then ever. I'll keep my Wasabi controller for nostalgia.

Also after reading all the sad comments it's a very sad week for gaming. I wish I was apart of this community 3 year's ago when it started.

I just hope cloud gaming will continue to live on. I know it won't be as awesome as what Stadia put together. I just hope PlayStation can continue there cloud gaming service and not let Microsoft dominate the cloud gaming landscape.

I'll be gaming on PlayStation until something greater comes down the road or I eventually cave in and buy a expensive gaming PC.

Sad that Google caved in to all the negative hate. I'll continue supporting Google products in the future.

Founder
Founder

I am so sad about this news! I am going to miss this so much! Please come back soon, and we can help spread the word! 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

This is awful news. There's nothing like Stadia, where I can *genuinely* play anywhere on any device. Utterly crazy to be shutting down a service which should be the forefront of device-less gaming. Where is the alternative Google? Where is the continued support? Where is any attempt to make this commercially viable? Where is the effort to support customers?

As an enterprise purchaser for a FTSE company, it's moves like this which undermine any confidence in Google services at large - the threat of the rug pull from under any service at any moment makes it impossible to invest.  

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Doesnt make sense to be upset. Google doesnt give a s..t, if they did they would care to be their products known to the people. They have enormous marketing issues and communicating problems.

2 months ago they said no worries for shutting down and now the opposite. If they do this as a marketing joke, then they prove they are a joke too. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

How much would it cost for us, subscribers, to pay for the servers? Google owes us some transparency here. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I remember when this came out everyone who had issues with it did not have the proper internet quality for it and trashed it being crap, but for me it was amazing being able to launch destiny 2 on my phone and enjoy some pvp WHILE  on 4g lte at a lake input delay was non existent as I had full bars, I would stream it on twitch to show the service does indeed work, id stream doom eternal my first game bought on the platform really enjoyed that experience on stadia i even prefer playing destiny at one point on gaming PC as my graphics card wasn't doing so good but ran stadia just fine I'll greatly miss this service and the platform and the memories I had on it thank you stadia! :heart_suit: I will be using stadia for destiny 2 and stream it to the very end

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

If somebody (not me, sorry) would start a petition titled "Save Stadia", I wonder how many people would sign it. There exist examples of petitions aimed at the entertainment industry, such as SaveTheExpanse on change.org.

Founder
Founder

Truly gutted to hear this. Having been an advocate for the platform since launch its been difficult to convince people of awesomeness that is/was stadia. Kudos to the teams on the platform and the developers. You dared to challenge the big players and did a great job shaking up the gaming industry.

RIP Stadia - the world wasn't ready for you. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

What about controllers purchased outside of the google store? Paid 60 bucks for this at Best Buy and now it’s piece of junk?

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Yo Stadians lets move to Xbox S :beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Founder
Founder

@DavonXP Xbox has a cloud service called Xbox gamepass ultimate. It's got its own problems... they all do... but it's OK! Costs about $15/mo. Works a lot like Stadia just not on nearly as many devices. Should work for your laptop just fine though if Stadia did!

Community Member

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Community Member

Really sad news, it was an awesome service. I've not used it all that much, was pro for a few months and played the free games and bought Red Dead 2 on it.

Always worked perfectly, loved the way you could play from any device, quick loading times and top notch graphics. It's a shame it didn't attract more players.
I will surely miss you Stadia, thanks for the three years.

Community Member

Very sad to hear/read this, me and my gf really liked the Stadia-platform. It was very convenient to play co-op games together, even when other one was traveling with just only a laptop and a phone. Hundreds of hours put in several co-op games gave us great memories from our adventures in RDO, Borderlands 3 and others.

Yeah, there were couple of flaws and it was sometimes hard to find new interesting games to be played, but @StadiaTeam  built the best platform for a casual cloud gaming. It is really sad to see Stadia come to an end.

Thank you for 2 years, it was a blast!

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

This is breaking my heart since stadia is the only way I can play the old "jump and run" style. no updates needed just mac, ipad whatever on and a quick round of fifa. A very sad day. At least Kudos for hopefully refunding the bought games, its quiet some money for me. best wishes to all the probably heartbroken stadia employes. google played us all, telling us over and over again stadia is save here to stay ;(.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@Hostile  Yes.  I have tried out all the different services including Stadia, Amazon Luna, Geforce Now, Xbox Cloud Gaming (Part of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate), and Playstation Now(now part of Playstation+ Premium ).  They all have their pros and cons.

Google Stadia:  Best stability. Limited selection.

Amazon Luna: Very similar to Stadia in terms of stability and selection but different pricing model. I suspect it may not last much longer.

Geforce Now:  Stability on par as Stadia, Larger selection. Hardware only. 

Xbox Cloud Gaming:  Good but not perfect stability.  Almost constantly get new games with some AAA selections.  EA Play included. IMO the most convincing offering.

Playstation Now:  Worst stability/quality but second best selection and can play PS4 exclusive titles. I played Horizon Zero Dawn and God of War 2018 on it.

I suspect chances are the final major players would end up being XGP and PS+.

I do very much appreciate having Stadia so that I could play Judgment on PC and having Amazon Luna to play Lost Judgment. I almost bought an Xbox console or PS4 just for those 2 games. It was good that I did not because those two games just released on PC last week.

Thanks! Stadia.  

 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Its ok, there will be other gaming investments google, for instance a physical google handheld pixle gaming handheld console merged into a slider gamepad pile smartphone and put a nvidia lite chip in it w 12 gigs of ram and 3 terabit drive ( I would buy ). Thank you all for your hard work and for the opportunity of having a flagship console gameplay experience with a seamless access advantage online and none of the hardware mess. I'll never forget day one 2 years ago... felt like christmas in july....

Founder
Founder

I can't believe this... 
I know it was always hard to convince the fanboys but please leave some sort of functionality online ..

You are just 5years ahead and if you had technically speaking the best product in the market.
Kudos to the engineers, PM's and stadia employees, I hope you can bring this knowledge further

Founder
Founder

Stadia was an amazing cloud gaming platform and had an awesome community. I’ve always thought it was impressive how I could log onto almost any machine and boot up a +100GB game like Destiny 2 in a matter of seconds. Long load times, patch and game downloads were a thing of the past. 

I particularly liked the instant-replay functionality built into Stadia so you could record and share your favourite moments with friends. The fact that you could upload videos to YouTube in just a couple of clicks was amazing and it didn’t require any expensive graphics cards to get great in-game recording quality. 

The ability to play, chat and speak with friends all within the Stadia platform made it so easy and seamless to jump into and between games with friend parties. 

I feel like the amazing Destiny 2 integration with crossplay was perfect for showcasing how impressive Stadia was as a cloud gaming platform. 

Will certainly miss Stadia, it has grown a lot over the years. It was an awesome journey! 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

 

STADIA R.I.P. 

Its life taken from us way too soon. 

Such of waste of unlimited potential. 

Just another senseless murder by corporate idiocracy.

Fly to the angels young Stadia. 

Everytime I spend my money on whatever gaming platform

I go on to next, You will always be remembered. 

Stadia, gone but not forgotten. R.I.P :baby_angel:

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@StadiaTeam 

 

This saddens me.  No joke.  First gaming platform with no console that I've ever come in contact with. I was so happy with this. I still am. Please don't go.  Please :folded_hands:

@StadiaTeam 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I cannot believe that you are closing Stadia in this way. Stadia is wonderful and you have not invested in. We have few Triple A because you have not invested, but the service was astonishing good. It's wonderful to be able to play Red Dead Redemption 2 on a MacBook Air or TV with nothing. I think you haven't tried hard enough. You had a beautiful service in your hand, and you are burning it. This is very sad. 

Founder
Founder

Question:
What does Betamax have in common with Stadia?

Answer:

Spoiler
Both were the superior technologies at their time and both were cancelled too soon!

 

 

 

I am very sad about Google's decision to discontinue Stadia. I liked being able to play the latest games (e.g. CyberPunk 2077) on low-end hardware.

I hope Google reverses its cancellation plans!

Thanks @StadiaTeam .

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I don't know how can I express my sadness. When I start to use Stadia, I really thought it was an amazing invention, the best of the last years. You have not invested in marketing and in new Triple A. You were the first to not believe in it, and I don't understand why. It seems that also Hideo Kojima was in contact with you for a game in exclusive. You simply needed a very good game in exclusive, only one, to definitely lunch Stadia. No, instead you are closing everything and this is far more costly because you have to refund everybody. I cannot believe it and I don't understand. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I was the target audience for Stadia... I didn't have the luxury of being able to play at home, but I could find pockets of time to play during quick breaks or commute. Loved the platform and was happy to discover gaming again. Probably going to have to give it up again... and I'm really bitter about this.

I've come to the conclusion that Google is the deadbeat dad of the tech industry. They bring awesome products into the world that they inevitably just abandon and refuse to support.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

please let us use our controllers with bluetooth. or wifi.. or both. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Can you least give the controllers some type of update where they can use Bluetooth or wifi to connect?

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Gutted! You could have at least given it another year. So much wasted potential. We just had new UI, FIFA 23 launching on the platform, Skull & Bones & Dead Island 2 coming next year. With the upcoming country expansions, it would have helped in the long run.

The sad thing is that you have the best cloud tech out of all the cloud gaming platforms and it will be going to waste.

The Stadia team did an amazing job, and I applaud them for all their hard work. It’s a shame that the people higher up don’t appreciate it enough to keep going!

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I'm in denial right now. I'm not even worried about the money spent; I just simply don't want this platform to die. I LOVE how easy it is for me to pick up the Stadia controller and start gaming on my Google TV immediately with no effort (and no bulky console and mess of cables). Nothing else gives me this option right now to stream to the TV so easily. I tried GeForce, but I'm not getting the same fluid experience as I get with Stadia. My wife and I love Stadia so much that we have two Stadia controllers for every room with a Google TV (living room, bedroom, and office) plus two extra for when we travel to make it that much more convenient to start gaming whenever the mood strikes us. We really can't get that seamless TV integration anywhere else. If XCloud ever makes it to Google TV I can try that, but I'm not optimistic with that either. I know there are other options for other devices (PC's, handhelds like the new Logitech G Cloud, Amazon Luna, etc), but we prefer gaming on TV's without having to have another device running in the background to cast. I really wish this wasn't happening. I'd give anything for Google to be the ultimate library for all of my digital media (games, movies, music, books, etc.) on top of everything else I touch through the day whether that's Android Auto on my way to work where I use G-Suite on my Pixelbook or jamming music on my Pixel Buds casted from my Pixel Phone or telling Google "Goodnight" which prompts all the smart lights at home to shutoff and doors to lock. I've surrounded myself with Google products because I truly believe in Google's mission and who they are as a company. It just saddens me that I won't be able to keep gaming with them. Maybe from a business standpoint it wasn't profitable enough, or maybe the tech didn't seem sustainable with future predictions for the gaming industry, but it was absolutely the best product with the most potential in my mind. Don't think I'll be gaming for a little while until I see something else on par with the experience that Stadia gave me.

Founder
Founder

**bleep**! Thank you Stadia Team for 3 awesome years I may lose my games but I gain new friends.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Why didn't you sell Stadia instead of shutting it down?

If you shut it down, you completely lose all of its value. But you had really great tech architecture and a lot of loyal fans. In the hands of one of the big three gaming companies, Stadia could have gone a long way. The only way it really failed was not having a wide enough user base. But if you're Xbox or PlayStation, you already have the user base on hand--and that was the only missing piece! I don't understand why this didn't go up for sale. We should be happily using this technology under another name. Just transfer the customers and the tech assets! Don't shut it down!

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

This is terrible .. I never liked gaming until one day running into stadia. This breaks my heart that it going to end . This was part of my new journey in life . Thanks team for giving me this experience. It's made a difference in my life . Come back some way don't waist the talents you have . 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I like many others will never trust a Google product again. You were awesome, now terrible. Please can you unlock all the Chromecast and controller's so they work on other platforms. 

Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

@Supermanofsteel Chromecast already work on other things. In fact, Chromecast Ultra was released in 2016, way before Stadia was launched.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

That's true 

@Supermanofsteel 

Community Member

So sad to see you go. I have been playing since my founders edition controller arrived. I too have spent many an hour playing Stadia and bragging that I was the only one who could game from anywhere. I am probably done with gaming as I don't want to buy a console anymore. I got spoiled by just bringing my controller and chromecast dongle with me.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Danke für die schönen 3 Jahre liebes Google stadia Team.

Rip :disappointed_face:

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

They shouldn't lock the game library, but give everybody a free Stadia Pro experience till the end. Let's go out with a bang.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I'm really sad about reading theese news. But unformatelly I've expected that....

Game Libary is not ok. There were delays also. (For Example Mafia 3 with more than a year...)

Missing AAA games.

But the platform was really good and available from 2020 in Hungary.

It showed us a console where you can play with Controller and Keyboard+mouse also. It was my dream after Xbox 360 console was released.

I think the main problem that google didn't want to invest enough...

 

 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Very sad news but we have to say thank you Stadia Team for all your work and effort to try to make it work.

Founder
Founder

Ironically I had cancelled my Stadia Pro and bought a PS5 a week ago. Talk about good timing. 

It was obvious Stadia had died following month on month of shovel ware.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

i hope google A.I. reads this

initiate reverse time constraints

recurrent, repetitive :slightly_smiling_face:

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

*beep* *beep* *beep* I will never ever trust Google again with a service. Over 200 Games, 2 Stadio Pro Sets and all will be gone! What the *beep* ! Total betrayal of you customers. 

Founder
Founder

Thanks to all Stadia Team for the amazing tech we had for 3 years.

Best cloud gaming platform while lasted.

IMHO had this been windows based, and connected with other platforms, so zero porting was needed, it could have been different.

Best wishes to you all! :red_heart:

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I am so sad...This service was good for players like me who don't have powerful computers or big hard drives.I am gonna really miss the service.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Thanks for the Money great investment.

Silver Stadia Guide
Silver Stadia Guide

Stadia even after shutdown will remain the most powerfull streaming service from ages !

That was a pleasure to play on Stadia and I regreat nothing.
Hope Google will not end projects around games !

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

:disappointed_face: Nooo!!! Q_Q, change your mind and reconsider please??

Founder
Founder

As a founder and enthusiast of future tech, often stuff that's too early for its time, I'm disappointed but ultimately not surprised after watching things play out between launch, then Google giving up on a long term commitment to first party content with the closure of SG&E, and then seeing the amount of compelling AAA content dwindle over time. I usually get every platform/console and was even an OnLive subscriber and microconsole owner back in the day as well, so this isn't my first rodeo with a cloud game service shutting down, though never before at this scale.

It's too bad that Google couldn't hang on to Stadia and work out a way to integrate it and transfer the available games into a successful future platform that caught on, like streaming Stadia games into a mixed reality environment with upcoming AR/XR headset platforms, or make Stadia accessible directly via YouTube instead of the isolated website. Stadia.com was too compartmentalized away from the rest of Google and easily ignored by people using other Google products. I'm told that Stadia didn't even come pre-installed on Pixel phones (I use iPhone, so I wouldn't know.) I was thinking of switching to Pixel 7 this year, but now I'm soured on buying any further into Google than I already am with my Nest/Home ecosystem and other things that everyone uses like YouTube and Gmail. Bundling a first party Backbone-style controller with Pixel phones and a 3-month trial of Stadia would've been nice, and most importantly reversing course and investing in first party content after February 2021 when the "vision" for what cloud gaming "could be" that traditional consoles couldn't deliver on basically died and it became a place for nothing other than ports.

Most of the other founders I know that were excited about the future of gaming in the cloud left after SG&E closed. So many people around at launch were less excited about ports and more excited about the 3-5+ year vision of a killer app coming out that could deliver something that traditional consoles couldnt even deliver, like a game with so much unique content that it couldnt fit on local hard drives, or massive battles that couldnt be coordinated over home networks the way it could be set up in high power data centers. What a shame. Many of the people I tried recommending Stadia to were reluctant to try it because they thought Google had a reputation for shutting down services and they preferred to have more tangible or at least downloaded copies of their games for that reason. This shutdown has just further proved their suspicion and boldened this mark against Google's brand. This further drives down consumer trust in Google's brand in that respect, especially for new products or services that people might be skeptical of trying out of concern that it'll end up in the Google graveyard.

Stadia still works so much better than the alternative cloud gaming options, but this doesn't mean that we're excited to see Google execs pivot the technology into some other application. Don't expect many people, consumer market at least, to care about trying anything Google applies this technology to unless it's in partnership with a separate company that has enough consumer trust in its brand to make up for the negative trust in Google's brand resulting from Stadia (among other things.) So many of us wanted to see Google make big investments for the long term/future and buy studios the way the competition was buying up talent, not merely paying big money for "mee too" ports of mostly older games. The vision at GDC 2019 was amazing. It's too bad that Google couldn't commit to that vision and see it through, integrating it into the future XR platforms or other parts of the Google ecosystem. A lot of people are going to feel more comfortable buying into the competition's AR/XR platforms and holding off on Google's offering after seeing how they handled Stadia. 

I've wanted Google's cloud gaming efforts to succeed from the days of Project Stream. I've been an enthusiast, but I generally avoid falling into the rose colored glasses groupthink that others do, so I'm ultimately not surprised, just very disappointed. As much as there are "go team" Google fans around here who are apologetic to every misstep, this is a valuable lesson in why it's important to listen to people who are reasonable in their criticisms. The supporter/fan vs hater/detractor dichotomy is a false one, there are also people who wanted to see this succeed and were optimistic, but who were reasonably concerned that this would inevitably happen with how things were managed. 

Thanks for trying. Hopefully Google's strategic management wakes up at some point in the future and realizes that they're biggest project/task ahead isn't AI, but is is going to be making up for the reputation brand-value/trust/image issue that they've cultivated by making these kinds of missteps. Full refunds for purchases and hardware is great, but losing save games that aren't transferrable to other platforms is a big loss. I didn't have pro active when the closure was announced so I'm also completely locked out of finishing up some games before January that I had partially played in the Pro library I'd collected, which is frustrating.

Google needs a Phil Spencer type of attitude right now. He really did an amazing job digging Xbox out of the customer-perception hole it was in after the terrible launch era of the Xbox One with Kinect. When it comes to consumer perception Google's going to have to do some serious brand-salvaging work it ever hopes to bring any former Stadia enthusiasts into anything remotely resembling a "commitment to gaming" in possible future AR/XR platform. Otherwise, just like Stadia launched with many influencers and tech sites posting "It's probably going to fail and be shut down, don't bother" type of content, any future platform will be sprinting out of the gate with an even bigger anchor working against its attempt to build something moving forward.  I can expect this will cast a shadow over this upcoming Thursday's Made by Google event as well. 

Thank you to the customer/community facing Stadia team and engineers for doing a great job. Strategic management, though, not so much. I'll be looking forward to reading the case study in business school marketing and strategic management textbooks about Google's missteps with Stadia. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Does anyone know how to move the games to another cloud service because I'm really not trying to lose all the game hours and progress I've put on since joining stadia because like a lot of posting I see from other members it's crazy how out the blue things got shut down and handled 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I am so bummed about this, I can't even tell ya. Stadia was so easy, immersive, and inclusive for a guy like me. By "guy like me" I mean the casual gamer. A guy that is way too busy with life, and a guy that cannot justify spending lots of money on consoles, or gaming PCs. I didn't have to spend a dime on anything else other than games after making the initial purchase of the controller, and I loved that. Stadia introduced me to PUBG, which has become my favorite game of all time. It was a fantastic way for me to blow off steam after a rough day at work, and played on Stadia so fluidly. I have played PUBG on a console, and it sucks compared to Stadia with the slow framerates. I am truly pissed and heartbroken, and will miss the hell out of Stadia.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Amazing technology that never got to reach it's full potential or the audience it deserved. It's the only platform I've backed and saw a true future in. Would love to see Bluetooth unlocked on the controllers so they all aren't just thrown out as trash, adding to the ever growing heap of useful technological resources that we as a country waste so carelessly. Hopefully they'll see to it that at least parts of their hardware can be found useful in other areas. That being said I look forward to seeing where this technology will rise up in AR field as that has definitely caught my interest. But very disappointed that google made less than a weak effort to give stadia the legs it not only earned, but very much deserved, to run in this fast moving race. Enjoyed it while it lasted. Thanks.... But also, no thanks. 

Community Member

What a sad day!

As a middle-aged man busy with life, Stadia's easy-to-use interface and instant-on system were exactly what I needed to get back to casual gaming. It reignited my passion for FIFA and Aassisan's Creeds. I have had many great memory playing games on Stadia. Too bad the business model didn't pan out. 

Huge Kudos and gratitude to the teams behind Statia. You all made this possible and the system was a delight to use. I hope somehow you can bring the stadia back at some point(I will pay for the pro this time, I promise!). I think consoles are going to extinct eventually. Streaming like this should be the mainstream. It is more economical and environmental anyway.

 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I expected this. I'm surprised Android isn't in the Graveyard yet. Google brings and kills.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Can I get my refund in Dogecoin please? 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I gave away my PS5 to stick with STADIA... At least can you unlock the BLUETOOTH feature to use the controller with other devices? Or do you prefer to create more plastic waste?

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Stadia quit becouse Google moves cloud gaming to YouTube Games. I think that Stadia was only test.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Well, congratulations, you just did not only lose me as a Stadia Player, but also as a customer of other Google products.

I just cancelled my Google One Subscription and some days before this misery I even thought about buying a Pixel Phone, as my current phone is getting old. But the trust in you and the lasting of your products is gone.

Stadia was so awesome, I had so much great and fun hours playing.

The biggest benefits for me were: no noisy and hot box standing around collecting dust, and nothing to justify in front of my fiancee.

It's so sad. And such a shame. And so sad.

Please make the controller usable via Bluetooth, it's the least you can do for us.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@GLYTCH4324  If you want to stream directly onto TV there is only one alternative which is Amazon Luna with a Fire TV stick.  I tried it with Amazon TV stick 4K and it works quite well.  There are 3 month trials for Lenovo Chromebook owners  https://www.google.com/chromebook/perks/ and 2 month trials for Lenovo Gaming Club members(free to  join).  However a word of caution,  I believe Amazon Luna is also burning money so it has the same risk of being cancelled at some point in the future.  It also has a more limited selection of games just like Stadia. If you don't mind the risk you may try it out. It has all the Ubisoft titles too and the newer ones (Valhalla, Fenyx) should allow you to port your progress from Stadia to Luna easily.  You though may not use the Stadia controller unless Google enables Bluetooth... Xbox One controller works great on Luna, just as on Stadia and XGP.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Crowd-Funding to keep it going? :winking_face:

Thank you and best wishes

 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

This is why people hate google for products. This almost talked me into iPhones. Windows it is. Truly Google earns the hate. I am excited for the new homebrew hacks to come to keep up the service via new groups else where. CCU will be the next WII level hack. So mad this is theor solution making our time and investment unusable. Google may as well say hears some money screw you for thinking google gave a craps about gamers. I feel used for supporting them. No thanks from me. The others here can kiss googles butt for all those truly effected by this. 

Founder
Founder

I will never give Google a chance on any new service/product. You are only good as a search engine. Focus on that because any other idea is doomed. The competition will win even doing worst simply because they commit to their projects and do so much better with marketing. One more thing, don't you dare to try to compete against Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple, because it's going to be another brutal failure.

Founder
Founder

As a founder fanboy, this is a sad time. My heart goes out to the Stadia team who had such short notice. I loved the convenience, and had a solid connection, so I never really had issues. Thank you for the time we had. Google as a whole will not even feel it, but personally, I'll be slow to trust and and adopt Google again. My phone, even my tv was a result of my being an excited fanboy. That doesn't take way from the fact that the Stadia team had some awesome talent.

Thank you Stadia Team

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

This sucks so much. I don’t know how I’ll play video games anymore. Feels like going back in time to buy a console.

Nvidia GeForce Now: there’s not really any support for living room play other than getting a Nvidia Shield and at that point, you might as well buy a console.

Xbox Cloud Gaming: can’t play in the living room without hooking up a pc to your tv or getting an xbox

Playstation Plus: same as above

Amazom Luna: unfortunately, probably the best option. Have to switch all your chromecasts to fire sticks and good luck getting all the other google services you use to run on them. Plus their subscription model and lack of content really sucks. They’re also the most likely to follow suit with stadia.

I guess i can just play mobile games from now on. What else is there?

Founder
Founder

With no notice on the shutdown, it would be nice to have a little lee-way on who can keep access to their Pro games. For example, my subscription expired 2 days before the shutdown announcement (so I could reset my billing to a few days later on the 1st) and now I won't have access to any of my Pro games ever again, even though I've been subscribed for a long time -- because I took just a couple days to reset my billing day. Oof.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Love you stadia my heart is absolutely crushed and I thank you all team members 🫶🏻

Founder
Founder

Lost  all Trust in this Brand  @Google @StadiaTeam 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Stadia was the final reason to buy Chromebooks, will we get a refund for them too? @StadiaTeam 

Founder
Founder

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@Fuaga23 I got proof

Founder
Founder

I am dejected. My ideal game service, no clutter, click and play, cheap...  A few weeks ago I had also brought in my daughter. 

Really a bad news

Community Member

Enable Bluetooth with a firmware update to allows to use the controller and pair it with other devices. I have two controllers and would like to pair it with my Steam Deck, iPad and Nintendo Switch.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I'm gutted that stadia is being closed!!

I got rid of all my hardware consoles and PC's, upgraded my Internet connection to 300mbps in the hope that I will have gaming heaven, without the need for software or painful hardware updates like graphic cards or motherboards, starting games in a few seconds whenever I need in any device around the home.

Why can't the traditional platforms do this? Set us free from the prison if your hardware so we can breathe!

What did stadia do wrong? Will we always be tied to hardware? Is the future not streaming?

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Please unlock Bluetooth on the stadia controller.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@darkseid1000 

They dont know what marketing is and they had not the AAA games needed. The Assassins Creed series came to late. Yakuza, Final Fantasy series, Kingdom Hearts ect was absent.

But you are the one who do something wrong, like all of us. You trusted Google. They are famous to kill projects. They have the biggest graveyard out there.

At least they will refund our money back, but to be honest until i receive i cannot believe them. I dont trust them, they told us 2 months ago they dont close Stadia, we should not worry and know the opposite. Not even the employees were aware.

Dont even have hopes they enable bluetooth for the stadia controller.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Maybe it is time to chance to a new Manager. Mr. Harrison was a Manager for PS3, for Xbox too. After another Phil take over, Mr. Spencer since then Xbox sees light in the end of the tunnell.

They dont kill Xbox, but gave a new life.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Harrison

Hey Google leave this s...ty strategy you have and do something to keep Stadia alive. 

Have Mr. Harrison save Stadia, if he is not able he needs a chance, then bring someone else.

Answer us this week, we know now you are capabkf of taking decisions in the last moment.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

You guys were the best thing that happened to me in a long time affordable gaming I hope you guys can work something out I'm gonna miss my games that I purchased at least can we play them I'm happy for the experience

 

Founder
Founder

Sadness doesn't even begin to express what you and I both feel about this decision... I hold out hope that someone will change their mind and am glad that I enjoyed it for as many hours as I did... will likely join those who have super busy lives that doesn't allow for traditional gaming (loads/updates/etc). Until next time. 

Founder
Founder

I am deeply saddened by the loss of Stadia.  I really enjoyed the last few years using Stadia.  I do not like losing all my games on Stadia.  I will miss using the progress I have made on Stadia games.  Stadia has always worked very well for me.  I think Stadia is a great idea.  I like the fact that I do not need an expensive graphics card to play a computer game.  I like the idea that with Stadia I would not need to buy a new console every few years.  I like the ability to move from one device to another and continue the same game.  I like playing on a chromecast, which is much smaller than a gaming computer.  I like the way the Stadia subscription gave me new games every month.  I like the way Stadia lets me take screenshots easily and review them later.  I like having a headphone plug on the controller.  In many ways, I like the way Stadia works.

I hope someone finds a way to use the Stadia controller with another system.  It's very nice to be able to connect over wifi.  Maybe the controller can be updated to work with another service.  Maybe the people who like stadia can create our own version that will run on another server.  If Google has given up on this, maybe we can make an open source version.  The controller works well for many games.  We should find a way to keep it working with our games as a wifi controller.

There are a few things Stadia should have done better.  When Stadia was first announced, the announcement said it will have the ability to stream directly to youtube.  That feature did not become available until much later.  Many people said Stadia did not have enough of the games people wanted to play available on the store.  For a long time, there was no search bar in the Stadia store.  There was no easy way to find a game to buy without a search bar.  I needed to search for the name of a game on google and hope that someone had posted a link to the Stadia store page for that game.  Stadia now has a search bar, many more games, and streaming to youtube.  It's good to see that Stadia has fixed the original problems, but maybe those problems were fixed too late.  Some people talked about Stadia when it was first announced, but most people have forgotten it by now.  Most reactions to Stadia I have seen on youtube were negative.  I did not have a negative reaction, but they did have some valid points.  I think if Stadia had given a better first impression, it may have been able to survive for much longer.

One of the biggest problems for Stadia was the requirement for a fast connection.  I know that not everyone has a connection as fast as I do.  I have Verizon Fios which has never had a problem with internet speed.  I have tried to get my friends to play Stadia games online with me.  One of the most common answers I get is that they do not trust their internet to be stable enough or fast enough to work with Stadia.  I have a fast connection, and I am still amazed that Stadia can work so well.  There are many people who could have used Stadia, but did not try it because they did not believe it would work, or they thought there would be an input delay for the buttons.  There were a few times I had some input delay, but that was always fixed by restarting the system.  There are many more people getting better internet speeds than there were a few years ago.  If Stadia had stayed longer, more people would be able to use it because they have better internet speeds now than there was a few years ago.

If Stadia was really an unpopular idea, why would Amazon develop Luna, which works the same way as Stadia?  Luna is not shutting down, but instead it still sometimes gets promoted on the amazon.com front page.  Maybe google could have sold Stadia to amazon, so we could continue playing our games on Amazon servers.  Stadia could have merged with Luna instead of shutting down.  The luna controller looks almost the same as the Stadia controller, so the games can use the same controls.  People who want cloud gaming will now buy their games on luna instead of Stadia.  If Amazon luna becomes widely used and popular, will google start up Stadia again to compete?  There should be some competition for a cloud gaming system.  I think the Stadia shutdown may be seen as a mistake in the future if other companies will be able to do cloud gaming more successfully.

Maybe Stadia was too far ahead of its time.  Many people really were not ready for something like this yet.  I think sometime in the future there will be more interest in this kind of game service.  Virtual machines on a server are a good idea.  It is a good idea to have a powerful computer at home, and then access that computer remotely with a less powerful chromebook, laptop, or phone.  I have been using Chrome Remote Desktop for many years to access my home computer to write code and design apps.  Chrome Remote Desktop works in a similar way to Stadia.  There have been many similar systems called "thin clients" that have existed.  The benefit is you can use a less expensive, smaller, more mobile, user system for hardware.  Another benefit is you only need to do updates once at the server.  After working with many different VNC (virtual network computer) systems, I have seen many benefits in using this kind of system.  When I first heard of Stadia, I fully understood the idea and I liked the idea.  I think many people have some trouble understanding how Stadia works.  Maybe when cloud services become more common, more people will understand and be more receptive to the idea.

The Stadia shutdown is one more in a long list of Google products that have ended.  There are many Google products and websites that have come and gone.  Each time something is shut down there are users that are unhappy about the shutdown.  Since Google has so many services that were shut down, some people may not want to use new google services out of fear that the service will not last long.  If Google wants people to trust them with our data, they need to be reliable.  I do not like seeing stadia shut down, but the refund will make the situation a little better.  I had expected stadia to last much longer.

Maybe someday google will decide to start up Stadia again when more people have fast internet and when there is more competition for cloud gaming.  Stadia could have been more successful if some problems were managed better and solved faster.  It was great to have Stadia while it lasted.  Thanks for creating Stadia.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I dont complain about the newest games and etc. I've got what I wanted from this platform if we are speaking about games. But I have to share the following and I know I'm not alone with it. It's a fact, that this technology is the future of gaming, and loads of people couldn't afford gaming without this platform or many of us just simply thought, beside working and etc. we dont want to invest into a new gamer PC or console and so on.  (Like myself for example) So yeah, of course I thank you too this 3 years, but I am very sad. If you will be able to rethink this decision in the future, please do, because I honestly think you're doing a mistake now.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I love Stadia, worst month to tell us that yaw are ending stadia is on my birthday month, don't let it end this way, please let us keep the servers running on our own or let us run our own stadia cloud server our self's, I had a felling that this would happened, same thing happened to Onlive they got bought out by Sony 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Saying goodbye to Stadia is like losing a best friend or family member.   I guess All Good Things does come to an end...

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

How is it possible that a company earning 80% of its revenue with advertisment is not able to do proper marketing ?

I'm really sad and annoyed - the experience of stadia was excellent and I did all I can do to convince friends and family to join  - which they did (will never do that again).

A big thanks to the stadia team - I really enjoyed the gaming experience.

The way they did shut down the service let me think of a deal behind the scenes presumably either with Microsoft and/or with Sony.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

My best case scenario is, that google got hacked and the message from the stadia shutdown was posted by trolls/hackers!

(Worst case scenario seems to have happened right now)

Founder
Founder

Nice to see I will get so much money back that will flow instantly to the big US competitor Microsoft, cause no way in hell I will ever ever ever ever EVER put any of my money in a Google product. I am a Google One user, mainly for Photos, but I am 100% looking into how to change this to MS as well. In fact, I'm done with Google. I just wished there was an alternative to Android that wasn't so expensive as Apple. What a **bleep** company Google is, excuse my French. They didn't tell publishers, developers or employees upfront. That same **bleep**ing day they even launched a freaking game! How complete moronic are you then. 

And all because the biggest data-grabbing, advertising platform in the world doesn't know how to advertise. Come on, you launched in like 14 countries. Even I could have handled Google Ads/Youtube Ads campaign for that! This whole situation makes it even more clear: Don't be evil has been removed for a reason at Google.

In terms of Stadia: man I'm gonna miss it! It was my main platform and it was nice to play the games I played on any screen I wanted. I was so skeptical at playing games on my mobile, but it works flawlessy. Stadia made me think about the importance for AAA title and I realised I never really played them anyway, so that's a win. I had many many many hours of fun playing whatever I wanted, I only really missed Star Wars Squadrons and the new Mass Effect remaster. 

So had a blast! Stadia, gonna miss you. Google, fok off

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I will miss Stadia :(. Hope it gets revived someday :upside_down_face: The other Cloud Gaming services is not as good. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

WHYYYYY STADIA WHYYYYYY

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Estoy muy triste por el cierre de Stadia, no creo que vuelva a confiar en Google nunca más.

Lo proximo sera pasarme a Xbox y adquirir un teléfono de Apple. Trataré de eliminar todo lo que tenga de Google.

Espero que el proceso de reembolso sea rápido.

Lo siento por los trabajadores de Stadia ya que pienso que ellos no tienen la culpa, es cosa de los directivos de Google.

Adiós Google.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I know, I am a dreamer. But what I am hoping for is a second future Google announce in which they will state that they are closing Stadia because it was only the beta version and now they will open the real cloud platform with a real support, real investments and a lot of Triple A, also in exclusive. I am a dreamer, but I cannot believe that Google is closing a so useful service that could truly penetrate and change the market. Google opened this service and they gave practically 0 support from day 1 and now they are closing it? You are doing it because this was the beta right?

If this is only a dream, Google, you only looked in your short term costs, and you will fail in the long term, shame on you. Amazon will do it with Luna in what you failed. I will go with Amazon when they will arrive in EU. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Thank you. All my best Stadia.:red_heart:

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Google, you REALLY dropped the ball. Again. You’re shutting down a major money making opportunity and investment into the future of your company, saying no to this incredibly valuable opportunity to get more than just your foot in the door in a booming industry. You had such an amazing thing going, and you were on track to be number one in video game streaming it you played your cards right. You were far ahead of other companies in the streaming war. Why didn’t you advertise your product? Alex Hutchinson, you’re an idiot. Phil Harrison, you’re a terrible person. None of this would have happened if the whole Google corporate culture wasn’t so twisted with the way they promote people based on launching a new product or service. Wheres the incentive to improve, build upon and upgrade existing digital infrastructure? I don’t think there’s one single person I can point my finger at for all of these toxic habits at Google. It’s bad business and you guys need to get your **bleep** together. Fix it before it’s too late.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Will we have to go through the store to refund our games or will you do it automatically and will it be sent to our google accounts if we payed with Google play 

Community Member

@StadiaTeam Hey, I know there is still lots of stuff up in the air, but what about letting former pro users re-up? I stopped paying a few months ago because I had some things going on, but I'd be willing to pay the next three months to still play all those pro titles before it sunsets. Especially if some of the games don't end up landing somewhere else. 

Founder
Founder

Stadians,

I got really sad when I heard that Stadia will close down... This has been great for quick and casual games.. And I will miss that a lot.

So far I had no issues with the streaming service...so I'm very sad that this saga will come to end :confused_face:

 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

This is not ok, please give me back my stadia pro as I cycle my subscription and just happen to not be active as of your cut off date. Very disappointed in how this has been handled.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

So I guess this means that those of us subscribed to Ubisoft+ Founders edition are going to get screwed over by losing our grandfathered pricing! This hurt quite a few people financially. Shame on you Google. You could have worked with partners to assist them with transition, instead of screwing them over.... Ever since Google dropped "Don't be Evil", it is exactly what they are!

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Not really, I found out that Ubisoft is trying to move their players to their platform. Will be optional of course

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

If stadia unlock the Bluetooth feature, you will be good in that case ( I think)

Founder
Founder

I guess i'll be buying a Steam Deck and investing the rest in Steam.

What a huge shame.

Some folks on here saw Stadia as their return to gaming... and now that's gone.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

To continue to play PUBG with my girlfriend we have to buy two xbox series s (a total of ca 600$ USD), compared to paying 0$ with Stadia. So this is pretty bad news for us.

Community Member

Time goes by.....and I will miss this great piece of software/streaming Stadia did offer 

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 ...but the most terrible message was that goolge did fire or at least disappoint their developers for stadia by sudden...dear google...thats not even fair !

 

Community Member

Ueoejeoe

 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

At list give us all adon Orks Must Die 3

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

300+ hours on farming simulator 22. At least my refund will cover purchase of new hardware. I was all in on stadia shame google completely mismanaged it. Was reading an article on ign and it seems the suits always overruled the gaming side of the company. I mean why would you listen to the industry specialists you hired to help you gain a market percentage.

Founder
Founder

It's sad to see this ending, but I've had so much fun thanks to this platform, especially with my kids. I sincerely hope your tech gets adopted by someone, as it's incredibly effective. I'll be making the most of it right up until the end. 

 

So long, and thanks for all the fish

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Wait a minute stadia shutting down for good? And if they are what is the reason for them shutting down their system for? Please somebody let me know why I need to know the answer to this cuz I'm f****** pissed about it.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I don't like this s***. Don't do it.

Founder
Founder

:pensive_face: 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

It's sad to see you guys go. **bleep** now I have to go and buy a **bleep**ing system.Hey that's life for you.Good bye stadia and marry Christmas and have a happy new year. maybe you guys will come back in the future.

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i'm sad that i discovered stadia so late.  I started with a pro trial 6 months ago and bought a bunch of games on sale.  since i have a busy schedule and i don't have a gaming pc setup i have been using stadia to game on random laptops, TVs and phones when i can find the time.  i love that stadia allowed me to game in high quality 4k on my underpowered laptop.  i will miss stadia and i can only hope a similar service becomes available.  

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@gianttendy Same here I don't have the time or the head space to learn how to maintain a modern PC, when I was younger no problem but now with a family and work where is the time. Some may say get a console but thay still need to be changed every few years. I really don't care about the technology behind it, xbox vs PlayStation, I just want to sit down press a button and have access to 100s of games whenever I want on any machine I want that's why I was happily paying the subscription. I really do think Google is making a mistake here.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

This is like your girlfriend leaving you because you are too poor and giving you back all the stuff you gave her. Still people happy and thankful about it. Screw you Google.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Am I tripping or does this still not feel real that Google Stadia will be gone?!?! :pensive_face:

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

No one will ever trust Google again. They lied many times, two months before of the announcement of shutting down Stadia, they confirm that Stadia will not be shut down.

Google was already known for give up on projects without trying to make things better.

What can Google do for building a bonding again? Here is one thing:

1. Continue Stadia and make proper marketing, if not able to do bring professional help. Make commercials, make Stadia known to the World.

2. Enable bluetooth for the stadia controller.

3. Make all the games from Google Play Store compatibel for the Chromecast with google tv and to enable the achievements there.

4. Make it possible to Stream directly your games from  Stadia and the games from Play Store to Youtube.

5. Have it possible to buy games for Stadia and to have Stadia Pro like it was before.

6. To attract more games Google has to create a rewards program. Google rewards asking you things, but they have to bring a program like Microsoft has.

7. Bring popular game-series like Yakuza, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Shenmue, Onimusha, Call of Duty, Prince of Persia, Tales of, Medal of Honor. I think you get my point.

8. Enable Google+ again for Stadia users.

If Google needs more help, i am happy to help.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Thank you. :new_moon_face:

Founder
Founder

Thank you to everyone who worked to make Stadia what it was. Stadia is a great service. And now that I'm exploring other cloud gaming services, I've felt how much better Stadia really is in comparison. Proud to say I was subbed to Pro for the entire existence of Stadia. Really wish there was some way Stadia could break through the noise. Terribly sad to see it go. Thanks again.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Well  these three years have been good

 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Can we get refunds on games purchased 

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@StadiaTeam 

Lamento mucho la pérdida de esta plataforma.

Pero ¿qué pasarán con mis beneficios de acceder a la cuenta beta de Ubisoft+ si ya no estoy suscrito a través de Google Sradia y no me deja reactivar la cuenta?

Founder
Founder

Can we make a note of everyone in these comments demanding refunds and make sure that they don't see a penny of it in response -_-

The post outlines the refund situation upfront, and these people are so self-entitled that they skip the reading part and begin listing their demands. Stadia will be the best in the business for a long time to come, we all appreciate the blood, sweat, and tears that the devs (and to a lesser extent us Stadians) have given over the last 3 years. I will keep my Founder's Controller proudly on display, and let's just hope that the likes of Microsoft see the true potential and buy into the software to improve Xbox Streaming :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

So long Stadia, it was an astounding journey, glad I could be part of it :')

- Grizzly

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@A7XGRIZZLYUK like you said. It was. See to what we have and what it will be. Dont live in the past. With Stadia gone you dont have real competition yet.

But thumbs up for you, that you like Google to kill your beloved projects. This borders to masochism.

Sorry to be so bold, but.

The people demands because Google give it Word. If you can believe them and accept what they do. It is good for you.

I know if something bothers you, you have to talk. That is why the people here are demanding. Since we dont have physical discs, because it is cloud based they have to refund.

Since you accept what Google is doing, why dont you renounce of the refund? Do it officially. You dont have the right to talk about other peoples money. 

You have the right to talk about your money, so you have to renounce now.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

for a company that makes literally all of its money advertising, I've never seen a single memorable advertisement for stadia by google ever. every product that Google makes other than search, ai, and android they whiff completely at getting people to know or care about it's existence. or it's too early. or there's no use case. and I don't understand how or why they do that. I mean I can't go anywhere without seeing an ad for an Apple device, but Google creates an affordable service to stream tons of videogames in full HD to your TV with $60 of hardware that you probably already have and they're like "we don't have to advertise this, our pr department got us an article in wired 3 years ago"

like... dude. it makes me wary of trying new Google products and services when they come out- I'm just gonna fall in love with them and then Google is gonna have a bad quarter a few years later and pull the plug on it.  Google glass, Google stadia. I mean ffs what's next? I miss don't be evil Google. that was a better Google.

 

 

 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Maybe it is better they shut down Stadia, now i can i am really interested for project keystone of the competition.

They already have the games i am interested with. 

Community Member

Very sad day. Sad to see Stadia go.Stadia devs and team have done a great job. Thank you for the dedication and awesome time. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Sadly, Phil Harrison doesn't appear to have a vision and the audacity for what Stadia was heading towards...or overall gaming industry. GFN or Xcloud it is than I guess. So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Alna

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Founder

@WatchingLeader No, they do not have to refund at all, they have done so as a gesture of goodwill, I have no issue with people wanting a refund; it's natural to want your money back in this situation. My point (as you seem to have missed it) is that people are demanding refunds on the very post that is telling them they will be receiving refunds, it's like a child demanding dessert before eating their dinner :neutral_face:

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@A7XGRIZZLYUK i understand. But still what is your problem. Let them behave like spoiled childs. But i have to disagree, that it is only a good gesture.

At least at Europe, more in Germany they have to give the money back. 

Because it was not renting a game, but purchasing it. By german law at least they must give it back after a time period they close the servers. 

Before closing the servers is a gesture of good will.

Founder
Founder

Bummer this is how it all went down. Google doesn't seem to stick with anything that's of entertainment. Perhaps just stop trying that industry?

On another note, can something good become of the awesome controllers? They are the most comfortable on the market and it's a true shame they can't be used as a traditional bluetooth controller. Please Google, don't let these controllers become just paper weights for the landfill :disappointed_face: 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I Have an idea...Stadia stays 

 

@StadiaTeam 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Maybe the StadiaPro was a problem.

More people would buy games for Stadia without the subscription.

I dont really know hiw this is working, but it is only an idea.

But we have to consider they paid all the money we dont pay. High electricity bills ect. Maybe thag is why. 

Does anyone  have news about the refunds? I could not find something. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@WatchingLeader 

 

Refunds are coming out in January so they're going to slowly start streaming into our accounts. mid-January.  I just read an article yesterday on it on discord and the behavior sites. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@Honesty21 thank you :slightly_smiling_face:

It would be better Google just continue Stadia :slightly_smiling_face:

Stadia Player
Stadia Player
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Google you don't have to! I, and speaking for many people like me do L . O . V . E Stadia!

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

No, they really don't have to. They're giving up too easy. They could keep it going if they really wanted to. Makes me wonder what else is going on. We need to keep stadia. Hoping they change their minds before January 

 

@ChohdiX 

 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I think you still have time.to change your minds! 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player
  • @MrMarcusGKnight i would like it too. But really now, who will ever trust them again. Since they announced their mindles decision, i stopped usind Stadia. It doesnt make sense to play anymore.  It is better to start your ganes to another console.
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Does Stadia Has Crash Team Racing Nitro Fulled, Has CPU Customizing Difficulty? @StadiaTeam Backstory.jpg

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

RIP Stadia you will forever be remembered

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@HellAngel dont need to be sad. 

First i was sad too, but it is better so.

Google has the best products in the market, but they are not reliable.

That is why it is better so. Just waiting for the refunds, but i lose hope :slightly_smiling_face:

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Selfish sons of b*tches, what would it mean even if this platform wasn't as lucrative as expected? Google has so much more going on that at least they could of kept the servers for us to play what we had thus far. Don't want to make new games? Fine! Don't care for the$9.99 for subscriptions? Fine! But how cheap can a multi trillion dollar company be? Well, now we know, don't we? Prrrf! I feel bad for your team. They trust you too. I wonder if you'd get rid of them for pennies on the dollar. I'll also search my **bleep** on Bing from now on, thanks for nothing... Send me an email I can answer to do I can really tell you how I feel about your betrayal. And by the way what the hell is everyone thanking you guys for? The whole point was being able to play on practically any device, boooooooo!!!!

Founder
Founder

I liked this platform too much to kudos its downfall, loved it since the founder's edition came out all those years ago.

Founder
Founder

Google should licence the technology to playstation :slightly_smiling_face: 

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Stadia Player
Stadia Player

will i be able to use stadia app still on my phone when stadia shuts down

 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@yourmom6776 i dont think so. It makes no sense that the app after shutting down the servers is still working. It would be nice though. It would be nicer if Google continue with Stadia. Maybe it will happen, you cannot trust Google if they say something. Two months before of the announcement of shutting down stadia, they announced they will not close it. So you never know.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@EquinoxAlpha would be nice

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@FreshIsBest we all do, but Google does not care.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@stevenicarol541 it is true.

But it is a trillion Dollar company, because they are do cheap.

Google is Google, so dont onvest in them. It is a waste of money.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

To those people who have Humankind, I invite us on January 17th for one last game, I will start and be online from 6PM PST, it will be a rapid game, so nothing fancy, just a way to say goodbye on Stadia.

To the people who made Stadia Possible and to those working on refunds, I thank you so much, this platform was my favorite, and I will always be a Cloud Gamer. Hopefully, your services can be used somewhere else or brought back to life when Cloud Gaming becomes the only platform to play on. 


Founder
Founder

I found a post that explains some reasons why Stadia should have succeeded.  In some ways, Stadia came out at the right time.  Why was this not enough to get more players?

https://funnyjunk.com/Diffused+differentiated+incandescent/nayyNan/

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Stadia Player
Stadia Player

DONT DIE STADIA!!!! @StadiaTeam 

Community Member

But why!? Whyyyyyyyy. :expressionless_face: Straight Tomfoolery, I tell ya!!

Welp, I’ve truly had a marvelous time playing with you over the past couple years. I’m not sure where to go now. 

Godspeed, Stadia. Godspeed 🫡🫡

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@Little_Biz 

 

I know right?! It's awful.  Thankfully my ex roommate left me his PS4. So it's not going to be the same but at least I'm moving some of my stadia friends over to my PlayStation 4 network. 

 

Anyone else getting a negative balance on google play for stadia refunds ?

Founder
Founder

@RagingSamuraiNo, I did not see any problem with the refunds. The number is not negative for me.

https://community.stadia.com/t5/Stadia-Community-Blog/What-today-s-message-about-Stadia-means-for-pl...

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

It has been a while since I have played on this platform. I thought it was going to be around for a good while but the lack of modern games killed it. The industry is big and much to tap into could have made it awesome.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@chappy1225i agree to somf point. Dont forget they dont make Stadia known, very poor marketing.

They do it with all the products, maybe they dont have a marketing Departement. Who knows.

The good thing is, the time and money i would have spend for stadia, i can spend it to Xbox or PS. Maybf Nintendo is my New console.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player
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Founder
Founder

Sad to see you go. I had a blast with the games. If only there were AAA Games you folks would have made it - sadly management focused on games no one plays or no one needs the entire Google cloud to render ...

Hope to see a revival one day in the future.

I still believe in you!

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Just wanted to thank the Stadia Team for all their effort. I have thoroughly enjoyed using the service. Just wanted to also thank Google for living up to and delivering on their refund promise. Received my refund on all my game purchases a couple of days before Black Friday so thank you very much for my FREE Xbox game console and for being able to purchase it at a great price,along with a bunch of my favorite games on Stadia!!! Sure made my transition to console gaming pain free. Loving my new Xbox thanks!!!!

Community Member

Well that’s disappointing, I bought the Founders edition but never got around to playing it. Now I’ll never know what it was like. But from the posts it sounds like most people enjoyed it… :crying_face:

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I still think Stadia is the future of gaming.

Geforce Now's virtual machine service is nothing like Stadia. I was disappointed at their misleading service and I'm still waiting for my money back. I spent hours to set it up, find out that it didn't work on my steam games, only couple of them and then demand customer care.

Meanwhile Stadia worked like a dream, announced the shutdown and returned my money I wasn't even expecting to get back.

Just wanted to thank the Stadia team. I'm an old school player who dropped from the wheel and after a 10 year hiatus started gaming again with Stadia (cyberpunk, FFXV and Destiny 2).

Virtual machines do not interest me, or new consoles. I'm probably going to just quit gaming again as its too much of a hassle.

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Yywuu

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Did anyone get deceived like me about the refunds? For the hardware i still wait for the refund, but they announced not to refund the whole amount of money. 

Even so, they said after 14 days i will receive it, but the days are gone and no money refunded.

I wrote directly to Google, but like always no answer. They are ignoring, i already change my gaming to Xbox and they answer immediately. Why Google dont want to answer?

Is Google about to steal us?

Please tell me what you think and if it happens to someone else.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

 

@WatchingLeader 

You're literally getting all your money back. 

 

This is hard for people to grasp for some reason but you're not supposed to contact them UNTIL AFTER JANUARY 18TH. Wait it out...your money will come. I got ALL my money back (well over $1000). 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@truferblue22 but they already send an email, were they mention i will receive my money back in 14 days. So it doesnt fit. I received all the money what i spend over playstore, butnotthe money i spend with credit card.

If a someone/company says here if Eugope something they have zo do this in the timframe they say or to a specific timeframe from the law. I know Google is an US company, but if they make business outside of their borders, they have to behave with the regulations and laws of the country they are  making business with. 

So, this means if they send an email to refund in 14 days, they have to do this.

This with 18th Januar has to do if you dont receive any information.

Everyone should know the rights they have. I need to know if others have the same issue, because it is a good indicator for my laywer. Here in Germany you have to contact the person/company you have an issue with and if he is ignoring you, you have the right to inform your laywer and go the further steps.

Community Member

my refund was sent to a card thats canceled. I need my refunds sent to the new card I saved on file.

 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@Kntryssg4280 Google will provide the option to use a different card or you have to get with the financial institution If I am  not mistaken 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Hallo 

Schade das es nicht mehr funktioniert. Aber ich fand es gut das ihr euer bestes gabt.

Ich spiele zwar erst. Seit letztem Jahr aber ich hatte so viel gefallen daran gefunden. Da es einfach war über Chrome zu streamen und den Controller ohne jegliche Konsolen kabellei zu benutzen. Ich war zwar nicht regelmäßig online aber ihr hattet mich so fasziniert, dass ich stadia mir zugelegt habe.

Ich werde es vermissen, als Erinnerung werde ich meinen Controller für die tolle Zeit behalten und hoffe das stadia mit einem alten Controller in 1-2 Jahren wieder aktiviert wird. 

Ich werde meine Hoffnung nicht aufgeben. Ich weiß das ihr ein tolles Team mit Ideen seid.

Vielen lieben Dank für diese Zeit und in nächster Zukunft.

Auf Wiedersehen 

 

 

 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Been nearly 2 months and have yet to get anything. No money deposited in my old bank, no declined transactions no nothing. How has it taken this long and support at Google, Stadia and my bank all refuse to be of any help. Blaming the other parties involved. I just want my money and no one has any answers and refuse to be helpful in any way.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

 4th december i received an email about refund in 14 days, but until now i did not receive it.

I wrote them, but i get ignored.

The credit card i used back then is still working. Now, we have 29th december.

Google is again lying, but now it getting worse. They do it with our money. If we normal people do that, we are getting in jail.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@jsc315 @WatchingLeader 

THEY'VE SAID DOZENS OF TIMES TO WAIT UNTIL JANUARY 18TH. THEY WILL NOT RESPOND TO YOU UNTIL JANUARY 18TH. 

 

Y'all out here acting like they're stealing from you when really we're getting the retail experience of a lifetime. Calm down, wait until the 18th, and next time... read the instructions. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@truferblue22  in the email is written i will receive the refund in 14 days, not on 18th january. Now calculate from 4th december until today. If they write 14 says they have to do this latest in 14 days. If i buy i product on bill and i have to pay in 14 days and i dont do it on time i will be charged additional. Now, they have to pay us additional. What we are getting from Google is criminal, fraud and lies.

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@WatchingLeader been nearly 8 weeks and nothing. So it's been well over 14 days. That's my point. It doesn't take this long to process this stuff. The company never sent my money period. So Stadia is just lying and it'll take even longer to get my money after the fact. They shouldn't have automatically sent money to those cards without pinging them before have to make sure they are active. 

Bank often see this with inactive cards as fraud and ignore them. So this is absolutely on Google fault they just don't want to deal with it. They are just being lazy and walking all over the consumer not allowing for a seamless process. Instead they make this whole thing a absolute mess for no reason and there isn't any I can do. 

 

@truferblue22 and what magically happens on the 18th I suddenly get my money they never sent. It'll be another 6 weeks of headaches because they refuse to understand they messed up. I should not have to wait over 3 months for a **bleep** refund. That's beyond being patient, the company itself is using it's power to abuse it's power and control. It's that simple. And to defend a company for neglect is weird. 

Community Member

PLEASE STADIA, STAY!!!! I don't want any refunds as long as you stay. I love this game platform and I was enjoying it SO MUCH. What am I going to do with my life after 01/18?? PlayStation is too expensive and they are not producing anymore consoles. Xbox doesn't have all the games I like Stadia did. DON'T GO PLEASE!!!

Founder
Founder

@Roxyota what do you mean playstation aren't producing anymore.... Literally the majority of places is now stocked with ps5's .... I was told the UK didn't have any in stock ( that wasn't at a ridiculous price ) ... After being told this I had ordered one within 5 minutes direct from Sony that was delivered the next day ..... Order direct with Sony ...it's cheaper and you get it as normal price and aren't ripped off!! But saying their not producing more is false ... I know your sad stadia is ending we all are ..but it's time to move on ... Use your refund to fund a new system 

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Founder
Founder

I WANT TO SEE IT ALL, UNHINDERED, AND KNOW IT'S MINE TO TAKE......

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I didn't get to play as much as I liked, but I'll tell you that my kids had a blast!  Thanks for three years of great game play. I'll be waiting for your next venture. 

Stadia Player
Stadia Player

i am so Grateful for the last 2 years of Entertainment , Thank you for you support pc/Stadia Player here ...:)