Dude, it's because this launch was botched so badly they are all afraid to take responsibility and look bad. Founders were promised access at launch, which turned to soon after launch in first come fi...
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Dude, it's because this launch was botched so badly they are all afraid to take responsibility and look bad. Founders were promised access at launch, which turned to soon after launch in first come first served, which turned into soon after your order ships in no specific or logical order, to this giant debacle we are seeing now. What should have happened was that the founders editions were sent out well in advance, you can't use it anyway without the code, even people now have some midnight blue paper weights because they have received the hardware with no code to activate it.. Founders should have been sent emails with codes as far back as last week, in waves, determined by when you ordered. They didn't need access to play, just access to choose a user name and complete a profile. If they really needed to stagger access to the service (which is what it seems all these made up stories lately about codes and shipping are really hiding), they could have given early access (Pre Nov 19) in waves as well. Google made the biggest mistake of all, they over promised and wayyyy under delivered. They should have taken the route I outlined above which would have under promised and over delivered. The fact that Google was unable to do any of this, and is now saying it's a problem with the codes while no one takes any responsibility for this absolute disaster of a launch day really gives me pause as to if Stadia will ever be what was promised to us.