Chiram's Posts

One is stadia (streamed at 1080P) One is  Acer Predator Helios 700 Gaming Notebook - 1920 x 1080 - Core i7 i7-9750H - 16 GB RAM   NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 with 8 GB   Can you tell them apart?   

Amazon launching streaming platform as well. 5$ month.  This service has been cruising along in 2nd gear. Time for some high octane. Get it into youtube with save state, get those demo clicks rolling for the market. :). I want to see the player-base expand to where cross play is irrelevant.   Also for reference anyone who drives stick knows 2nd to 4th is typically a bad choice. This is figurative lol   https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/24/21451371/amazon-luna-cloud-gaming-service-twitch-alexa-controller  

My cousin decided to pay me a surprise visit and raid my scotch reserves. He's a pretty avid gamer, I wouldn't call him die-hard but he owns an xbox and also a PC. I happened to have a game of metro paused on my dual 65 inch curved upgraded displays. He sat down and goes METRO! I have this on my PC. Still haven't beaten it. So I played a bit, " Oh this is the stadia thing you were talking about".  "Dang this looks way better than my PC, wow" I said wanna play something? I quickly switched over to Orcs Must Die 3. Told him to fire up the controller in the charge bay next to him. It booted up the second display.  His daughter comes around the corner and asks to join, I hand her a controller tied to a google pixel 3A XL. She fires it up and then I show them how to cast display to the other tv.  They had a blast together. "Yo I gotta get me one of these, how much". I told him the price and he about flipped. "Why are people knocking this?!". I showed him the phone app.  He then asked the one burning question that I have no answer to. "How do you stay connected and talk to people"? *You don't* Maybe through reddit or forums. There's no way to text or group voice. "Oh". "I think I will pass then." "That seems very archaic" Let me know when the social part gets useful.  Stadia has the influence but needs the social integration majorly

Any expected future outlook at possibly getting a stadia official gaming mouse and keyboard that won't drop out resolution?. A good half the games I prefer using mouse and keyboard on. Would love to be able to use a mouse and retain any future 4k usage :).  Updated 9/7/21 Any updates on wifi driven peripherals? especially steering wheel.   

I am bumping this to show improvements to the platform. See below my original rant from 9.11.20 Upgrades and Improvements since this "rant" Features   Availability Crowd Choice Crowd Choice allows streamers to let viewers decide on in-game actions via a poll. Released State Share State Share allows players to share a link so that others can experience the game being played at a specific moment, exactly as the players are. Somewhat Released Stream Connect Allows multiplayer games to display the video feed of another player in Picture-in-Picture mode. Released Party Find Group find for specific games and instant-join Released Crowd Play Crowd Play is a built-in feature for Stadia that allows players to jump into a multiplayer game with their favorite streamers and YouTubers. Limited Testing UbiSoft+ I don't care what you say. Smart move on this integration as it melds more developer potential prospects.  Released Increased Community Presence and Overall Improvement on Quality of updates, deals and additions to the platform. Stadia ------ Get crowd play in fully. Win the streamers.    The below post was from me on 09.11.20   I am a continuous improvement guy, a manager and auditor. I work in various aspects of business and have even co-owned a design company/worked as lead designer. Quality auditing is my specialty. So why the rant?. This platform has potential but the lack of community output and quality interpersonal pushing is the worst of any platform I have seen. We need more than the stadia community blog. 1.) I am a google fanboy, have everything in my home essentially google. Stadia by baseline functionality fits in my life and my families life. I have been even developing an application ( Website owned, logos up, UX Frames, programming rolling) for this platform until the response i get the other day regarding a release date for a cross play title ( dead by daylight). From a guide "Could be any day this month, just distract yourself". While I am sure the reply was meant in good nature; it's a testament to painting the windows black.  This was a question posed by myself and my dead by daylight group ( which consists of 50 members) who all wanted to join up on stadia. Three of them are relatively popular streamers. They were interested in the stadia only functions but the lack of information turned them away.  After that response I reeled back. Told my kid to quit playing and I broke out the steam accounts after he searched for an HOUR for an orcs must die 3 game to join. If you can't understand it starts with your community and THAT community have a place to function effectively, everything else will fall apart. The very fact that we have to connect through forum posts  says it all. The browser functionality and community buildings needs to be integrated. Majorly.  Since you are increasingly adding new games, which dilute your current numbers for multiplayer functionality... perhaps it's time to focus on what's truly causing people to bow out. 2.) I have been a founders member since the beginning and my household is 4 stadia accounts, all with founders. I am responsible for bringing at - least 30 people to stadia personally. Collectively my family has purchased easily 1,200$ worth of titles. I suppose I will just "distract myself" from that?  3.) I have watched the market place grow with new games ( great ) but also have seen the resentment for lack of information and general quality of staff responding. Stadia is bleeding interest loss from it's devout fanbase. In the last 3 weeks alone most of the people I know have moved on. However; due to these experiences my gleam of faith has been tarnished a bit.  Break out the community features.  Give us actual updates not just new titles randomly appearing.  Even after all this I am still supporting stadia because of it's potential, ease of use and again.... I am a continuous improvement man. Progress can be incremental but it starts with your loyal consumers.  I love this product. Give it what it deserves.  Features please. Tell us how you are going to get the community numbers self sustainable. What's the end game.