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 consu...
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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.