FFXIV for Google Stadia Any Plans [Dev Request]

[ElazulHP]

Stadia port coming just as soon as they finish the Ouya port lol

[StriderShinryu]

Given how they've already had to literally rework jobs from the ground up because of the latency issues that exist in the base game as it is, I have little faith a streaming FF14 would work all that well.

[Arrhin]

If you've read any reviews on Stadia, then you'll find it's likely a hard no for XIV. The lag is insufferable over anything but a premium wired connection. Just my opinion but Stadia will be shuttered within a couple years or less anyways

[Kleeya]

Despite the marketers trying to sell us their services and telling us (again) that this time it is for real, that the future of gaming is here, seeing how Youtube has sometimes a hard time sending me a plain video in low quality, i kinda doubt that Stadia will send me flawlessly a generated on the fly 1920*1080 stream on top of having no latency problems with all the keybords and mouse inputs.

What else was the revolution of gaming not so long ago ? Oh yes i remember, VR headsets XD

[xJimmehx]

Despite the marketers trying to sell us their services and telling us (again) that this time it is for real, that the future of gaming is here, seeing how Youtube has sometimes a hard time sending me a plain video in low quality, i kinda doubt that Stadia will send me flawlessly a generated on the fly 1920*1080 stream on top of having no latency problems with all the keybords and mouse inputs.

What else was the revolution of gaming not so long ago ? Oh yes i remember, VR headsets XD

I would never play 2d ever again if there were more "big" VR titles out. It really did revolutionize gaming for me at least. Most of my friends too. Problem is, not many people are willing to spend big money on a AAA title when they dont know how well it'll sell. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My video streaming is amazing, too. I stream movies in 4k with almost no problems, ever. Though there is definitely a delay when I am gaming and streaming to my tv from my pc. Almost a 4th of a second delay. It looks good, sure, but unless you are playing turn based games...Avoid streaming games at all cost lol.

[MrKusakabe]

I think I said this already, but every man in the middle is a bad thing. I use a Personal Computer for a reason, not a workstation dependend on a mainframe/master server.
Another problem: Legal stuff. Look, imagine you get banned from Stadia for whatever reason (mind: You have a contract with them), you lose your access to this particular Square Enix product. Why would you want to have another contract in the middle?

I hate that already with Steam. Normally, it should be CUSTOMER <-> GAME DEVELOPER.
Now it's CUSTOMER <-> STEAM <-> GAME DEVELOPER.

I am using a wired connection and it's 99.9% reliable. But I would never want that not for the connection, but for another company grabbing my wallet, bringing their own technical problems, possible downtimes, licenses and legal jibber-jabber, etc. with them. No, thanks.

[Noitems]

Lmao I would not want this game on Stadia.

It already has enough issues working with games as simple as Samurai Shodown, and that's just a simple 1v1 fighter.

Stadia is a nice concept but if they have to develop for the lowest common denominator it means we're going to have "Stadia limitation" memes instead of Ps4 ones.

[Bonbori]

Here's the obligatory reminder that Stadia is a Google project and as such it's safe to assume it will be quietly abandoned by... I'll give it Q2 of next year, and officially shut down a year or two down the line.

Because Google.

They will most likely continue to iterate upon the underlying technology because despite Stadia's flop, streaming still has a lot of potential in non-gaming applications, but I certainly hope nobody was naive enough to buy into the early adopter programme.

[hynaku]

Never could see this game streaming not till they fix server tick issue to it. Where game will thick your standing in AOE when first shows up and run out of it or never was standing in it and still get hit by it. Every area would need to first have super high speed internet. I know where I live fastest is 5mb for internet.

[Saefinn]

From the sounds of it Google Stadia is having a rocky start with people.

If cloud gaming is for you, I’d probably recommend Shadow if it’s available where you are. They are the best I’ve come across, I decided to give it a go when I was worried my PC was gonna die on me.

Latency is the big issue these services suffer from. Shadow’s infrastructure is built to reduce the latency as much as they possibly can on their end so that it is barely noticeable. And you’d be able to play FFXIV straight out of the box because they provide a full desktop experience. Although they are more expensive they are introducing new pricing tiers in Feb to offer cheaper options. From what I am seeing of Stadia so far, if you are in the niche that would make use of such a service, Shadow is probably worth it. Plus, as it is a full desktop experience, if say, SE did release a Stadia version of the game, you’d have to pay for the game again (and given the pricing of current titles on Stadia, they’re not good value, which I know is one complaint). Whereas you wouldn’t with Shadow.

The only probable I had with it is that I don’t think my PC gets along with their software, I used to get audio problems (like you might expect with poor decoding) that I didn’t get on my iPad or Android phone. But I saw plenty of people on YouTube not experiencing it.

Of course early days for Stadia, they could get better, but versus competition, there is the risk it’d go the way of Google Plus and some of their other projects. Hopefully they’ll iron out the problems, though it surprises me given if anybody has the infrastructure to make something like this work, it’s Google.