Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[RyuDragnier]

Google kills Stadia:
https://blog.google/products/stadia/...ming-strategy/

I knew it, that game streaming has no future.

Cheers

Right now at least. There needs to be infrastructure, no danger of wifi or internet falling, and high speed (meaning fiber optic level) available to all for such a thing to work. But due to how companies are in their eternal search for infinite profit, none of that will come to pass for quite a long time.

[Vyrerus]

Google kills Stadia:
https://blog.google/products/stadia/...ming-strategy/

I knew it, that game streaming has no future.

Cheers

Hell yeah. Get fucked Stadia.

[Renalt]

Google kills Stadia:
https://blog.google/products/stadia/...ming-strategy/

I knew it, that game streaming has no future.

Cheers

Let it be remembered about as well at the Ouya...

or the N-Gage.

[Neoyoshi]

Hell yeah. Get fucked Stadia.

Stadia didn't have much of a future to begin with, there were already other players on the board and i feel like it may have just been bad timing when i look back on it now.

We did get a free copy of Assassin's Creed:Odyssey out of it though; those of us who beta tested the tech back before Stadia's release- it's the game that was used to stress-test it for a numbers of months.


I feel like if Stadia was a thing back in the early 2010's- it would have had a much bigger impact; because the OnLive service was basically like Stadia; but the games were free as long as you had a paid subscription.

Google kills Stadia:
https://blog.google/products/stadia/...ming-strategy/

I knew it, that game streaming has no future.

Cheers

Game streaming does have a future, as others have pointed out, it just needs more infrastructure, and to be fair the whole stadia thing is part of something bigger that's going on between Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. There is a kind of tech-power struggle going on currently, and google just happens to be the one being pushed around right now.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Somebody remember, we have to wake up Green Day tomorrow.

[NanaWiloh]

How to keep a 12yr old busy. Give them a baseball bat and send them outside to bash a pile of dead brush down.

[Neoyoshi]

My Persona 5 Royal pc/steam/xbox launch fanart is almost complete.

[Rannie]

Good luck Rannie. Stay safe!

Thanks. My dad and I decided to actually evacuate with the mandatory evacuation we got on Monday and headed to my aunts in Tennessee. On the bright note it hit the Port Charlotte/Punta Gorda area, to the south of me, like Charlie did and most of the issues my area seemed to have was some power outtages and minor flooding with downed trees or branches. My home was fine just downed branches and no damage.

Mine's being shut down Thursday and depending on what happens, we'll be open the next day. Because God forbid a grocery store that can make a whole line of fresh stuff that requires refrigeration or some sort shuts down for a day.

Fun fact: my boss originally scheduled my next day off on this Thursday. So there goes my chance at having 3 days off this week.

I hope everything with you is fine and there's not much damage or none at all.

[RyuDragnier]

We just got some wind and rain here, like a normal rainstorm. I live in the middle part of SC though, so a lot of bad weather tends to pass us by.

[Vyrerus]

Thanks. My dad and I decided to actually evacuate with the mandatory evacuation we got on Monday and headed to my aunts in Tennessee. On the bright note it hit the Port Charlotte/Punta Gorda area, to the south of me, like Charlie did and most of the issues my area seemed to have was some power outtages and minor flooding with downed trees or branches. My home was fine just downed branches and no damage.



I hope everything with you is fine and there's not much damage or none at all.

Yay! That's great. Glad to hear it

Re: Stadia stuff - Entirely streamed games are a very bad way for gaming to go. I will rejoice every time something so asinine fails, and will rue the day that it ever succeeds. Digital options for buying are already bad enough, what with them being able to remove those games from their catalogue even after you've purchased it, such that if you ever lose the data or have it corrupted, then you lose what you purchased. The last thing we need is a system where you can't even actively play what you want to play month to month. And like hell we need yet another subscription service for yet another leg of entertainment wherein companies will fight over rights to stream games both old and new, and we'll have to get what all comes after what actually succeeds as the proof of concept success. (not too mention the crackdown that would ensue on emulation should game streaming service reactivate rights to old titles)

Physical copies of media are best, especially for games where replay value is high. I still have games that are from the 80s and 90s in physical copy, and they still work. They're still mine. They're still plug and play.

We should own and should want to own the entertainment we buy, especially games. We shouldn't devalue our entertainment, especially by letting it be over regulated and owned only by the companies that make it. We shouldn't ever let it be reduced to merely purchasing the right to play. That's stupid and foolhardy. It's like paying to be miserable.

Even a stand alone MMO which asks exactly that of us is a better deal for the consumer. It's only one game, after all, but it's also a social apparatus that we ourselves can make money off of (see streamers/youtubers/artists/musicians etc). Gating our gaming libraries behind subscription and the internet as a whole though, as said before, is just an entirely awful concept.