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Google's Stadia Missed Targets For Monthly Active Users By 'Hundreds Of Thousands' Per New Report |
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Google's Stadia Missed Targets For Monthly Active Users By 'Hundreds Of Thousands' Per New Report | MMORPG.com
Google Stadia missed its internal targets for controller sales and monthly users by "hundreds of thousands" of users, per a new report from Bloomberg.
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Yes. Just like when an MMORPG shuts down, you lose everything you had in it.
WTF are you even talking about? What does Stadia have to do with free speech and saving the world, and why should we care? You need a reboot as your programing seems to have gone haywire.
You might want to get out more... big world out there.
Thin clients do have legitimate uses. They work well for reading documents or e-mails. They work tolerably for writing e-mails or editing documents. They can work fine for some types of games, though most of the games that a thin client can handle well take very little hardware to run locally.
The other major problem with game streaming is that it's intrinsically an expensive way to run games. Flops are cheap and bandwidth is expensive. That's an iron law of computing. It has been that way for decades, and to the extent that it has changed at all, it's only to become even more true than before. That means that game streaming will always require a relatively high end price tag for a low end experience.
They stated that Google offered no incentives and just assumed devs would obviously to develop for Stadia. Even though google has a track record of failing and then abandoning products rather quickly.
I think the primary reason it didn’t catch on is because they had no awesome stadia exclusives at launch. If they had one or two really good exclusive games people would have jumped on it despite their fears. Then Google would have bought itself some time to build its library and customer base. The whole thing was botched.
There were two schools of thought ,one no need for a good pc as you could play on anything with internet and two to perhaps have all games on a streaming platform that you could play for free after signing on with the platform.
To me it just looks like a new marketing gig to profit yet again off of OTHERS hard work making the games.So they want us to pay to play on their service and buy the games,wtf,we already pay for internet and we can buy games fine without any streaming service.
So to me it just looks like these streaming services are sticking their nose into the profit pie where they don't belong.
I thought or hoped we would end up with something like we paid a monthly or package deal to get free gaming.I am not allowing any service to be my new store front,i already don't like Steam controlling my games,i want to get back to OWNING my games and not being bound to ANY service.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
How did this happen,how did we go from having a cool box with maybe some cool items and holding it in our hands to now owning err i mean RENTING with a TOS digital license,something we can't even touch.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
I would use Stadia but not in my living room where I do have a PS and a gaming PC connected via LAN, but instead on the go on my work laptop, on the balcony, in the garden,...
The issue I have is that those places often come with bad connection, or peripherals.
There are only action like games (shooter, sports, action-adventures) in the shop which are a pain to play without a controller or good mouse keyboard setup.
Plus the bad connection leading to artifacts stuttering, pixelation.
Action games are the last ones which should be in the portfolio.
If there would be games like XCom, Civilisation, Anno, Planet Zoo, Darkest Dungeon.
Turn based JRPGs, or TCGs.
But exactly this type of games are missing.
This is the biggest failure in my opinion and what will break their neck.
1997 Meridian 59 'til 2019 ESO
Waiting for Camelot Unchained & Pantheon
As for this whole way of playing games, I do not see why something that is going to gobble bandwith is a good idea either for playing games or for gaming as a whole. We all know about the questions of prioritising internet usage that have come up before, what do you think is going to happen if gaming becomes a far bigger bandwith hog than it already is? I just don't see this as a wise place for gaming to be in, gaming does not have a good name with politicians, we would be first in the firing line.
Right now, Steam wants you to log into their servers at least once every few days in order for offline mode to still work. But if Valve were going bankrupt, they'd remove that check and let the games you've bought just work forever, at least if they're single-player games.