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News Google is shutting down Stadia on January 2023, refunds available.

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Damn, if I knew that they would be doing full refunds in the future, I would have bought a Stadia years ago lol
 
Did it ever get all those features advertised in the reveal like seeing someone playing a game on YouTube and being able to click a button and start playing the same game in-browser?

It wouldn't have been as bad a failure if they actually delivered on the features they advertised at launch.
 
So.. if I place an order for this now will it be refunded? Would love to use the Google TV for X Cloud lol

EDIT: store pages slowly being taken down and those that were up dont function all the way thru fyi
 
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I guess the refunds are a mix of Google knowing that the complete lack of faith in them going forwards would mean they’ll never be able to buy into gaming again if they don’t offer refunds, so from a long term view it’s gonna be a small amount compared to the expenditure they’ve already thrown down the toilet on infrastructure and getting games on the platform. Combined with a potential lack of faith in their cloud services in general going forwards given that everyone loses access to everything in January. If you’re going to draw such a hard line under everything in order to leave the market, it’s a drop in the ocean.
 
Turns out that making a product that basically nobody was asking for and that was roundly rejected by its target market and then pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into it over a few years and expecting to succeed “because we’re Google” isn’t the best business strategy, who knew
 
The technology seemed cool, but streaming video games continues to not appeal to the wider gaming audience.

I'm sure one day some company will get it right, but it wasn't Stadia.
 
In all honesty it lasted longer than I thought it would, and I have to give props to google for actually offering refunds instead of just sticking it to customers.
 
We at least they're doing full refunds, now everyone who tried it got to play all these games for free for a while.
 
Weebos said:
The technology seemed cool, but streaming video games continues to not appeal to the wider gaming audience.

I'm sure one day some company will get it right, but it wasn't Stadia.
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I think Microsoft’s strategy of “you can play games on your Xbox and PC and also stream those games to your phone when you’re not by those devices” is a much more compelling offering than a streaming-only service like Stadia or Luna.

MSnap said:
It was a cool idea that I think only could have worked if the games weren’t priced at full retail
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The only person I ever heard in real life that was actually interested in Stadia was excited about it because they thought the $9.99 Stadia Pro subscription got them everything – basically, they thought it was like Game Pass. I didn’t have the heart to tell them that, no, it’s $9.99 and then you also buy the vast majority of the games.
 
Christo750 said:
Not much more to say than "lmao"

Sorry to anyone who actually spent money on this thing.
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Hey they get full refunds plus get to keep the now useless hardware. They also got to play games now at zero cost. Not a bad deal all things considered.
 
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