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Barudak posted:

Wait, what did you buy to get a used stadia. The controller?

Neddy Seagoon posted:

Ah yes the infrastructure that is *checks notes* Google cloud computing. That'd take them all of, what, 30 seconds to wipe and reallocate in a config console somewhere?

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limaCAT posted:

Stadia is not vaporware, Stadia is CueCat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat

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Stadia is great, and I don't get why it's getting so much flak

On mobile,so sorry in advance for any formatting issues.

I've had Stadia since the end of November, and I LOVE it. I have an older gaming PC, and have had a few consoles growing up.

When I first started my GPC journey, I basically dropped my console. It was just a better way to play. However, it always loomed over my head how much money it would cost to upgrade. As a student, the last thing I wanted to spend money on was graphics cards and processors.

When Stadia first was revealed at....last year's E3(?), I was ecstatic. I saw it as the future of gaming. No more big downloads, no more data management, no more upgrades, and availability at all times. The ability to share experiences, and collect achievements were an even bigger plus.

As soon as I gathered the money to buy, I got the premier edition. And ever since, I have not TOUCHED my PC. I was able to play Red Dead 2 within minutes of buying it, and experience the game at a much higher graphic fidelity than I ever could have previously. My first couple days were marked by being floored by the beautiful scenes I found, screen shotting ever little scene to try to hold onto it like it would someday be taken away from me.

I was able to jump into Destiny 2 again, and as a HUGE D1 fan, I was thrilled to play the game once more, as it had become a 130 gb game on my PC plagued with choppy frame rates and substandard graphics.

The pick-up-and-play nature of the whole system just brings a smile to my face. It takes seconds to have any game from my library pull up on nearly every TV in my home, and I LOVE it. Every little piece of Stadia has been a dream, and I received a new Chromecast Ultra, Stadia Controller, D2 the Collection, and about 6 other fee games all for $130. A helluva better deal than needing to upgrade my motherboard to update my processor, and then ultimately my graphics card.

Yet everyday now, I seem to see countless YouTubers, countless online publications, and plenty of people I know in my personal life absolutely poo poo on it and claim it's dead. At first, I understood the typical doubts that surrounds any big tech/gaming product hype, but when I finally had it in my hands and experienced the vision, I was positive that people would come to see it for what it is.

Now I do have gigabit internet with no data cap, which I'm sure the average consumer does not have access to in their home. However, I've seen countless people playing from wifi hotspots, coffee shops, and just plain old home wifi also loving the hell out of the experience and simplicity that Stadia has to offer. Throughout all my play time (I'm probably sitting at about 100 hours total on the platform), I've experience absolutely no connection issues save for D2 (and as a previous Destiny player, I doubt is on the part of Stadia itself as a platform). I played through Red Dead with absolutely no noticeable frame drops, latency issues, or connection drops.

And so what I don't get, is WHAT are these influencers talking about. To me, it seems like an effort is being made to deface the name of Stadia before it can even get any real traction, and I just don't understand what it's about. Are they being payed by competing interests? Are they playing on standard internet packages? Are they pissed about the amount of "coming soon" features that have yet to be implemented? I just really don't understand how some are having an entirely different experience on Stadia as my 100 hours have given me.

I plan on continuing Stadia for a long long time. As long as games keep rolling in, I aim to be a pro subscriber for a very very long time. ~$100 a year for beautiful gaming on multiple systems, including 2 games a month is something that I have no issue at all with, and in fact celebrate the fact that I've hopped out of the PC upgrade cycle.

Anyway, how do you all feel? Are there some terrible "never again" experiences any of you have to share? Are you also in love with Stadia? I'd love to hear all of your experiences!

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Stux posted:

you make more money allowing everything than turning away some games and hiring people to vet things. its really not anymore complicated than that.

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my GPC journey

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No more big downloads, no more data management,

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Now I do have gigabit internet with no data cap

Son of a Vondruke! posted:

Probably the special chromecast and the controller.

Barudak posted:

Whoever sold it to him is vastly smarter than the man not thinking about the implications of a guy selling you his less than three month old video game system that cant be bought in stores

ErrEff posted:

Someone's in for a surprise in the coming months.

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Stux posted:

youre saying they cant, but its more like wont. none of this is because theyre thinking ah we cant win well! whatever! its bcos gaben is a big libertarian-esque money is always right follow the money guy and you make more money allowing everything than turning away some games and hiring people to vet things. its really not anymore complicated than that.

Flayer posted:

So much to unpack in that (clearly astroturfing) post. My favourite part is claiming to have seen countless people enjoying Stadia on cafe wifi.

No one has ever seen another stadia user!

Cemetry Gator posted:

We're not talking about titles that involve Nazis, but rather titles that are produced by and/or for Nazis.

Der Shovel posted:

What do you even say to idiots like this?

Der Shovel posted:

What do you even say to idiots like this?

Der Shovel posted:

There's a game on steam, Warsaw. It's basically "what if the Darkest Dungeon, but about the Warsaw Uprising". You lead a resistance cell during the uprising and your job is to keep up morale so the people don't give up the fight. It's made by Polish devs in collaboration with some historical societies dedicated to remembering the Uprising. It's full of touching stories and vignettes of life in occupied Germany, and actual real stories from resistance fighters and survivors. You end up fighting troops from the Dirlewanger Brigade etc, and it gets loving real as poo poo.

The biggest discussion thread in the game's Steam subforum is a bunch of idiots with names like "IRON EAGLE" asking the devs to add in a mode where you play as the nazis, and then pages and pages of people explaining to the devs that ACKSHUALLY the nazis weren't war criminals and it's mostly just misrepresentation and propaganda and furthermore...

What do you even say to idiots like this?

Der Shovel posted:

What do you even say to idiots like this?

Wheany posted:

That's not necessarily true. If there are curators who at least flag obvious asset flips and other crap games so that they sink to results page 20 and allow better games to surface, overall sales might improve.

American McGay posted:

Still laughing about the guy that joked that hostile's contract expired on December 31st and he was actually right.

hostile apostle posted:

Nah just been on vacation since end of December - but I'm back and as salty as ever

American McGay posted:

Now that you're back from vacation what games are you most looking forward to playing on Stadia in January and beyond?