froghawk on 22/2/2020 at 14:42
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Welp, Geforce Now just removed the ability to install unsupported games. It was fun while it lasted... on the plus side, it seems that virtually none of the users are ok with this decision, so maybe something will come of the backlash.
Geforce Now properly launched, and it's been quite the mess. They ended up adding the unsupported games feature back in after user demand, only to remove it again. They've only announced the special 'founders pricing' - a 3 months free trial followed by $5/mo for the rest of the year (but if you cancel at any time, you lose that rate, and instead it goes to an as yet unannounced rate). Now, here's the real kicker - it seems they didn't work out their publisher deals well enough, so games are disappearing from the service left and right. Capcom, Konami, Square Enix, Bethesda (minus Wolfenstein: Youngblood and Quake II RTX for whatever reason), EA, Rockstar - all of their games disappeared, largely without warning, one publisher at a time. Now, as you can imagine, games from those publishers are the main reason to use the service - playing new AAA games on a potato was the main appeal. Not only that, but people were purchasing games with the expectation that they could play them on Geforce Now, only to have those games unexpectedly vanish from the service a couple days later. Now, to be fair, some of these games may be returning - Namco Bandai was removed then added back. They claim things will stabilize more once the founders' trial period is over, but it remains to be seen whether the end result will be a service worth using. For me, I was looking forward to playing Doom Eternal and Resident Evil 3, so we'll see if they make it back to the service. At least they've pledged support for Cyberpunk.
Tomi on 29/9/2022 at 19:34
Google Stadia is shutting down on Jan 18th next year. That's hardly a surprise, I suppose, since I haven't heard that name in a long time, and I don't know anyone who has actually tried that thing.
I would have been interested to see how well it works in practice (now I guess it's too late) to be honest, and I'm quite surprised that Stadia turned out to be such a failure, but I'm also sort of glad that it never really took off. I would have hated to see someone like Google have such a significant role in gaming. Apparently Google is refunding all Stadia purchases to the customers though, so fair play to them.
Pyrian on 29/9/2022 at 21:57
Stadia was always "Maybe this time will be different" but without any credible reason to expect it to be different.
WingedKagouti on 30/9/2022 at 07:37
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Stadia was always "Maybe
this time will be different" but without any credible reason to expect it to be different.
And that's both as a game streaming service and as a Google product.
