Once again, Google told users of one of its services, “You screwed up. You trusted us. It’s on you.
“Google is shutting down cloud gaming platform Stadia”
“Inhale!” – No one at all.
Well, at least it was a nice long period that…
Google Stadia has only been around since 2019, launching in November of that year.
Ouch. Ummm…
The service has been designed to provide cloud gaming across a variety of devices, including PCs, Chromebooks, Macs, iPhones, and iPads.
Indeed, Stadia has been touted by some as one of the things that gave the Chromebook an edge over the MacBook. Well.
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It turns out that Google would rather turn around and close a thousand services than go to therapy. It’s really turned into a template for the company and it doesn’t sit well with everyone, especially people who have spent quite a bit of time on the games they’ve played through
“Red Dead Redemption II player begging Rockstar to save them 6,000 hours in stadium”
A desperate Red Dead Redemption II player begged Rockstar to allow cross-platform transfers after spending thousands of hours on the doomed Google Stadia service.
Besides, it’s…many hours. Of course, this is a YouTuber, so you can argue that this is part of his job. You can also claim that the moon landings were faked or that the Pope is 12 little white-cloaked aliens. You can say whatever you want on YouTube, Google doesn’t care as long as people watch ads.
Now it’s up to Rockstar to deal with the aftermath of Google pulling the rug out from under the players’ feet? As one game developer put it dryly in a tweet:
Right.
Despite the seemingly lucrative market, why did Stadia fail? As TechCrunch’s Devin Koldui argues, we may be at a point where Google’s attempts to create new services can’t get any support because no one trusts Google to keep them open for more than a few years.
“Stadia is dead because no one trusts Google”
Nobody trusts Google. He has shown such a poor understanding of what people want, need, and will pay for that people are currently wary of investing in even his more popular products.
According to most reviews, the service itself worked very well. The problem was that you only had to buy games for Stadia, and who wants to do that when you can buy them for Steam or for console, which you were sure would be available longer than the average Google executive required. get bored and run after another shiny object?
Walking in the door cost you a bill plus a monthly fee, then you had to buy games on top of that, at full price.
But you can run them on your Chromebook and Google can see all your information!
Oh wait, that’s the reason for Google want you to get it, not the reason you want it. And that’s the problem with most of these Google services. The one they really cater to is, well, Google.
Caldwey adds:
For me (and dozens of us), the turning point was the murder of Google Reader – for which I will never forgive them, and I try to regularly take revenge by mentioning it like this …
People love to blame the iPhone for the rise of social media, which, to put it mildly, will kill us all. But Google was effectively killing RSS, at least not less effectively.
Caldwey believes that no one will trust Google anymore, and while Macalop agrees that the company definitely has a problem, there will always be someone willing to try and create a YouTube channel about Google Flonx, a new service that lets you sell your precious body parts. fluids to billionaires to help keep them young.
Drugs are forever.