Google Stadia officially closes its doors???

linuxlady

linuxlady

phew!

dodged that bullet!

virtus753

Google's first-party Stadia studios closed their doors.

Stadia itself is still alive with third-party games. Xbox just got a browser yesterday to support it.

Danikat

A source or some information would be helpful.

As far as I've heard they've decided not to develop any 1st party titles for it, meaning it's unlikely to have any exclusive games, but they're still running the service for other developers to use.

robertthebard

Where's the "I wish I'd read some more articles about it before I posted a poll" option?

linuxlady

phew!

virtus753 wrote: »

Google's first-party Stadia studios closed their doors.

Stadia itself is still alive with third-party games. Xbox just got a browser yesterday to support it.

please explain?

linuxlady

phew!

robertthebard wrote: »

Where's the "I wish I'd read some more articles about it before I posted a poll" option?

yup yup

virtus753

linuxlady wrote: »

virtus753 wrote: »

Google's first-party Stadia studios closed their doors.

Stadia itself is still alive with third-party games. Xbox just got a browser yesterday to support it.

please explain?

Stadia is a platform for hosting games. Google had its own studios to develop first-party (i.e. Google-created) games for Stadia. But they also paid millions of dollars to get third-party games (games created by other companies) on their Stadia service. Google decided to shut their own studios, so they will no longer produce their own games for Stadia, but they're keeping the service to host third-party games.

This article does a decent job of distinguishing the two:

https://9to5google.com/2021/02/03/is-stadia-dead-not-quite/

barney2525

Hey, could be worse.

Gamigo just announced they are shutting down 5 of their mmos.

MasterSpatula

I sincerely wish.

brimstone74

phew!

barney2525 wrote: »

Hey, could be worse.

Gamigo just announced they are shutting down 5 of their mmos.

Does this mean Rift is finally shutting down?

linuxlady

phew!

barney2525 wrote: »

Hey, could be worse.

Gamigo just announced they are shutting down 5 of their mmos.

i can imagine... i've never even heard of them! hahahaah. hard to loose your game for sure

linuxlady

phew!

virtus753 wrote: »

Google's first-party Stadia studios closed their doors.

Stadia itself is still alive with third-party games. Xbox just got a browser yesterday to support it.

realistically, if google has no desire to contribute to their own platform, why should anyone else?

i think it would spell the beginning of the end for stadia as a platform and for all those eso-ers on stadia that would hurt.

deleted008293

what?

They plan to use those servers for crypto mining...

Kane_Hart

Stadia is not closed... Their First Party closed meaning their not going be making their Own Special games for the platform.. Pretty much the whole idea of cloud based only game using the insane power of the cloud is not going to exist now.. Just publishers who publish their game. It's now just another Netflix for streaming games...

So no one lost anything and as far as I know ESO will continue just fine on Stadia.

Tyreal1974

robertthebard wrote: »

Where's the "I wish I'd read some more articles about it before I posted a poll" option?

Or the "I don't care about Stadia" option

linuxlady

phew!

Kane_Hart wrote: »

Stadia is not closed... Their First Party closed meaning their not going be making their Own Special games for the platform.. Pretty much the whole idea of cloud based only game using the insane power of the cloud is not going to exist now.. Just publishers who publish their game. It's now just another Netflix for streaming games...

So no one lost anything and as far as I know ESO will continue just fine on Stadia.

because steam and epic and all the gazillion others out there weren't good enough?

virtus753

linuxlady wrote: »

virtus753 wrote: »

Google's first-party Stadia studios closed their doors.

Stadia itself is still alive with third-party games. Xbox just got a browser yesterday to support it.

realistically, if google has no desire to contribute to their own platform, why should anyone else?

i think it would spell the beginning of the end for stadia as a platform and for all those eso-ers on stadia that would hurt.

And yet we haven't seen any mass desertion of Stadia in the wake of that announcement from last month.

One may lead to the other, at some point, but that doesn't mean the two things are one and the same.

We'll have to see how long the third parties hang around.

Scardan

what?

barney2525 wrote: »

Hey, could be worse.

Gamigo just announced they are shutting down 5 of their mmos.

RIP Fiesta?

Sarousse

30 FPS STADIA ESO with downgraded graphics, who would miss that ?

They should just put the game back on GeForce Now, or give access to the PC version of ESO on Microsoft X-Cloud.

silvereyes

phew!

virtus753 wrote: »

linuxlady wrote: »

virtus753 wrote: »

Google's first-party Stadia studios closed their doors.

Stadia itself is still alive with third-party games. Xbox just got a browser yesterday to support it.

realistically, if google has no desire to contribute to their own platform, why should anyone else?

i think it would spell the beginning of the end for stadia as a platform and for all those eso-ers on stadia that would hurt.

And yet we haven't seen any mass desertion of Stadia in the wake of that announcement from last month.

One may lead to the other, at some point, but that doesn't mean the two things are one and the same.

We'll have to see how long the third parties hang around.

My guess is more that Google itself will eventually shutter the service, but probably not for some time. It hasn't really caught on, though, so I don't really see it becoming profitable. Despite the publishers they've wooed, the catalog is still disappointingly small, and people don't want to spend $60 on a game that they may loose access to.

This whole business model has been tried before, by OnLive, and it failed. When it closed down, people lost all their games.

linuxlady

phew!

silvereyes wrote: »

virtus753 wrote: »

linuxlady wrote: »

virtus753 wrote: »

Google's first-party Stadia studios closed their doors.

Stadia itself is still alive with third-party games. Xbox just got a browser yesterday to support it.

realistically, if google has no desire to contribute to their own platform, why should anyone else?

i think it would spell the beginning of the end for stadia as a platform and for all those eso-ers on stadia that would hurt.

And yet we haven't seen any mass desertion of Stadia in the wake of that announcement from last month.

One may lead to the other, at some point, but that doesn't mean the two things are one and the same.

We'll have to see how long the third parties hang around.

My guess is more that Google itself will eventually shutter the service, but probably not for some time. It hasn't really caught on, though, so I don't really see it becoming profitable. Despite the publishers they've wooed, the catalog is still disappointingly small, and people don't want to spend $60 on a game that they may loose access to.

This whole business model has been tried before, by OnLive, and it failed. When it closed down, people lost all their games.

just not cost effective...

Danikat

linuxlady wrote: »

virtus753 wrote: »

Google's first-party Stadia studios closed their doors.

Stadia itself is still alive with third-party games. Xbox just got a browser yesterday to support it.

realistically, if google has no desire to contribute to their own platform, why should anyone else?

i think it would spell the beginning of the end for stadia as a platform and for all those eso-ers on stadia that would hurt.

The idea that you need 1st party games for a platform to be successful died when the first Playstation was released. I remember at the time it was a big deal that Sony weren't going to develop their own games like Nintendo and Sega did (and Nintendo still do). It's never been the case on PC. There are PC exclusive games of course, but usually not developed by the companies that make the hardware or operating systems. (The only exceptions I can think of are the mini games bundled with Windows like Minesweeper and Solitaire and the Microsoft flight simulators.)

I think the appeal of systems like Stadia is supposed to be the convenience. Sure you can play the same games on other machines, but in theory Stadia allows you to play them on almost any PC with internet (even one which doesn't meet the game's specs), on a phone, or on a TV with Chromecast. So if you're travelling and can only take a cheap laptop or your phone, you're at a friend or relative's house using whatever they happen to have, or you don't want to buy expensive hardware to use at home you can still play the same games.

Of course it doesn't always work like that in practice and there have been a lot of issues with the system, but that's the idea. the functionality is supposed to be enough to sell it, rather than a reliance on exclusive games. (Which makes it somewhat ironic that I keep wanting to compare it to the Nintendo Switch, which of course does sell largely due to exclusive games.)

On the other hand there does seem to be a trend recently of big tech companies deciding they're going to get into the games industry and then finding out it's not as easy as they expected. Amazon have been at it as well and haven't had much success with their game studio. They released then "unreleased" an FPS called Crucible last year and are supposed to be releasing something which is either a battle royale game or an MMO or something between the two but will definitely act as a tech demo for their servers later this year. I suspect there's some people in these big conglomerates who are looking at the money video games can make, imagining it's just like developing other software and well, they've done that before, surely this will be an easy way to expand into another market and then finding out games are more like making art than other types of software. I've heard less than 1/3 of games which start development actually get released, and when they do it's rarely a linear or predictable process so trying to apply the same management and business models which work elsewhere is easier said than done.

ZOS_ConnorG

Greetings all,

After review this thread has been closed as it doesn't really have to do with ESO. Remember threads must be related to ESO in some way, as this topic is more about Stadia the thread has been closed.

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