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Honest question now, you say you're a casual gamer, do you have a pc with a video card? With a gigabit connection, updates are really a non-issue. I can't see w
by morrbo 7y ago
Honest question now, you say you're a casual gamer, do you have a pc with a video card? With a gigabit connection, updates are really a non-issue. I can't see why people with even moderate gaming rigs ($150 gpu) would bother with this service? Is 4k really that big of a deal?
- KukicAdnan 7y agoI have a pretty beefy gaming PC that I almost never game on. 4K isn't a huge deal for me. Convenience is. I'm tired of updating my GPU drivers and experinece (5-10 minutes), then launching Steam, waiting for it to update and restart (2-3 minutes), then picking the game I want to play, waiting for it to update and install (5-10 minutes), then finally launch the game and have it spend more time connecting to servers before I can game. The value prop of seeing a game trailer or game video that seems interesting and being able to say "play with stadia" and it just throwing me right into the game is the feature that speaks most to me. If Stadia does this and it works well enough, i'll gladly get rid of gaming PC.
- mrguyorama 7y ago>I'm tired of updating my GPU drivers and experinece (5-10 minutes) I never understood this complaint. You can be perfectly fine running GPU drivers from a year ago. You don't need to update them every day. With Steam, it "updating" every time you run it seems to be a lie really, but I think most people who run Steam just leave it always on. The games, I have 400 on Steam. Maybe 1-3 update per day on average, and there's lot's of overlap ie 90% of my library hasn't updated in a year, and 9% of the leftover updates maybe once a month.