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Anyone using Stadia is risking all their game purchases getting lost when it shuts down.
by homero 6y ago
Anyone using Stadia is risking all their game purchases getting lost when it shuts down.
- moomin 6y agoThe thing is: this isn’t even a fringe viewpoint. It’s pretty obvious that people are avoiding it at least in part because it’s from Google, and Google are never in it for the long haul. They’re already getting proved right, as well, Stadia’s getting barely any updates or new games, no exclusives worth the candle. It’s really just a matter of time.
- homero 6y agoI'm using Nvidia geforce now because it uses my steam who I trust. Stadia should've used steam. Why even build a store that will just shutdown?
- fiblye 6y agoIs “risking” the right word here? It’s like saying jumping in a volcano has a risk of death. It’s going to happen. It’s just a matter of how soon and painful it’ll be.
- Xelbair 6y agoare there even people using stadia? I'm not even talking about technical barriers(latency) - but the fact that they have both monthly sub and you have to pay for titles.
- tclancy 6y agoI am for now. There was the upfront controller investment as I already had the Chromecasts. For the most part I just play the free games on offer because of the fear of throwing money down a hole.
- smileybarry 6y agoI lived through OnLive -- from beta to shutdown -- and that is exactly why I'm putting zero money into these cloud-only game licenses, unless it's a Netflix-style subscription. When the time comes for shutdown, they won't do the courtesy of granting one free license for that game on another platform, e.g.: Steam, Xbox Live, PSN. The purchases will just be gone and people will point at the ToS. The only way IMO is GeForce Now-style services, where your existing digital library is honored. That or Netflix-style subscriptions like Game Pass Ultimate.
- TuringNYC 6y agoI realize we're talking about music and google here, but i'm curious how people feel about Audible and Kindle? I made a fairly large bet on Audble+Kindle because we ran out of space in our home for books (as well as the portability.) Our entire library is now on Kindle with elaborate notes -- how big a risk do you think this is? (to compare risks, btw, in the past my past home got majorly flooded (Hurricane Sandy) and we also lost all our books+music cassettes in 1992 during the Nor'Easter...so it isnt like any option is w/o risks though of course there are levels of risk and levels of damage)
- kranner 6y agoAt least with Kindle books, you can run them through DeDRM and back up the DRM-free files. With Audible audiobooks, I’m not aware of a method other than to play them back and record the audio in real time.
- TuringNYC 6y agoGood point, though with the YouTube-dl DMCA takedown recently (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872911 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872911), I wouldnt be surprised if DeDRM type utilities also get taken down soon.
- strawberrypuree 6y agoOpenAudible works to remove the DRM on Audible books. Worst case, grab the CD versions from your library and rip them yourself. It’s a shame about the notes on Kindle, I don’t think those are something you can back up / transfer. Really makes me wish that the open source alternatives had the same level of polish and feature set.
- heyoni 6y agoKindle and even PC downloadable games fall into the same category. You stand to lose your license to access if the service shuts down but at least you have binaries or files that could be reversed. It’s becoming harder though, considering how much effort RDR2 took to crack.