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Until you can play your Steam game library (and perhaps Epic and Unisoft and GOG) on Stadia, I think they'll struggle. I have paid for Geforce Now which does l
by mattlondon 6y ago
Until you can play your Steam game library (and perhaps Epic and Unisoft and GOG) on Stadia, I think they'll struggle.
I have paid for Geforce Now which does let you play Steam et al games (although not everything is available which is annoying) - it is about £4 a month currently (or free if you can spend time waiting to play) and the experience feels largely the same to Stadia to me in terms of latency and quality. Many happy hours playing high-end PC games on a super cheap and lightweight Chromebook that starts up instantly and runs silently compared to my weighty, expensive, and noisy gaming laptop that needs to boot into windows (although that only takes 5-10s these days to be fair)
Feels like nVidia (...and Xbox? Not tried that) have eaten Google's own lunch in the stream-to-chromebook context.
- liaukovv 6y agoImagine buying health insurance from someone for whom it's a hobby.
- breakfastduck 6y agoI get the point you're trying to make, but actually your example is one where I wouldn't mind. I'd rather my bad health not be the central profit driver for someone...
- liaukovv 6y agoPerharps amateur stock broker then?
- eecks 6y agoAren't health insurance companies losing money by paying out? It's in their interest that their paying customers stay in good health.
- agentdrtran 6y agoalternative, it's in their interest to make paying out as difficult and byzantine as possible.
- epanchin 6y agoI understand it as - premiums are limited by law as a multiple of payouts. The more they pay out, the higher premiums they can charge. So, peversly, the more they pay out, the more they can make.
- sagarm 6y agoHealth insurance companies are allowed to make a certain percentage of profit, so they actually don't have a strong incentive to keep payouts down.
- hobofan 6y agoYeah, Google doesn't offer enough of an edge that would justify ignoring Steam. Similar to your experience with Geforce Now, I had a great experience with shadow.tech, where you can bring your Steam library, and I'm sure there are many more competitors.
- pid_0 6y agoHave you compared Geforce now to Stadia with the stadia controller? I can't imagine it would match it, it would be pretty much impossible
- JeremyBanks 6y agoUbisoft+ subscribers can play their games on Stadia: https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/10248037 https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/10248037 They should lean into that kind of thing.
- myko 6y agoGeForce Now has a much worse UX than Stadia and lags a lot on my iPad compared to Stadia But having your entire Steam library is very cool
- v7p1Qbt1im 6y agoSzenario: Stadia partners with Steam. Next day: Publishers start crying and all change their TOS to exclude cloud gaming like they did for GFN. Look what happened to Netflix. Publishers and rights-owners love to collect exorbitant royalties (and not pass them on to devs/creators). In the end, if you‘re consumer-facing, you have to create your own content. Or be extremely entrenched.