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I sincerely hope they won't. Stadia has been a godsend for me, my family and friends. One of the lesser known features of Stadia is that it is similar to Netfl

I sincerely hope they won't. Stadia has been a godsend for me, my family and friends. One of the lesser known features of Stadia is that it is similar to Netflix in its account management. You can have 4 family members and your games will be available to all. This allows me to share my library with my siblings and close friends. They can play all my games and I can play all their games. This pushed me to play games I would never have explored otherwise. I am lucky to have a high income and guilty of purchasing games on impulse (as my Steam library can attest). For the first time, my "sleeping" games are useful to the people I love. It also makes "lan" nights very easy. In fact, with Stadia, I had my first such experience in decades. I can play on my phone with a controller, someone else on the living room TV and someone else on a MacBook Air (which is huge as gaming on that platform is simply not a thing without streaming). Just about anywhere and at anytime without the need to plan anything. My partner's GPU also died recently and with the current market prices, they had been playing console exclusively. I gave them access to Stadia and they have switched to playing Stadia exclusively. Even on wi-fi with a group of 4, we are still competitive in shooters and racing games. In fact, other than issues regarding my own network, I have not experienced lag or glitches from Stadia's side of things. Stadia dying would be a very sad day for my circle of friend and judging by all the 2-4 members groups I see in games, we would not be alone in that.

zamadatix 5y ago
The side features (outside the core "renting a remote machine to play the game on") related to account management sound like Steam's "family share" and "remote play" respectively.
- salamandersauce 5y ago
  The problem with Steam family share is that it's so limited. You can't have two users playing different games from the same library online at the same time which is ridiculous. So there's no way for your brother to play your Call of Duty while you play CS:GO. Even if you're playing an offline game you have to explictly switch to offline mode or else the person sharing gets kicked. Even consoles handle it better with 2 users being allowed to at the very least 2 different games working if not the same game. Granted, Steam family library allows more account links but it's way more limited. I'm not sure what Stadia's limits are but I can imagine that being a pro if more than one user can use the library at the same time.
  - Karawebnetwork 5y ago
    > I'm not sure what Stadia's limits are but I can imagine that being a pro if more than one user can use the library at the same time. I wrote 4 in my previous comment but it turns out that the limit it actually 6 (4 was the limit for the number of controllers on the same device, so split screen in other words). You can play all their games and they can play all of yours. At the same time. (Edit: there is also something called "Ubisoft+ on Stadia" which gives you the entire Ubisoft catalog for rent for a monthly fee. I am not sure how this interact with the family sharing.) The limit is that if you are playing "Game A", your family member cannot unless another family member has also purchased it. So you could say it counts the number of licenses purchased and makes them all available to everyone. If the limit for "Game A" is reached, clicking on it will propose you to buy the game for yourself or kick one of the players (I have not tried it, I hope it asks for the consent of the person playing). The exception being what they call Stadia Pro games, which are free games offered to people who are on the paid membership. Those there's no limit as long as everyone has claimed them with their pro accounts. However I think it's important to say that the Stadia Pro games are available to the entire family even if the individuals are not on the pro membership, in which case it also counts the free licenses claimed. It's also important to say that every player gets their own instance of the game. So if I buy "ExampleMMORPG" and my sibling starts the game, they don't see my characters. They get to create their own and have their own character limit. You can also turn off sharing for certain games. So if you are binging "ExampleMMORPG" and you don't want anyone else to keep you from playing, you can make sure your spot is reserved. Or if you play a violent game and don't want you kids from playing, you can. Which reminds me that this is all connected to Google Family's child account features. So you can limit the amount of time played per day, the age rating of games, etc. You can also set privacy settings for child account, stopping them from being able to join or create groups, enter voice chat, etc.
- lern_too_spel 5y ago
  Stadia doesn't support anything like Steam's Remote Play Together, which is a big miss.
rvz 5y ago
They will and I can only see it going to being shutdown. With the many PC gamers, Xbox and PlayStation gamers not even realising it existed in the first place.

zamadatix 5y ago

The side features (outside the core "renting a remote machine to play the game on") related to account management sound like Steam's "family share" and "remote play" respectively.

salamandersauce 5y ago
The problem with Steam family share is that it's so limited. You can't have two users playing different games from the same library online at the same time which is ridiculous. So there's no way for your brother to play your Call of Duty while you play CS:GO. Even if you're playing an offline game you have to explictly switch to offline mode or else the person sharing gets kicked. Even consoles handle it better with 2 users being allowed to at the very least 2 different games working if not the same game. Granted, Steam family library allows more account links but it's way more limited. I'm not sure what Stadia's limits are but I can imagine that being a pro if more than one user can use the library at the same time.
- Karawebnetwork 5y ago
  > I'm not sure what Stadia's limits are but I can imagine that being a pro if more than one user can use the library at the same time. I wrote 4 in my previous comment but it turns out that the limit it actually 6 (4 was the limit for the number of controllers on the same device, so split screen in other words). You can play all their games and they can play all of yours. At the same time. (Edit: there is also something called "Ubisoft+ on Stadia" which gives you the entire Ubisoft catalog for rent for a monthly fee. I am not sure how this interact with the family sharing.) The limit is that if you are playing "Game A", your family member cannot unless another family member has also purchased it. So you could say it counts the number of licenses purchased and makes them all available to everyone. If the limit for "Game A" is reached, clicking on it will propose you to buy the game for yourself or kick one of the players (I have not tried it, I hope it asks for the consent of the person playing). The exception being what they call Stadia Pro games, which are free games offered to people who are on the paid membership. Those there's no limit as long as everyone has claimed them with their pro accounts. However I think it's important to say that the Stadia Pro games are available to the entire family even if the individuals are not on the pro membership, in which case it also counts the free licenses claimed. It's also important to say that every player gets their own instance of the game. So if I buy "ExampleMMORPG" and my sibling starts the game, they don't see my characters. They get to create their own and have their own character limit. You can also turn off sharing for certain games. So if you are binging "ExampleMMORPG" and you don't want anyone else to keep you from playing, you can make sure your spot is reserved. Or if you play a violent game and don't want you kids from playing, you can. Which reminds me that this is all connected to Google Family's child account features. So you can limit the amount of time played per day, the age rating of games, etc. You can also set privacy settings for child account, stopping them from being able to join or create groups, enter voice chat, etc.
lern_too_spel 5y ago
Stadia doesn't support anything like Steam's Remote Play Together, which is a big miss.

rvz 5y ago

They will and I can only see it going to being shutdown. With the many PC gamers, Xbox and PlayStation gamers not even realising it existed in the first place.