Steam feels more permanent since the client and game downloads would be preserved, and any phoning home modded or simulated in the event Valve shut it down. Th

Steam feels more permanent since the client and game downloads would be preserved, and any phoning home modded or simulated in the event Valve shut it down. Theoretically, the Stadia system and the game content could be open sourced, but that isn’t something Google is likely to do, and since the games are entirely streamed, there aren’t any local copies floating around. It would be great if Stadia developers got together and made a new self-hostable streaming application that could play their ports, or at least used the ports to help the community figure out a server that streamed the games close to spec.