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> You had to buy games at real $40-$60 prices but you could only play them through this limited service. sigh As a gamer and actual Stadia user this is not a c
by josefresco 4y ago
> You had to buy games at real $40-$60 prices but you could only play them through this limited service.
sigh As a gamer and actual Stadia user this is not a complete or fair depiction. Like almost every other cloud/gaming service including Xbox etc. Stadia had a "Pro" subscription model which have you access to dozens (hundreds?) of games.
Furthermore "you could only play them through this limited service" is exactly the same model as every other gaming service!
- fxtentacle 4y agoGeforce now allows you to link an Epic account and play all the games you previously purchased.
- sascha_sl 4y agoDefinitely not all. GFN is by far the most reliable and "native feeling" of these, but not just giving you a generic Windows install with some persistence is what makes it not worth it for me. I guess it's not trivial to get such "floating" windows licenses and prevent people from mining with a mouse jiggler? Though I did subscribe to the 3080 tier for a month when my gaming machine was out of comission.
- Asooka 4y ago> Furthermore "you could only play them through this limited service" is exactly the same model as every other gaming service! In theory, yes. In practise, if Steam shuts down tomorrow, I still have all my games on my hard disk and cracking Steam's DRM is pretty easy, and quite possibly completely legal in the circumstance.