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Happy user of Stadia here. Fit the dad gamer in off hours usecase perfectly. Spent enough on it that even the total refund felt like something. And now on top o

by wjnc 4y ago

Happy user of Stadia here. Fit the dad gamer in off hours usecase perfectly. Spent enough on it that even the total refund felt like something. And now on top of that I own a controller to use with the GeForce Now embedded in my LG TV. Consumer galore.

falcolas 4y ago
I hate to put it this way, but you got lucky in getting a total refund. Question though: Did you get to keep your progress in the games, or did you lose that with the shutdown?
- wjnc 4y ago
  If I understand correctly Ubisoft even put the games I got refunded in their portal including progress for me conditional on me making an account. All other progress is lost. The Xbox days of caring about perfectly finishing games are long behind me. I did think about the money and Google angle up front. I saw no reason Google could get away with no refunds under Dutch law. That might have been optimistic, but in the end might also have driven them to refunds. Same risk is in my eBook or audiobook collection.
- drusepth 4y ago
  IIRC, Google said from the beginning they'd refund purchases if they shut down. >Question though: Did you get to keep your progress in the games, or did you lose that with the shutdown? You can get all your game savedata from Google Takeout, but in order to actually use it you'd need to own the game on another platform that lets you import that save data (like PC). The refund for each game is nice for re-buying the games elsewhere, but some consoles aren't that easy to import existing save data into. Some games implemented some cloud saves to help move data around, but there's probably some games where you're SOL getting your progress into your next platform.
nailer 4y ago
I played Cyberpunk in both stadia and GFN on the same connection on the same machine in early 2021. Performance in GFN was way better than Stadia.
ChildOfChaos 4y ago
I was a happy Stadia user too, I think they should have marketed it more to casual audiences, it's untapped, plenty of people would love to play the odd game but don't as they don't have hardware etc. Partly as the service had games like Monopoly and Uno on it, lots of casual party games, that is all it needed. Bad marketing from Google here, they should have pivoted to that market once they lost the toxic gaming community.
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by wjnc 4y ago

falcolas 4y ago

I hate to put it this way, but you got lucky in getting a total refund. Question though: Did you get to keep your progress in the games, or did you lose that with the shutdown?

wjnc 4y ago
If I understand correctly Ubisoft even put the games I got refunded in their portal including progress for me conditional on me making an account. All other progress is lost. The Xbox days of caring about perfectly finishing games are long behind me. I did think about the money and Google angle up front. I saw no reason Google could get away with no refunds under Dutch law. That might have been optimistic, but in the end might also have driven them to refunds. Same risk is in my eBook or audiobook collection.
drusepth 4y ago
IIRC, Google said from the beginning they'd refund purchases if they shut down. >Question though: Did you get to keep your progress in the games, or did you lose that with the shutdown? You can get all your game savedata from Google Takeout, but in order to actually use it you'd need to own the game on another platform that lets you import that save data (like PC). The refund for each game is nice for re-buying the games elsewhere, but some consoles aren't that easy to import existing save data into. Some games implemented some cloud saves to help move data around, but there's probably some games where you're SOL getting your progress into your next platform.

nailer 4y ago

I played Cyberpunk in both stadia and GFN on the same connection on the same machine in early 2021. Performance in GFN was way better than Stadia.

ChildOfChaos 4y ago

I was a happy Stadia user too, I think they should have marketed it more to casual audiences, it's untapped, plenty of people would love to play the odd game but don't as they don't have hardware etc. Partly as the service had games like Monopoly and Uno on it, lots of casual party games, that is all it needed. Bad marketing from Google here, they should have pivoted to that market once they lost the toxic gaming community.

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