> need a $200/month internet connection to play vidya at a sufficient bandwidth >you cant play games if you arent connected to the internet >have to pay $15+/month per each major publisher subscription just to sift through tons of shit for the few games you want to play >the few AAA games they produce arent even that good to begin with >btw, you also do not own these games. No pay no play >totals to ~$300/month just to continue your hobby
Is this the future of vidya? Better yet, since this Netflix-esque streaming service seems likely the inevitable path for games, will you continue with this hobby?
latency btw lmao hope your neighbor is a data center
David Hall
Australian?
Jonathan Thomas
>>you cant play games if you arent connected to the internet
Does Steam still require an internet connection to set it into offline mode? That was kinda useless if you internet suddenly went down.
Henry Foster
>less functionality >worse value >flimsier idea of ownership >solely benefits rich publishers and not developers or customers
Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and say fuck that and keep playing PC games.
Jonathan Sullivan
You need to have had prepped them to play in offline mode.
Joseph Nelson
Stadia is literally a catalyst for most publishers to go the subscription/streaming route. Google has enough influence on the market now that it has entered gaming
Liam Butler
>have 92mbps >psn barely works Hope this does.
John Parker
Nope. Not for ages, user.
Hunter Diaz
So? I don't even buy AAA gamers anymore, user.
Joseph James
I pay about $60 a month for gigabit internet. Where are you third world country anons getting internet from
Aaron Lewis
Your whole online library of even those old and smaller games under the these publishers will be taken from you, kinda like what Disney is doing with its streaming platform. They'll put games you already paid for on the vault
David Young
Cool, then I'll stop buying games completely and just pirate them.
Liam Rogers
Instead of building expensive data centers Microsoft and Sony should let you set up your xbox/PS to allow other people to stream from it. So you leave your console plugged in during the day or whatever with X games installed on it, if someone wants to stream a particular game that you have installed, and you have a decent internet connection it streams it from your console and deposites 25 cents into your account. It would be an opt in thing. Latency would be minor since it would always pick the closest one to you. Maybe even someone using the same ISP in your town. All the benefits of the system Google is trying to build without any of the infrastructure.
Jackson Ward
>need a $200/month internet connection to play vidya at a sufficient bandwidth why do people lie to try and shit on Stadia? You only need 20mbit. I have faster internet than that and I live in fucking Australia.
Levi Brooks
I pay 60 bucks for gigabit.
Jack Wood
This is actually pretty clever.
Cooper Nelson
At some point they'll become online only, as in all the files are on the company servers with no way of pirating them
Matthew Sanders
If you ever played the game once, then you don't need to.
Caleb Morales
It won't be the future as much as you think. Inevitably piracy will fix things. And I doubt GOG will bend to that, with their whole marketing shtick.
Leo Reyes
That is clever except for the part where you're paying 25 scents to someone that isn't Microsoft or Sony. THEY NEED ALL THE MONEY!
Noah Gomez
>then I'll stop buying games completely and just pirate them Why do you think they're pushing streaming so hard? Good luck pirating when all the game files are in Google's data center.
Jordan Miller
>renting cheap games bad >buying overpriced games good
Benjamin Roberts
>Australian thinks stadia will be a seamless experience for him
Kek. Disaster incoming.
Michael Ramirez
That’s a good idea, but fuck you’re electricity bill is gonna go through the roof, plus having a console run for that long is probably gonna kill it faster.
Ryan Richardson
Nothing that comes out on this service will be worth pirating and there are enough video games to last you a life time.
Owen Young
>not owning your own games bad >paying $20 a month to Ubisoft to replay old SC games since all they already took down all offline copies of the games good