$4.99/month

Someone in the company surely does, but when the company is truly huge, it's hard to enforce knowledge and company culture in every single corner efficiently, assuming Google wanted to do that in the first place instead of just hiring diversity hires, but anyway, this means the bigger the company, the higher the chance a group of dumbasses will end up meeting and forming a team and developing an idea that is truly idiotic and convincing investors, who should but don't know any better, to allow company resources to be spent on this idea, everyone involved hoping to get money and/or fame on the company. How else would you explain the complete slow motion trainwreck that Stadia is slowly becoming?

It's hilarious how a company that was built upon gathering information can't make something people actually want, it seems every single new thing they release is a flop. You are right, google must be overflowing with bad ideas.

The problem is that everyone wants a piece of the F2P market that's where the big $$$ is at.Sincerely doubt that many people pay for premium apps it would sustain the mobile market or make subscription a viable method.
It's either get addicted to RNG infested gacha trash or play for 5 minutes a simplistic game that you could also find a thousands copies for free.Why pay?

>free coffee(just the basic things like macchiato, cappuccino, hot chocolate etc.) at work
>free beverages at work
only thing i have to pay is food, but if we have a big meeting even that is free

Nope because those aren't premium apps, but F2P apps with microtransactions.

so pay 5 bucks a month and get what? the "best of" lists of ai generated games?

Coffefags have a chemical addiction.

People lack common sense I guess, my wife was very close to spending on Candy Crush lives, only thing that stopped her was a connection error, she noticed her mistake after that but she almost spent 15 bucks on a free game.

>ai generated
Knowing Google and their fucking algorithm obsession I wouldn't be fucking surprised if they did leave curation up to a computer.

People would actually pay 50 a month for infinite mtx on those games.

wow then it's quite literally nothing

Yeah, but the companies running those games would never agree it to it because it's more profitable to have whales keep throwing money.

Wouldn't this kill off free apps?
The premium apps that people actuall want to use make mad cash already. This will just become the new pool of apps that nobody wants and apps that nobody would spend money on.
The only free apps remaining would be from idealistic devs.

>The premium apps that people actuall want to use make mad cash already.
Premium games do not make money on the Play Store.

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free apps would be from people who can code around any restrictions and were only doing it in the hopes of a job offer. like so many computer virus programmers that had their code work a ltitle too well.

Why would anyone buy this when its stupid easy to pirate "premium" apps?

I don't understand. How many premium games are worth owning on Google Play? Like maybe a dozen at most between every mobile port of GTA, Minecraft and some other ports?

You're right, I don't get your point at all. This won't affect free apps in any way and can only expand the market for premium games.

Because most people will pay $5/mo for the simplicity, security, and legitimacy of official distribution. It's kind of weird that you wouldn't.

mobile gaming is garbage. paying for anything on it is a waste of money

Well that's just closeminded prejudice. Yes, the market is a shitshow, but there are good mobile games and there's potential to change the market for the better. Why close your mind to the possibility?

only interesting premium games are all console ports from SQ Capcom or Level5 anyways

Can't wait for Stadia, it's gonna bomb so hard when people see the input lag.