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I absolutely hope not.

Stadia has provided an excellent game night for me and my remote friend (who is on a Mac) this year and we've had a blast, we mostly play little party games as nither of us our big gamers, but it makes for an excellent night,i've bought a couple of games on it that i've yet to even get too and plan to buy some more and enjoy the odd hour or two in the evenings. Stadia removes all fraction and means I don't need to install/update or have gaming hardware.

The service is great. Despite it not being popular. It would be an absolute disaster for me if the service were to close.

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Have you looked into using Geforce Now with your friend? It's a fantastic service and works on OSX.

Yes, used this before Stadia and it was rubbish.

No where near as good and as stable as Stadia, also the monthly fee is a pain. With Stadia you can just buy the game and then play when you want, I don't think there is anything else like that.

It's come a long way since pre-Stadia that's for sure. Can't get around the monthly fee though.

Is performance better now? I was in the beta when there wasn't a limited selection of games and my friend used the free version once it came out of beta about a year and a half ago.

It's been my main gaming platform the last 2 years and I'd describe it as more than serviceable. They do a bunch of free demos now - I think WaveTale is free for the next 24hrs you can try it out yourself. The subscription is optional.

Its performance is unparalleled among cloud gaming services at the moment with the updates over the past year or so, Stadia is now a blurry, poorly upscaled mess in comparison, often locked at 30-45fps for certain titles while GFN is pushing real 4K at 120FPS with full ray tracing etc without breaking a sweat.

https://youtu.be/B1bIGi1yjC8

It will routinely outperform a local series x (nevermind a PS5) given the right conditions, but that’s subject to your ISP, location, and probably not running CP2077 at maxed out ultra RTX graphics settings just yet.

It was their streaming tech though that wasn't as good, rather than their rending of graphics as it was just a blurry mess and laggy.

Will give it another try.

That’s likely just Google burning cash to attract users though. Unsustainable.

The cloud time is the expensive part and most of the purchase price is likely going to go to the publisher. How many hours of gameplay before they’ve lost money on your purchase?

I mostly agree. I'm a "gamer" but not a very serious/avid one. Stadia has been great for casual play and a few of the family/kids games that I play along with my little ones. They have a blast. I also enjoy the cross-platform nature of it. Using a Chromecast is great on the huge projector and then sometimes more casual play on a computer (via the browser) since some games I prefer to play not on a huge screen and with a mouse/keyboard instead of their Stadia Controller.

I haven't bought many titles, personally, so if it is disappeared, I wouldn't be terribly upset. Annoyed, yes.

And it would probably cause me to go hunt around a bit more at Xbox Cloud gaming (Which I have also tried and looks promising with a nice but small library of titles) and I have yet to check out GeForce Now but have heard good things there, too.

> we mostly play little party games as nither of us our big gamers

unfortunately there's not enough of you guys, Stadia was targeting the latter crowd but as you can see, they've failed.

GamePass Ultimate (Xbox Cloud gaming) does streaming perfectly so as Nvidia Geforce Now

Not tried GamePass as it's expensive and a subscription service unlike Stadia, I used Geforce now before and it wasn't very good. My friend reports Stadia works far better for them when compared to Geforce now which is not as well optomised / laggy etc. I think it might require a stronger connection that what she has, where as Stadia works flawlessly.

Not sure if game pass is better but the price would put me off a little bit, because we only play for a few hours every couple of weeks.

I think the distance to the datacentre is a huge element in the lagginess, so I doubt we can declare one service better than another with only anecdata.

There’s also Xbox Cloud Gaming.

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