Google Stadia

**edyzmedieval** · 04-04-2019, 14:05

While in essence it's a great idea, there's significant technological changes to this. The subscription model works great for the consumer in terms of music - in terms of gaming, not that much. Keep in mind that not everyone has super fast internet and to be fair, I like to play my games offline as well.

**Husar** · 04-04-2019, 14:42

Originally Posted by edyzmedieval

While in essence it's a great idea, there's significant technological changes to this. The subscription model works great for the consumer in terms of music - in terms of gaming, not that much. Keep in mind that not everyone has super fast internet and to be fair, I like to play my games offline as well.

Absolutely, I once had an issue with an internet provider change and needed to use the neighbors' WiFi for a few weeks. Without games being available offline, those weeks would have been terrible. I could play online games somewhat decently, but streaming entire games would not have worked at all. Internet outages are also far more common than electricity outages here. You just sort of give away more and more control to corporations. I find that acceptable in some areas that are not so dear to me, like TV and movies, but not for gaming in general as you say.
I can see how some casual gamers wouldn't care though, as long as it always has the latest Call of Duty or FIFA.

**edyzmedieval** · 04-05-2019, 12:16

I'm curious how Steam would work out. If they go to a subscription model to access your own account... please no.

**Husar** · 04-05-2019, 16:06

Originally Posted by edyzmedieval

I'm curious how Steam would work out. If they go to a subscription model to access your own account... please no.

I don't think they could do that without more or less going out of business immediately. More likely, a subscription model would start with a limited selection of existing and new games, and maybe get subscription-exclusive titles after a while. So more of a slow transition that lets people keep the old games they bought. That would still be a subscription model where you download the game to your computer though I guess. Streaming is a step further from that still. EA currently run their subscription model in addition to the traditional sales model.
As a niche consumer who only plays a game from EA once in 5 years or so, I still find the idea of subscription-only quite terrible though and I'd rather skip the one game I like than pay monthly for games I don't want. Yes, I might try a game that looks bad and actually like it once in a while with a subscription, but that's probably still not worth the cost, plus my time is too limited for the games I know I like already.

**bauuubass** · 07-29-2019, 07:17

My friend was super hyped about this and I was kinda interested too, but then I read somewhere that it is only gonna come to select countries, so living in a small country in Europe, what are the chances that we're gonna see it :D and with all possible problems and (supposed) high prices I'm starting to think it's for the best.