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VAMatt said:
A lot of comments in this thread demonstrate that gamers are just scared of change.

Scared?, why would we be "scared" of something we don't want encompassing our favorite hobby?.

 

You seem to think that if it's okay to you and that you welcome it, that everyone else must welcome it or be fear mongered/ridiculed into doing so. That's not smart and it just lends to sheeple mentality. You don't want to be called on making a bad decision, so you've whipped up the "no, it's you" kind of reasoning. 

The people that basically willingly go with this, precisely demonstrate that they care little for owning anything, and are more than happy to siphon their entire life savings to anything and everything, via a sub fee per week/month. imagine, turning everything into an endless funnel, where you're basically low on income per month, because everything is sub based, wouldn't that be amazing for everyone? (Don't go "no", because this is practically where we're headed via music, movies, tv and now games, so yes, the sub fee model is becoming the defacto model of the future. "traditional won't go away anytime soon", it is going away, faster than you think when you look at all the other industries adopting one model). 



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The day this takes off and becomes mainstream is the day I stop modern gaming. Hopefully Nintendo releases physical games for a long time yet.



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FarleyMcFirefly said:
The day this takes off and becomes mainstream is the day I stop modern gaming. Hopefully Nintendo releases physical games for a long time yet.

Could you imagine if both Sony and MS followed Google and Nintendo was the only one releasing physical games? They would need to buy another building to hold the money. It would be massive for at least some years.



Not sure if this was discussed but you'll also need a min. of 25mbps to get 1080p at 60fps

https://ca.ign.com/articles/2019/03/20/google-stadia-recommends-a-25-megabit-internet-connection

Not sure if its a big deal to many of you here but I know many around me that don't go for high internet speeds, afterall Netflix is probably the biggest thing and that only needs 3mbps to stream HD.



VAMatt said:
A lot of comments in this thread demonstrate that gamers are just scared of change.

Never change a working system, as they say in IT departments

Personally, there are 4 things that I'm afraid of with streaming:

1. History. What happens to an MMO of it gets shut down? Nowadays that data is saved and conserved at some players. But that would be impossible to do if it only gets streamed, very possibly loosing a part a videogame history forever that way.

2. Modding: For similar reasons, mods are not possible. Pretty much disqualifies a lot of strategy games with this btw.

3. Pricing: You say there's no big investment in hardware needed, which is true... but I don't think you'd get a Netflix style streaming platform for peanuts. Unless you play a very lot and otherwise have to buy tons of games, the console pays for itself as it's cheaper over time.

4. Infrastructure: For the advertised 4K60, better have some 50Mbit connection without any hiccups or data caps (see below). To which only a minority even have real access to. Due to the amounts of data getting used by this, expect digging up roads to lay more and more cables to cover demand.

V-r0cK said: 
Not sure if this was discussed but you'll also need a min. of 25mbps to get 1080p at 60fps

https://ca.ign.com/articles/2019/03/20/google-stadia-recommends-a-25-megabit-internet-connection

Not sure if its a big deal to many of you here but I know many around me that don't go for high internet speeds, afterall Netflix is probably the biggest thing and that only needs 3mbps to stream HD.

Well, even worse then. With 4K being 4 times more information then Full HD, then 100Mbps is probably necessary. Very very few have even access to such speeds. The 1080p60 is already out of reach for quite a lot of people with this.

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VAMatt said:
A lot of comments in this thread demonstrate that gamers are just scared of change.

Nah, I'm just not a walk over in life. 



Guys that google offers this as service doesnt mean you need to have it. Lul so much panic about absolutely nothing.
Its lije driving a full electric car it is an option but imma keep my petrolfueled monster



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Cerebralbore101 said:

Tired of video game piracy, physical copies, and competition? Ask your doctor about Stadia!

Stadia is a prescription DRM platform guaranteed to  wipe out any annoying semblances of consumer rights. 

Stadia forces your "customers" to always be online. No more playing offline for them!

Stadia is a subscription based Games as a Service or "GaaS". GaaS costs more money in the long term than a one time purchase!

Stadia will allow you to completely abandon any games you don't feel like keeping on your servers, wiping out any Stadia exclusive games from history overnight!

Stadia injects advertisements and youtube level censorship directly into your games! This increases revenue and decreases creativity!

Stadia slowly releases microtransactions into the bloodstream of your games, with little pushback from the consumer. 

Stadia is loved by ISPs too! With Stadia you'll be able to charge more for going over data limits!

Side effects may include, lack of creativity in AAA games, entire games being lost to history forever, the death of the hardware market, annoying ads, no more mods, spying on consumers, microtransactions, and Donald Trump being elected to a second term.

 

Danm! You prety much nailed it, but your last line  almost forces me to use Stadia! Crap, i will have to give google good cash to elect Mr.trump one second time.

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Just saw Digital Foundry video and I really dont get why all the fuss about the hardware. All of that power does not matter; because all is streamed!!

It all comes down to internet speed; and nothing else.



Nothing but a bunch of fearmongering. What the prospect of change does to people.