You need your phone to buy games for Stadia, more bad news etc

[Shiken]

CuCabeludo said:

Shiken said:

The problem has nothing to do with a "free mode".  The problem is that you are paying full retail price for each game, but you are only getting the right to stream it for as long as it is on Stadia.  You own NOTHING with this model.

PC, PS4, X1, and Switch allow you to own physical copies of your games for the same price.  Licensing goes bad, you still own your copy.  Even with digital purchases, as long as you don't delete your games, you retain what you buy if that happens.  This is not the case with Stadia.

I could give two craps about discounts for the 10 dollar a month sub too, because guess what!  XBLive, PSN, hell even Nintendo Switch Online offers their own discounts for the same, if not less, cost of entry for the online service.  Oh and yes, you get to keep those games as well.

If a game is removed from the store it will only affect new buyers. All players who bought it when it was available will continue to access it. 

It is not that simple.  When licensing is up or a game gets pulled, it is removed entirely for legal purposes.  You are buying a license, and even your license as a consumer has a time limit.  It is illegal for Stadia to allow you to stream a game that the license is expured for, because you are paying for the right to use that same license.

I will give you two example of how this is already seen in digital sales.  Scott Pilgrim vs The World was taken down to license expiration.  If you previously bought the game, you still cannot redownload that game because the store cannot legally allow you to download the software even of you already owned your own digital license.

The other is a game called Spy Mouse for mobile devices a few years back.  When EA took the game down, you could not redownload the game even of you bought it for reasons above.  I bought this game, it is on my game list, I cannot download it because of how digital licensing works.

In both of these cases, if the game was downloaded to your device already, you still have it.  With Stadia you are streaming, and are SOL.  If you try to claim otherwise you either have no clue how licensing works or you are just lying to yourself.