Google is shutting down Stadia

Alex14

“Google is shutting down Stadia, its cloud gaming service. The service will remain live for players until January 18th, 2023. Google will be refunding all Stadia hardware purchased through the Google Store as well as all the games and add-on content purchased from the Stadia store.”

https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/29/23378713/google-stadia-shutting-down-game-streaming-january-2023

di_lorenzo

Alex14 I guess this is no surprise to everyone

seriousjoker

Alex14 I didn’t know. Thank you for sharing.

I actually never used it but my friends are. I always though it was a cool idea.

AlexChan

Too bad I purchased my stadia off of facebook marketplace. I guess I could still use the controller with steam?

DarkPikaJP

Not too surprised by this. I never got into the stadia nor did I hear a lot about it.

Menguelez

Not surprise for me 🤣

Matthias

Menguelez I haven’t thought it will take this long because it never has gotten that big hype once it had been released.

SprintingWorm

I think it reminds people about the fact of cloud drives, they don’t last forever.

Alex14

SprintingWorm

Hmm I don’t know about that. They will certainly last longer than a home user’s HDD. Talking about Google Cloud, iCloud, Dropbox, OneDrive and other reputable cloud storage providers and assuming you don’t have your account suddenly closed. You should have multiple backups right if that data is important to you but for a home user I think a cloud service is more secure than an only HDD.

Matthias

Alex14 speaking of secure and the cloud service is kind a thing, because the data could be stolen for example if someone gets your account data or the cloud provider gets hacked. I think what @SprintingWorm has ment with secure is the fact that if the services would be shut down you could possibility loose the acces to your data. And for the stadia it would mean you could not play the games you have bought. The same would happen for steam or eoicStore etc, but due to ist popularity it should be less possible to disappear.

Alex14

Matthias I get it but as I said I think it’s more likely for your HDD to break than for Google, Apple, Microsoft to shut down their cloud storage division without a prior notice for you to have time to download your data. I know that Google doesn’t have the best reputation when it comes to keeping services alive. killedbygoogle.com doesn’t exist for nothing 😅. But Stadia and Google Cloud Storage are 2 different things with different priorities for Google as far as I know. And even in Stadia’s case we’ve got a 3 months notice and refunds for everything bought through Google Store. Again different users have different needs and depending on how valuable that data is for you you’re better with 2-3 physical backups than using cloud storage. But I’m maintaining my opinion that for a casual user Google Cloud or other reputable provider is more reliable than your HDD/SSD.

*your/you is meant as the general user not you in particular.

Matthias

Alex14 I get this. Nonetheless would I choose a local backup over a cloud service. For this I would love to have a NAS with RAID Level 5.