Worst Ever: The End Of Stadia - Rerez

This is the final part of a trilogy on Stadia, check out the other episodes! Part 1: https://youtu.be/m0OYCMkr-_Q Part 2: https://youtu.be/Qr9_uXluL1Q

The fact that we live in an era of preservation of stuff like the Satelliview, the Xbox & Wii U’s online functionality, and even the ability to emulate the PS3 and Xbox 360, yet we have nothing but footage left of these Stadia exclusives speaks volumes of the dangers of solely relying on servers to host content.

My favourite memory of Stadia was, despite being made by Google, the biggest search engine on the planet, it did not have a search functionality until a year after launch. Ahhhhh, good times

Stadia dying after 4 years & Google ignoring it is like the Internet/social media equivalent of a parent ignoring their toddler choking on a big piece of food & parents not bothering to pay attention.

I think the biggest issue with Stadia, and other streaming game platforms for that matter, is that gamers typically like having access to their games even without Internet.

The funny part is, I think most of us saw this coming, and yet we were still surprised when it happened

“You own nothing and you’ll be happy.” Google Stadia in a nutshell.

The fact that cloud gaming has been averted, at least for a time, is good for everybody.

Stadia failing is the single biggest victory for gamers in decades.

Once, I went to apply at a Hollywood video right before they closed, and I noticed they hadn't bothered to restock their gaming consoles or and of their games which was a redflag, and then the guy at the counter handing me the application told me they were closing in like a month. This is effectively how it felt when Google started to deprioritze Stadia.

Stadia is all that I fear about an all digital gaming future. You spend money on games you can't keep and it all shuts down and you lose everything.

That's actually the sad thing about streaming gaming in general, and it's one of the biggest reasons I'm thankful this crashed and burned. It will never be a matter of "if" the service will go down and you'd lose all your games and progress on them: it's a matter of "when" all along.

26:21 Just to spare people from constantly pausing and unpausing... "Don't look now! He's back! The one and only Mr. Google! Stadia is gone now. Insert frowny face emoji here. Mr. Google has lost his mind! He's giving you back all of your money! Isn't that nice!? What does he want in return? Your undying love and constant adoration! Seems like a small ask for free money! Mr. Google! Send help! He has me locked in his basement! I have not seen daylight in weeks! ...But the internet is free down here so that's a perk I guess..."

Kinda surprised that you didn’t mention that Google didn’t bother to tell developers they were discontinuing the service until the rest of us found out. That’s the bigger kick in the nuts to me, because developers make the games. Otherwise, can’t think of much else to add.

I think another major reason that Stadia's "Who needs physical game boxes?!?" pitch didn't work was because the gaming audience was already familiar with the consequences of intangible media thanks to previous controversies like the P.T. demo... and these fears were ultimately proven right when Stadia's slow death began...

I always saw stadia as the textbook definition of a Flash in the pan. Google tried to break into the game streaming market with that huge fuzz they did back in E3 2019, adds everywhere, their own event, the whole nine yards. But they quite literally dropped the ball instantaneously. Even in early 2020 it looked like Google just got bored and pulled out of the project once they realized that running a service like that is, in fact, very, very, hard and time consuming. It is just like every other project that's rotting away at the Google cemetery: an idea they thought would change the world (and make them a lot of money), but turned out to have been poorly thought out and harder than expected, so they abandoned it. It's so sad to see such a project die like this. Even tho we all knew it would be a dumpster fire the day it was announced, it undoubtedly had SOME potential. And seeing that potential squandered in such a record time... It's depressing.

The most surprising thing about the Stadia shutdown is that it didn’t happen sooner, I genuinely thought this thing bit the dust a while ago

In the dictionary under "Failing Upwards", there's a picture of Phil Harrison. I have no idea how this guy keeps getting better jobs in the industry with the trail of epic failures behind him.

The most surprising thing to me is that it lasted this long.

As someone who lives in New Jersey, I have never been so shocked, appalled, and offended by something so absolutely true (19:18) [sad to see stadia go cause these videos on it were hysterical]