Google Stadia is known as one of the greatest flops in gaming history, but the fear around the system was apparently intense for a time.
Stadia was awesome. The only flop involved was in Google’s handling of it.
Sounds like a lot of Google products.
Facts.
They had such a good moment with the Cyberpunk release and did nothing with it
People wouldn’t give stadia a chance since they knew of Google’s reputation to kill services. Google, of course, proved them right.
It was a shame really. I liked Stadia and ran a game tracking site for it. But I won’t trust another Google product again.
Stadia was the last straw for me. I kept my pixel phone but I replaced and ripped so much Google out of my life.
I replaced my nest cameras, and my Google wifi router. I ditched my Google home speakers and displays. Migrated everything from gmail except for Google related garbage. Unsubscribed from Google one. And no more books Google play. No movies or TV’s on Google play either.
And lastly I use duck duck go as my primary search.
A lot of time and money but my spite knows no bounds apparently.
I’d still be gaming on Stadia if it was around. Absolutely fantastic experience.
Obviously it was always going to fail, the more you abstract away ownership the less people will be interested in buying.
Especially when you’re a company with a history of shutting down products people liked.
The Google graveyard is a website that will repair any urge to rely on a Google ecosystem.
I used to play destiny 2 on it in the browser . it was a great experience despite destiny being a cash grab (I didn’t put any money into it 😉)
