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Re: Stadia - Google's game streaming service

Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2019 11:43 am
by Peter Crisp
I don't think I've ever been as uninterested in a system launch as I was for this.
There was 1 game I was maybe going to get when the free version appears (Baldurs Gate 3) and I'm now just going to wait for it to be ported to anything else.
I'd rather buy a Switch just for BG3 and know it has other fantastic games than buy this pile of manure.

Disastrous.

Re: Stadia - Google's game streaming service

Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2019 12:11 pm
by Balladeer
Somebody on GNamer has actually sold their Switch and bought a Stadia. :slol:

To be fair he is a tech. nerd.

Re: Stadia - Google's game streaming service

Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2019 2:10 pm
by Venom
I had planned to get this out a lot sooner! Here is my thoughts on Stadia.


Re: Stadia - Google's game streaming service

Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2019 2:35 pm
by Errkal
Guy at work bought it and is now getting strawberry floated by lag, he is on google Wi-fi too which says it is optimising stadia for him but it seems to do nothing. He is now looking at moving internet providers to see if it is better,

I did point out it was a waste of time as there are no games on it anyway, but he is a google fan boy so is doomed.

Re: Stadia - Google's game streaming service

Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2019 3:07 pm
by Venom
Errkal If your mate has a good ISP speed would changing provider make a difference?

Peter Crisp wrote:I don't think I've ever been as uninterested in a system launch as I was for this.
There was 1 game I was maybe going to get when the free version appears (Baldurs Gate 3) and I'm now just going to wait for it to be ported to anything else.
I'd rather buy a Switch just for BG3 and know it has other fantastic games than buy this pile of manure.

Disastrous.


It's funny you mention Baldur's Gate 3 because that's a game I want to play. I don't have a gaming PC so if the wait until a console release is a long I think I might buy this game on Stadia.

Re: Stadia - Google's game streaming service

Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2019 3:21 pm
by Tomous
Errkal wrote:Guy at work bought it and is now getting strawberry floated by lag, he is on google Wi-fi too which says it is optimising stadia for him but it seems to do nothing. He is now looking at moving internet providers to see if it is better,

I did point out it was a waste of time as there are no games on it anyway, but he is a google fan boy so is doomed.



Google fan boys exist? :lol:

Re: Stadia - Google's game streaming service

Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2019 3:25 pm
by Victor Mildew
Merry Christmous Everyone wrote:
Errkal wrote:Guy at work bought it and is now getting strawberry floated by lag, he is on google Wi-fi too which says it is optimising stadia for him but it seems to do nothing. He is now looking at moving internet providers to see if it is better,

I did point out it was a waste of time as there are no games on it anyway, but he is a google fan boy so is doomed.



Google fan boys exist? :lol:


Exactly what I was thinking. Who the strawberry float is a Google fanboy?! :lol:

Re: Stadia - Google's game streaming service

Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2019 3:44 pm
by Errkal
Victor Mistletoe wrote:
Merry Christmous Everyone wrote:
Errkal wrote:Guy at work bought it and is now getting strawberry floated by lag, he is on google Wi-fi too which says it is optimising stadia for him but it seems to do nothing. He is now looking at moving internet providers to see if it is better,

I did point out it was a waste of time as there are no games on it anyway, but he is a google fan boy so is doomed.



Google fan boys exist? :lol:


Exactly what I was thinking. Who the strawberry float is a Google fanboy?! :lol:


Quite a few people, most people that buy a pixel and rant and rave about it, people that bought google Wi-fi tend to be, google have enough services now you get evangelical google nuts the same as you do apple ones.

Re: Stadia - Google's game streaming service

Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2019 4:05 pm
by Victor Mildew
I didn't think of it that way. Google is just a search engine to me (even though I know android is to do with them).

Re: Stadia - Google's game streaming service

Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2019 4:40 pm
by Errkal
Victor Mistletoe wrote:I didn't think of it that way. Google is just a search engine to me (even though I know android is to do with them).


Yeah for tech and media you can be fully in their world.

Search
Browser
Mobile (hardware and software)
Laptop (hardware and software)
Google home
Chrome cast
Nest doorbell, thermostat and smoke alarm
Stadia
Google Wi-fi
Google internet connection (in USA)
YouTube music
YouTube premium (tv shows etc)
Google books
Google play video for movie and tv show purchase and rental

And more I’ve not thought of I’m sure.

Re: Stadia - Google's game streaming service

Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2019 4:48 pm
by Met
>using WiFi
>With Stadia

Oh god, what the gooseberry fool?

I'm currently between flats and am unable to wire things up as I'd like and I can feel the WiFi just dying when I play online. I can't begin to imagine what it's like with stadia's issues, too.

Re: Stadia - Google's game streaming service

Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2019 5:06 pm
by Errkal
Met wrote:>using WiFi
>With Stadia

Oh god, what the gooseberry fool?

I'm currently between flats and am unable to wire things up as I'd like and I can feel the WiFi just dying when I play online. I can't begin to imagine what it's like with stadia's issues, too.


Wi-fi is ok with 5ghz Wi-fi, it’s lower range but brilliantly quick. Google Wi-fi works as a mesh so you have multiple APs connected to each other on their own 5ghz wifi, when you connect you connect to any of the APs and you get a blinding speed that routes through the mesh to your interweb. BT Wi-fi works in the same way, I have 2 Wi-fi disks right now and get speedy internet through the whole house on Wi-fi because the APs work together.

Re: Stadia - Google's game streaming service

Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2019 5:12 pm
by Tomous
Errkal wrote:
Met wrote:>using WiFi
>With Stadia

Oh god, what the gooseberry fool?

I'm currently between flats and am unable to wire things up as I'd like and I can feel the WiFi just dying when I play online. I can't begin to imagine what it's like with stadia's issues, too.


Wi-fi is ok with 5ghz Wi-fi, it’s lower range but brilliantly quick. Google Wi-fi works as a mesh so you have multiple APs connected to each other on their own 5ghz wifi, when you connect you connect to any of the APs and you get a blinding speed that routes through the mesh to your interweb. BT Wi-fi works in the same way, I have 2 Wi-fi disks right now and get speedy internet through the whole house on Wi-fi because the APs work together.



I have no idea what any of that means but need to setup WiFi in my new house next month. Should I look at Google WiFi.

Re: Stadia - Google's game streaming service

Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2019 5:15 pm
by Errkal
Merry Christmous Everyone wrote:
Errkal wrote:
Met wrote:>using WiFi
>With Stadia

Oh god, what the gooseberry fool?

I'm currently between flats and am unable to wire things up as I'd like and I can feel the WiFi just dying when I play online. I can't begin to imagine what it's like with stadia's issues, too.


Wi-fi is ok with 5ghz Wi-fi, it’s lower range but brilliantly quick. Google Wi-fi works as a mesh so you have multiple APs connected to each other on their own 5ghz wifi, when you connect you connect to any of the APs and you get a blinding speed that routes through the mesh to your interweb. BT Wi-fi works in the same way, I have 2 Wi-fi disks right now and get speedy internet through the whole house on Wi-fi because the APs work together.



I have no idea what any of that means but need to setup WiFi in my new house next month. Should I look at Google WiFi.


Worth a look, although if you are with BT go with their Halo (Complete Wi-fi) package and you get their version, it isn’t as feature rich as Google’s but it is part of your package then and covered by a guarantee that you will get Wi-fi through your home or they will provide more disks to make sure you can.

Re: Stadia - Google's game streaming service

Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2019 5:22 pm
by Peter Crisp
I just have bargain basement BT internet and it's fine.
I get 60mb which is enough for me.

Re: Stadia - Google's game streaming service

Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 6:33 pm
by Monkey Man
Google has promised more than 10 Stadia timed-exclusives will be released by July 2020 - but it failed to name the games.

More than 120 games are due to hit Google's streaming service in 2020, Google promised.


"Looking at our upcoming lineup, we are tracking more than 120 games coming to Stadia in 2020, and are targeting more than 10 games in the first half of this year alone that will be only available on Stadia when they launch," Google said in a note to press today.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020 ... -july-2020

Re: Stadia - Google's game streaming service

Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 10:20 pm
by Victor Mildew
I don't know anyone who's got this.

Re: Stadia - Google's game streaming service

Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 10:25 pm
by KK
Think of all the hype coming this year directed at the Xbox Series X, PS5 and rumoured upgrade to Nintendo Switch, Stadia just hasn’t got a chance in hell. Most irrelevant platform since the N-Gage.

Re: Stadia - Google's game streaming service

Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 10:43 pm
by Victor Mildew
I just can't believe the games that it launched with, and is still riding on.

"Hey, the kids like tomb raider right? I know I did at college on my Nintendo playcube. Oh look, there's still tomb raider games, we cant lose!!!!"

Re: Stadia - Google's game streaming service

Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 11:52 pm
by Jenuall
Fair play though, the Playcube was a strawberry floating banging console. :datass: