• Thy_Moose@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Honestly? Google has been killing every project it started, so even if this happens, I guess it won’t last long anyway

    • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.world
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      This. Stadia was one of the last example, they’ll kill this new service too after a few years, it’s not worth to even consider using.

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        Stadia was likely killed by Google’s own reputation for killing products.

        After all, who wants to spend money on a library full of games you won’t be able to play next year? It’s a self fulfilling prophecy.

        Then refunding all the software and hardware was a surprising turn of events.

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      Yep. They’ll just collect as much new data as possible and then shut it down.

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    After the stadia debacle, I doubt anybody trusts Google with gaming. It’s only been six months lol

    They truly deserve all the clowning they’re going to get for this

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        Ya know, I used to be a pixel fanboy. I’ve had every mainstream pixel from 1 to 7. After a botched RMA for a dead display, the fingerprint reader is now disabled. I’ve been ghosted by support about the new display so now I’ve switched over to Samsung.

        I’m a former Apple employee and have had enough of their shit. Everyone at the office was drowning in the kool-aid. I’m done with iOS 🤣

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      Someone could probably make money by just making a platform where you show people ads, and there’s a leaderboard ranking for how many ads you watch.

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          Yeah, but there’s at least a facade of game in there somewhere. Like how the 2K NBA games are slot machines with inconvenient basketball minigames attached.

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    Google, that company famous for creating new technologies and supporting them for long periods of time. Definitely something I am interested in becoming an early adopter for.

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    why? They already know they will be killing the project, why bother?

    Nobody is going to “oh let me open youtube to play some crappy idle clicker clone”

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      Why? So whoever launched the project can get a raise and/or bonus. I doubt the people launching this actually thinks it’s a long term direction for YouTube, it’s just a thing that they got approved that they can launch.

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    Google shuts down streaming gaming service

    CEO: We need a new idea guys. What do you have?

    Employee who forgot there was a meeting today: uh how about a streaming gaming service?

    Ceo: my god why haven’t we done that before? Get on it.

    Same employee: wait…what?

    Ceo: what?

    Employee: ….

  • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net
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    Yeah, okay Google. I’m still not over the death of Stadia (even though I expected it), it was really cool as a concept / idea but also not one that was ever likely to work for a company that wasn’t the scale of Google (or one of the big tech companies) sadly.

    And of course, since it was a Google product, it got axed.

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    People forget that YouTube already had gaming in the form of a snake game you could play while your video buffered. As with all Google gaming products that too was killed.