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Re: the stadia excitement thread

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Sat Nov 23, 2019 5:49 pm

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And thus it became the 'Stadia Excrement Thread'
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Re: the stadia excrement thread

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I haven't seen it coming.
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Re: the stadia excitement thread

Post by Madeline (?) » Sat Nov 23, 2019 7:40 pm

Adiwan wrote:
Sat Nov 23, 2019 5:46 pm
And thus it became the 'Stadia Excrement Thread'
DaikatunaRevengeance wrote:
Sat Nov 23, 2019 5:49 pm
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Re: the stadia excitement thread

Post by ixnay (?) » Sat Nov 23, 2019 8:32 pm

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but also financially, the “you don’t get to keep games you bought at a subscription discount if your sub lapses” is ridiculous
both ps+ and xbl gold will remove access to monthly free games if your sub lapses, but if you’ve bought something, you’ve bought it
This part isn’t true at least, it got mistranslated from an Italian tweet and spread around

https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/11/21 ... nted-games

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Re: the stadia excrement thread

Post by Aria Genisi (?) » Sun Nov 24, 2019 2:01 am

weirdly enough, thinking about stadia's latency problems that have been showing up in some tweets and what not took me down a rabbit hole that lead to thinking about Eternal Darkness again

mostly because like, one of the crazy sanity effects in the game was like, you enter a room, and you play it normally, then the game refuses to recognize your inputs like if you unplugged your controller, and then your character is killed by the monsters in the room. but it didn't actually happen so you're back in the previous room

another one was like, you're in a room and you're playing normally, but then out of nowhere, the entire upper half of your body explodes, leaving only the waist down, which falls over, as you're dead. but not really, because it didn't happen, and you're safe and sound as you were before you entered the room


god, eternal darkness was such a good game. i'm not big on horror but it was honestly the best horror game I've ever played. it plays around with lovecraftian ideas and how knowing about such things is too much for our brains, but it basically sets it up into a "sanity gauge" where if you see too many spooky zombies and monsters without killing them to recover on that gauge, the camera's fixed angles get more menacing and unhinged, the game starts unveiling spooks in the environment and then the game becomes more and more likely to start actively messing with the player in various ways, both subtle ways (the torso explosion, the room being full of enemies, you're suddenly in the wrong place) and just directly fucking with the player (controller disconnected, memory card erased, the brief fakeout early in the game basically saying that you played a demo and you should look forward to the sequel/full version)

god, that was such a good game. way better than stadia's garbage
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Re: the stadia excitement thread

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Adiwan wrote:
Sat Nov 23, 2019 5:46 pm
And thus it became the 'Stadia Excrement Thread'
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Re: the stadia excrement thread

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Sun Nov 24, 2019 11:13 am

google more like poople
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Re: the stadia excrement thread

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DaikatunaRevengeance wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 11:13 am
google more like poople
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Re: the stadia excrement thread

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DaikatunaRevengeance wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 11:13 am
google more like poople

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Re: the stadia excrement thread

Post by Perpetual Motion (?) » Sun Nov 24, 2019 4:08 pm



That's, uh, certainly an advertisement, there. :-I

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Re: the stadia excrement thread

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Sun Nov 24, 2019 4:09 pm

yup :-I
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Re: the stadia excrement thread

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Sun Nov 24, 2019 4:13 pm

i expect them to try to scrub that from the internet once all this crashes and burns
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Re: the stadia excrement thread

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Sun Nov 24, 2019 4:14 pm

it's weirdly 90s in a way I can't quite pin down :ponder:
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Re: the stadia excrement thread

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Sun Nov 24, 2019 4:14 pm

Like the whole IT BENDS TIME AND SPACE TO GET -YOU- VIDEO GAMES

and the fact that there are no women in it except for the one at the end who is -obviously- not -playing- any video games, pfff
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Re: the stadia excrement thread

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Sun Nov 24, 2019 4:18 pm

they should yell GOOGLE in the same say SEGA did in the 90s
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Re: the stadia excrement thread

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Sun Nov 24, 2019 4:20 pm

The Sega Channel was way better than Stadia and I don't think this will be a controversial opinion.
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Re: the stadia excrement thread

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Sun Nov 24, 2019 5:01 pm

Gloomy Rube wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 4:20 pm
The Sega Channel was way better than Stadia and I don't think this will be a controversial opinion.
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Re: the stadia excrement thread

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DaikatunaRevengeance wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 4:18 pm
they should yell GOOGLE in the same say SEGA did in the 90s
only if they do it like this:
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Re: the stadia excrement thread

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Sun Nov 24, 2019 5:22 pm

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Re: the stadia excrement thread

Post by Orange Fluffy Sheep (?) » Sun Nov 24, 2019 6:31 pm

Perpetual Motion wrote:
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That's, uh, certainly an advertisement, there. :-I
It's trying so hard, so hard
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Re: the stadia excrement thread

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Wed Nov 27, 2019 6:10 pm

Stadia's player numbers are in and since the only kind of stadia you can buy right now comes bundled with Destiny 2, they're using Destiny 2 numbers as a decent "this is how many people are playing stadia"

they have 19,000 players playing on Stadia :-I

in contrast, all other platforms are in the 400,000s :-I
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Re: the stadia excrement thread

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Wed Nov 27, 2019 6:13 pm

Also apparently chromecast ultras are overheating from use and shutting down, and google's response was 'No they aren't" :v:
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Re: the stadia excrement thread

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Wed Nov 27, 2019 6:28 pm

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Re: the stadia excrement thread

Post by Angel Beat (?) » Wed Nov 27, 2019 9:17 pm

But can I use Stadia with Google+?

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Re: the stadia excrement thread

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DaikatunaRevengeance wrote:
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Re: the stadia excrement thread

Post by Madeline (?) » Thu Nov 28, 2019 12:03 am

Gloomy Rube wrote:
Wed Nov 27, 2019 6:10 pm
Stadia's player numbers are in and since the only kind of stadia you can buy right now comes bundled with Destiny 2, they're using Destiny 2 numbers as a decent "this is how many people are playing stadia"

they have 19,000 players playing on Stadia :-I

in contrast, all other platforms are in the 400,000s :-I
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Re: the stadia excrement thread

Post by Madeline (?) » Thu Nov 28, 2019 12:04 am

Gloomy Rube wrote:
Wed Nov 27, 2019 6:13 pm
Also apparently chromecast ultras are overheating from use and shutting down, and google's response was 'No they aren't" :v:
The best part is that the chromecast ultra is the only way for people to play Stadia on a TV right now :-I

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Re: the stadia excrement thread

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DaikatunaRevengeance wrote:
Wed Nov 27, 2019 6:28 pm
lmao

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Re: the stadia excrement thread

Post by Aria Genisi (?) » Thu Nov 28, 2019 12:40 am

Gloomy Rube wrote:
Wed Nov 27, 2019 6:10 pm
Stadia's player numbers are in and since the only kind of stadia you can buy right now comes bundled with Destiny 2, they're using Destiny 2 numbers as a decent "this is how many people are playing stadia"

they have 19,000 players playing on Stadia :-I

in contrast, all other platforms are in the 400,000s :-I
From a few days ago: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/ ... 175k-times

The Google Stadia App is required for setting up the service to begin with, and buying games. Also, yeah, you can only get one kind of Stadia via the $130 "Founders Pack", as the other options for signing up with Stadia aren't available until 2020

So while keeping in mind that there is the $130 buy-in limitation, as well as that everyone is required to use the Stadia app (and unless they have an activation code from buying the pack, the Stadia app can't do anything), we can look that as of a week ago, November 21st, the Stadia app has been downloaded about 175,000 times.

Even considering the $130 buy-in that limits the amount of people who theoretically would be using Stadia, and assuming that all of the recorded downloads accounts for people who bought the "Founders Pack", 175,000 players for a console launch (because this is the closest thing we can compare Stadia's launch to) is extremely dire.

To help put it in perspective, I looked up some sales numbers for consoles that are notable for being commercial failures. I'll list them below, alongside the estimated numbers for Stadia.
  • Playstation Vita - about 16 million units sold
  • Sega Saturn - 9.5 million units sold worldwide
  • Sega Dreamcast - 9.13 million units sold worldwide
  • Nokia N-Gauge - about 3 million units sold
  • 3DO Interactive Multiplayer (3DO) - 2 million units sold
  • Atari 5200 - about 1 million units sold
  • Nintendo Virtual Boy - 770,000 total units sold worldwide
  • Tiger Electronics Game.com - less than 300,000 units sold
  • Atari Jaguar - less than 250,000 units sold
  • Google Stadia - over 175,000 app downloads
Granted, this is only Stadia downloads from the first week of the service's launch, and I'm comparing them to lifetime sales of actual console hardware. Once more options to run Stadia besides the $130 "Founders Pack" start showing up, we can expect the numbers for Stadia to increase by some measure.

But even still, *just* 175,000 is dire numbers for something that's aiming to become a major video games platform, even for a limited launch like this.
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Re: the stadia excrement thread

Post by Angel Beat (?) » Thu Nov 28, 2019 2:08 am

Holy shit.
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Re: the stadia excrement thread

Post by RIP Syndrome (?) » Thu Nov 28, 2019 4:47 am

Gloomy Rube wrote:
Wed Nov 27, 2019 6:13 pm
Also apparently chromecast ultras are overheating from use and shutting down, and google's response was 'No they aren't" :v:
wait wasn't there response actually something like "well, okay, maybe they are, but that's actually normal and furthermore..."
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Re: the stadia excrement thread

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RIP Syndrome wrote:
Thu Nov 28, 2019 4:47 am
wait wasn't there response actually something like "well, okay, maybe they are, but that's actually normal and furthermore..."
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Re: the stadia excrement thread

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Fizzbuzz wrote:
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Re: the stadia excrement thread

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Re: the stadia excrement thread

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RIP Syndrome wrote:
Thu Nov 28, 2019 4:47 am
wait wasn't there response actually something like "well, okay, maybe they are, but that's actually normal and furthermore..."
The response I saw was along the lines of "It may be WARM TO THE TOUCH but it will not overheat and cause a shutdown"
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Re: the stadia excrement thread

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Re: the stadia excrement thread

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Re: the stadia excrement thread

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Thu Nov 28, 2019 1:51 pm

pictured: the google stadia
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Re: the stadia excrement thread

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Thu Nov 28, 2019 1:53 pm

Google's response:

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