Stadia shutting down
Google Announce Stadia Is Shutting Down, Will Refund Games & Hardware Purchases - YongYea
Final date is Jan 18th 2023. Not that I cared, but I guess it's a mixed bag for DBD, sad the legit players be losing their progress, yet the countless number of hacker accounts will be gone as well.
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Well it was bound to happen sooner or later I suppose.
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Sadge for the like six people who used it hope they get their money back
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Hacker accounts? On Stadia? Do you know how Stadia works?
Also, nobody's losing any progress since Stadia is the one platform that has cross-progression with Steam. The really bad thing about this is that I no longer have a way to play DBD.
I'm a Linux user. My computer ran DBD fine when I was dual-booting Windows, but Windows kept becoming a security risk. The only game that didn't run on Windows anymore was DBD due to EAC, so when BHVR announced that DBD was getting Proton support, I went ahead and deleted my Windows partition in anticipation. That was... what, a year ago? And according to Mandy, we shouldn't get out hopes up anytime soon.
Stadia wasn't so bad. For game streaming, it was blazing fast. I've been averaging an 80% kill rate. A few games on GeForce Now (where input lag is much more severe) and I'm lucky to get 1-2K because I can't hit #########.
I faithfully buy all the DLCs and every rift. I try not to get mad and blame the developers like half the people on this forum every time a minor update doesn't go my way. I've poured thousands of hours of my life into this game, and now I'm not going to get to play it anymore after January.
If it ever gets Proton support, I'll be back, but until then, there are other games to play. VHS is fun, but inferior. White Noise 2 and Horror Legends are awesome, but they don't have a sizable playerbase. Evil Dead was amazing, but they added EAC recently, and now I can't play that game despite buying it for full price on release date (hopefully we get Proton support when the Steam version drops next year).
VHS isn't as great (it's goofy and the killer designs are uninspired), but at least they already support Proton, and it has a playerbase. Reinstalling it now.
It wasn't. It was a good product, better than competitors', but they fumbled absolutely everything in the early stages of the project's release.
The silver lining is that it looks like we will. Their terms are pretty generous; we can keep the hardware, and everything other than the monthly subscription is being refunded.
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Also, I'm really hoping Gylt gets a PC port. That game was legitimately awesome.
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Cant believe it took this long.
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All 4 stadia players in shambles rn
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Hopefully people who purchased Demo on their don't lose him.
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Holy hell. A stadia user in the wild.
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I was hoping to be the first one to get all of the achievements on Stadia, but I only have until January now.
I guess it's still possible... I already have 153.
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Pouring one out for all 3 stadia players.
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I don't think we will. It has cross-progression with Steam, so everything you have on Stadia is automatically linked to your Steam account and vice-versa. Good question to ask.
I'm also assuming that Google is paying for the refunds, not BHVR. I doubt BHVR would have signed a contract requiring them to refund everyone who bought their product if the store closed up shop. Google has the money for that.
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Luckily for them, Stadia players actually have cross-progression. So no biggie.
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You're beat:
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Dammit.
Nice, though. Good job.
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Thanks.
Not sure what to do now though. All my progress transfered to my steam account seamlessly (aside from achievements - I'm at 12 now lol), but my PC will only run it with potatoe graphics. Looking into geforcenow or maybe even jumping ship to Xbox and starting over, idk.. it sucks..
Lot of people like to bash Stadia, but it was great for me.. RIP
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GeForce Now is awful. Don't even bother. Stadia was actually playable, but GeForce Now's input lag for DBD is so bad that you're going to win half as many games as you are now.
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lmao. Just imagine the amount of money google spent on that piece of junk, laughable.
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Piece of junk? Lol The tech was there, the vision was not.
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The silver lining is that it looks like we will. Their terms are pretty generous; we can keep the hardware, and everything other than the monthly subscription is being refunded.
that's good at least
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Oh no, anyways
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A big downside is the cross progression merge has been broken for about 2 months now. I used Stadia to play until I had money to build a pc and fortunately synced the accounts before it broke, but I have a friend doing the same thing and he can't sync his stadia progress to steam because the cross progression merge has stayed broken.
Stadia wasn't very good but it was serviceable for those wanting to play M&K but without a gaming pc.
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Omg Im in this exact same situation.
I moved from switch to stadia, had to grind all the progress again for survivors p3 for all perks, new rift and skins from prime gaming, thinking when I could afford a pc id be able to have my stuff on steam and now I cant merge my progress cause it has been disabled for 2 months with no update as to when its getting fixed.
Lets hope they are fair with us for trying out a service and support our cross progression if not, it would be exactly the opposite of what they promised and encouraged people to try a service thinking it would sync.
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