| Yeah, that's a pretty good summary of the issues Stadia brings, from Google's history of killing off products to the technical problems with latency and input lag and the adverse effects on game preservation and mods. But there's also enough danger it may bring as well. Namely, it turns video games into yet another front for the culture war, by letting someone's ideological opponents target their video game collections as well. Or against a developer, their entire customerbase. We all know how companies like Google react to social media outrage (aka often deleting the accounts of everything the witch hunt is targeting). Now with Stadia, they can lose their games too, since without the account access to their games or save files is probably gone as well. This is even worse against developers/publishers, since they could see their whole library wiped off the service altogether, basically removing it from every single one of their customers at once. There are also non political issues about Google and how accounts are sometimes tied together when they logically shouldn't be too. 'Associated' accounts can get you banned and account removed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19124324 And from what I remember, losing developer accounts, YouTube channels, etc can take down your Gmail account as well. Like this: http://www.jonasblog.com/my-gmail-account-got-deleted If Stadia is connected to this, that means you can lose all your games in such a situation too. And likely again, all your progress in said games too. Services like Stadia basically leave your games and work at risk of going poof due to social controversies and account issues. |
Is stadia so good that this risk is worth it?