[dannyphantom]

I think it was either here or Reddit that left a comment predicting that Stadia would eventually be canned - my boyfriend wanted to play a game that was only being released on the platform so I ended up getting it for his birthday when it came with a Chromecast.

Well - life got in the way so he never actually got to play the game much but Google did refund our Stadia/Chromecast purchase so we got a Chromecast out of it at least.

I remember reading a comment from a dev of one of the Stadia exclusives here who was very upset to learn that their work moot after it was announced here; can't imagine how deflating that must have felt for them.

[GauntletWizard]

I have a friend who ported his game to Stadia. They got as far as having a release date published on the Stadia store before they encountered a final check - Stadia requires games to be playable only with controller, and his game needed a keyboard. All of the testing was done on their web client, everything worked, but because it wasn't pure controller compatible, it was canned at the last minute.

Literally months of effort and a six figure advance sum, and Google didn't even bother with an extremely obvious checkbox.