Like a lot of Stadia fans, CloudKnight was taken aback bythe news.
“I was very surprised,” he says.
“I didn’t expect it at all.
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I have mixed feelings about the whole thing, but the main one is definitely disappointment.”
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Stadia’s official Discord reflects this strange interim period.
Others, like CloudKnight, have already moved on to other cloud gaming services, such as Amazon Luna.
“I don’t think cloud gaming is going to be affected at all,” he says.
The Stadia community is an odd mix.
Stadia allowed them torediscovertheir love of gaming all over again.
Stadia user Craig Wann first became aware of Stadia during its Project Stream beta in 2018.
“Stadia’s tech was seamless,” Wann says.
I could pick up my controller and be into a game in seconds.
But though the money helps, transferring game saves or digital goods from Stadia has been anything but smooth.
Wann viewed it as confirmation that Google didn’t actually want to support the service in the long term.
Some early adopters had less patience than Wann, however.
At one point, enthusiast Jay Spurgeon owned every game available for Stadia.
Some still aren’t quite over the loss.
“I think Stadia’s demise will leave an impact on the cloud gaming industry,” he says.
“Stadia’s engineering team brought a fantastic gaming platform to life,” Wann says.
“Google’s management killed it…
I still think cloud gaming is the future.
The technology is there.
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