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[GamesRadar] There won't be a Google Stadia open beta before launch, so you're going to have to trust that it works
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I was in the alpha and it ran smooth as butter, so I'm on the same sentiment.
Finally enough for me to cancel my Founder's edition. I'm sure I'll end up using streaming eventually, but with the performance stuff up in the air and no changes coming to my data cap any time soon I can wait.
I'm excited for it, and if it is available, I'll be playing Cyberpunk 2077 as my first Stadia game in April. Plenty of time to set my expectations.
Project Stream worked well for me. That said, this is a stupid move. I feel like Google needs to offer one free title released within the last three years for everyone to check out at anytime so that they could see what the service is about. It's a big leap to try something like this out without a way to check if it works adequately.
There was a beta, as others have mentioned. Why are all these outlets trying to take poorly thought out shots at Stadia? Are they threatened by something?
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Wasn't this an alpha though? I played this too and I could have sworn it was.
They did have a beta, but not in every country.
But it's irrelevant, because the free version of Stadia is.. well.. free. So you can try that before going for Pro.
EDIT: Forgetting that it's Founders Edition only initially though, which does carry a cost. But then one can just be patient until it's free use next year.
But it's irrelevant, because the free version of Stadia is.. well.. free. So you can try that before going for Pro.
EDIT: Forgetting that it's Founders Edition only initially though, which does carry a cost. But then one can just be patient until it's free use next year.
Neckbeards want to maintain their walls of ugly plastic discs and thus hate Stadia. It's easy clicks. See: Jim Sterling's entire career.
Pretty sure the Project Stream was only available in US. The rest of the world would like a beta too.
I've done the speed test and it seems fine but the data center in my area could be garbage. A free trial will hopefully go up post launch.
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It was considered a closed beta, so I'm having the title altered to reflect that there won't be an OPEN beta.
Lol. "Gamers" will kill this medium faster than any streaming service.
There was no beta for Stadia. There was a beta for Project Stream that let you play Assassin's Creed Odyssey via a browser. Nothing more. You couldn't change settings, you could use a controller as long as the PC recognized it. That's it. Since then, Stadia has changed and no one outsides of the elusive circle or Google knows anything regarding the performance. As for me, Project Stream was alright, if you like not being able to change anything or having the quality constantly change on you despite being connected to 1GB up/down connection. There was also a fair bit of input delay, but being the game that it was, it was masked since ACO didn't' require split-second timing. So latency didn't really ruin the experience unless you were hitting past 100ms+.
There was no beta for Stadia as it is now, using the Chromecast. Which isn't the same thing.
That said, I did pre-order the Stadia Founders Edition. My job (hobby) is to review/check out the system as it is and provide feedback. No provide negative outtakes or attempting to cause fear regarding something that might end up being fairly decent. If it fails, it fails. But if it takes off, well, game streaming will be all the much better between this and Project xCloud.
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They're pandering to the "I'm a hardcore gamer what needs my hardware in my house" mentality that they think all gamers share.
So you mean to say "there will be no beta for Stadia*"
I don't expect any company to roll out constant public betas for each of their new products to test them out in every single condition, as experimental as the products may be. If you're concerned about launch performance (not you you, I mean generally), rest assured that people will post impressions immediately after launch. Also, I may be wrong, but I believe any F2P game can be played for free on Stadia at base settings, if your goal is to try it without losing anything.
You mean the US invite-only beta? Yeh, that was really useful for everyone...
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There was technically not a beta for Google Stadia, there was a closed, invite only beta test for Project Stream which ultimately became Stadia.
The title has been corrected for clarification to say there won't be an OPEN beta for Stadia.
The title has been corrected for clarification to say there won't be an OPEN beta for Stadia.
I don't work for Google (Damn it) so I can't say if there will or won't be a beta. I will say this, everyone so far is under the impression that Stadia Pro is basically the beta since the free version (not really free) doesn't get released until 2020. Only Stadia Pro will be available in November, which is the paid version. Going off that, it would seem that Google will be taking feedback and impressions from those who are on the Pro version and using that towards the free version.
As far as how F2P games will work, I really don't know atm.
