Google finally buried Stadia and says goodbye to the players

Thursday morning Stadia shut down for goodcloud gaming service from Google, which has been available in the Czech Republic since 2020. After several painful months, if not years, when the operation simply did not pay off, the moment came that everyone was counting on.

This is not an abrupt end. Google released this sad news to many gamers back in September, although they assured the community some time ago that Stadia was fine. It must be mentioned that things with Stadia have been going downhill for a long time. First, internal studios closed, then Stadia technology could be licensed to third parties (probably because the service itself was no longer making a lot of money, and the operators wanted more money), and finally, Google apparently found that it was no longer working. made sense.

But it would be a little unfair if I didn’t point out ambitious start Stage. Even before its launch, everything looked like a project that had a big foothold. Google promised great gaming experiencewhich thanks to many aspects (play from any device, lack of updates, etc.) will make you forget about the console or computer. However, in the final it all ended in a small fiasco.. The lack of promised features, a strange monetization system and numerous bugs managed to upset the players. For more details on why Stadia died, check out the video below.

With Stadia and the community he managed to say goodbye not only to Google, both through the service as such and through the twitter account, but also the players themselves. On that fateful day, they decided to share their final moments with Stadia and massively streamed their gaming sessions.

One of these was YouTuber Retroity, who broadcast the title Worm Game (about the well-known Snake), which was released on Stadia shortly before the shutdown. The game menu also includes subtitles listing the names of all the people who took part in the Stadium. You can see them in the post below.

We also have news for those of you who have purchased the proprietary driver. stadium controller. Just because a service is ending doesn’t mean you should throw it away immediately. With the help of a special tool, he can enable Bluetooth modeso you can use it to play on other platforms.