Dead Game News: Stadia is shutting down

[Steve the Pocket]

On 10/3/2022 at 6:59 PM, probablygonna said:

Music, documents, and videos "moved?"

Man, I really don't like the way Doronichev said that. Like that's where "everything" is and if you're trying to get it somewhere else, like your data hoard on your NAS, you're some kind of freak.

A while back, there was a commercial for Chromebooks that was like, to transfer your files from your existing computer, "Just log into your Google account, and all your files are right there." Like... wow, really? So it's just going to instantly and automagically transfer the entire contents of my old PC into their cloud thing without so much as a request to confirm from the other end? Of course, that's not what they meant. They were talking about Google Docs and... whatever their cloud backup service is called, I guess. They were banking on their potential customers having already made the switch to using those exclusively and having nothing left that they would miss.

 

Which is a hell of a bold assumption, obviously. Granted, truth-in-advertising laws being what they are, they could just as casually claim the thing can fly you to the moon if they thought people would believe it and lose out on nothing more than the hassle of processing the returns, so it's not necessarily evidence that any of them actually believe it. But you do have to wonder. I think the exact types of bullshit companies ultimately choose to peddle to the masses says a lot about them.

[Vorkutlag Regular]

RIP Stadia, you will probably be missed by someone.