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Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account “爱范儿” (ID: Ifanr), author Musi.
Google, which is highly involved in the game industry, has confirmed that it will officially launch the Stadia cloud game platform in 14 countries including the United States and Canada on November 19th. On the first day of the platform, players can experience the Assassin’s Creed. 12 games including Odyssey and Destiny 2.
However, some developers have concerns about whether to put their own gameplay on Stadia.
Gwen Frey, the developer of the narrative decryption game Kine, recently said in an interview with Gamesindustry that they are not not recognizing the prospects of cloud games, but instead worry that the Stadia platform will work like many other cutting-edge technology projects on Google for many years. But forced to close.
No one has ever said that “this thing is useless” or that “streaming service is not the future”, the development trend of cloud games is inevitable. For Stadia, the biggest problem is that “you may not see it after a certain day.”
This may seem like a bit of a sloppy look, but considering that Google has always liked to cut down on projects with uncertain development prospects, it’s no wonder that developers are left with a bad impression.
In 2019, Google gave up support for VR project DayDream, YouTube game channel, social service Google+, not to mention GoOgle Reader and Inbox have gained a lot of praise, but still can’t escape the good service of being cut down.
The VR project DayDream, which was launched to Android phones two years ago, has now been abandoned by Google
Some media have similar statements when evaluating the development prospects of the Stadia platform. The Guardian said that it is easy for Google to lose interest in less successful projects. What players want to know is whether they should invest in Google’s gaming platform as long as they trust Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony.
Game Media IGN also believes that Google’s commitment to new projects is often not long-lasting, and this ultimately hurts the image of the entire brand.
In fact, similar questions apply to other cloud gaming platforms in the future. After all, for a service that does not have host hardware, physical CDs, all game content is placed in the cloud, if it is forced to close in the future, players pay for the game on the platform, as well as historical archives, whether to follow The platform is buried together?
One example for reference is the cloud game pioneer OnLive, which was unveiled in 2010 and announced its termination of service after only five years of operation. It was eventually acquired by Sony and converted to the company’s cloud gaming platform Playstation Now. stand by.
But what many people don’t know is that with the closure of the OnLive platform, all accounts, game content and achievements on the platform are also deleted, and paid games are not refundable. Naturally, there is no such thing as ” Relive the old game that I have played before.”
The relevant person in charge of Google has noticed similar doubts. In an interview in July, Stadia’s product director Andrey Doronichev said that the platform will continue to grow and support like other Google projects that have existed for many years, because Google has invested a lot of money and technology for the platform. At the same time, it has also attracted many partners, not a “small project”.
Of course, you can still doubt what I said, I know that even if I explain it, many people still don’t want to believe it. So what we can do is put the platform online and continue to invest in the next few years.