• @Thy_Moose@lemmy.ml
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    122 years ago

    Honestly? Google has been killing every project it started, so even if this happens, I guess it won’t last long anyway

    • Ulu-Mulu-no-die
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      52 years ago

      This. Stadia was one of the last example, they’ll kill this new service too after a few years, it’s not worth to even consider using.

      • @HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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        12 years ago

        Stadia was likely killed by Google’s own reputation for killing products.

        After all, who wants to spend money on a library full of games you won’t be able to play next year? It’s a self fulfilling prophecy.

        Then refunding all the software and hardware was a surprising turn of events.

  • @caffinz@lemmy.ml
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    102 years ago

    After the stadia debacle, I doubt anybody trusts Google with gaming. It’s only been six months lol

    They truly deserve all the clowning they’re going to get for this

      • @caffinz@lemmy.ml
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        12 years ago

        Ya know, I used to be a pixel fanboy. I’ve had every mainstream pixel from 1 to 7. After a botched RMA for a dead display, the fingerprint reader is now disabled. I’ve been ghosted by support about the new display so now I’ve switched over to Samsung.

        I’m a former Apple employee and have had enough of their shit. Everyone at the office was drowning in the kool-aid. I’m done with iOS 🤣

  • Lion Dynamic
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    62 years ago

    Ad Watching Simulator 2030™ will be the top one with a 69.99 a week battle pass.

    • Jamie
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      72 years ago

      Someone could probably make money by just making a platform where you show people ads, and there’s a leaderboard ranking for how many ads you watch.

      • codus
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        62 years ago

        That sounds like a good description of half the mobile games.

        • Jamie
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          52 years ago

          Yeah, but there’s at least a facade of game in there somewhere. Like how the 2K NBA games are slot machines with inconvenient basketball minigames attached.

  • Veedems
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    42 years ago

    Google shuts down streaming gaming service

    CEO: We need a new idea guys. What do you have?

    Employee who forgot there was a meeting today: uh how about a streaming gaming service?

    Ceo: my god why haven’t we done that before? Get on it.

    Same employee: wait…what?

    Ceo: what?

    Employee: ….

  • @Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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    42 years ago

    why? They already know they will be killing the project, why bother?

    Nobody is going to “oh let me open youtube to play some crappy idle clicker clone”

    • Why? So whoever launched the project can get a raise and/or bonus. I doubt the people launching this actually thinks it’s a long term direction for YouTube, it’s just a thing that they got approved that they can launch.

  • @Addfwyn@lemmy.ml
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    42 years ago

    Google, that company famous for creating new technologies and supporting them for long periods of time. Definitely something I am interested in becoming an early adopter for.

  • Yeah, okay Google. I’m still not over the death of Stadia (even though I expected it), it was really cool as a concept / idea but also not one that was ever likely to work for a company that wasn’t the scale of Google (or one of the big tech companies) sadly.

    And of course, since it was a Google product, it got axed.

  • @ratman150@sh.itjust.works
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    22 years ago

    People forget that YouTube already had gaming in the form of a snake game you could play while your video buffered. As with all Google gaming products that too was killed.