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One of the main issues with Stadia is that they didn't even do the basics. I saw basically no marketing, and on top of that, I heard all kinds of rumors about the business model that were entirely false. They made no effort to combat the misinformation. It was never the case that you literally had to purchase the game on top of the subscription fees, but that was like the number one issue brought up in every discussion.
It depends on the game. There were a bunch of games under "Stadia Play" that came along with the subscription, GamePass style. And then there were games you had to outright purchase.
It's been how long now? TIL that was false. 🤷
From everything I can see, you did have to buy games on Stadia. They would give you a free game a month, but if that wasn't the game you wanted to play, you had to buy it. The base version of Stadia was free, but the Pro version gave you a discount on games - it did not make them free.
This is the official support forum and there are many Q&A's about purchasing games:
https://community.stadia.com/t5/Payments-Billing/Can-t-buy-games-in-the-Store-OR-HDT-01/m-p/52482
So it wasn't bullshit? Well in the end the environment was confusing, as thus it died
The "wrong" part was that you could theoretically play games you owned without the subscription active.
But it was downgraded heavily enough that it wasn't really worth doing.
I couldn't figure out how to do anything with one without paying the subscription. The interface was horrible and clearly designed to force you into subscribing before you could even use the thing.
I know, right? Service has been down almost an entire year.
The "pay for sub then buy games on top of that" was 100% how I heard it worked and NEVER heard anything different from anywhere.
That's kinda nuts.
It was basically true.
There was a bad experience version you could use without a subscription to games you purchased outright, and they included "free" games with your subscription, but to get a reasonable experience you had to pay for both.
The subscription was only necessary if you wanted to play in 4K or wanted "free" monthly games. Everything else worked just fine without the sub, with no change to performance.
The subscription was absolutely required for performance not to be a complete dumpster fire.
The free tier wasn't mediocre. It was unplayable.
The main problem with stadia was Google. I knew it was doomed from the start and that's why I never bothered with it. I actually know a lot of people that didn't bother with it because it was from Google. It's basically a self fulfilling prophecy at this point that most of their shit ends up on the Google graveyard.
A lot of people actually don't trust Google anymore since they've already been screwed over many times by them.