Ubisoft Will Help Jilted Stadia Users Transfer Their Purchases To PC (engadget.com) 8
Stadia, Google's ill-fated attempt at a cloud gaming service, will shut down in January. Players will be refunded for all their hardware and software purchases, except for Stadia Pro subscriptions. As it turns out, some folks will be able to keep playing certain games elsewhere. Ubisoft will help people who bought its titles on Stadia to transfer their purchases to PC. From a report: "While Stadia will shut down on January 18th, 2023, we're happy to share that we're currently working to bring the games you own on Stadia to PC through Ubisoft Connect," Ubisoft senior corporate communications manager Jessica Roache told The Verge. "We'll have more to share regarding specific details as well as the impact for Ubisoft+ subscribers at a later date." Google has already shut down the Stadia store, so if you were thinking of buying an Ubisoft game, getting a refund, then gaining access to the PC version for free, you're out of luck. Ubisoft hasn't revealed when it will offer Stadia players access to their games on Ubisoft Connect. It also hasn't confirmed whether Stadians will be able to transfer their save data over to PC. That said, the Ubisoft+ subscription service includes a cloud save feature, so hopefully the company can figure out a way to maintain players' progress if they switch to a PC version.
Good news (Score:1)
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Will they buy you a PC also? (Score:2)
It sure seems like if you used Stadia, you don't have a PC that could handle the games you were playing on it. That was the whole point!
Re:Will they buy you a PC also? (Score:5, Informative)
I think once they have them in their Ubisoft library they can play them via Geforce Now at least they have an option.
Overall a good move by Ubisoft, other publishers I hope follow suit since they can basically get some customer goodwill off Google's failure here.
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Because you're not always by that decent PC- you may travel and have a low end laptop. Or run it on a mobile/tablet.
Google kills service?? Shocking!! (Score:1)
At this point no matter what the service is you'd have to be crazy to be an early signup to any new google service.
Obviously, if everyone waited until everyone else signed up to assure the service would stay up then it would never achieve the numbers required to get off the ground in the first place.
Google has created this chicken n egg problem for themselves.