Google gave the stadia team 1 hour notice that an announcement would be made - they didn't know they were getting shut down until everyone else. No developer or partners got any prior info. The store is already closed and devs for upcoming games have still not heard anything. On top of that they are refunding everything...
So what the frick happened? This isn't normal, not even for google. Something is going on here
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Stadia consoles stole personal information...it was never supposed to work...It was just another excuse to monitor your data.
First of all,
>Best,
Only lazy buttholes sign their letters this way. Second, I don't know, maybe they just managed to string their bosses along for its success and finally got caught.
In the context of the thread is a moron. Of COURSE Google stole your personal information, the company is built from the ground-up to do that on as wide of a scale as possible. They wouldn't shut down Stadia as a smokescreen to stop the thing everyone knows they already do en masse.
How do you sign your letters?
It doesn't fricking matter. I wish they would stop the "Kind regards blablahblah" bullshit. I don't give a frick about some rando I'm typing a bullshit email to. People should just switch to - Your Name and be done with it.
>seething over common letter etiquette
lmao
I think you mean
>lmao
>kind regards
>Anon Y. Mous
we're not sending emails here you moron
>t. anonymous
so you're a lazy butthole
Love, Anon.
t. "Warm Regards" b***hboy
I use “Regards,” What does that say about me?
Google has 101 ways to grab your data already, why would they bother?
A company of overgrown children who don't know how to do product management, consistently repeated in the amount of shit they sunset. It could just be some autist in management didn't know how to communicate it properly, but I agree, it is a little extreme and suggests a deeper problem
Giving zero advance notice to employees is standard practice in the business world, if you notify people ahead of time you risk:
a) news leaking out before your official announcement
b) people quitting ahead of when you expected to not need them anymore
As for refunding everything, Google already has a terrible track record with new products which was an ever-present concern with Stadia, people didn't want to invest into a product that had a very high chance of getting killed off. Google doesn't want that to hang over future products so a full refund sells the idea that even if Google kills a product you'll get your money back so you shouldn't shy away from future new Google stuff. Also it probably didn't sell too well so they could afford to refund everyone without significantly hurting their bottom line.
Also when you are publicly traded, by telling shit your employees first, you risk lawsuit from shareholders for manipulating the stock market.
Are you saying tort law requires companies to treat their employees like shit?
They don't need a law to do that.
I know, but if the law actually requires it...
I got a fun read for ya:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
>state law limits this is every state except Delaware
>half of all corporations are in Delaware as a result
Thanks Biden
This. Standard corporate amorality. What's funny is people think this is unusual.
If you haven't noticed the fricking economy is on fire thanks to the Ukraine shitstorm and Covid money printing causing inflation.
The hatchetmen have to come out and chopping shit down. HBO Max got gutted including pretty much all their fiscal flopping cartoons. This week Stadia got axed. I anticipate Netflix is going to pretty much cancel every unpopular show they make.
If it costs a major corporation a ton of money it's gonna be killed and used a tax write off. I'm betting you're gonna here soon about how Microsoft cancelled a bunch of video games.
>the fricking economy is on fire thanks to corrupt politicians and bankers who fricked everything up and it's all coming to a head after 60 years of insane and irresponsible global finance practices
fixed
Cool it with the antisemitic remarks.
Thatcher and Reagan were not israelites.
They love blaming the israelites because it distracts people from blaming neocons, neolibs, and the filthy rich.
>It distracts people from blaming even more nebulous and ill-defined abstractions
Leftists are worse than evangelicals
>They love blaming the israelites because it distracts people from blaming neocons
Lmao who wants to tell him
>t. useful idiot
>neocons, neolibs, and the filthy rich.
hey genius, what do the most powerful among these groups consistently have in common?
uh, they are the most powerful among a group of people?
Huge amounts of cash? A lineage from powerful political dynasties? Coming from old money?
This shit goes far further back than those two, but I didn't expect you to know anything about this topic.
Feel free to educate us.
>us
Nobody else posted an epic image macro and strawman argument.
You responded to two posts from two people
Like, every fricking investment broker and banker was saying it was fricking coming for years. If anything covid probably slowed it down because it pumped billions in government gibs to low income units who used that money to pay off debt or hoarded it so they wouldn't have to work after it ended, which is why you have so many boomers crying now about the job market.
I hope democrats stay in power for another 8 years so we get to see this shitshow longer. Frick America, you get what you fricking deserve
If the US goes down you will all go down first
Keep wishing for it though moron
every other country is falling apart faster
We could be living through a fricking Golden Age of humanity and Stadia would have still flopped because it was a bad idea done badly.
It's amazing how the economy is on fire only because external factors. Thank god corporations and banks are trying their best to help the population.
Everything Microsoft has announced right now is probably only about 6 months out they won't cancel shit.
If you were working out the Stadia team and you thought you had job security you're the biggest fricking idiot in the world. This was so obviously going to happen the only suprise is they lasted as long as they did. It would have made more sense just to shut down when they confirmed they killed all their dev studios working on exclusive content for the platform.
If you were still on the team after that, I'm sure you had to know that each day you showed up to work had a real chance of being the last.
>Something is going on here
google figured out streaming games is an expensive venture just like streaming video but unlike youtube they'll never be able to monopolize the market because they have to compete with 4 physical game platforms some of which provide streaming services and even the physical games for a cheaper price than they could ever provide. Charging 60 bucks per fricking video feed rental didn't work for OnLive and it was never going to work here. They also had to fight and fund studios to make linux builds that utilized vulcan which if the state of native linux builds of PC games is to go by means they were never going to secure shit. They just like previous failed videogame streaming services also realized that the american internet infrastructure still fricking sucks for 80% of its population. Google is an extremely mismanaged company and if they have to compete they always fail. It was likely hemorrhaging money worse than youtube. Nice of them to full refund everyone though.
you'd think that after it failed two million times before, google would realize it would fail again, especially considering american internet infrastructure has hardly improved for any place that's not on the coast
I genuinely don't think most americans realize how terrible their internet is
a dude chilling in minnesota or delaware is completely unaware that he has third world internet speeds
mind blowing
there are some thirdies with better internet than parts of America
>Something is going on here
Yes, copium
Google is a mismanaged hellhole that only persists because of infinite money from their ad services. They just throw shit at the wall, and even if it sticks, they lose interest quickly. Stadia is just yet another death by Google service that died from internal whims. I mean it sure wasn't a success, but instead of restructuring the project and trying different payment or distribution methods, they just axe the entire thing in the span of an hour. And that's just what Google does constantly
Thing is, Google has a different idea of sticking to the wall than the rest of us do. Google only wants to deal in really big business, so everything that is not a super mega success is a failure. Lots of products that other companies would have considered successes and something to base their entire business around have been killed by Google. Good, bad, I don't know, but it helps understand why Google does things the way it does.
>They just throw shit at the wall, and even if it sticks, they lose interest quickly.
heheh it's just like my life...
that's really how I'd run a company if I had infinite money. Well I dunno actually, why don't they just hire someone to take care of it if no one at the top isn't interested anymore?
turns out streaming video games isn't the same as streaming movies
It's Stadia, who cares?
you know what's funny about all this
a giant like google couldn't get video game streaming to work...
...but you know someone else will still try
Amazon is next
Well whoever tries it should probably think about the business model first. If it was a cheap subscription that included games people want to play, it might actually have taken off despite the downsides of streaming.
Analysts predict that cloud gaming is the future. After all, if services like Spotify and Netflix are massively successful (even if they're not necessarily profitable), why can't you stream video games like you can stream music and movies/shows? All it takes is just one company to do it right and be the first one to make it work, and then they'll be one of the giants!
That's how we ended up with so many video game cloud services by various major companies that nobody uses.
These are your analysts bro.
until American ISPs stop being israelites (fricking lol) then streaming games will never take off
the infrastructure isn't there yet. It will be and than it'll become such a powerhouse that suddenly the a console generation you'll be getting a glorified DRM display monitor with a controller with all the hardware and games being cloud sourced.
>people actually expected a Google product to not be cancelled
lol
1 hour notice for a meeting at 8:30 in the morning? if you're working from home won't you hella miss that and then some
maybe that's the idea
As much as EU bootlickers will try to claim credit for the refunds it's more likely they are releasing some other thing soon that will involve buying things and they don't want stadias failure putting people off.
I called this shit yesterday. They just rolled out a UI updated, had games being developed, and were active on social media just before this. Google just fukken lopped their heads off in one swift motion.
Years of fricking developing bleeding edge tech. Tech that was clearly way ahead of other streaming service tech.
Gone in hours.
Frick.
>standard etiquette to give 2 weeks notice
>yet you can just get laid off without notice
You get severance and can apply for unemployment. Stop acting like you're being thrown into a dumpster while having your money stolen from you.
>Buuuuhuuuuu
As if anyone working at fricking stadia did a goddamn thing to earn a check. This shit is the dream cush job. Pump out some meaningless update every 6 months that does nothing and pretend you're hard at work, I'm glad they got shit canned with almost no notice
Who cares? Stadia was a stupid idea and it sucked in execution as well. Good riddance.
Not really.
Was it all just a money laundering scheme and they are now trying to cover their trail? Sounds like something these people would do.