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CTOnews.com September 30 news, Google suddenly announced today that it will close its cloud gaming service Stadia, although this surprised many people, but also reasonable, although there are some good games on Stadia, but not cost-effective, there are also video compression, input delay and other network problems, in the platform to buy games need to pay full, to play 4K resolution games also need to pay an additional subscription fee, And Google's own Stadia game development studio was hastily shut down after only a year.

It's typical Google behavior, too, and there's even a website dedicated to commemorating Google's axed products. That decisiveness may be one reason google is worth more than $1 trillion today, but it's not good for some consumers and game developers. While you will receive a refund, Stadia users will lose access to their games and will lose the corresponding game progress archive. Meanwhile, developers who create Stadia versions of their games are wasting their time, and PC Gamer reports that many Stadia developers on Twitter are saying they just learned that Stadia is closing.

Here's how the gaming industry reacted to the news:

Joe Blackburn, game director for Destiny 2, said: "Stadia's developers have created a development platform that has allowed us to continue creating and evaluating Destiny 2 from home over the past few years. I'm sure today was a tough day for a lot of people, and thank you for helping us with the game. "

Aadit Doshi, senior game app for Batman: Arkham developer Rocksteady, said: "To be fair, Google Stadia has had a terrible dilemma over the past three years and has had to deal with it: -The global epidemic has forced people to turn to online entertainment. - A shortage of graphics cards and game consoles has led to high demand for alternatives. If only they could get into the market at a better time. "

Necrosoft Studio Brandon Sheffield said that although many people took this as a joke, Google Stadia's developer revenue share is "the best of all cloud gaming services." The news that their game Hyper Gunsport will be launched on the platform in November and will recoup their development costs is a heavy blow to them.

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said he believes Stadia has made a very solid and positive effort and supported a lot of developers. He thinks it's a pity the service is closed.

Tom Vian, co-founder of SFB Games, UK developer Tangle Tower, said Tangle Tower was due to hit Stadia in two days, and The Verge reports that it was closing were the first he had heard of it. Rebecca Heinmean of Ice City Studios also commented that they also have a game coming out on November 1st, and they have just learned of the news.

Rami Ismail, a game developer and consultant, said: "Part of me feels sorry for Google's amazing move on Stadia. When Google first approached me about this project, long before it was launched, they had a lot of cool ideas. But conservative tactics, a lack of trust in developers, and an absolute underinvestment-Google killed it. "

Mike Rose, director of Studio No More Robots, which recently launched Build Zoo, also expressed his shock, saying: "Oh my God…we're launching a game on Stadia in November. Who wants to guess if Google will refuse to pay us the money they owe us for this? "

PC Gamer has contacted Google to comment on what this news means for studios that have signed up with Google for Stadia games (like Mike Rose) or are independently developing Stadia versions, and whether Google will compensate them.

CTOnews.com understands that for Stadia users, the service will continue to run until January 18, 2023. On the question of saving game progress, Google said it might save progress in "some games that support cross-platform gameplay on other platforms," such as Destiny 2. However,"for most games," Google said keeping game archives "would be impossible."

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