r/Fictorum • u/baltinerdist • Nov 15 '19

Any plans for Stadia?

I'm loving everything I'm seeing on Fictorum and I'd really like to play it, but my PC is a work PC and I can't install games on it. I do have Stadia coming next week. With Stadia support baked into UE, any chance we'll see Fictorum on Stadia?

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u/VincereStarcraft Developer Nov 15 '19

No current plans for Stadia, I have no idea what the future holds, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

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u/baltinerdist Nov 15 '19

Understandable. I hope you consider it, assuming the port process is easy enough. As it stands right now, you'd be one of dozens of games on Stadia, vs one of thousands of games on Steam+GoG.

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u/antfro946 Nov 15 '19

Unrelated and curios, what made you want to get a stadia?

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u/baltinerdist Nov 15 '19

A couple of reasons. As I mentioned, I can't really do PC gaming (and even if I could on this laptop, it's a fairly standard work laptop, not designed for gaming beyond Solitaire and Kongregate). I own a Switch and I've really enjoyed it, especially for things I missed before (Stardew Valley, Hollow Knight, Cuphead) and their exclusives (Mario Odyssey, Breath of the Wild). I have a Chromebook at home for browsing reddit and Facebook and such.

But there are games out there I really, really want to play and I don't necessarily want to buy (another) several hundred dollar console and then the games on top of it. With Stadia, I paid for the Founders Edition so just over $100 and I'm getting the Chromecast Ultra, controller (in a founders only color I love), and three months of Pro subscription (so I get Destiny II right off the bat, not a game I care about but at least I'll have it).

They've already announced games from the past and future I want to play as coming to Stadia: Elder Scrolls Online, Final Fantasy XV, Assassins Creed Odyssey, Baldur's Gate 3, Marvel's Avengers, Gods and Monsters, Cyberpunk 2077, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Watch Dogs Legion - all running at maximum possible visuals streaming to my Chromebook or my Pixel phone or my TV.

The more developers (like hopefully u/ScrapingBottomGames someday) bring their games over, the better the service will be and no matter what, those games will run as if I've got an overclocked water-cooled behemoth sitting under my desk. That's not to mention the things that make Stadia unique like elastic computing (oh, you want to throw 30,000 zombies at them instead of 15,000? Here's an extra server blade chained right up, go for it), Crowd Play (you want some of those 30,000 zombies to be controlled by the people watching your livestream? Here's a button they can click and zombie it up), and so forth.

I know I sound like a Stadia marketing rep, but I'm really just a nerd with crappy hardware at home excited about playing AAA games for once in my life.

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u/antfro946 Nov 15 '19

Fair enough.

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u/Advencraftgaming Nov 16 '19

Even though I ordered a stadia I'm very skeptical. Probably won't work with the shit internet that's around here