[Ended] - [Stadia] Borderlands 3 Ultimate Edition [$11 / ($0.99 - with Pro trial discount)]

Yes. I tried to make that obvious with the headline formatting and also in the text provided

Yes indeed. This is a good point although it seemed obvious to me personally.

The coupon can be used for any game in their not so extensive list as far as I can tell.

Stadia Games

It is possible to play with keyboard+mouse AND also supported controllers. So no problem there.

I've only ever tried the Fenyx Rising demo on Stadia and that for a very brief period of time but I don't think I'm going to have much trouble in regard to input lag, to be honest. This is probably most likely due to the fact that I'm thankfully not very sensitive when it comes to issues like these.

The major concern for me personally is the lack of mod support but I'm willing to treat it as an extended trial of sorts.

stadia?

Yes. I really do wonder about the point of this apparent confusion. As I stated in the first reply of this thread I tried to make it as obvious as possible. Is it possible to make it any more clear in your opinion?

I doubt the current model will gain much traction or at least I hope it won't. That would be horrible. GFN would have been a great supplement to "normal" gaming.

As you're an experienced user compared to me you wouldn't happen to know if and how we can change the interface language?

You only need the subscription to play in 4k resolution or with HDR enabled. Without the Pro subscription active you're limited to 1080p streams.

That's odd. I question this tactic but I guess it's a calculated move to get people to sign up. I see this on streaming sites as well. No way to list the contents without an actual account.

I found a recent article on Android Authority who has a game list though

Stadia Games

Edit: I managed to sort my list on price eventually so I can list the ones that are likely to be below or at the $10 mark. Mind that this is converted from my local currency though.

• Doom 64
• One Hand Clapping - EarlyAccess
• The Elder Scrolls Online: Standard Edition
• SUPER BOMBERMAN R ONLINE Premium Edition
• UNO®
• République
• SteamWorld Dig
• Hotline Miami

crucible in destiny 2 with lag is cancer, like any competitive fps

The links I used:
https://stadia.google.com/games/destiny-2
https://stadia.google.com/games/super-bomberman-r-online

For free (1080p) Destiny 2 is super smooth for me, but also really blurry pixel soup compared to playing it 'properly'. There was a one-second lag spike every 20-30 minutes.

when pro trial ends you must pay for them tho

Tried Destiny 2 over here, didn't notice any lag (which was not the case with PSNow).
Being so, 1€ for Borderlands 3 isn't a bad deal at all (I've spent 1€ on way worse games, and I still get to try a couple of games from Stadia Pro for a month, like Risk of Rain 2).

EDIT: Also tried BL3 and Steamworld Dig on my cell phone... the on-screen controller works way better than xCloud's or Steam's. Both games were actually.... "playable" on a cell phone, which is, to me, quite an achievement.

I tried a lot of games (Stadia arrived monday on my country) with a 30Mb/s connection on cable and i never got any kind of lag not even input lag, i'll be honest i was awed how smooth the gameplay was, my pc only supports 1080p never tried 4K

Input lag has not been noticeable at all for me unless my connection itself is having an issue (router reboot, good again). I don't have an amazing connection -- 25 to 50 Mbps, depending on how crappy my ISP feels like being. Destiny 2 is free, try it out yourself if you're curious.

My PC is over a decade old now, and can't parse the codec quickly enough. Still plays DOOM okay, BioShock Infinite ran fine, but Arma 3 was definitely not happening. Stadia on that PC gets choppy -- my guess is that those with poor experiences have had a similar issue with either their hardware or their connection. My girlfriend's older MacBook plays completely smoothly. I usually play via the Google CCU thingy plugged into my monitor's second HDMI input (don't have a TV).

I played Dying Light on GFN during the beta days. Worked pretty well, but for me, Stadia's consistency was even better. I also have a ShadowPC to play anything at all that I have on Steam -- so I can finally play Arma 3 with that. Games don't suddenly become unavailable on Stadia or Shadow.

Stadia has been pretty convenient -- the major selling point of Steam for me. Purchase - Play. Instead of purchase, download/install, wait for my crappy pc to load, play. Especially with game updates -- there's no wait at all there. But this is more of a general streaming service benefit.

The only consoles I've owned past the pre-Nintendo years were an original Gameboy and a Wii. I am not already part of the Xbox/PlayStation ecosystem. I decided to try things out with Google because I know they have the infrastructure to support this kind of project.

Also, the Stadia controller is actually really nice, and it's neat to see what my co-op buddies are seeing in real-time when playing The Division 2, and I like being able to capture a quick screenshot or 30 second video with a button press on the controller.

Also also, I only planned originally to get Cyberpunk on Stadia since I knew my PC wouldn't run it. And that was the only game I'd meant to play on the service. But I still have the Pro sub just over a year later, and a nice collection of titles as a result. And I've purchased a dozen or so other titles since prices were (surprisingly) actually comparable to decent PC sale prices (not often, but on rare occasion). And the community had a lot of growth in the last two months due to some free hardware promotions Google did, so finding multiplayer games is a little easier, but I'll admit that that is one of Stadia's weaker points for games that don't have cross-play.

tl;dr: games don't disappear, reliable service; no input lag. ymmv.

I've been playing a bit of ESO. The input lag is noticeable, but I wouldn't say very. It's mostly fine until it isn't and you notice, and then it goes back to being fine. So more noticeable in being inconsistent, but mostly decent. Admittedly an MMO is used to dealing with lag so it might be more noticeable in other games.

The visuals are by far my biggest complaint. I have a 1440p display but it still seems like it streams at 1080p, you can not change any visual settings at all, and the game frequently downgrades the video quality into a smeary mess. Even when the video quality is at its best it's still noticeably compressed compared to playing on the computer, especially the text. I don't mind it for free, and it's surprisingly functional, but no way would I pay the going rate for games on Stadia instead of a platform with actual ownership and control, and paying for Pro is useless when its primary selling points are better video quality that the service can't do anyway and random "free" games that you'd be much better off paying for individually.

Edit: my connection is 150Mbps and the computer can run ESO at max settings natively, so as far as I'm concerned the issues are on stadia's end.

The sale ended rather quickly. I was actually pondering picking up PGA in case I ever got some gaming minded people together at some point but procrastination saved me some money yet again.

Can't say that I'm very impressed with the service though. Even as I'm not very sensitive to graphics or input lag it's easy for me to notice the inferior state in both regards. This coupled with the fact that I don't even have access to most normal settings in the game, let alone access to ini-editing, makes playing games on this service severely inferior to playing on even a middling computer.