Stadia does have the worst business model out of all streaming services.

Streaming is good enough... if you live in certain countries. I work and live in US so I was able to play games on Stadia, but I’ve spent the past 2.5 months living in South East Asia, which means I have no access to play. I can probably try to hack some way into it, but latency will be a problem. This is why I…

This. If Stadia had been canny enough to try “Netflix but games”, IE a monthly fee for access to a library of games, it probably would have survived and been the market winner Google demands from its ventures. It didn’t, you pay full price for each game individually on an unproven service by a company with a track…

I think the big part you miss about the not owning is the still paying. I don’t own anything on Game Pass but it cost me less than two triple A games to get a 3 year sub. On Stadia I still had to buy full price games ala carte but also did not own them. But compare it to Steam, EGS, or Xbox & PS digital stores you…

You would think. But those of us who called it out years ago before the thing even bothered releasing were repeatedly attacked for “doomsaying” or not “getting it” by its super ardent supporters (who are mysteriously absent these days *thinking emoji*).

So many businesses struggle to see things from the customer’s viewpoint. Stadia should never have been marketed to the sort of gamer who already owns a library of console and/or PC titles, because there’s no real value for that consumer. It should have been marketed from the beginning to the casual gamer who is…

Look, I don’t care what specifically a person might think is the big issue with Game-Streaming even is, but if it didn’t take off in in the Covid years, with a massive chip shortage going on, with consumers stuck at home, with most consumers already familiar with TV streaming, with Google, Microsoft, and Amazon…

Their pricing and google’s tendency to axe things that aren’t making the moola is the main reason I’ve not “bought” any games on my new Stadia. I got the neat little $22 deal for the chromecast and controller, figuring that if Stadia tanks, I’ll at least still have a pretty decent controller for the PC (confirmed -…

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This.

Not only is his code open-source — all of the puzzles are hard-coded into the site. You can save the entire site to your hard drive and play indefinitely.

Frankly, the fact that the NYT paid him at all for his open-source Password/Scrabble hybrid is amazing. They would absolutely be in their rights to simply copy the format and use it on their site. What they paid for was the name recognition (everyone calls the game Wordle now), and is a shockingly decent thing to do.…

Now that sounds like an app with an excellent gameplay loop.

Looks like it was launched in October? This might set a new record going from low-effort indie game to sleeper hit to million-dollar buy-out.

Can’t blame the guy but ugh. I liked that it was its own thing. Doesn’t really change much, just gonna be annoying seeing the webpage crowded with NYT shit.

It’s absolutely an insane number (especially if you look at how much less it would have cost to pay the Wirecutter Union what they’re asking), but they needed the name. There are already a hundred clones out there and yet Wordle is the only one anyone shares on social media. By buying Wordle, they’re buying that in a…

Honestly, more power to him. If I made a quick but fun gem like this that happened to hit the zeitgeist just right and a reputable publisher knocked on my door with a $1m+ check, I’d sell too. I mean, the thing has got to be getting a shitload of traffic, and web app hosting isn’t free. Eventually something was going…

Disappointing, really. I remember when NYT bought out The Wirecutter a few years ago, then tapered down the home side of it, spent literal months peddling crap credit cards, and then ate the website entirely. People asked if it would remain free, and they said yes. Now it’s shoved behind a paywall like everything else…

Wordle is charming and fun and a reminder of times past and I don’t hate this because it is incredibly shrewd to take the money before this burns out (which... arguably... it kind of already has?). Like the core charm is its quaint free-ness, the second there is even an iota of additional friction (which they will…

I think this sucks and I absolutely would have done the same thing. NYT wants to buy me a house for work I’ve already done? Sure thing.