Fun fact: Serious Sam is a great game series that’s a lot of fun.
Bonus fact: It’s never been a system seller and nobody is going to buy into Stadia to play it.
Croteam is shooting themselves in the foot by agreeing to this. I Just hope Google paid them a shit ton of money. 

Wow, real barn burner of an exclusivity deal there, Google.

I’m still ignorant, and I’m okay with that

The Uyghur camps would like to rear their head for a moment.

Give it time.

Only possible way for this to be any worse is if it launches as a timed Epic Games exclusive on PC.

There are for sure degrees though. Nintendo uses Chinese manufacturing like everyone else but they aren’t a literal arm of an oppressive government.

wild and somehow appropriate that a cybernoir horror game is now funded by (and partially owned by) Tencent, this century’s version of the British East India Company.

aka How to ensure lowest sales figures possible.

Google Rep CONFIRMED

Whoa, slow down, Google. Don’t want people to rush to Stadia’s servers all at once, now. 

No idea where you’re getting this from. Stadia has been handing out free premium memberships for a while because it probably ISN’T doing well. Who likes to eat 1TB of bandwidth in 24ish hours of game time?

[citation needed]

Like Stadia’s going to exist until 2021.

Whats even worse is having voice chat and your teammates ignoring what you tell them and losing anyway :v

Shitlords gonna shitlord. If you take away voice chat they’ll just tank the game when they feel like you’re “too shit” and you lose anyway. Played Rocket League at all? And I mean, you can get abused through text chat as well. You could say “oh well remove all chat” but even Apex doesn’t have a perfect non-verbal…

short version: if everybody on one team can communicate without fear of being harassed (and therefore without the need to mute voice comms or whatever), they’re probably going to be more coordinated than a team with one or more members who can’t just easily use chat. even beyond the harassment issue, if you’re looking…

I think the harassment is the thing they are talking about specifically. Being harassed can effect how people play games. I’m not sure how that’s hard to comprehend. Of course this mostly pertains to competitive gaming with randoms, not organised play.

I think it has some merit and some flaws too, but nothing wrong…

I just...don’t understand. I couldn’t even finish the article because I just don’t understand the central conceit.

When I first started playing Apex Legends, the ping system that made it so I didn’t have to use voice chat in order to communicate pertinent, relevant information felt downright revolutionary, because voice chat for the longest time has been the domain of every dipshit who thinks anonymity gives them the right to…