Hello,
I was searching for a more direct form of contact like an e-mail address, but I could not find. I hope my suggestion is well received by the community.
At this point I believe many of you have already heard of Google Stadia and other similar cloud gaming services. They all have been growing and improving drastically over the past years. Now Stadia is expanding outside the US and is available here in Europe as well.
Stadia has a free and a "Pro" tier plan. The free plan works like Steam where you buy games individually on their platform and you're free to play as you wish. The Pro plan includes 4K streaming and access to a library of selected games that you can claim and become part of your library forever as part of the plan, among other things.
The beauty of using Stadia is how it adapts well to any situation you find yourself in. Sitting at your desk with a keyboard and mouse? No problem, kb&m controls you have, just like any other game. Wanna pickup your pad? Why not? Prefer to sit on the couch and play on the big screen? All you need is a Chromecast or a compatible smart TV (and a Stadia controller). Kids want to watch their favorite cartoon now? Well pause the game and move to your bedroom TV. At a friend's house without your laptop? All you need is your Google account and a browser!
I've been out of the most recent titles as I don't feel like I want to invest on a powerful stationary desktop computer when I have already a perfectly functional new and incredibly mobile laptop I use for work which kicks ass at anything it does but only lacks the graphics card to play recent games, but draws immense amounts of power and heats up when it does, throttles the FPS when running on battery (for only 20 minutes or so at best), but i can comfortably stream at max FPS best quality on Stadia.
Some of you will say Stadia is already dead and Google gave up on it, but that's not true. If you're seeing from outside and only sometimes see the tendentious news that's the impression you have, but when Google sold their gaming studio, that was the right move, they decided instead of creating their own in-house games (which let's face it probably they wouldn't be great) it would be better to use this money to invest on bringing in new publishers and improving the platform, and that is exactly what's been happening over the past few months. Stadia has been seeing active development and release of UI and performance improvements, new bigger games are coming such as Resident Evil 7 and the brand new Resident Evil Village are available and playing great in the platform.
I believe Stadia is so great that I am comfortably using it alongside my Switch for other games as my main gaming platform, and I can comfortably say it is the future of non-professionally-competitive gaming as the PCMR e-sports players will definitely notice the inhuman added ~10ms of input latency.
Having all that said, I believe Cities: Skylines and all other paradox Interactive games would find Stadia to be a great and comfortable new home, so I'd like to formally suggest Paradox Interactive to consider bringing them in to the new platform.
I was searching for a more direct form of contact like an e-mail address, but I could not find. I hope my suggestion is well received by the community.
At this point I believe many of you have already heard of Google Stadia and other similar cloud gaming services. They all have been growing and improving drastically over the past years. Now Stadia is expanding outside the US and is available here in Europe as well.
Stadia has a free and a "Pro" tier plan. The free plan works like Steam where you buy games individually on their platform and you're free to play as you wish. The Pro plan includes 4K streaming and access to a library of selected games that you can claim and become part of your library forever as part of the plan, among other things.
The beauty of using Stadia is how it adapts well to any situation you find yourself in. Sitting at your desk with a keyboard and mouse? No problem, kb&m controls you have, just like any other game. Wanna pickup your pad? Why not? Prefer to sit on the couch and play on the big screen? All you need is a Chromecast or a compatible smart TV (and a Stadia controller). Kids want to watch their favorite cartoon now? Well pause the game and move to your bedroom TV. At a friend's house without your laptop? All you need is your Google account and a browser!
I've been out of the most recent titles as I don't feel like I want to invest on a powerful stationary desktop computer when I have already a perfectly functional new and incredibly mobile laptop I use for work which kicks ass at anything it does but only lacks the graphics card to play recent games, but draws immense amounts of power and heats up when it does, throttles the FPS when running on battery (for only 20 minutes or so at best), but i can comfortably stream at max FPS best quality on Stadia.
Some of you will say Stadia is already dead and Google gave up on it, but that's not true. If you're seeing from outside and only sometimes see the tendentious news that's the impression you have, but when Google sold their gaming studio, that was the right move, they decided instead of creating their own in-house games (which let's face it probably they wouldn't be great) it would be better to use this money to invest on bringing in new publishers and improving the platform, and that is exactly what's been happening over the past few months. Stadia has been seeing active development and release of UI and performance improvements, new bigger games are coming such as Resident Evil 7 and the brand new Resident Evil Village are available and playing great in the platform.
I believe Stadia is so great that I am comfortably using it alongside my Switch for other games as my main gaming platform, and I can comfortably say it is the future of non-professionally-competitive gaming as the PCMR e-sports players will definitely notice the inhuman added ~10ms of input latency.
Having all that said, I believe Cities: Skylines and all other paradox Interactive games would find Stadia to be a great and comfortable new home, so I'd like to formally suggest Paradox Interactive to consider bringing them in to the new platform.
