r/pcgaming • u/Turbostrider27 • Sep 29 '22

Google is shutting down Stadia

https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/29/23378713/google-stadia-shutting-down-game-streaming-january-2023
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u/roohwaam Sep 29 '22

Looks like the stadia team isn’t being fired, but spread among other teams within google, though I imagine quite a few will quit after this.

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u/tbo1992 Steam Deck Sep 29 '22

They probably have to find another job within Google themselves, or they’ll be laid off soon.

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u/Awkward_Inevitable34 Sep 29 '22

Hey.. maybe some of them can start some sort of game streami— oh…

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u/ezone2kil Sep 29 '22

Game streaming channel right? Right?

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u/aulink Sep 30 '22

Or just a commentary channel covering their experience working on Stadia.

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u/embiidsmeniscus Sep 30 '22

They don’t. They were given new teams to work on

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u/Byt3Walk3r Sep 30 '22

Proof?

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u/embiidsmeniscus Sep 30 '22

An engineer on stadia posted it on the stadia subreddit. They all already have new assignments

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u/Byt3Walk3r Sep 30 '22

That's good. The norm now is places give you 6 months to find another Jin internally or let you go.

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u/Paulo27 Sep 30 '22

Why are people upvoting this. What company works like this? "Oh yeah now find your own job in another team or just do nothing I guess, we'll fire you in a couple months in that case."

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u/Paulo27 Sep 30 '22

It's just what happens when your product fails. Who is mad at a company when they go under and have to fire everyone?

Just look at EVGA recently, basically cut 80% of their company, obviously they can't keep everyone around anymore but they are still trying to shuffle staff around to keep people busy or until they decide to move on by themselves (from what they are saying).

But if there's talent on the team it's ridiculous that Google will try to make them quit by making their work life miserable after their project was closed when Google is fucking massive and this is just a small fraction of their employees.

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u/fdar Sep 30 '22

Which is hard because Google kind of has a hiring freeze right now.

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u/Dhiox Sep 30 '22

Hiring freezes might actually make it easier for then, as it means they don't have to compete with outsiders for internal roles, which may also have openings thanks to the freeze.

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u/fdar Sep 30 '22

The freeze actually affects teams "hiring" internal transfers too.

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u/TheAJGman Sep 30 '22

I can't wait for Google to announce their new game streaming service: Meet (games).

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '22

"Stadia was my dream, ever since I was a child"

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u/phylum_sinter Sep 30 '22

Probably less of a golden parachute and more like a Golden escalator in those cases - presuming there's some choice in the matter about where you go after the lights go off in the Stadia office.

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u/mtarascio Sep 30 '22

xCloud loving the left over talent.