YouTube is reportedly testing online games for mobile and desktop

https://www.engadget.com/youtube-is-reportedly-testing-online-games-for-mobile-and-desktop-130105426.html

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Mcballs1234@lemmy.ml · 20 pts · 3y (1 reply)
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fishcharlie@eventfrontier.com · 9 pts · 3y

Ads too 😉

caffinz@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 3y (2 replies)

After the stadia debacle, I doubt anybody trusts Google with gaming. It's only been six months lol

They truly deserve all the clowning they're going to get for this

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I don't trust Google with anything. It has worked out so far.

caffinz@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y

Ya know, I used to be a pixel fanboy. I've had every mainstream pixel from 1 to 7. After a botched RMA for a dead display, the fingerprint reader is now disabled. I've been ghosted by support about the new display so now I've switched over to Samsung.

I'm a former Apple employee and have had enough of their shit. Everyone at the office was drowning in the kool-aid. I'm done with iOS 🤣

Thy_Moose@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 3y (4 replies)

Honestly? Google has been killing every project it started, so even if this happens, I guess it won’t last long anyway

ulu_mulu@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y (1 reply)

This. Stadia was one of the last example, they'll kill this new service too after a few years, it's not worth to even consider using.

HughJanus@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
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1984@beehaw.org · 5 pts · 3y

Yep. They'll just collect as much new data as possible and then shut it down.

gabuwu@beehaw.org · 5 pts · 3y

I give it a few months after it launches.

liondynamic@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y (3 replies)

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Jamie@jamie.moe · 10 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Someone could probably make money by just making a platform where you show people ads, and there's a leaderboard ranking for how many ads you watch.

codus@leby.dev · 7 pts · 3y (1 reply)

That sounds like a good description of half the mobile games.

Jamie@jamie.moe · 8 pts · 3y

Yeah, but there's at least a facade of game in there somewhere. Like how the 2K NBA games are slot machines with inconvenient basketball minigames attached.

Veedems@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 3y

Google shuts down streaming gaming service

CEO: We need a new idea guys. What do you have?

Employee who forgot there was a meeting today: uh how about a streaming gaming service?

Ceo: my god why haven’t we done that before? Get on it.

Same employee: wait…what?

Ceo: what?

Employee: ….

Moonrise2473@feddit.it · 6 pts · 3y (1 reply)

why? They already know they will be killing the project, why bother?

Nobody is going to "oh let me open youtube to play some crappy idle clicker clone"

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 3y

Why? So whoever launched the project can get a raise and/or bonus. I doubt the people launching this actually thinks it's a long term direction for YouTube, it's just a thing that they got approved that they can launch.

yippy@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 3y

Will this be stadia 2.0 or a new game studio?

Addfwyn@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 3y

Google, that company famous for creating new technologies and supporting them for long periods of time. Definitely something I am interested in becoming an early adopter for.

russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net · 4 pts · 3y

Yeah, okay Google. I'm still not over the death of Stadia (even though I expected it), it was really cool as a concept / idea but also not one that was ever likely to work for a company that wasn't the scale of Google (or one of the big tech companies) sadly.

And of course, since it was a Google product, it got axed.

ratman150@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y

People forget that YouTube already had gaming in the form of a snake game you could play while your video buffered. As with all Google gaming products that too was killed.

WheelcharArtist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

Time to go peertube