Technology @lemmy.ml Charlie Fish @eventfrontier.com 1y ago

YouTube is reportedly testing online games for mobile and desktop

www.engadget.com YouTube is reportedly testing online games for mobile and desktop | Engadget

Google is looking at online games as a new possible source of income for YouTube, according to a new report by the Wall Street Journal.

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Micro transactions galore
- Ads too 😉
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
- I don't trust Google with anything. It has worked out so far.
  
  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 🤣
Honestly? Google has been killing every project it started, so even if this happens, I guess it won’t last long anyway
- 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.
- I give it a few months after it launches.
- Yep. They'll just collect as much new data as possible and then shut it down.
Ad Watching Simulator 2030™ will be the top one with a 69.99 a week battle pass.
- 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.
  
  That sounds like a good description of half the mobile games.
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: ….
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"
- 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.
Will this be stadia 2.0 or a new game studio?
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.
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.
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.
Time to go peertube

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