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Google kills two-year “Pixel Pass” subscription after just 22 months (arstechnica.com)
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Google kills two-year “Pixel Pass” subscription after just 22 months::Two years on a Pixel Pass was supposed to get you a new phone.

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[–] 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I wouldn't be surprised.

Look at stadia, I knew it would be a rocky road for them to market it, but by also buying game studios with the intentions to make and release games, I was under the impression that they would keep going with it. They pumped so much money in to it.

Oh boy, how wrong I was.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    It wasn't that though, it was just miscommunicated, the subscription was a ps+ type thing, while you could buy games and play them for no additional costs at 1080p. Having Phil Harrison lead the whole thing didn't help either (he rejected Hideo Kojima's offer to make an exclusive game for stadia ffs)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I will never move to GCP because of this. The reputation damage with Reader, Stadia, Hangouts, etc has made me not want to invest moving my companies services to their cloud. I doubt they are factoring this in when they shutter a service, but it is costing them millions. Google has shown it can't commit to supporting their products and services, so why bother spending time integrating with them and get locked in, just for it to be depreciated or discontinued immediately.

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