I'm a little sad to see Stadia go, though I was pretty sure it was always going to end like this. I think cloud gaming could have a future, especially with games designed for the cloud, but Stadia repeatedly overpromised and underdelivered (remember "negative latency"? remember the promise of jumping in to the same game as a streamer directly from a stream).

A lot of people didn't know you could sign up for Stadia for free without providing a credit card by going directly to the Destiny 2 page and creating an account, and I actually did put in some time in an alt I created for Stadia and through cross-saving my main account. At first, there wasn't crossplay, so Stadia was a deadzone, and despite assurances to the contrary, there was definitely a level of latency and jank if you weren't on a wired connection. But with crossplay to fix the population issues, I quite enjoyed the various devices and setups I was able to play from, even if it wasn't optimal.

Someday I can see a Stadia-like game for things like Civilization, where you could keep a game running in the cloud and jump back into it from anywhere and any device, but Stadia wasn't it. RIP, a sad but inevitable addition to the Google Graveyard.