No Game Pass-Like Service
If you are part of the group of people that decided to opt-in early for the Google Stadia Founder’s Edition, then you have a couple of free months of Stadia Pro which offers discounts on select game purchases but the prices for some of these titles are high, especially for a game that you’re streaming.
Titles such as Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and Red Dead Redemption 2 are priced at $60, and these titles can be found much cheaper, physically, on modern consoles and on PC.
There are also “special” editions of AC Odyssey and Mortal Kombat 11 for $120 and $90, respectively.
These prices aren’t that competitive and what would have made Stadia’s drawbacks a far easier pill to swallow would have been if it had some sort of system similar to Xbox Game Pass or PS Now that allows people to pay a subscription fee to have access to the entire catalog of titles.
