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Google Stadia
Raised as a usability problem by 41 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2019–2023), in 31 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
- 1Input lag makes games feel unresponsiveUnreviewed
Every issue, all time, most people first
Input lag makes games feel unresponsiveUnreviewed
20192026- Intermittent input lag makes steering and aiming feel infuriating2023-06-27
- Input lag makes precise timed turns in the worm game hard to hit2023-01-15
- Input lag makes games feel frustrating and worse to play2022-10-03
Marketing pages only viewable after downloading ChromeUnreviewed
20192026- Stadia rejects every credit card, so the user cannot sign up or pay2022-09-22
- Confusing website wording makes users think they must pay for Stadia Pro2021-02-26
- Stadia's site now only lets users view marketing if they download Chrome2021-01-31
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 43 complaints
- Relative struggles to start Stadia and cannot figure out his phone2023-08-30
- Intermittent input lag makes steering and aiming feel infuriating2023-06-27
- Update tool fails on Chromebooks, Linux Chromium, and Android unless exact browser and OS setup2023-01-17
- Input lag makes precise timed turns in the worm game hard to hit2023-01-15
- Input lag makes games feel frustrating and worse to play2022-10-03
- Input lag makes many game types unplayable2022-10-02
- Input lag makes the streamed games nearly unplayable even with good internet2022-10-02
- Launch was a slow staged rollout, not the immediate availability users expected2022-09-29
- Input lag makes games feel sticky and sluggish to play2022-09-29
- Hidden content requires one exact dialogue sequence that cannot be undone without replaying much progress2022-09-29
- Signing up failed because an old free trial was already tied to the account2022-09-29
- Stadia rejects every credit card, so the user cannot sign up or pay2022-09-22
- Frequent lag spikes and frozen frames interrupt gameplay during streaming sessions2022-06-10
- Input lag makes aim feel off and causes motion sickness2022-06-10
- Game screen glitches and lags frequently, making play infuriating enough to quit2022-06-10
- Menus are unintuitive, and long loading times make the game hard to get into2022-02-06
- Unpredictable high input latency makes games frustrating to play2022-02-05
- Multiplayer games are unplayable due to constant rubberbanding and lag2022-01-24
- Input lag made the game streaming too laggy to play2021-07-16
- Game input feels laggy and delayed compared to other platforms2021-05-16
- Setup requires installing a separate app and granting many permissions2021-05-04
- Confusing website wording makes users think they must pay for Stadia Pro2021-02-26
- Games show tearing and input lag at critical moments, making them unplayable2021-02-03
- Input lag makes games unplayable with mouse and keyboard on a gaming rig2021-02-02
- The whole experience was very confusing for the user2021-02-02
- Free trial forces credit card entry and auto-renewal, making the free experience hard to access2021-02-02
- Game list has no search or pagination, so users can't find games2021-02-01
- Sales page scrolling behaves confusingly and is annoying to use2021-02-01
- Users must create a separate account and pay before playing, a terrible experience2021-02-01
- Input latency makes many shooters, racing and platformer games unplayable2021-01-31
- Stadia's site now only lets users view marketing if they download Chrome2021-01-31
- Clicking a game on the dashboard shows no response, so the user can't tell whether it is starting2020-12-26
- Stadia fails without Chrome hardware acceleration, and user can't figure out how to enable it2020-12-18
- Streaming latency makes precision, fast-reaction games feel bad to play2020-09-24
- Game streaming constantly lagged, worse than console input lag2020-06-17
- Couldn't find a way to sign up without making a purchase2020-04-08
- Couldn't figure out how to sign up from the home page2020-04-08
- Input latency makes many games feel clunky and handicaps players2020-01-29
- Streaming gameplay lags so much that it is unusable for many players2020-01-07
- Input lag or mispredicted inputs make games noticeably annoying to play2019-11-21
- Has to switch accounts every single time, since multiple Google accounts aren't handled2019-11-21
- Mouse wheel and arrow key scrolling is very slow on the site2019-11-19
- Huge input lag makes games feel unresponsive, and prediction makes characters ignore commands2019-03-20