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		la_barba on May 16, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sony and Microsoft set rivalry aside for cloud gam... Can you explain how its not a lock-in? It seems to require a Google account and is limited to games that are blessed by google. AFAIK, I don't think I can download Stadia and run it on a home server and stream games to multiple PCs in my own home. If Google made it open source, then yes, I'm 100% with you...

shmerl on May 17, 2019 [–]

Lock-in as in requiring to use Stadia to get certain games. Store lock-in (exclusivity) isn't much better than technology lock-in.

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