Google Stadia Pro Free for the Next 2 Months - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 09 April 2020 / 2,321 Views
Google announced it has made Stadia Pro for free for the next two months in 14 countries. The rollout started yesterday and will take up to 48 hours.
Anyone who signs up for Stadia Pro will get the next two months free with access to nine games and anyone who is already a Stadia Pro subscriber won't be charged for the next two months. After the two month free period is up, subscribers will be charged $9.99 per month. However, you can opt out at any time.
Read the announcement blog post below:
We’re facing some of the most challenging times in recent memory. Keeping social distance is vital, but staying home for long periods can be difficult and feel isolating. Video games can be a valuable way to socialize with friends and family when you’re stuck at home, so we’re giving gamers in 14 countries free access to Stadia Pro for two months. This is starting today and rolling out over the next 48 hours.
Anyone who signs up will get two free months of Stadia Pro with instant access to nine games, including GRID, Destiny 2: The Collection, and Thumper. You can purchase even more games on the store, which will remain yours to play even if you cancel your Stadia Pro subscription. If you’re already a paid Stadia Pro subscriber, we won’t charge you for the next two months. After that, Stadia Pro is $9.99 a month, but you can opt out of your subscription at any time.
If you’re new, playing on Stadia is simple:
- Go to Stadia.com to sign up
- Download the Stadia app on Android or iOS
- Play on your laptop, desktop or Chrome OS tablet with your favorite (HID compliant) USB supported controller or mouse and keyboard
- Play over Wi-Fi on Pixel or many supported Android phones
With increased demand due to more people at home during this time, we’re taking a responsible approach to internet traffic. For Stadia, we’ve always adjusted bandwidth use based on a variety of in-home and local internet factors. To reduce load on the internet further, we’re working toward a temporary feature that changes the default screen resolution from 4k to 1080p. The vast majority of people on a desktop or laptop won’t notice a significant drop in gameplay quality, but you can choose your data usage options in the Stadia app.
Like so many people around the world going through this crisis, our support team has been significantly impacted, and our customer support functions are not running at full capacity. Please use our automated Help Center and, as you give Stadia a try, check out these helpful tips for setting up your home environment. Many of you will be new to Stadia, so we’ve also posted a Getting Started Walkthrough.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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I may use this opportunity to give the service a try.
And so it begins.... It will go free, then heavily discounted for ongoing subscribers, then disappear entirely.
Don't care. Google is desperate for any attention, and they are obviously not getting it. Man, I love when something so obscenely pointless as Stadia fails and burns :-)
There are around 1.17 billion Google users in the world
Still won't use it.
And see an aspect that we have called Stadia upon since reveal, quality will be degraded due to internet challenges.
It's crashing and burning faster than Online did.
*Onlive
Free is still too expensive. A service that fully removes ownership, is technically unstable and inferior, utterly failed to deliver on keystone promises, and offers a sad-sack roster of old games at ridiculously high prices. Amazing. Plus, it's Google, and who doesn't just, in general, love Google? Stadia can cram it with walnuts.
