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Day of mourning at the Google offices in

Mountain View.

After four years trying to gain a foothold in the

video game market, the network giant today shut down the

Stadia servers,

the service that allowed many of the best-known titles in the world of entertainment to be played remotely and from the browser. electronic.

The decision was announced last September, but until today players who bought a game on Stadia have been able to continue playing their favorite titles.

Although the farewell has felt bad among the Stadia player community, Google has tried to minimize the damage of this failed experiment.

In recent months, the company has reimbursed players for all the money they spent both on games and on controllers and other accessories, although not the amount corresponding to the

Stadia Pro service,

which for a fixed amount per month allowed them to play with better quality and He gave away games on a monthly basis.

"We have created a solid technological base, but we have not achieved the anticipated traction,"

Phil Harrison,

head of the division, explained in a statement on the service's website in September.

The farewell has had a nostalgic wink.

During the last day of operation, Google engineers added a free version of the famous snake game to the catalog.

It has not been an arbitrary decision.

This game was the one that Google engineers used to test the quality of servers in 2019 and evaluate if it was really possible to play remotely a game that runs on a server instead of on the user's PC.

Internally it was known simply as "Worm Game" (the game of the worm) and never saw the light of day.

"It won't win the game of the year award, but the Stadia team spent a LOT of time playing it, and we thought we'd share it with you. Thanks for playing and for everything," the service managers explained in the game's description.

It is not the only gift that Google has made to say goodbye to the service.

A software update for the official Stadia controller will also allow it to be used as a conventional Bluetooth controller with a low consumption connection.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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