To that end, ESO on Stadia is connected with the PC servers, giving players a vast number of other people to interact with on day one. Even with the base game and its Morrowind DLC being included as part of the Stadia Pro subscription, the servers would be… sparsely populated if it was just made up of Stadia owners. It’s ready to go whenever you are.Įlder Scrolls Online on Stadia isn’t a locked down console version either. You can forget about those horrific times where you’ve planned to meet up with your clan mates only to find there’s a patch waiting to download.

Stadia provides a moment to moment version, whenever you want to play, without a hint of hard drive heft. While never exactly svelte, Elder Scrolls Online regularly finds itself at an overwhelming size, and though the odd optimisation pass might briefly shrink it back down, it’s soon back to its old tricks, chewing up space like a hungry hippo chomps on marbles. The immediate difference comes in the shape of install sizes, downloads and patches. You can’t play ESO offline, even if you wanted to – it’s literally in the game’s name – so the fact that it’s sat on Google’s servers somewhere instead of in your house, makes no immediate difference. ESO by its very nature requires an online connection, and a solid one at that, and that does away with most people’s main problem with Stadia. Here I am again, proselytising for Google’s streaming service, but before you get each and every one of your hackles up let’s have a good think about this one. Elder Scrolls Online has been a major culprit for many years, but now, with its arrival on Stadia, that’s all just melted away for me. As titles become more extravagant, with expansive worlds and higher production values, game installs have become ever more bloated, threatening to squeeze out other, more restrained games from your daily life. Along with a cool pint in a beer garden on a summer’s day, or plunging into an icy shower after a jaunt in a sauna, (remember any of those things?) there’s nothing quite as refreshing for gamers as being able to clear 100Gb from your hard drive with a clear conscience.

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