The Stadia Community Forum Is Getting A Much-Needed Change

Yesterday Google brought up some changes that were on their fashion to the Stadia Community Forum. A place where Stadia users and enthusiasts can go to discuss the platform with i some other.

It's also a identify where Google tends to mail service details about the platform. Sometimes these details are nigh changes or updates coming to Stadia. Sometimes the details are about new games.

It'due south a very useful tool for both people on the Stadia team, and the subscribers. Because it's generally free of the silly and sometimes negative posts on the subreddit. At that place is 1 change the Stadia Community Forum has needed for a while now though. And it'southward finally coming.

Stadia Customs Forum volition support account linking before long

In the presence of streamlining things, business relationship linking is on the manner. This will brand it so that your Stadia account tin can be linked with the forum.

Finally, users won't be forced to accept two accounts. Should they want to, they can link their main Stadia account. Putting any other reasons aside, this is going to be a great change for those who want the two accounts to exist i and the same.

It could also help Google more hands identify people that have reported specific issues. Because their Stadia account and forum account volition take the same user ID and other information.

The changes will exist in identify starting Friday, September 25. And so they're not far off. While this change will mostly be the aforementioned for anybody, Founders will get specific badges that identify them as a founder. But like in the Stadia app or in the Stadia UI.

At that place'south also going to be something called the Founders Hub – An area of the community that is walled off to anyone who didn't buy the Founders Edition packet last year.

Google says that this area will contain special Q&A sessions with Stadia team members. Other special sectional perks volition be available too, but nothing was mentioned specifically.

Not-founders also get a badge called the Stadia Player badge, simply it volition be a unlike icon than the Founders bluecoat to help differentiate the two.

More changes to come and laying the groundwork for a rich feature fix

The stuff mentioned above are the only firsthand changes that users will observe when Google implements the account linking.

Only this will open the fashion for other changes down the road. Google is essentially laying the groundwork for a rich feature set in the future. Though it doesn't mention what this rich characteristic set up is, the account linking is a office of information technology and could be considered a cornerstone.

In one case the change takes identify this Fri, users will be logged out of the forum. They volition need to log dorsum in with their called gmail account and can either approve or deny access to their Stadia account.