Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General How to get BG3 from Steam to Stadia as GFN is now available yet for cloud gaming?

Hello guys and galls.
Me and my husband are a big fans of DOS and DOS2 so it was natural for us to buy 2 copies of BG3 EA. Unfortunately one of our RIGs is an old Asus G73JH so it is not possible to run BG3 on it. The only option was to use a cloud gaming service. As I know GFN is not available yet (hopefully it will be on release) and we have 2 copies of BG3 on 2 Steam accounts. I wanted to ask if someone know if it is possible to merge/copy it to Stadia so we could play with each other, or (I hope that is not the only option) you have to buy a seperate copy on Stadia (which is out of the question).

Thank you in advance for response

From what I understand, google probably won't be doing any further developments with the stadia, based on it not being as popular as they wanted it to be, so without that, your options are limited to waiting for geforce now, or looking in to getting a steamdeck.

This is like saying , I bought this game twice on my Playstation, but now I want to play it with my GF and she only has Xbox. Do you guys think xbox will provide me a free copy so that we could play it together ? Meme's and jokes aside, stadia is a platform on its own. So just like you can't refund your steam purchases on the playstation store, neither can you on stadia.

Whats a Stadia???

I'll do you one better. Why is Stadia???

Trolling Stadia aside, no OP, unfortunately, you can't get a second copy of BG3 on stadia, just because you own one on Steam. Stadia is a platform on its own, and you need to buy a copy of the game on Stadia in order to play through their service.

Because buying a rig costing the equivalent of a used car is not a price all of us are willing to pay in order to enjoy BG3 ? Why the hate, i get it, PC rules, can have mods, etc etc. but why shit on a service that lets people without fancy rig or console play games too ? No one's forcing you to use it right ? Keep in mind, when steam launched I declared it the end of gaming's glory days (more proprietary bs, more game as service, less consumer control, no physical copy - think: 'WhAt iF sTeAm FaIls, WhEre WilL yOuR 'diGiTaL EdiTiOn Be ThEn' ? ), so the irony is def. not lost on me now that I came back to gaming trough stadia

Simply because this service is shit? 10$ (FOR NOW...) a month cheap? Anything ENTERTAINMENT you have to pay every month ISN'T cheap. Its a scam in the long run.
Lets add everything up shall we? Game service, MUSIC service, MOVIE services, Stadia, etc..etc...It adds up to pretty nice gaming rig after a while.

OK, I will bite.

I payed for BG3 several years ago and I have not payed a penny since.

So yes, the stuff you get for $10 a month is not a great deal but generally the game works fine on Stadia and I can use my seven year old Linux box to play it.

I have nothing against the concept and definitely nothing again you specifically. The service just don't seem to do very well, as there seem to be a relatively small pool of gamers for whom their serivce would provide value. It's pricey subscription and on top of that you need to buy full price games, to which you might not have access to anymore, if Google decides to shut the service down. I think you are also greatly overexadurating how much money one needs to spend on a PC. Though both car and PC parts prices have been skyrocketing, so my estimated might be out of date.

Don't take stabs at Stadia personally, I don't mean to look down at anyone for whom Stadia offers a valuable service - I just genuinely hope that you will be able to access your copy of BG3 for years to come.

If you compare it with buying a system (console or PC in case of BG3) it is cheaper option. I would still prefer to buy a console - the investment should make a return withint the lifespan of the device, but I can see how it can be appealing to someone, who would just want to play BG3 specifically.

I would buy a new console or be thrilled if they released BG3 on PS4, but personally we're not about to go out and buy TWO gaming PCs just so we can sit hunched over a computer monitor to play a video game. Personal preference. If you like K+M, cool!

Sitting and relaxing on the couch, controllers in hand, playing co-op DOS2 and then DOS1 was amazing. We also play RDO on Stadia. We'd be playing Solasta for sure as well as any other CO-OP capable high quality game.

Frankly I don't want a gaming PC. Been there, done all of that. It's not that we CAN'T afford a gaming PC each, but then it's what to buy. What card to get. Monitors or HDMI across the room to the TVs. Get a controller to work. Download the game, then the patch, then the next patch...etc. Oh, the install didn't work. Reinstall. Different drivers. Change this registry setting. OMFG, I want to sit down and play CO-OP BG3 for a couple hours at the end of the day. I don't want to maintain an entire system and navigate mouse and keyboard after I've already done that all day long.

IF Stadia were a service that had access to any PC game, perfect! I'd pay a lot more. As it is, $10/mo is a bargain so I don't have to worry about managing a computer system to play a video game. The only reason I do pay the $10/mo is so that I can occasionally play some new demo or get free, albeit mostly stupid, Stadia Pro games. But it's fun every once in awhile.

Frankly any of you "elitist gamers" who get an ego boost from making snide little remarks about how much cooler you are because you have a gaming rig you play with instead of playing on crappy Stadia (yes, that's what you're doing in a nutshell) well,,,I hope it makes you feel a little better about yourself.

If you're offended by that last comment then you're probably who it's directed towards.

I feel ya, you're wrong however. The monthly fee is only for 4k and access to the 'pro' games. Otherwise I just payed full EA price for BG3 and can play it whenever I want without having to subscribe (apparently this is different from xbox, gamepass and gforce now and causing a lot of confusion).


Well I'm def not taking it personally, it's more of a 'yeah dude joke's not funny anymore' thing at this point. Obviously I also hope to have access to my payed content or receive appropriate reimbursement, so thanks for those wishes. Let me return them, I also hope that you will have access to your BG3 copy for the years to come, godspeed to your cpu/gpu ! Only legitimate criticism of stadia at the moment in my opinion is lacking mod-support, but i'm secretly hoping Larian will find a way to do some 'curated community content' stuff as an add-on or something (pretty please).

So in the end I refunded BG3 on one of the Steam accounts and bought the game on Stadia - nothing else could be done. No problem. Now I wanted to check if everything works and we can play together. It turns out because on Steam the version is 4.1.1.1524131 and on Stadia 4.1.1.1613044 we cannot play multiplayer with each other. That is really weird - before someone asks on steam I have an updated version, nothing else to download. So we still cannot coop Q_Q

You chose poorly.

:-( that is strange - unless they did a patch specifically for Stadia. I imagine there are no patch-notes on Stadia?

To my surprise from time to time they do actually release stadia specific patches and patchnotes. My own theory is that they use the stadia version as a precursor to their console version as it already has gamepad support. Lately, I'm actually wondering of some of the wonkier EA stuff was actually due to the stadia version not being consistently upgraded on all aspects (e.g. control or camera being different from PC version for the moment) but that's pure speculation. Would be interesting to see how divergent both versions actually are. No way to check files on stadia however you can get a download of your saves apparently by google takeout or something. Not sure how useful that would be though

huh. If they have functional gamepad support, I wonder why they didn't include it Steam/GOG builds. I was just thinking recently, that I would appreciate being able to play BG3 with a gamepad.

It probably wasn't a priority in regards to Steam/GOG, because those playerbases are mostly PC with keyboard/mouse, but they'll have to make it a priority for Steam if they want BG3 to get verified for Steamdeck.