When Google Stadia was announced in 2019, Google said that the service would implement a “Play Now” button at the end of a video game trailer or gameplay video on YouTube. The only features to come out of Stadia in the last two and a half years were State Share, which allows content creators to share links to screenshots or video clips of their gameplay with their viewers, and Crowd Play, which lets viewers jump in and play certain multiplayer games with their favorite streamers. It has failed to deliver the very feature it promised that would allow players to play games like Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla in their entirety after watching trailers or gameplay videos on YouTube.
