Basically death by lack of users, amateur marketing, and poor consumer sway. There wasn’t enough selling points for the Stadia to distinguish it from its competitors—the Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch and reception towards cloud gaming has been lukewarm at best. Most gamers are content with digital gaming, but I’m doubtful that they’d want to pay a subscription fee to stream games (that they don’t technically own) on their devices.

Though the Stadia went out with a silent sour fart, the Luna is still kicking though it isn’t nearly as popular as the competition. It’s arguably had a better run than its Google counterpart, but that’s not saying much as it’s a largely unknown peripheral within gaming spheres. The absence of a similar cloud gaming service has given it more leeway, but it still has Xbox Cloud Gaming to contend with that holds a stronger connection with the household than Amazon does with catering to gamers.

I want to buy the Luna subscription but I really wanna hear from you all.

Things you like about it? Ease of access? Do you have fun? Something you don't like?

Let me hear it all!

I keep seeing Luna on Amazon and need to know what it is. Is it just a controller? How does it access games? Is it a monthly subscription? Pay per game? One time buy? Is it worth it? I’m not tech savvy at all, so even reading the description goes over my head. I want to get this for my dad, but not sure if he can use it. He’s also not tech savvy, but understands how to keep using it once he is shown. So please tell me everything I need to know. Any help is appreciated.

Recently I've returned to cloud gaming in a big way with Luna. The controller is fantastic offering both direct connect and Bluetooth.

The service itself runs flawlessly offering a crisp 1080p/60 display via your web browser. With the Luna+ and Ubisoft+ subscriptions I have a massive amount of games on hand, and I'm very happy they went with the Netflix model vs paid games. I'd always purchase games and never play them, so the Netflix model is much better for me.

Recently they announced a partnership with GOG bringing titles like Witcher & Cyberpunk along with classic retro titles. They announced in March and I'm eagerly awaiting the game drops: https://www.gog.com/blog/more-ways-to-play-your-gog-games-were-teaming-up-with-luna-cloud-streaming-service/

Give Luna a go if it's available in your region. I recommend it.

Luna’s gotten so good lately, I actually cancelled my GeForce Now subscription.

I’ve been aware of Luna for a while and dabbled with it here and there, but something changed recently, coincidentally right around the recent GamePass price hike (nice timing Amazon). The platform has seriously leveled up, especially with the ability to cloud stream select titles from GOG, Ubisoft, and EA that you already own. I’d love to see Epic Games join the mix next.

The growing libraries from Prime Gaming and Luna Prime are a solid bonus too.

There’s still room to grow (21:9 aspect ratio support would be a game changer!), but I’m genuinely excited to be along for the ride as Amazon continues to evolve this service.

Just checking it out

I really wanna play it but I heard mixed things

Hi, I still don't fully understand how Luma works. I have amazon prime, some games on GOG and on Epic Games.

1. For example, I want to play Kingdom Come: Deliverance. What are my options?
   1a. I can buy it on the Luna web. https://luna.amazon.es/game/kingdom-come-deliverance/B0D6Y4ZYJ1 If I buy it there, I can play it without Luna+ subscription?
   1b. If I buy it on GOG. Do I need a Luna+ subscription?
   1c. If I buy the Luna+ subscription, it is included? How can I know which games are included?

2. What happens if I don't pay the amazon prime subscription anymore? Do I lose access to Luma. Even if I pay the Luma+ subscription?

Thanks in advance

I got a Prime free trial and eventually tried Luna out. Would've sooner but I didn't even think of it. Totally forgot it existed. I haven't played any games since Stadia shut down really.... except for Life is Strange... and I was so close to beating Control but didn't.

Now I've played Control on Luna and can say it's exactly as good once I lowered the quality to 720p it's smooth (my dl is 25mbps and upload is like 5)

My Prime trial ended so can't play it now but I think I will get a free 7 day trial of Luna+ which I believe has even more games. But for now I just want to beat Control, and 7 days should be plenty of time to do that. But I will definitely be keeping an eye on what games they have in rotation.

I just heard of it as today 2024, read it was announced since 2020 lmao!!! So what is it? Another cloud gaming service like Nvdia and Xbox one? I need to own the games to play? I just can start playing with my Prime membership? I'm living under a rock like Patrick? Wait what?

Yesterday I tried Amazon Luna for the first time. I saw it on the available apps on the fire stick, installed it and holy cow it's wonderful.

I was going to update my pc in the upcoming months so that I could play some games (I'm still running an i5-3570k) but I think I won't do it now as long as Luna has the games I want to play (I hope they will add split fiction and the new monster hunter)

Now my question is: why I never saw Luna sponsored anywhere? No friends of mine knew of its existence and it feels like it is some kind of hidden Amazon service

I believe this has strong potential as a service, maybe in places where a gaming pc Costs too much and/or people want to play just a few games and don't want to buy a whole pc for it.

EDIT: to add another bit, I was kind of undecided on updating my pc or not because nowadays I don't have much free time to play (maybe I get 30-60 min here and there during the week at night). And Luna is the perfect fit for this use case too!

EDIT 2: another important thing that I believe is important to highlight for the user: you can play the games you buy on your gog account. So you will not lose a game if it's removed from Luna

I've noticed some games run better on cloud than others (ex I thought RE2 Remake played much better than Alien Isolation), so maybe it's just me, but I was wondering if there are any specific games that run better on luna?

I used to be a gamer. I let my pc grow old, haven't gotten new consoles. I used to play the likes of WoW, ESO, New World. Mostly MMOs. I got Luna for the kids and I often look through the games list and think which of these could rekindle the joys of gaming but none of them seem like something i would be into. Soooo, maybe I just need to force myself to try one. What has been everyones favorite game on Luna so far? I need one to just go for.