Clouds Gaming Suck !

[Amiga Forever]

When I played on Playstation Now with steaming game and I got missions 8 phase 3(which is near end of Missions 8) then Playstation Now got disconnected due the server or summat meaning I have start all over again in Begin of Missions 8!

So my view is Clouds Gaming Suck(But it seem going be future of gaming!)!

What is your View on Clouds Gaming?

 

[Timtheloon]

Not really played that many cloud based games but I’m not a fan of the “future” of gaming.

I don’t like the hold they have over you especially with PC games with there one use serials killing the second hand gaming market.

I know consoles will go the same way soon, well they have already with there digital downloads and they almost went fully this way with the PS4 just Sony realised how many customers where against it with the Xbox One who I think have gone back to the old ways for now but I feel all companies will slowly introduce it on newer consoles making you register your physical copies of your games.

Also if you get banned on your digital account you lose all your games you bought, something to think about

 

[SaviorX]

I have always preferred to 'physically' own things, but I guess it's just largely what I have been used to all my life... however...

despite the fact that Atari is loooong since gone...

all my Atari 2600, 5200, 7800, 400/600/800 and ST stuff still play fine...

no servers or accounts to shut down suddenly... or to try and charge me more money to keep going...

 

[kriz]

Physical only for me

 

[Yeroon]

I see some benefits to cloud gaming (playing on any device without expensive hardware) but just as the others, it will probably change the world of future 'retro gamers' among us. A physical game, such as a cartridge or cd/dvd will work whenever you want, but for cloud gaming we're all dependant of the servers that host them.

You don't have to be a futurologist to know that some servers will be abandoned in the future - and so will the games that need an external server to host the game world. Maybe it will be possible to host such servers yourself (e.g. Vanilla WoW), but it will be challenging and not suitable for every type of game. It's especially frustrating when you've invested a lot of time in a game and it then disappears, as we've seen with some MMO's.

Luckily we can still enjoy physical games now, but the next generation might not be that lucky.

 

[Aeberbach]

Yeah, isn't it funny that retro gaming is getting so popular.... I wonder if it has anything to do with everything-online, keep paying or lose your game, 50GB downloads and all the games being so easy...

 

[xubidoo]

A physical game, such as a cartridge or cd/dvd will work whenever you want, but for cloud gaming we're all dependant of the servers that host them.

You don't have to be a futurologist to know that some servers will be abandoned in the future - and so will the games that need an external server to host the game world.

On newer consoles , even having physical media doesnt really mean much, as many require multiple updates to fix usally game breaking bugs, so in 20 yrs from now, these games either wont work at all due to needing to connect to xbox live or psn etc, or just be the basic bug ridden mess state they was released in.

Most of the older PC Command & Conquer games have long lost their servers, but the community has come together releasing patches and updates to improve the games (and get them running on new hardware) also multiplayer servers , so just maybe all hope isnt lost, i think to have any chance of surviving in the future the games will need a dedicated community so keep them going, something i feel the majority of newer games dont really have, at least not for very long.

 

[CLXIV]

I'm really interested in cloud gaming yet at the same time I'd hate to see it replace local rendering. I took Stadia for a spin and found the performance / lag / connection stability side of things to be absolutely flawless - you'd forget you're not running the game locally. Or you would if not for the blurry visuals - it doesn't come close on a monitor to the definition of local rendering. I know some people play on TVs though from a meter or more away and then it might not be very noticeable at all. Or for people accustomed to lower end graphics - original Xbox One for example or older generation consoles or potato computers upscaling 720p.

I also signed up for Xbox game pass ultimate to take their cloud gaming for a spin and... let's just say Google has nothing to worry about there. I was actually embarrassed for Microsoft, the experience was so bad. I'll certainly take Amazon Luna for a spin when I'm able and see how that compares.

 

[Harrison]

I've got Xbox game Pass ultimate too, mainly for PC gaming, and some on Xbox. But decided to try out the android streaming when it appeared. It wasn't good. Really long buffer load times and the games I tried ran really slowly trying to keep up with the server. I'm in 76mbps so not slow.

By comparison I've played a few games streaming them on Playstation Now and they have all played flawlessly. It's the only way to run most of the PS3 and PS2 games on offer via Now. I was pleasantly surprised, especially the seamless ps3 streaming. Wish I could get my hands on that emulator!

Regarding Streaming and the original question. I was against it originally for all media. I liked to own all my music on CD and if digital ripped to mp3. That's now completely gone out the window as I have used Spotify almost exclusively for quite some time now.

Same with films. I liked to own them all on DVD and BD. But I now can't remember the last time I played one. Exclusively stream everything now, and hardly watch anything live either any more other then the news. Netflix has become the main one, alongside Disney+. With Sky providing the rest and occassionally Prime.

As for gaming. Again I was against digital copies of games. On PS3 I permed all physical copies. But for many years now on PC I've only bought digital games. Menu on Stream. And on PS4 I did start out at the beginning buying physical copies, but as someone mentioned, the disc only holds the initial install. All it did is save you having to download the initial install. So you are really using a digital download. And the negative bit is you need to insert the disc every time to play the game, whereas digital you don't.

For actual streaming gameplay I really don't do much at all. As mentioned I do a bit for Now, but that's about all. I'm not sure it will take over from digital downloads any time soon. With downloads you just wait longer if a slower connection. With streaming it downgrades the image quality and framerate if the connection speed falls. It hasn't got the same appeal as films or music.

 

[RED IMPACT]

I typically download ‘streamable’ games but admit that’s not always feasible.