Hey, if Google manages to convince developers to adopt Linux and Vulkan en masse, I'm all for it.
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PC Gaming Era | March 2019 - The Ides of Smarch
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The experience will be the same. I have played Crash Bandicoot 1 with Shadow after I benefited from a discount during Black Friday, and I would not have been able to tell whether the game was running locally, except for the fact that my fans were totally silent.
Streaming games is way too flawed a concept to make it big, especially in the US.
It'll find it's "niche of normals" who are interested in gaming but know next to nothing about games, think a subscription model is a better value, can't feel streaming latency, and/or have excellent internet. But there's a snowballs chance in hell that dedicated gaming hardware will ever go away.
It'll find it's "niche of normals" who are interested in gaming but know next to nothing about games, think a subscription model is a better value, can't feel streaming latency, and/or have excellent internet. But there's a snowballs chance in hell that dedicated gaming hardware will ever go away.
This was my takeaway as well.
And since AC Odyssey was the game they demoed project stream with, come on Ubisoft where's my Vulkan renderer for the game. Maybe it could make the game less of a cpu monster.
To me the limiting factor has been the data center distance and reliability of my connection, especially during peak hours.You are all seriously underestimating Cloud Gaming.
If Google Stadia works like Shadow.tech, then you could enjoy Cloud Gaming with a 25 Mbps bandwith.
Like I've said in all these threads, it both works better than I expected at first, and is noticeable enough that I can see I'm playing a video over the internet with added latency. When you add issues like ownership, or lack of ways to modify the experience (for example, adding graphic packs in Football Manager, or a loot filter and a trade macro in Path of Exile) I can't see it as anything else than a complementary service I'd use on select games under very specific conditions.
Yes, cloud gaming is the future... which will come sooner to select locations under particular circumstances. Not just mine. On the PC space in general, even with a theoretical perfect performance, it's still taking away a lot of options from the platform (mods, reshade, local file modification, etc.). It's a big trade off.
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If DOOM Eternal ends up being exclusive to the Bethesda launcher I will use Stadia to play it
Even if my internet is capable, I like being able to tinker with my games (on PC anyway), and streaming wouldn't allow that, so while it looks pretty, I'm going to give it a pass. I've seen this song and dance before and google isn't exactly one to stick to a project before canning it if it doesn't completely destroy market leaders
Better hope you don't play too many hours if you have a cap.
25mbp/s, if I'm not doing my math wrong, is 10GB per hour (3MB X 60 X 60).
If you have Comcast, and both people average 2 hours a day, that's 120 hours a month. Or 1.2TB. You're already over your cap by 200GB and that doesn't include a single other usage for bandwidth.
The only thing I'd play on Stadia would be long turn-based games or MMOs where latency isn't an issue.
I could see an always-alive always-accessible Ultima Online shard on Stadia being a thing.
I could see an always-alive always-accessible Ultima Online shard on Stadia being a thing.
It's completely mindblowing to me that the "Share a savegame" thing was touted so much as a feature.
Is this a thing the youths of today want?
I get "play with your favoriteracist Youtuber" but "play this exact moment with their exact loadout" is just.....why?
Is this a thing the youths of today want?
I get "play with your favorite
Not really, with Shadow you are renting high performance PC and using your own library of games and still have full control over them.
It's crazy to hear people still having data caps
that shit has been gone from home internet in my country for like..12 years at least.
that shit has been gone from home internet in my country for like..12 years at least.
Yup, unless they lobby hard for the next government to restore the net neutrality in the US, or they aggresively install Google Fiber everywhere, this thing is dead on the water.
Yeah, even my phone has unlimited data nowadays and I pay 12€ a month for it total.
Because the concept is similar except Shadow is you renting a cloud PC while Google will likely bake in some games along with their sub fee
This is stupid, I know what both are
If anything, data caps in the US are getting worse. I'm lucky enough to not have one, but most people probably do.
North American big telecomms are cartels that no one seems to want to crack down on in any meaningful way, thus the situation we're in.
Closest thing to Stadia was OnLive and in today's market PS Now and xCloud in my opinion. That is same concept of running game code on servers and using client to serve that content to end user.
I will not be using Google Stadia as I find mods, trainers and tweaking files to be a fundamental part of my gaming experience, it's why PC is my main gaming plattform.
Yeah, I really wish Comcast would get rid of that shit here. I know I can pay them an extra 50 a month to get rid of the cap, but my wife is already bitching about how much we pay every month. Our only other option is AT&T, but it's slower, and has the same data cap. :(
So many questions left totally unanswered by the Google presentation, including incredibly obvious fundamental issues like latency, ownership, cost, etc.
I thought some of the features look legitimately awesome, like the game state sharing thing, but the service is still a non-starter while all those problems exist.
I thought some of the features look legitimately awesome, like the game state sharing thing, but the service is still a non-starter while all those problems exist.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/19/patreon-ups-its-revenue-cut-but-grandfathers-in-old-creators/
You need money to provide services to users?
I understand valve, cuz they just don't care for being seen heard, but epic too? That is shocking
yeah but theres not much, and zero challenge - you'll bore quickly.
I think Alden said theirs will be in the GDC vault, but who knows when that's up.
Maybe they'll have some kind of steam blog detailing some of the talking points.
edit: Damn yoo Nabs.
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