Project FLARE - Wada's back!!!!!

[AlexiaKidd]

So it seems SE have had a technological breakthrough and have invented Cloud Gaming :-/

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Also there is a statement from Wada himself about SE's new found breakthrough

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I find the "Until Now" and "From Now" slides pretty amusing in the PDF. I did however like the slide at the bottom that shows FFXI running with 3 real time feeds of what your friends/party members are doing overlayed on your screen. Wonder why they used FFXI and not FFXIV? Maybe they just wanted to showcase their best MMO for the example I guess...... /joke

[SirSaber]

Hmmm

D'no if this will work, am a bit sceptical.
What kind of internet will you have to use then ?

Meh, when this "project" is life I'll be old and gray and will have a wooden staff with and old pointy hat.

[AlexiaKidd]

There is a video up on the page of the second link now showing it in action. Seeing them use FFXI is very strange indeed but the feature of being able to see the other players screen is nifty. Not sure what the point of the Deus Ex physics demo was supposed to be as I thought the whole point of this Cloud Tech was to off load everything to the Cloud, yet in the demo the FPS take a massive hit from 120ish down to 30ish FPS.

The trouble I have with everyone throwing around this Cloud buzzword is that nobody has shown an excellent use that will benefit gamers, hell MS are ramming the Infinite Power of the Cloud down our throats to try and sell the XBox One and even they have not shown a game that does something that couldn't be done locally without the Cloud.

[Goreth]

The trouble I have with everyone throwing around this Cloud buzzword is that nobody has shown an excellent use that will benefit gamers...

Cloud technology is currently used in gaming as just a harder to circumvent form of DRM rather than actually enhancing gameplay in any meaningful way; so yea... won't help gamers, probably won't affect the publishers bottom line all that much, but looks great on a press release to investors who don't really understand the concepts. See the latest Simcity release for example, although to say that they actually used cloud technology at all in that game is being exceedingly generous.

I do find his quote "I believe that innovation in business models, where the customer determines price (e.g. the F2P model), has been the driving force of growth" somewhat humorous given his past experience with subscription based games.

[AlexiaKidd]

Exactly Sim City was touted as using "The Cloud" to preform complex calculations for A.I. that couldn't possibly be done on someone's own machine and within a few days hackers had discovered that the only thing it was doing was a check-in every 20 mins for DRM.

I dunno I guess I am just burned out on companies throwing "The Cloud" around without being able to show any meaningful use for it within gaming, maybe SE really has found the answer.

[Gardes]

"Cloud Games"
Picture of Lightning

Ohohoh!