Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[Larirawiel]

Game streaming does have a future, as others have pointed out, it just needs more infrastructure, and to be fair the whole stadia thing is part of something bigger that's going on between Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. There is a kind of tech-power struggle going on currently, and google just happens to be the one being pushed around right now.

The problem with game streaming is, that it has propably not so many potential customers. The casual gamers, who do not want a PC/PS5/Xbox can play browser games for free. They only need a smartphone and that's it. They do not need to buy the games and pay 10 bucks per month on top of it. And the non-casual-gamers will propably buy a PC/PS5/Xbox because of better latency, better image quality, tuning options etc. The only customers i see are people who do not want to play browser games and also do not want to buy a (new) PC/PS5/Xbox. But i highly doubt, that there are many of them.

You have two somehow successful game streaming services with Geforce Now and Xbox cloud gaming. But this are not the main products of both companies. The Xbox Cloud Gaming is a side project, the main product is still the console. But you can have the option to play your Xbox console games in the cloud on a differeent device. And this is completely different what Google did.



Cheers

[Renalt]

Google kills Stadia:
https://blog.google/products/stadia/...ming-strategy/

I knew it, that game streaming has no future.

Cheers

Let it be remembered about as well at the Ouya...

or the N-Gage.

[Rannie]

Good luck Rannie. Stay safe!

Thanks. My dad and I decided to actually evacuate with the mandatory evacuation we got on Monday and headed to my aunts in Tennessee. On the bright note it hit the Port Charlotte/Punta Gorda area, to the south of me, like Charlie did and most of the issues my area seemed to have was some power outtages and minor flooding with downed trees or branches. My home was fine just downed branches and no damage.

Mine's being shut down Thursday and depending on what happens, we'll be open the next day. Because God forbid a grocery store that can make a whole line of fresh stuff that requires refrigeration or some sort shuts down for a day.

Fun fact: my boss originally scheduled my next day off on this Thursday. So there goes my chance at having 3 days off this week.

I hope everything with you is fine and there's not much damage or none at all.

[Vyrerus]

Thanks. My dad and I decided to actually evacuate with the mandatory evacuation we got on Monday and headed to my aunts in Tennessee. On the bright note it hit the Port Charlotte/Punta Gorda area, to the south of me, like Charlie did and most of the issues my area seemed to have was some power outtages and minor flooding with downed trees or branches. My home was fine just downed branches and no damage.



I hope everything with you is fine and there's not much damage or none at all.

Yay! That's great. Glad to hear it

Re: Stadia stuff - Entirely streamed games are a very bad way for gaming to go. I will rejoice every time something so asinine fails, and will rue the day that it ever succeeds. Digital options for buying are already bad enough, what with them being able to remove those games from their catalogue even after you've purchased it, such that if you ever lose the data or have it corrupted, then you lose what you purchased. The last thing we need is a system where you can't even actively play what you want to play month to month. And like hell we need yet another subscription service for yet another leg of entertainment wherein companies will fight over rights to stream games both old and new, and we'll have to get what all comes after what actually succeeds as the proof of concept success. (not too mention the crackdown that would ensue on emulation should game streaming service reactivate rights to old titles)

Physical copies of media are best, especially for games where replay value is high. I still have games that are from the 80s and 90s in physical copy, and they still work. They're still mine. They're still plug and play.

We should own and should want to own the entertainment we buy, especially games. We shouldn't devalue our entertainment, especially by letting it be over regulated and owned only by the companies that make it. We shouldn't ever let it be reduced to merely purchasing the right to play. That's stupid and foolhardy. It's like paying to be miserable.

Even a stand alone MMO which asks exactly that of us is a better deal for the consumer. It's only one game, after all, but it's also a social apparatus that we ourselves can make money off of (see streamers/youtubers/artists/musicians etc). Gating our gaming libraries behind subscription and the internet as a whole though, as said before, is just an entirely awful concept.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Somebody remember, we have to wake up Green Day tomorrow.

[NanaWiloh]

How to keep a 12yr old busy. Give them a baseball bat and send them outside to bash a pile of dead brush down.

[Neoyoshi]

My Persona 5 Royal pc/steam/xbox launch fanart is almost complete.

[RyuDragnier]

We just got some wind and rain here, like a normal rainstorm. I live in the middle part of SC though, so a lot of bad weather tends to pass us by.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Let's play a game.



My life story is now Digimon Ghost Game. What's yours?

Could be worse, the last manga I read was Chainsaw Man.

[Shibi]

Let's play a game.

食戟のソーマ (Food Wars I think is the english?)

(Peanut butter squid tentacles):


I did like the nod to this Anime in the CUL questline.