Valve better start solving the 1,700 issues in their steam-for-linux github bug tracker and investing more money into Linux.
Microsoft Working on Netflix for Video Games
Daniel Walker
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Tyler Fisher
It won't work in America or Canada, and there are some European countries with American-tier internet too, I've heard Germoney namedropped on this issue. Same reason OnLive or whatever the fuck it was called didn't work. Microsoft better throw a few billion at greedy ISPs, with a gun to their throat if they pocket the money like every other time someone has handed ISPs money to improve infrastructure, before even dreaming about streaming games as a service.
Zachary Reed
Also the BS-X (SatellaView) in Japan.
Mason Johnson
Thanks to that eye catching headline most people here are missing the point of the article it's based on
>The new division is designed to entice developers and game publishers to use Microsoft’s cloud services.
>Microsoft wants more and more game developers to use its cloud, especially as games become more connected across devices for their multiplayer experiences.
They're competing with Amazon that recently put out an open source game engine that can only run on AWS and Google with their upcoming cloud gaming service called Yeti for Android.
A game streaming service for consumers probably isn't even in the works considering both their paltry selection of exclusive game IPs they own and the rapidly declining share of the gaming market they have. The technical infeasibility of it is the least of their concerns.
The xbone was originally designed to require an always on internet connection for no real technical reason, they don't even need game streaming to push DRM.
John Murphy
Which didn't do that well. Anyway it's not comparable to the modern game streaming idea since you actually run the games on your SNES. Some of them have even been preserved.
Anyway game streaming has to be the worst form of DRM ever because it's much more expensive to host the hardware and stream them than any "lost" sales ever would be, aside from the mediocre experience and latency.
Ryan Carter
Can't wait when Microsoft finally drowns in its own shit.
I have this nagging suspicion that faggotry of such degree might be aimed at subverting the Asian market. Netfux has recently begun investing in animu and nips aren't especially known for owning beefy gayman rigs, so if Macrokike plays their cards right with instant no-effort VN/Eroge/Dating sim/Gachashit streaming on anything with wifi they could achieve a sensible foothold amid Asian normalfags.
Owen Sullivan
They're pajeets, what did you expect?
Ian Davis
If modern vidya is so crappy why do you support the right to steal it?
Cloud-based DRM is the final solution to the unauthorized copying problem. Let the normalfags rot in the shithole they paid to build.
Gavin Jackson
another walled garden, this time in cloud
lol