I don't blame Blizzard, getting pennies for their AAA quality games should be a crime. Getting more to play is all and well but the salaries have to be paid, those budgets for those games aren't paid for with pennies.
I don't blame Blizzard, getting pennies for their AAA quality games should be a crime. Getting more to play is all and well but the salaries have to be paid, those budgets for those games aren't paid for with pennies.
I was in the beta for about 2 years, and let me tell you, this shit happened all the time.
Games dropping in and out of the service was pretty common, enough to where people started finding exploits to play whatever they wanted/get desktop access to do so.
The service itself was ok, was kinda tempermental depending on when you decided to play, but honestly I don't think it's worth it.
What? No one is losing money on this, you still have to own Blizzard's games/pay their sub fees to use them with the service.
So Nvidia isn't getting absolutely nothing for streaming other companies IPs through their service, which isn't free if I'm correct. I am wrong I will take back what I said.Dude, you already have to own their games in order to play them trough Geforce Now. Blizzard doesn't even release their games on Steam or other third party clients, meaning they even get 100% of the revenue. Does it matter if I play the game on my computer, at a friends house, or on a virtual computer (Geforce Now)?
So Nvidia isn't getting absolutely nothing for streaming other companies IPs through their service, which isn't free if I'm correct. I am wrong I will take back what I said.
But even still it's Blizzards right to pull their games off any platform they do choose and with Xcloud and other streaming services on PC why do people care?
So Nvidia isn't getting absolutely nothing for streaming other companies IPs through their service, which isn't free if I'm correct. I am wrong I will take back what I said.
But even still it's Blizzards right to pull their games off any platform they do choose and with Xcloud and other streaming services on PC why do people care?
nVidia is spending loads of money hosting gaming quality hardware in the cloud, that could potentially sell copies of games as it provides a cheap / free platform for people.
It's really dumb of a pub to pull their games from a service like this.
I can rent a VM in Azure/AWS right now and install all kinds of software I pay for on those machines and no company gives a shit, because they aren't idiots... a sale is a sale.. why would you care if I play your game on my home PC vs a VM in the cloud?
And Blizzard didn't make my PC either... sooo.. companies are already making money off of running Blizzard's software on their hardware... it's called.. mutually beneficial capitalism.
But sure.. companies have the right to be dumb and make it harder for me to enjoy their products at no cost to them. Neato lol
I can rent a VM in Azure/AWS right now and install all kinds of software I pay for on those machines and no company gives a shit, because they aren't idiots... a sale is a sale.. why would you care if I play your game on my home PC vs a VM in the cloud?
Obviously, Blizzard would like to control their software and that beats losing a few copies that would be sold to them. Its not necessarily dumb, I mean if they have their own service coming out it actually makes sense. (I'm not saying cloud gaming makes sense, just their take could make sense)
My guess is companies that make higher priced software will care and only offer their products as a stream or application layer in the future.
Well I think a pub creating their own cloud gaming service is idiotic; these are gonna be huge loss leaders and take a long time to figure out consumer demand even exists. Pulling your software now just makes no sense to me.
It's still in beta so I couldn't tell ya, I do not have any love for cloud gaming to be frank, I just don't see why people are up in arms that Blizzard wants to pull the games from a service not their own.Is xCloud going to provide us access to our Steam library?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-14/nvidia-blames-misunderstanding-for-activision-faux-pas
is wolcen on geforce now ?Thank goodness for Wolcen, I don't miss Diablo 3 on GE Force Now anymore.
Not true. As there simply isn't enough space for all of them to be around.We've spent months arguing about the technical hurdles to game streaming when all along the biggest barrier to adoption is going to be balkanization.
Not true. As there simply isn't enough space for all of them to be around.
What a weird comparison you just made..
We can see it clearly with steam as companies keep crawling back after figuring out they are actually not earning more but less.
well done you named the biggest one.That process doesn't happen in the blink of an eye which means it is exactly what I said it was, "a barrier to adoption". I didn't say the barrier is insurmountable.
How many Activision-Blizzard games can you buy on Steam today?
You run the game. You bought the game on Steam or wherever, you run the game within your rights to install it and run it on any PC you want, be it your own, a friend's, a family member's, a PC you rented, an internet cafe (hey if you're not scared of your info getting stolen, whatever, it's on you), or any PC you have access to with whatever means the seller is never to be concerned with. You didn't buy it for a specific PC, you bought it for a specific Steam or Blizzard or other account. What's with all the corporate shilling attempting to justify it? Not that Nvidia's some poor underdog, but yeah.
Surprised no one tied this thread and the below thread together today:
Activision Blizzard & Google Enter Multi-Year Strategic Relationship.
https://gamerheadquarters.com/news/activision-blizzard-and-google-enter-multi-year-strategic-relationship.html There’s been a brand new multi-year strategic relationship to power player experiences between Activision Blizzard and Google that has been announced. This will find game hosting...www.neogaf.com
It’s the video game equivalent of prime video but you have to subscribe to additional add on studio/branded channels (with fees) to watch anything worthwhile, defeating the whole point of subscribing to amazon video.All the large publishers have announced some type of plans.
Activision Blizzard And Google Enter Into Multi-Year Strategic Relationship To Power New Player Experiences
/PRNewswire/ -- Activision Blizzard and Google announced today a multi-year strategic relationship to power new player experiences. Google Cloud will serve as...www.prnewswire.com
They haven't announced individual products yet, imagine you will see all the large pubs rolling out their own services, I think they have all basically said they are.
I have no idea why, but....
Everyone is going to want their cut.
Yeah, they all want to go direct to the consumer and offer a service instead of a product...it's really shit. Best thing we can all do is stick with consoles and PC and buy digital and physical games and games without DRM on PC.....It’s the video game equivalent of prime video but you have to subscribe to additional add on studio/branded channels (with fees) to watch anything worthwhile, defeating the whole point of subscribing to amazon video.
Every large publisher will have their own streaming service and I will enjoy seeing them all fail.
You can always put more nails.So is steam cloud play the last nail in the coffin?