I was literally posting in the Circana thread. That's where I thought I was typing that haha. I'm not sure how I ended up in this one lol. Must've blacked out from my blood sugar or something.
Do you know what thread you're in?
Never. Ultimate will never get ads. That's how every streaming service works, the highest tier will always be Ad free. At most, the entry level tier may get some ads like 30 seconds vs 120 seconds.
I use remote play frequently while on an exercise bike. Sometimes a cloud server will have better performance than spinning up a remote session. Probably not a frequent use case for most people, but just throwing out a real world example. I do the same with GeForce now. They have the same 1hr of free streaming for watching ads setup.It's hard to imagine someone like that being an Xbox Insider and already owning the game outright. I could see this working for people who have like the lowest tier Gamepass subscription and nothing else, though. That's basically how Playstation Now works iirc. Maybe that's the plan for the full rollout.
For Helix or Xbox ecosystem in general. Sony is likely going to keep their paywall for several more years until forced to adapt.
Isn't the one hour cutoff a disruption itself? It literally ends your play session.
You say this as if you're getting cool stuff and it's to fight their own paywall. Watch this enter a paywalled tier when it comes out of the insider program. Watch it try to push you to a higher sub to get rid of them. Watch the time between ads get shorter. Watch the number of ads shown at a time increase. It's like you didn't witness youtube back in the day vs youtube now, and that costs a lot less to run than rendering games.
I think that's just for preview testers
No, not really a disruption if the hour session is the limit given. You get kicked out, however, the server session doesn't end immediately, you have a window of 10 minutes to get back in. Why complain about a free service? Subscribing to any tier of Gamepass would give unlimited gaming without session limits.
I think it's 2 minutes.
XBOX users ARE getting cool stuff yes. I have setup my nieces and nephews with FortNite on xcloud, this works even better. And the 1 hour session limits actually work out better for them, to limit play time.
No, GFN and FortNite on xcloud also do one hour session limits. That's the normal standard for free Cloud Gaming. Subscribing would remove the limits, even the Essential tier.
Ads are only for the free tier, as in no subscription needed. Gamepass Essential, Premium, Ultimate tiers all let you Stream your own games since November 2024 for Ultimate and October 2025 for the other two.
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The way I understand it is direct console to phone / device streaming is free just like ps5. But to stream from the cloud, even if it's a game you own, requires a Gamepass subscription, but now you can do it for "free" with watching two minutes of ads per hour.
Yes, like COD MW4 or F2P games like COD Warzone.
What ads did it play?
A DoorDash ad was first. Not sure after, wasn't paying attention. It played four 30sec ads. Generic tv / Hulu ads.
Since when has profit stopped these guys? Corps will throw hundreds of millions down the drain just burn down the audience of a beloved IP. I don't think the suggestive content will go away, just your ability to choose an alternative. They don't do it for profit. If so you'd have seen it stop ages ago. They do it for the love of the game.
Yea, makes sense. MS used to be the Ad tech supplier for Netflix before Netflix built the in house structure.
Your Ping to xcloud datacenter is great. Mine is usually in 10-15 MS range, lowest I have seen from others is 1 MS on GFN and 3 MS on xCloud, those users probably were living inside the datacenters. Decode is fine, jitter is a bit high, bitrate too low but that's likely due to the game you chose and dark areas. Resolution should go up to 1080p on tablets and laptops. Make sure WiFi is on 5 ghz channel, preferably WiFi 6 or 7 router, but overall stats look pretty good, enough to play multiplayer games.
That's the very definition of a disruption. I'm not complaining about the service by saying it's disrupted every hour. it's not free, it's also in testing.
Obviously, what tier would they sell the removal of it on otherwise if not the most expensive tier? They will introduce it as a paid teir and try to use it to push you to pay more to remove it was my point.
Netflix and Disney didn't have ads at all before. When Netflix added their standard with ads tier it cost about the same as the initial standard price before hikes. As
The point was that theyre less cheap than video hosting by youtube or Netflix and those slowly boiled their users for more ad revenue and higher more expensive subs to remove them.
And amazon prime video had no ads with an Amazon prime subscription until they added them then asked for more money to remove them. My point is that this is a free trial run for insiders right now but enshittification is an inevitability.
Funnily enough a colleague of mine got baited by that and now has been playing it for a year and that part is just 1% of the whole game lmao
My closest center is 1600 km away. Very noticeable input lag and artifacts.So I tested this streaming on Xbox app for funzies.
Played The Witcher 3, game is recognizing my 2022 save from XSX (when I still had it):
Game looks like shit on 4k screen:
BUT, it's 60fps and it has absolutely decent input lag, if I didn't know this game was streamed I wouldn't know that it's not running on local hardware based in input lag. This is 100% truth, I'm not lying. But I guess 1Gb/s connection helps here and maybe I'm close to MS data center?
That's just ~130Km from where I live.
So for people with netbooks or something, this is a decent way to experience games, but yeah... image quality is horrible.
