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[GoldenEye98]

Electronic Arts has announced the acquisition of GameFly Inc's cloud gaming subsidiary. With this, EA intends to expand its streaming services to more players on more devices worldwide.

The GameFly cloud gaming subsidiary is located in Caesarea, Israel, and includes both the personnel and technological assets behind GameFly's cloud streaming services.

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"Cloud gaming is an exciting frontier that will help us to give even more players the ability to experience games on any device from anywhere," said Ken Moss, EA's chief technology officer, in a statement. "We're thrilled to bring this talented team's expertise into EA as we continue to innovate and expand the future of games and play."

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-05-22-ea-acquires-gamefly-subsidiary-for-cloud-gaming

 

[Northeastmonk]

Sounds like another way EA is controlling where their customers play their games.

I thought we were going to see more of an integration of the cloud versus monetary systems where players sign up for services.

 

[Blam]

Yeah remember when gamestop/ebgames did this. Haha yeah that went literally nowhere, and same with this.

 

[Hendrick's]

Yeah remember when gamestop/ebgames did this. Haha yeah that went literally nowhere, and same with this.

Or like with Sony buying Gaikai and OnLive.

 

[BANGS]

Why would anyone invest in cloud gaming? Who the fuck is clamoring to play low resolution/low framerate/high latency games with no more convenience than a generic storefront?

 

[Zannegan]

Why would anyone invest in cloud gaming? Who the fuck is clamoring to play low resolution/low framerate/high latency games with no more convenience than a generic storefront?

Future proofing I'd guess. Still sounds awful to me, but someday we'll hit that point where streaming is "good enough" for most people, then game sales will drop like physical movie sales, and service subscriptions will be all the rage.

 

[BANGS]

but someday we'll hit that point where streaming is "good enough"

maybe... I dunno I can't see it but I'm also ignorant to how the tech works...

 

[Codes 208]

Why would anyone invest in cloud gaming? Who the fuck is clamoring to play low resolution/low framerate/high latency games with no more convenience than a generic storefront?

Isnt that more or less what ps now is?

 

[BANGS]

Isnt that more or less what ps now is?

Exactly...
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/does-anyone-here-use-ps-now.1244503/

 

[jshackles]

After hearing about what Capcom is doing for RE7 on the Switch and it's atrocious pricing model, maybe EA wants a piece of that action

 

[Blam]

Or like with Sony buying Gaikai and OnLive.

Sony bought Gaikai to run their services for PSNow, They bought OnLive for all their patents, and then shut them down. OnLive was only bought to stop competitors.

 

[NahaNago]

Future proofing I'd guess. Still sounds awful to me, but someday we'll hit that point where streaming is "good enough" for most people, then game sales will drop like physical movie sales, and service subscriptions will be all the rage.

Yeah, I would think that a lot of the more popular non shooting pc games could probably be streamed as good enough but that data cap will still hurt a lot of folks.

 

[Hendrick's]

Sony bought Gaikai to run their services for PSNow, They bought OnLive for all their patents, and then shut them down. OnLive was only bought to stop competitors.

My point was that they wasted their money.

 

[Blam]

My point was that they wasted their money.

Big time lmao. But on GaiKai and not OnLive.

OnLive would have ran their shit so much better.

 

[The_Mike]

Future proofing I'd guess. Still sounds awful to me, but someday we'll hit that point where streaming is "good enough" for most people, then game sales will drop like physical movie sales, and service subscriptions will be all the rage.

Ill doubt it when you think about Xbox game pass where you still download the game. There are just too many issues with streaming games, which is why PS Now more or less died.

 

[Zannegan]

Ill doubt it when you think about Xbox game pass where you still download the game. There are just too many issues with streaming games, which is why PS Now more or less died.

I hope you're right, because streaming games sounds awful to me. The big publishers are convinced it's the future though.