The fact that we do not like what he says doesn't make him wrong.
Bashing EA on this is just shortsighted.
And this is clearly not indended to be the solution for all, both due to latency problems as well as bad internet connections.
What's really needed is other game publishers to speak out against their stupidity. Not just gamers. As unprofessional as that sounds. For some reason EA is still seen as a big leader in the industry.. when they should be put in the corner and publicly shamed.
Why, especially in the light of this opinion? Industry leadership has everything to do with infuence and results and nothing to do with how they are subjectively perceived (as long as that perception does not affect results, which in EAs case is minimal).
And honestly, not owning a game I paid for? Screw EA and everyone else that tries that. I still play X-Wing vs TIE Fighter from time to time, a 1997 game... With streaming, it would be impossible to play today.
Welcome to the gaming for the last 5-10 years. Game is largely a service already. So you mean screw Steam, screw Activision (especially screw Blizzard part of Activision) screw Take Two, screw Ubisoft... and that covers what, almost all of AAA gaming and a very large portion of the entire gaming industry
How is this even supposed to work? Each texture being downloaded from a server on demand or what?
Not textures, the entire video stream for game gets streamed. Runs an a server in a server farm (which is fairly close to you by the time adoption as wide as this guy thinks is done), video is (hardware) encoded with extremely low latency and then streamed to you over internet. Input goes back in the other direction.
100ms is A LOT of input lag. I can even notice 20ms of input lag (usual on 4k TVs), nevermind 100ms.
I am fairly sensitive to lag and I cannot notice the 20ms input lag (which is very low and even gaming monitors often enough have input lag in that range) except in competitive shooters. Also, like I said, console games have already been designed with 100-ish ms of input lag in mind, at least that was the case with Xbox360 and PS3.
So basically we want to stymie development and innovation in games and graphics so that they fit into a compressed/low enough quality to be piped over what is a woefully inadequate delivery method?
How about the other way around? Developers and publishers get an enourmous incentive to optimize the games to the extreme so they can run very efficiently on the inevitably limited server hardware in the farm. Bonus points for good scaling to better load balance?
If they eventually do this then everybody here in the land of Oz will ditch them due to latency = could you imagine the RTT from user in Oz to USA servers.
The way game streaming is intended to be done, you'll get a server farm somewhere close to home.
I love streaming music and movies... ...it's just too convenient and frugal to pass up.
Streaming software just seems kinda pointless. Like, even if it works, what is the benefit to the user? It just doesn't make sense to me why anyone would want to stream games or any other software. To me it just reeks of weird bullshit. There's no way anybody asked for this. It's one of those things where I have a hard time figuring out why it needs to exist. It's just so backwards...
Streaming music and stuff makes sense, because your goal is to be able to quickly access an otherwise impossibly wide range of media. I think most people stream to save money. You get to listen to a lot of music, the price per item is absurdly low, and you can do it anywhere, on any device. With current tech, streaming these things in high quality is doable and widely accessible.
You cannot, however, just take a PC (or even a console) game and run it on your phone (because it's a fucking phone, not a console or PC - not even remotely the same experience or capability,) so that doesn't really make sense.
The exact same argument can be and is being made about games. You can easily take a PC (and especially console) game and "run it on" (read: stream to) your phone, tablet, TV, laptop or whatever.
And we all know that even if they could, people aren't going to ever be playing the latest and greatest on smartphones. How can you possibly think that people are going to give up their consoles and PCs to switch to phones and smart TV's?
Largely except for games, people are doing exactly that already. And have been for years.
