The issue is that the concept works on smaller games (e.g Old School games) where there isn’t a significant bandwidth requirement to stream… but there is a significant difference between a game that has a file size of 800 MB and one that has 24+GB like most modern games.
This is why streaming services such as PSOne have worked great on legacy games while those that attend to do this on current games and recent release games have ran into problems for those with less than top tier internet service access.
well a lot of the PS2/3 games also had a different OS and media format since most of them were still using CD Rom or DVD formats and PS4 is primarily a Blu Ray OS it does tend to lead to issues in translating from one to the other since it often requires a lot of new programing for it to interpret the different files
I can only laugh. I’m not into this Geforce Now streaming stuff, but Blizz isn’t going to piss off Nvidia by banning Geforce Now users even if no agreement is in place. That’s just silly talk. Nvidia straight up OWNS the graphics landscape for gaming and game devs outright depend on Nvidia.
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It’s a duopoly, and AMD would be happy to pick up the slack. And I doubt Nvidia would lift a finger if Blizz banned a few EULA violators. Their software is protected by EULAs too, and no one wants to look like they’re coming down against law and order. And if the game’s unauthorized on Geforce Now, it’s not even available to run, so this is a mercy to those who think they can test Blizzard’s willingness to ban scofflaws.
maybe Blizzard is trying to lure gold farmers to it because the farmers will think hey look FTP on Geforce and once there till be easier to perma-ban them since as people are saying the EULA is more lax on that service
Lost opportunity for Act-Blizz. 2020 is shaping up to be the year Act-Blizz strikes out a lot.
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I think the others saying that NA infrastructure is too lacking for game streaming services to take off are spot on. Huge chunks of the country are still below 5mbps, with the worst only having access to ~2mbps molasses-ping satellite internet.
But even having gigabit internet, game streaming holds no appeal to me. It’d be better to not sink money into the streaming subscription and cut out coffees for a few months to save up for building a killer rig which will beat the streaming service in every way AND be useful for things other than gaming.
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What are you basing that on?
Here’s a breakdown by county straight from the FCC. The lighter the area, the fewer providers. Keep in mind that it’s very common for entire counties to be counted as “served” even if service is only available in a couple of towns.
Also note that the US is 28th on the list of countries ranked by average connection speed, topping out at a mere 35.5mbps, even accounting for the gigabit service available in major urban centers because the rest of the country is dragging the average down.
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It’s a waste of time though.
You’ll get no dinner that way as a watched pot never boils.
By the way, this thread is not about watching streamers, it’s about playing WoW via a streaming service.
It was okay till it was taken down.
There was a workaround for the addons which made it pretty good. Specially for fishing at work on my phone.
I know most are skeptical about it. I was too. But if you don’t have a strict data cap you should try it out. It wouldn’t even cost you anything since they have a free tier. Of course at this point it wouldn’t include WoW or any Blizz games. And it won’t be for everyone or work well for everyone depending on their internet situation, but for some it might be another good option to play games.
Having said that, I’m still hella skeptical of Stadia because I don’t think we can trust Google to not abandon it like they do with many projects, and since you have to buy the games from them it’s unclear what happens to your library if Stadia shuts down.
Is this sanctioned from Blizzard? I would be nervous using a streaming service as I seem to recall something in the EULA or ToS that made it read as if playing from a streaming service could potentially result in disciplanry actions.
Not any more. Blizzard officially pulled support yesterday.
But there are many other games available that you could play from your Steam Library if you’re curious about how it performs.
Not surprised, as i’m pretty sure I read somewhere it being against the terms to use such services. Granted such things are always at Blizzards discretion and Nvidia is a big company.
The EULA isn’t so much the issue. It uses terms like authorized and unauthorized cloud services. Also there are rumors that started last year the Blizz games might be coming to Stadia and maybe that agreement is what made Blizz pull out from Geforce Now. If true that seems like a boneheaded move IMO.
You say that but: They already did
Reminder: Discussion of disciplinary actions by blizzard is against the code of conduct.
As such I will not continue discussion of the matter.
Blizz has stated that playing the game via cloud services is against the tos, just a heads up.
Huh, I stand corrected. Also man that’s mighty stupid.
I’m fairly certain however in this case, that’s not quite right. Discussing your own disciplinary actions is def against the CoC, but general commentary on the policies themselves isn’t. I’d welcome a blue to set that matter straight, but I kinda doubt they will.
I’d rather not risk it, personally. Either way the EULA should be in general taken at face value. I posted what I did to make sure that people were aware of the risk and saw the blue post in the linked thread.