Question:
What’s worse than paying for digital download only titles?
Answer:
Paying a monthly subscription to interact with a low quality, low bit rate, low resolution, blocky, streamed game that pauses itself every 30 seconds to buffer and has a shockingly inconsistent frame rate and enormous amounts of button lag.
Welcome to the future of gaming folks.
I’ll also be willing to bet my life that this lovely feature will be implemented too
Suggestions for a new hobby can be left in the comments field. Nothing too expensive mind, I have a bit of a temper.
Have you tried Onlive ( http://www.onlive.co.uk/ )system.
Personally I just use to view people playing games. Seeing about what games to avoid.
But as a gaming experiences go this is not the way.
What bright spark in his penthouse office is saying that we need to play Digital downloaded games only.
Why mess with the system, it has worked of over 30 years.
I wanted my game box thank you ( I also want my MTV back).
I want to see what I have forked out £40 quid for.
It’s the future. Sure, it might have problems at the moment, but these will be ironed out.
When a faster, more reliable infrastructure is in place this system will offer people the chance to play any game at any time on any system at a resolution that’s only determined by their monitor.
It has to start now, and by doing so, it will increase the pressure and the speed of development of this much needed infrastructure.
CD’s/DVD’s/Bluray’s are just too expensive and wasteful, as are consoles and to a certain extent PC’s.
The future is cloud everything from any device…. Even your washing machine.
“at a resolution that’s only determined by their monitor”
I highly doubt that.
720p will be the norm and I guarantee they’ll charge a hell of a lot more for any resolution higher than this. 1080p will most likely be the cap too.
I really think you underestimate the possibilities.
Sure, the resolution at present isn’t all that. And there is lag in all quarters, but these will be ironed out, it is the future, there’s no doubt about it.
I’m not going to be jumping on ship at the moment, because it does have problems, but just as VHS has been phased out, so will the physical disk-based system and probably the local hard-drive also.
Come back to this topic in say, ten years?
I’m not arguing that it isn’t the future. You’re absolutely right. It is.
It doesn’t mean I have to like or accept it though. As soon as this practice becomes the norm, it’ll the end of gaming for me.