Actually quite excited !!
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so much for pc gamming dying, if this takes off it will kill off consoles allot quicker and we all might as well sell our i7s and 5870s now while there still worth something for celerons and gmas!
If only this work out for the US I'd be the first adopter once it rolls out in the UK and Europe. Technically if you can't be further than a 1000 miles away the UK only really need one data farm. Then again, once all OCUK gamers jump on that we'd burn out that centre in an hour.
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I've been watching this technology for a while, it will be interesting to see how it performs once it has had time to bed in. Don't expect I'll be an early adopter though.
ATI and NVIDIA are loving this of course ^^
ATI and NVIDIA are loving this of course ^^
a 720p stream is 5Mbps so your looking at all most double I'd expect around 8-10Mbps
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Of course it makes sense from the business's point of view, but it offers absolutely no benefit to the consumer, who now requires an anways on, low contention high bandwidth connection, is subject to server outages and attacks, and takes control of games and savegames away.
May it crash from a great height.
We should be sceptical, but I am actually somewhat excited by this as well. I'll never stop buying hardware but I'm looking forward to finally being able to play with some of my mac friends. Tempted to try it myself as well. I think if marketed correctly this could have a handy audience.
I'd like to add also if your using 5Mbps for 720p and when they make a jump to 1080p close to 10Mbps, how will it affect other devices/computers on the network it will wipe them out, so if somebody needs to use another computer in your house for some online work they'd be screwed and you'd have to stop playing, lammmeee
What i do not understand is that it is in no way cheaper 
If you have to pay £10 a month then even after 2 years you have spent the same amount as the price of a ps3/360 elite e.t.c.
and normally consoles go on for 4/5 years or more.
I don't see how this is in anyway better than what we already have.
If you have to pay £10 a month then even after 2 years you have spent the same amount as the price of a ps3/360 elite e.t.c.
and normally consoles go on for 4/5 years or more.
I don't see how this is in anyway better than what we already have.
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Dead before it's even out imo. Maybe 5-10 years down the line but not now.
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Thats what i was thinking, i remember when steam first came out and it was dreadful and people were slagging it off saying it will never work. Now look at it and that was a good 5-6 years ago.
What i do not understand is that it is in no way cheaper
If you have to pay £10 a month then even after 2 years you have spent the same amount as the price of a ps3/360 elite e.t.c.
and normally consoles go on for 4/5 years or more.
I don't see how this is in anyway better than what we already have.
Plus you don't know how much the games will be on top, sure they might be like retail discs usually £25 because your already paying the £120 a year but it might be expensive to run so the games could be £35 similar to what steam prices are like
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no thanks.
Most of you are basing this on the horrible internet service in the UK. While the situation is not much better most places in America, this could very easily take off big time in Asia and here in Scandinavia. If they place servers in the UK and somewhere like Hungary, they'll have access to most of Europa with low latency.
I was a skeptic of this for a long time but the technology itself seems brilliant and most people are purely trying to make excuses for their own poor choice of ISP.
I was a skeptic of this for a long time but the technology itself seems brilliant and most people are purely trying to make excuses for their own poor choice of ISP.
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Well lucky you. Sadly if you lived in the UK you would understand. There is a lot of ISPs out in there but hardly any of them deliver what they say they can.
I am meant to have a 16mb line with unlimited dls. I get the unlimited dls but I only see maybe 6mb of that line (if that) at peak times that will drop to 3-4mb because naturally more people are using it. Can I control that ? no Can the ISP control that ? I dunno but I think the answer will be no.
Once we all have fibre lines all will be grand till then bugger it to hell.
I am meant to have a 16mb line with unlimited dls. I get the unlimited dls but I only see maybe 6mb of that line (if that) at peak times that will drop to 3-4mb because naturally more people are using it. Can I control that ? no Can the ISP control that ? I dunno but I think the answer will be no.
Once we all have fibre lines all will be grand till then bugger it to hell.
Soldato
This will never work due to one reason. Lag. Enough said.