Would you use a streaming gaming service?

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Hello all, this is my first post and im looking for some feedback on a gaming platform im developing.

It will enable me to stream hi resolution, graphic intensive applications to devices that would not normally be able to handle them.

My question is, would you subscribe to this service if you couldn't afford the hardware to play the latest games?

As an example, you could play Watch Dogs on your old netbook providing you have an internet connection capable of streaming video.

If you did use a service like this, how much would you expect to pay for it?

Many thanks for your feedback in advance :-)
 
Personally no - there is a reason I have a fairly expensive mouse and a highly responsive 120Hz gaming monitor and we are a long way from being able to match those benefits over a streaming system.

Can't speak for the casual gaming crowd however.
 
Old games.

Say something along the lines of gog, easy pick up and play for older 10-20 year old stuff... i would. No hassles with installs, finding stuff/disks, compatibility issues, wasting money on most games you'll play a few times at best.. ditto the odd one you can't put down:o

latency might be an issue as of the day... but iv'e been online for 17 odd years, things 'change':)
 
Firantil said:
Personally no too, but I can imagine some people would feel that it was for them.
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I think i may have posted in the wrong forum because you guys will have already spent a lot of monies on some spectacular gaming rigs!

I appreciate the honest feedback from all :-)
 
No. Game streaming is only as enjoyable as the slowest piece of copper between you and the server, no thanks.

I get annoyed already if I have to wait for "creative videos" to buffer, gaming on that connection would drive me up the wall.
 
The streaming would have to be absolutely seamless and hassle free. I had Skyrim streaming to my nexus 7 and I was playing it with a wireless controller which was still linked to the PC, but as you say, it was a bit pointless with a 37inch telly connected directly to the PC that I could play it on :)
 
No, but I'm very fussy about performance (not just framerate but latency etc) and have a poor internet connection.

I could potentially see a market for this in the console sector (so with a basic 'stream box' you could play all the latest PS4/XB1/WiiU etc titles), however I suspect that politics would limit it severely (in terms of publishing restrictions and the like being used to protect interests).
 
Well just to break the string of answers, yes I would be interested in something like that. I haven't owned a PC for almost 3 years now largely due to moving around a lot and don't see that changing in the next couple of years so been largely gaming on my laptop.

Unfortunately I do see lack of bandwidth as something that would impact the game play greatly as even at home I still have ADSL broadband that jumps between 3 and 7 Mbps.
 
lokiss said:
Old games.

Say something along the lines of gog, easy pick up and play for older 10-20 year old stuff... i would. No hassles with installs, finding stuff/disks, compatibility issues, wasting money on most games you'll play a few times at best.. ditto the odd one you can't put down:o

latency might be an issue as of the day... but iv'e been online for 17 odd years, things 'change':)
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The laws of physics don't change however ;)

Rroff said:
Personally no - there is a reason I have a fairly expensive mouse and a highly responsive 120Hz gaming monitor and we are a long way from being able to match those benefits over a streaming system.

Can't speak for the casual gaming crowd however.
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This basically. The 6-8ms response time/latency of a normal monitor is noticeable. The input lag from a low end wireless mouse is noticeable.

Your going to gain at least 1ms of latency per 100miles between server & client, and that's with the data travelling at the speed of light (which is unrealistic). You'd need to have hundreds of servers all over the country to avoid this, at which point the costs would probably make it not worthwhile!

That's if you want to appeal to gamers obviously. If you're targeting the casual market, you'd probably make far more money adding micro transactions :p

Edit: yes I did try onlive a couple of times, to play some games that ran poorly on my laptop. Dx:hr I think was one, and borderlands. They looked worse and ran slower than running them locally on c2d t6600/ radeon hd 4570 mobility (this was across a ~100mb(or whatever the highest was at the time) bt infinity connection
 
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No. I want to run the games that I own on hardware that I own.

IMO if game streaming became the standard it would be bad for technological progress- with everyone running on the same hardware I can't see anyone pushing any boundaries.

For example- the only time anyone would get a major jump in graphical fidelity would be when your streaming provider upgraded their servers.
 
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