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Machiavellian said:
bugrimmar said:
87.5% of people so far believe that the cloud is garbage. I think so too :P

I had to comment.  Just because a lot of people think something is garbage does not make them right.  It just meean that a lot of people could be wrong mostly do to lack of understanding of the technology.  Just from this thread and others I have read.  The majority of people that make a comment actually have no ideal of the technology and they associate dedicated servers as cloud compute.  Most people do not even know what cloud compute means and how its implemented.  Most people do not understand the software that allows for could compute and how distributed cloud processing works.  Lack of knowledge and ignorance does not help when forming a valid opinion about a piece of technology.

Yknow, it's really simple.

The Xbox One is no longer an 'always online' piece of hardware. That means that games must be optimized for local offline use. Do you really think that there will be games that are better online and worse offline? That can't be. Each game must perform in the same manner as it does online or offline.Therefore, even if the MS cloud is really indeed powerful, it can't come into play because every game must work the same way offline. The only place that the MS cloud can really show off is with online multiplayer or online-only games like MMOs. Whenever there's a single player element, it's basically shut off.