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Machiavellian on 23 January 2014
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bugrimmar said:
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.

You are right, it is simple.  All games do not have to use the cloud.  Just like all games do not have to be MMO.  Titanfall is an online only game and I beieve there are about 3 coming online only games coming out for the X1 and PS4.  So games actually do not have to be optimized for offline use they just need to let the customer know that you need to be connected to enjoy the game.

For games that are not online only, then it will depend on how the developer create the game.  The cloud could be used as an extension of the experiece not a requirement. Probably would not be any different than PC developers adding in functionality to a game that only use a specific graphics card capability like the Hair simultion in the last Tomb Raider.