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LurkerJ on 17 August 2014
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JPL78 said:
LurkerJ said:
JPL78 said:
Lafiel said:
Locknuts said:
Brilliant idea, but streaming, ew.

? the only way to make that immediate is with streaming - otherwise the friend would have to dl/install the game (up to 50GB) like the original owner


It's better than the alternative for people like me: nothing. At least they could offer both options or only require partial downloads like "play as you download" works.

Your internet connection is good enough for "play as you download" but not good enough for streaming? 

Either way, you are taking away the convenient part of the service from both SONY and the consumers. This feature is great because of its instantaneity.

Play as you download is not dependent on your internet speed. It just means if a game is say, 20 gigs, you can start playing part if it (first few missions, multiplayer, separate modes) once you download a certain amount like maybe 6 gigs. Asmore downloads it becomes available. Speed has nothing to do with it.

No one is reading what I'm saying. I didn't say it shouldn't utilize streaming but just maybe offer and option to do it either way. Everyone keeps saying "it's great because it's instantaneous" but probably like PS Now then you probably need 5 Mbs per second speed in order to even use it. So for a chunk of people it's not "convenient" it's not even available.

Imagine what the server load would be like if each time someone wanted to share a game, the other player would  download it. ALL OF IT. This would cripple the PS network. It's inconvenient to SONY. 

I get your frustration but your proposed solution is impractical.