Cloud Games + Fiber vs. Physical/Downloaded Games

[Jizz_Beard_thePirate]

Azzanation said:

Captain_Yuri said:

How am I pretending when we have seen cloud streaming services going down in the past? I don't dislike cloud gaming as an option and you would know that if you read the entire original post.

Why do you keep moving goal posts? What does cloud saves have to do with anything? What does renting have to do with anything?

Because the issue is misinforming people. Sure some services shut down and some don't. Just because some do doesn't mean they all will. People continue to use the "They will shut it down" excuse. Heck people still believe that with digital stores. Steam has been around since 2003, World of Warcraft servers have been around since 2004, what makes you think a popular service will just shut down? They might very well outlive you. Just because a digital store shuts down doesn't mean Steam will.

Moving goal posts? what are you on? I am giving you examples on the topic at hand. You want to own your games, cool, and you may continue to do so. 

Streaming is no different to the old rental days, except instead of walking into video stores to loan games on specific hardware, you can do it via online, and pay much better prices without dedicated hardware. How dare they.

You use Cloud saves right? Guess what, if those cloud servers shut down, so do your saves. Yet majority are grateful for it because its more likely that you would lose your local saves than the Cloud losing your data. Much like game preservation.

Telling people to be cautious based on past events that happened isn't miss informing people. I even said I like Hybrid cloud services... Maybe you should re-read the original post that you quoted?

Most of your examples aren't even related to the topic. The original post that you quoted is about my issue with buying individual cloud only games where as you stated random things like paying for electricity bills, phone data, gas provider... Like what even? Most of your examples aren't even in the same situation as cloud only game streaming.

That's some crazy mental gymnastics you got going on with your renting example. This isn't about renting a game, this is about buying a game outright that's cloud only. Again moving goal posts...

You do realize that with cloud saves... The save file is saved both on the device and cloud? So you do have the option to download all your cloud saves and save them onto your device so if the servers go down, you saves are still there. Where as with Cloud only games... Oh look, you don't have a choice. I have no idea why you choose cloud saves as an example cause I like cloud saves because you can have the saves both on your device and on the cloud. Similar to how I like the Hybrid cloud gaming on my original post where you can play the game on both your local device or on the cloud. And if the cloud provider shuts of their servers, then you still have access to your games and progress.

Last edited by Jizz_Beard_thePirate - on 15 October 2021