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[Sanepar]

Since everything is pointing on this direction of mandatory cloud in near future what you guys planning to do?

For me is a good bye, cloud limit hours and are more expensive.

I think these companies will try something similar to discs decision to enforce cloud because they will have all control.

 

[Sephimoth]

Reach for the rope

 

[Power Pro]

Where is the poll option to just not buy new games and stick with what I own, and retro games?

 

[Hideous Snake]

If this shit happens I might lose it. I don't see myself ever stopping gaming but this REALLY is the nail in the coffin

 

[IDKFA]

I would just play on the hardware I had. I wouldn't migrate to cloud only.

Cloud gaming has very little benefits and is more expensive. I still need to buy the individual games, but I also need to pay a cloud subscription every month to access my games. Not to mention I could be placed in a queue to play the games I pay for, plus there will be limits on how many house you can use the service each month. Oh, and the quality isn't as good as local hardware.

How is that better? You'd have to be a nimrod to think cloud gaming is superior to local hardware.

If that's the future of gaming then I'm out.

 

[falling into hell]

It won't happen. Should I be wrong and it becomes mandatory I will stop playing new games and just play games from my backlog.

 

[Gamezone]

I'm having a VERY hard time imagining physical hardware not being available what so ever.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

the day it becomes mandatory to stream games is the day I would probably stop. I like having my own compute power but these pricks seem determined on owning all the memory, all the compute and all the infrastructure.

 

[Laptop1991]

Option B, just hope my hardware lasts.

 

[Thief1987]

It won't become mandatory, especially in that ridiculously low timeframe.

 

[Shubh_C63]

The market won't switch to all cloud if it has any visible/notable downgrade than traditional method.

Mass adoption will only happen when it will become as good as streaming from PC to your TV.

 

[Sanepar]

Where is the poll option to just not buy new games and stick with what I own, and retro games?

2nd option?

 

[dgproject]

It won't happen. Should I be wrong and it becomes mandatory I will stop playing new games and just play games from my backlog.

It won't happen…. in our lifetime, probably.

 

[GateofD]

Cloud implants into the brain stem will be the norm and it be put in mandatory at birth in the future

 

[Guardian Monkey]

Cloud gaming is nothing more than an exploratory option presently. There has to be outweighting consumer support for it to go as the main form of gaming. It's not going to be the main form of gaming because some companies would say fuck you take this or nothing else. They would just fail and someone else will take over that spot.

 

[Mr.Phoenix]

I can only hope that cloud gaming, if that ever really takes off, only means that you can still buy actual hardware even if it's just unsubsidized and expensive.

If not, then that's it for gaming for me, I guess.

I don't see it becoming mandatory, though... its just the usual corporate speak; these suits can't seem to help but think of a world where everyone pays a subscription. If cloud gaming ever was to take off, it would have already; the barrier for entry has long since been the lowest of all gaming options for almost 16 years now... There have always been a great number of providers in that industry too.

So I don't know or see what is suddenly gonna change in 3 years to make everyone say... yeah, I am gonna go to the cloud. Prices? Nope, this is just what the suits tell themselves to be able to sleep at night when they think of the price prohibition of the rampocalype. They go, well, if people can no longer afford actual hardware, they would jts play on the cloud. Sounds like what you would say when trying to comfort shareholders. it won't work, though.

 

[Goalus]

Work on my backlog and then eventually migrate to cloud. I am so ready for the future!

 

[Robb]

Where is the poll option to just not buy new games and stick with what I own, and retro games?

I think this would end up being my approach.

 

[Miles708]

Since everything is pointing on this direction of mandatory cloud in near future

No it's not, despite how hard the Rockstar CEO and its army of buttlicker Twitter users try to convince you of that.

 

[Hudo]

If gaming goes into the cloud, I'll keep playing my old shit locally until I die. And if people ever figure out how to emulate cloud backends locally (which they will. Most private MMO servers do exactly that, for example), then I will use that method to play newer games.

 

[StereoVsn]

Where is the poll option to just not buy new games and stick with what I own, and retro games?

Yep, that's my plan. There are more than enough games to last me beyond my lifetime.

 

[cireza]

I am mainly playing old games and consoles so I am good.

 

[Bonfires Down]

It's not happening anytime soon. Stop listening to fear mongering.

 

[GrayChild]

Went with option B, even though I don't think it'll ever get to that.

At worst dedicated hardware will still remain, but as a much more luxurious and expensive thing.

 

[Sohurmk833]

It's not happening anytime soon. Stop listening to fear mongering.

It will happen eventually. That's the ultimate goal. Will it happen in the next 5 years? Of course not. But 10 or 20 years from now? All bets are off.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

I can only hope that cloud gaming, if that ever really takes off, only means that you can still buy actual hardware even if it's just unsubsidized and expensive.

How should I tell you...

 

[Puscifer]

If this shit happens I might lose it. I don't see myself ever stopping gaming but this REALLY is the nail in the coffin

I'm more concerned with the liberation of mobile devices that only GrapheneOS seems to give a shit and home compute on any level and going to corporations just to open up a damn note doc

 

[rm082e]

As someone who doesn't live near a major server hub, cloud gaming is not a viable option for me. I will never use it.

I think this is just fear mongering though. I don't see any publisher making their games available exclusively through the cloud and not offering a digital download on Steam and PS Store.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Cloud only games dont exist for me, if everything went cloud i'd just play what i have plus retro (whaptever retro was at the time).

That said, that aint happening. The barrier to developing games is pretty low and there still would be people making local games if only because that is what was possible to them.

As for hardware, you still need a minimally decent hardware even to stream, usually one more than capable of playing retro at the very least. I'd worry less about this and more about every hardware alternative becoming locked down like mobile and consoles. My personal hope is that this either doesnt happen, which thankfully still hasn't show signs of going through at least in the PC space (even with MS hellbent on enshitifying windows, you're still fully free to install whatever OSs you like), or that by the time it happens we'll have retro hardware alternatives or FPGAs that are capable of playing games from until at least the current gen.

 

[GoldenEye98]

It might not have to become mandatory if it becomes significantly more economical. I mean right now it would take nearly 5 years of Geforce Now Premium to hit the price of a PS5....

No upfront cost either...can pause/cancel anytime.