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Re:“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interv... by asdff on Friday December 04, 2020 @01:59AM (#25299765)
I've tried out Google's beta with assasin's creed, and the results weren't promising. I had gigabit fiber and while it worked pretty well for the most part, I still got quite a few gamebreaking lag spikes and fps slowdowns. It stuttered like a youtube video: freezing, then resuming in 144p quality which made the in game text completely unreadable on my screen. And that's on a beefy internet connection, imagine the situation for the median American or someone reliant on a mobile data plan. People can scarcely tolerate playing a game with high ping as it is.
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Re:“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interv... by Nextgrid on Friday December 04, 2020 @06:52AM (#25301327)
I've ran my own cloud gaming VM on AWS and with an enterprise connection (1ms latency to the AWS datacenter) it's been good enough to play multiplayer shooting games and maintain a positive kill/death ratio against those who play locally.

Maybe the problem isn't that it's impossible per-se but that the consumer-grade services underprovision their machines/bandwidth, or that consumer-grade gigabit fiber isn't actually that good (or problems in the "last mile" like using Wi-Fi instead of good old Ethernet)?

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Re:“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interv... by onion2k on Friday December 04, 2020 @02:32AM (#25299926)
People can scarcely tolerate playing a game with high ping as it is.

People who classify themselves as "hardcore gamers" perhaps, but those people will also drop upwards of $1000 on a graphics card. They're not the majority in gaming. Most people will happily play a game even if there are a few problems if it's cheap and entertaining.

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Re:“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interv... by asdff on Monday December 07, 2020 @02:02AM (#25329978)
Anyone will throw a controller across the room after putting a whole clip into someone taking no damage, watching them rubber band across the map, and pistol whip you in the head. That's your life on a crappy connection in most FPS games which are some of the best sellers every year.
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