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Re:An unofficial and free mod for FS2020 to load Google Maps... by sofixa on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @03:16AM (#29159042)
It's also held back by MS exclusivity policies and shit cloud gaming. I'd love to buy it and play it, but it's not on GeForce Now or Stadia, where i play heavy games. I saw it was supposed to be on XCloud whatever the name today is for their Xbox as a service service, signed up for it, and not only is it not there, the whole service and everything around it is a steaming pile of garbage. The UX is terrible, latencies atrocious, etc. Just getting to the correct page listing the games is a fight, since half the links result in 404s ( I don't know if it's just the multiple rebrands or the fact that I'm physically in France but use English as main browser language, but neither should be that problematic for a company the size of Microsoft).

Such a game ( heavy resource consumption, lots of data to continuously update) is perfect for cloud gaming.

Re:An unofficial and free mod for FS2020 to load Google Maps... by fomine3 on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @01:44AM (#29171809)
I tried Xbox Cloud Gaming and it works somewhat great. So I want to play MSFS for reasons that you wrote, but it's not exist on cloud gaming despite it's available download for free for Xbox subscriber.

MSFS downloader and download server is the worst one I have ever used. I got just below 1MB/s for downloading required 200GB assets, while I can download 80MB/s from Stream. I gave up to play. It connects very far away server, and maybe no duplexing. Developers, do you know Azure?