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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page by hereonout2 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:47PM (#50477998)
I'm not a big gamer but unlimited cloud gaming seemed too good to be true to me.

It works perfectly on a fast home connection over ethernet, mind blowing how responsive it is and load times are non existent.

But as far as I can tell most people subscribe to game pass anyway? Why buy the hardware at all when I can just cloud game in the same subscription. .

Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page by teamonkey on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:21AM (#50484851)
I suspect if the threat of AI cloning pans out as some say, we may see a sharp return to streaming - perhaps devs releasing on streaming platforms only - as an ultimate form of anti-piracy