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Re:Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work by na85 on Friday May 16, 2014 @05:53PM (#7758151)
Well, Steam is inferior for that exact reason.

It does have an "offline mode" where it will pre-decrypt the games or whatever it does behind the scenes.

Why would on-demand streaming be a good thing? Now you have to worry about ISPs and bandwidth, it doesn't solve the problem.

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Re:Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work by bentcorner on Friday May 16, 2014 @06:54PM (#7758380)
I think it would be a good thing because if I have a hankering to play a game I don't have installed, I wouldn't need to wait for an hour for it to download.

I need to worry about ISPs and bandwidth before, it's just that now I can be more frivolous with what I have installed on my machine (no sense leaving something installed "just in case").

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