I'm a friendly, non-dev, cisgender guy from NC who enjoys playing music/making noise, hiking, eating veggies, and hanging out with my best friend/wife + our 3 kitties + 1 greyhound.
While I can definitely understand the qualms folks have with making games even more internet-dependent, I think the pros will outweigh the cons for me personally. Disclosure: I play a lot of multiplayer games on Xbox Live, so that shapes my world view of gaming... hence, I'm already pretty used to the necessity of being connected. However, I do realize that this could make playing single player games on PC pretty annoying if you had to constantly worry about latency.
For me though, the biggest pro is the convenience of not having to install every game I want to play!
I am still a bit worried about lag... but, something else that I started thinking about while reading this was that hopefully this will mean more people will try to solve latency problems! Perhaps all online gaming will become smoother in the process. Or who knows, I mean I've always dreamt of playing music online with friends, but see latency as a huge hurdle to that... could this make virtual jamming with friends a thing?
It's cool to think about the other possibilities that could come out of solving these issues.
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I'm so down with this idea!
While I can definitely understand the qualms folks have with making games even more internet-dependent, I think the pros will outweigh the cons for me personally. Disclosure: I play a lot of multiplayer games on Xbox Live, so that shapes my world view of gaming... hence, I'm already pretty used to the necessity of being connected. However, I do realize that this could make playing single player games on PC pretty annoying if you had to constantly worry about latency.
For me though, the biggest pro is the convenience of not having to install every game I want to play!
I am still a bit worried about lag... but, something else that I started thinking about while reading this was that hopefully this will mean more people will try to solve latency problems! Perhaps all online gaming will become smoother in the process. Or who knows, I mean I've always dreamt of playing music online with friends, but see latency as a huge hurdle to that... could this make virtual jamming with friends a thing?
It's cool to think about the other possibilities that could come out of solving these issues.