Video Game General 6.5: Now with more surprise mechanics

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Especially on mobile devices

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I think its different with indie games, since a lot of them don’t get physical copies. Though I don’t like the idea of all games being digital. It makes me worry what happens when the online service gos down. Or it gets canceled; you basically are fucked.

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Yea. Like that’s the part i dont get. Talk about magic latency all you want, how you gonna deal with the data transfer and internet companies. Comcast ain’t gonna be like “:man_shrugging: Yea sure use hundreds of gigs of data daily to play a video game, we don’t mind.”

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Thr connection will be the Crux of it. Once fober/5G speeds become the norm, most of this stuff won’t even be a question.

But people our age who grew up with consoles probably won’t be the target audience of these kinds of services, it’ll be kids and younger people. In a way, I’m jealous. Imagine not having to beg your parents to buy you whatever hot new game just came out because it’s already on the streaming service.

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Have you tried remote play with a good connection ever?

I agree there’s a bit of growing that will have to be done in order to make some of this more viable, but it’s not the same as movies and music. If it’s like I imagine it, the service will only work with a certain connection and if your connection doesn’t measure up, you won’t be able to use it. But depending on the games and what youre playing them on, you might be able to download them too.

Either way, having a massive library of games available for a monthly price sounds amazing to me. I say this as someone who’s spend thousands on games and now have a large collection of stuff i don’t Know what to do with.

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International internet services and companies are ran much different than the ones in the states. Thank lobbyists for that.

Our internet Speeds are laughable compared to South Korea, Japan and certain European countries

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I imagine this will be an excuse for telecoms to offer up higher priced “gamer package” options. The speeds will probably be faster and data caps higher.

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I’ve really hoped that at some point we’re able to cut the red tape on all the Telecom foolishness we deal with here.

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I have with a PSP, Vita and on my PC with steam link. It still feels like shit.

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Most of the country still dont have high speed board band at home. And Mobile plans?
Pokemon Go already kills alot of people’s Data, try streaming MK 11

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Imagine if there was actually a concerted effort to make that experience viable beyond just something you do when you’re killing time somewhere where your console isn’t.

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Yea but I’m not talking about speed. I’m talking about data caps.

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You know I go our if my way to get physical copies of games imported from Asia as there no US physical game counter part (or limited run games sold out in 5 min).

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Having a physical copy wouldnt solve the issue.
Since i am talking about the characters that were console exclussive at the beginning but were made available later on the different console as DLC.

So no Yoda/Vader even if you have the physical copy of the game (which i do)

Streaming is something that if becomes the main way of playing is pretty much the death sentence of the industry and your rights as a consumer.
The negatives outweight the supposed convenience.

But sadly, we know that people are stupid, and as stupid they are, they will probably eat that shit happily.

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That isn’t a game streaming problem, that’s a Telecom problem. It’ll get sorted out eventually, but just like some areas weren’t immediately able to have broadband of fiber, it’ll be a process of rolling it out. This isn’t going to happen overnight either, streaming probably won’t become “the thing” until the middle of/end of this upcoming generation.

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Telecom problem is everyone’s problem, including Gaming’s if they want to lean on Telecoms like this.

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I find amusing that even my 3rd world country doesnt have shit like data caps like in usa and canada.

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If having a physical copy won’t solve the issue then you’re talking about a separate issue, namely dlc. If anything, having a game streaming platform would also mean the end of rapant dlc (hopefully.)

Why do you think streaming would be a death sentence to the industry?

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I know that if streaming becomes the main way of playing, i am done with gaming.
Will go full retro and pirate.

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Netflix did it and has been ok.