Important point of clarification- this is about streaming from the cloud, using an Xbox or GPU in the cloud to play the game. This makes sense as buying the game or not, you are still using cloud resources.
Xbox Remote Play, which runs the game on your home Xbox and streams from your house to wherever you are, is free.
This is an important note, the headline grabbed my attention but isn’t entirely accurate.
Xbox Developers: Hell yeah! Playstation is shooting themselves in the foot. All we have to do is sit back and we’ll kill it.
Xbox Business : or… hold my beer.
If I saw what emulation and decomp/recomps are doing I would grab at any penny I saw.
Yeah… no.
There’s no way in Hell.
I will play Archon on my Commodore 64, fuck this noise.
If I bought the game, why would I be streaming it anyway?
Streaming to steam deck is not a bad idea, actually. It gets more battery life and you can do AAA games at 60 FPS
I would just do it from the desktop, though
That is just the intro price. Soon with will be $5 an hour and go up from there if you want a “premium” experience.
Yup, it’ll be the Disney Fast Pass all over again.
We all know, this numbers don’t look sustainable, it will shittyfi once they have your library hostage.
MS just patented ADS on gameplay…
You can thank GeForce NOW switching to an hourly limit model that ended up being successful because people are stupid.
Welcome to the future, my friends, where soon enough you will not be able to own your own at-home compute because it’s too expensive, and instead you’ll just have to pay hourly to use someone else’s compute.
In France they call it le compute
That wouldn’t be bad value if it actually included the games.
And sunlight/moonlight will only cost you your own electricity to run your computer as you stream.
F that MB BS crap.
I dont think anyone should pay a dime for this, but i also dont see what is so horrendously wrong about it, IF it was only applied to new purchases. Nothing retroactive.
Streaming takes up compute. Maybe if they charged more for the games, but they should actually charge less. But that wont happen either. Regular price for a streamed game with fee is a terrible thing.
Wow, I almost reflexively downvoted this post just because I hate it so much
Computers could have been so cool, instead they’re all just becoming shitty slot machines.
On top of the purchase price? Yikes, no thank you.
Linux sever at home + sunshine for stream. MS can eat a dick.
This is why I am amassing a library of games and media that can all be consumed locally. The day that becomes the default is the day I stop paying for any of that. I don’t need “the new thing” or “you must watch this”. I have plenty of stuff to keep me entertained till the end of time.
The bitch is going to be components but I’m making sure I can work with things across multiple generations and have spares just in case.
