• Pennomi@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Cloud gaming is effectively impossible due to little things like the speed of light. Sure, you could play Civilization via cloud but good fucking luck with competitive shooters.

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      That and the US being such a large market while having some of the worst internet in the developed world. Last I read only ¼ of the network is fiber

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        1 day ago

        I play games over 4G happily. Not likely to work very well with game streaming. Especially if everyone else is. I did it during covid and it was ok but input lag was noticeable. SSH dwarf fortress and got into cdda was a better experience.

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        19 hours ago

        Yeah but the ones that have shit internet don’t have money to pay for the games anyways

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        22 hours ago

        As with anything these techbro oligarchs comes up with. Unfortunately they do have the power to bend reality to their twisted wills.

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      Would be cool to play civ5 on a long term server.

      I’m thinking something that emails you when its your turn too. Like playing chess over mail.

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      23 hours ago

      I completed Nier Automata via GeForce Now just fine. Competitive shooters maybe not, but that’s just a subset of gaming anyway.

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        21 hours ago

        Shooters aren’t garbage to people who like them. Different people prefer different games.