Verno wrote on Dec 3, 2020, 15:39:

Bill Borre wrote on Dec 3, 2020, 12:38:
It's also available on Stadia. I don't understand the hate generated here for this platform. I've got half a dozen games here and they've all been fine. The only glitch so far was the audio on Fallen Order got out of sync but I don't know if that's latency related. I picked up Rage 2 on sale and I've been enjoying it much more than the first one.

I don't know if hate is the right word but there are only a few upsides contrasted against the many downsides that JD mentioned. I would pretty much rather buy into any other platform at this point. Obviously do what's right for yourself but given Google's spotty track record, their general launch and the lack of any significant upside, I see no reason to bother.

The one streaming service I was ever a little bit interested in was NVidia's. When they first announced you could stream any game in your Steam library. They kind of forgot to tell the publishers they were doing that, so a bunch pulled out, so now it's a lot more limited.

One thing I don't understand (and I said at the time of the NVidia story) is why someone doesn't offer virtual machines optimized for game streaming on which you could install your O/S, then Steam, then whatever game you wanted. This should be able to bypass any publisher complaints.