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[AberdeenGus]

Just.. amazing, and this looks like the new revolutionary way to play games.. you won't expect what I mean until you read, and as a dedicated gamer please take the time to read this..

and be amazed.
http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/965/965535p1.html

[AberdeenGus]

Also apologies if this should be in the Misc. section of the forum, if so could an admin kindly move it there!

[bambam]

Gus do you seriously think this has a snowball in hells chance of actually working ?

[Thundercat]

The only way this could work is if its some sorta VNC player for games but that would be just shit as it will be mr MPEG and hell standard DVDs are bad enough when it comes to action parts.

If its just downloads..... well dur Steam... been there done that pissed off with it already.

Cant play games when not online that you already paid for.... yea thats great!

[MudShark]

Yeah - I read somewhere today - think of the bandwidth! 700Mbyte/hour was mentioned.
1.5meg/s for the standard feed and 5meg/s for hi deff. So the hi deff will chew up 2.2gigbyte per hour of your bandwidth cap.

I dunno about you but mine is 50gig a MONTH!

That gives me 20 hours a month of gaming! woot! (assuming nobody else wants to use internets )

and it will probably be shit too.

[Sparx]

Sounds ace in theory but i want to try it first but it does look amazing

[JohnMcClane]

Bandwidth caps still exist?
Tbh I don't like the sound of this, and I hope it doesn't catch on. The way Valve are doing it with Steam is the most logical way to me.

[AberdeenGus]

But imagine the thousands of pounds you could save on upgrading your PC! Could be spent elsewhere.. like Slarty's "Brothel of man-love".

[MudShark]

Here is think broadbands slant on the issue:

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3916 ... ments.html