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So I can only speak to the pros of Rainway and why we have so many people adopting it as their go-to-solution. We put your games first. We don' t believe in th
by andrewmd5 8y ago
So I can only speak to the pros of Rainway and why we have so many people adopting it as their go-to-solution.
We put your games first. We don' t believe in the traditional remote desktop approach and want to remove all the friction from game streaming. (https://blog.rainway.io/our-core-mission-games-first-78671e496201 https://blog.rainway.io/our-core-mission-games-first-78671e4...)
We're clientless, this means you can open any web browser like Chrome and start playing on any number of devices -- both inside and outside your home.
We use common web traffic to prevent being blocked by most networks, this allows us to have a higher chance of connecting even on lock downed networks (schools, office).
We're really fast. You can play games like Destiny 2 on a Chromebook at 1080P 60 FPS.(https://twitter.com/Andrewmd5/status/1009758915305730051 https://twitter.com/Andrewmd5/status/1009758915305730051)
We are aiming to release on every major platform we can. Phones and game consoles alike.
We constantly give back, through open source releases or community fixes -- we really believe in the principle of supporting the community that supports us.
For the more technical questions, Rainway can run on Intel, AMD and NVIDIA systems and we're highly optimized for all three and test on all ranges of hardware from those providers. Our biggest weakness right now would be our lack of native mobile apps, but that isn't slowing us down. (https://twitter.com/Andrewmd5/status/1009852188724625408 https://twitter.com/Andrewmd5/status/1009852188724625408)
I'm the CEO of Rainway, so of course, I like our product and I'd encourage you to join our discord (https://rain.gg/discord https://rain.gg/discord) and ask users for their opinion.
- sarreph 8y agoThanks for your feedback. I did find a verbatim copy of your response in a reddit thread[0] while I was waiting — but I guess it serves me wrong for not doing my research :) As this is a canned response, it doesn't really do a great job, in my opinion, of comparing Parsec and Rainway directly. I can look into the tech myself and make a comparison that way. For a more direct question: do you have any plans to sell customers cloud rack-space directly through Rainway? [0] - https://www.reddit.com/r/cloudygamer/comments/8tntdt/parsec_vs_rainway/ https://www.reddit.com/r/cloudygamer/comments/8tntdt/parsec_...
- andrewmd5 8y agoCurrently, we have no short-term plans to offer cloud services -- we see more than enough people installing Rainway on existing providers, so we are focusing on building a solid consumer offering. There is no telling how that changes down the line.
- amaccuish 8y agoThanks for the awesome software, I'll definitely be giving this a go. May I ask, what's the plan for monetisation?
- rpedela 8y agoWhat is the business model?
- pmarreck 8y agoIf my gaming PC has an UWQHD display and I want to stream to a standard MacBook 15" display, do you have any advice to avoid extreme letterboxing/super-small UI?