But why won’t people just use the devices they have today to play such a game? I don’t even know how many physical CPU cores Google will give each machine, but

But why won’t people just use the devices they have today to play such a game? I don’t even know how many physical CPU cores Google will give each machine, but imagine running Civ on some server grade processors with tons of cores. That could actually be a good experience but I doubt Google could make money if they were generous in this way.