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You may speak for yourself but you most certainly do not speak for every consumer, regardless of how many superlatives you use. I, for one, prefer the subscrip

• robbs 6y ago
  The nationwide fibre in NZ means that latency from Auckland to anywhere with fibre is very low. Cloud gaming could arrive in NZ just as soon as Azure does!
• ineedasername 6y ago
  I found Adobe opaque and difficult to work with. Subscriptions are presented with an $x/month but you have to pay for a year. Cancelling, at least at the time I last dealt with them, was also very difficult: I paid for a year, but then wanted to cancel auto-renewal: Nope! I'd have to wait until the last 30 days of my subscription. Since then I've decided to suck it up and deal with Gimp and Inkscape even if they lack some features and feel a bit clunky at times.
  • hackerbob 6y ago
    If you only need the basic stuff , lookup application portables.
• AlphaSite 6y ago
  I think the problem with Cloud gaming is the latency. And the network requirements push it to solving a problem for a very small subset of users (games which where latency doesn't matter can usually dont need cloud gaming).
  • teen 6y ago
    The primary issue is the games catalog, something neither Amazon or Google can crack a dent in
    • ineedasername 6y ago
      Yes. All I want is a latency-optimized EC2 (I'm no twitch gamer, <= 25ms is fine) instance with a decent streaming client on pc/mobile. Let me decide to install steam or epic or origin or whatever and use my own stuff. This is where NVidia went wrong. They're basically providing that sort of thing, but wanted to present it as their own game service as though all the other storefronts were just backend plumbing. Not a bad consumer experience, but also not what publishers are licensing when they stick their game on Steam.
      • erhk 6y ago
        25ms is a huge ask
        • bluescrn 6y ago
          Even locally, on a console, you’ll not get latency (input to visible response on screen) down to 25ms these days. Some LCD TVs alone can add 40-60ms of latency, and software can add another couple of frames. Often 30hz frames, too... Which kind of sucks if you grew up on CRTs and arcade games that often managed much lower latency. But I guess it means that game streaming really could offer a console-like experience if as much non-network latency as possible was eliminated...
          • Moru 6y ago
            I believe that's the joke. I wish latency was getting better but every new thing that comes along moves the acceptance further away. Many don't even notice 500 ms delay from click to something actually happening. On my Atari I often had the feeling something started happening before the mouse button was all the way down.
• alteria 6y ago
  fwiw the Adobe Photography plan requires a 1-year commitment (paid monthly) and has an early termination fee if you do try to cancel, so it's not as straightforward.
• jupp0r 6y ago
  I don't have a controller. Mouse + Keyboard works well in Stadia (I played Doom Eternal). Stable low latency internet is a must though.
• kiddico 6y ago
  > I like that I can dip my toes in and out of the Photoshop ecosystem without having to shell out hundreds up front. I agree, that part is nice. However, once I've dipped in a toe and know I want to OWN it, I can't. The non-saas option is gone. So now I have a perverse incentive to argue against you, for my own sake. Because the more people like you enter a market, the less likely that market is to provide a single purchase product.
• grrowl 6y ago
  > I will not play shooter or strategy games with a controller. I was like you, years ago, but what pulled me to the other side was "couch convenience". Might be similar to the other convenience factors you list. Unless you're playing competitively (where %s matter), there's something great about playing a game like Control while lazing around on the couch