I'm with you, but I'm pretty impressed by this demo, too. It wouldn't surprise me at all if this concept took over gaming the same way F2P games did. In a perf

I'm with you, but I'm pretty impressed by this demo, too. It wouldn't surprise me at all if this concept took over gaming the same way F2P games did. In a perfect world, I guess ideally publishers would make (at least) a single instance of the server-side game platform available open source, or freely available. Even if the game itself isn't. That way there's at least some way for the game to live on regardless of the lifespan of commercial hosting--even if 99.9% of customers won't want to buy hardware or jump through the hoops to ever deploy it. I don't know how we'd align incentives for that, though. I guess to me there's too much value in having games of this quality as accessible as this demo is, and the forward-looking factors (internet speed, thin client video stream rendering, cloud GPU processing) all point to it becoming more feasible in the future.