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Does this mean World of Warcraft will eventually be playable on Ubisoft's competitor to Nvidia's GeforceNow?

KeplerBoy 3y ago
Does Ubisoft even have a competitor to Geforce Now? But presumably they could sell their rights or license them to others, so who knows how this will actually play out.
- slaymaker1907 3y ago
  Yeah, I think the key downside for Microsoft is they can't just make them exclusive to Xbox cloud gaming and they have to treat the Activision titles as if they were buying them from a 3rd party studio.
- c0pium 3y ago
  Yes, Ubisoft’s competitor is xCloud. That’s what the deal that the CMA forced Microsoft to make does.
saghm 3y ago
I don't think "cloud gaming" would include it just because it's a multiplayer game with shared servers; my understanding of cloud gaming is that it refers to games being installed only on the server side with the "UI" being streamed to the player rather than the game itself running locally. I could see some potential ambiguity around what constitutes a full local game versus a client streaming a cloud game, but the World of Warcraft installer requires downloading around 100 GB of data files, which seems pretty clearly not a "cloud" game. That said, I think I remember hearing that Overwatch (or maybe Overwatch 2, I honestly haven't played either and don't have strong enough associations to differentiate between them in what I've read) either is already or is going to be made available to play via Steam, which would be a pretty stark departure from Blizzard's usual insistence on using the Battle.net client for their games, and I wouldn't be surprised if in the long run things get more streamlined between former Blizzard properties and other Microsoft owned games. When the initial deal was announced (back before all of the process around approvals started), I remember a lot of people half-joking that it wouldn't take long for Microsoft to just make WoW subscriptions part of Gamepass, which still doesn't seem _that_ far fetched to me, and I certainly wouldn't be at all surprised if some Blizzard games end up being available through the Microsoft store on Windows. If this does happen, I hope that they don't complete deprecate the "old" ways of launching the games mostly because Blizzard games often work extraordinarily well via Wine, and at least as far as I'm aware, there isn't any super reliable way to install and run games from the Microsoft store on Linux.
- PoignardAzur 3y ago
  Overwatch 2 is on Steam, yeah. That read like a pretty desperate move by Blizzard so keep the game relevant after they announced they were dropping PVE.

Does Ubisoft even have a competitor to Geforce Now? But presumably they could sell their rights or license them to others, so who knows how this will actually play out.

slaymaker1907 3y ago
Yeah, I think the key downside for Microsoft is they can't just make them exclusive to Xbox cloud gaming and they have to treat the Activision titles as if they were buying them from a 3rd party studio.
c0pium 3y ago
Yes, Ubisoft’s competitor is xCloud. That’s what the deal that the CMA forced Microsoft to make does.

saghm 3y ago

I don't think "cloud gaming" would include it just because it's a multiplayer game with shared servers; my understanding of cloud gaming is that it refers to games being installed only on the server side with the "UI" being streamed to the player rather than the game itself running locally. I could see some potential ambiguity around what constitutes a full local game versus a client streaming a cloud game, but the World of Warcraft installer requires downloading around 100 GB of data files, which seems pretty clearly not a "cloud" game. That said, I think I remember hearing that Overwatch (or maybe Overwatch 2, I honestly haven't played either and don't have strong enough associations to differentiate between them in what I've read) either is already or is going to be made available to play via Steam, which would be a pretty stark departure from Blizzard's usual insistence on using the Battle.net client for their games, and I wouldn't be surprised if in the long run things get more streamlined between former Blizzard properties and other Microsoft owned games. When the initial deal was announced (back before all of the process around approvals started), I remember a lot of people half-joking that it wouldn't take long for Microsoft to just make WoW subscriptions part of Gamepass, which still doesn't seem _that_ far fetched to me, and I certainly wouldn't be at all surprised if some Blizzard games end up being available through the Microsoft store on Windows. If this does happen, I hope that they don't complete deprecate the "old" ways of launching the games mostly because Blizzard games often work extraordinarily well via Wine, and at least as far as I'm aware, there isn't any super reliable way to install and run games from the Microsoft store on Linux.

PoignardAzur 3y ago
Overwatch 2 is on Steam, yeah. That read like a pretty desperate move by Blizzard so keep the game relevant after they announced they were dropping PVE.