> These days though the latency is low enough on the cable connection in my area that I can play FPS perfectly fine. You're not talking about the same kind of

> These days though the latency is low enough on the cable connection in my area that I can play FPS perfectly fine. You're not talking about the same kind of latency problem that these guys face. It seems that this service is sending the player's input to the server, and sending back compressed rendered frames of video. So, the soonest you can see any of your actions is the round-trip time. Current FPS's do a tremendous amount of simulation on the client. Only state information is sent back and forth, and not everything is even in lock-step with the server. It's a completely different architechture.