Huh? You might say. That makes no sense. WoW is fundamentally about playing online. So is Google Stadia
The many topics and comments on this forum essientially port begging for a downloadable cloud game are missing the entire point.
Yes, the current Stadia launch library consists of PC ports. But that is not the long term vision. If Stadia consists of just PC ports in two or three years from now, it will have failed.
The point of Stadia is to create cloud-first games. Games designed from the ground up for cloud computing, and that could never be replicated on a local machine. That means leveraging the power of the data center, not building a game that will work on the most common video card.
I understand why many people might not get this, because Google seemingly rushed this service out without a flagship cloud-native title. But the idea that Stadia would allow you to download tiles is antithetical to the entire approach. If Stadia succeeds, there will quickly be many Stadia-only titled that will literally be impossible to port.
Stadia is not a fancy version of remote play. It's a rethinking of how games are designed.
The many topics and comments on this forum essientially port begging for a downloadable cloud game are missing the entire point.
Yes, the current Stadia launch library consists of PC ports. But that is not the long term vision. If Stadia consists of just PC ports in two or three years from now, it will have failed.
The point of Stadia is to create cloud-first games. Games designed from the ground up for cloud computing, and that could never be replicated on a local machine. That means leveraging the power of the data center, not building a game that will work on the most common video card.
I understand why many people might not get this, because Google seemingly rushed this service out without a flagship cloud-native title. But the idea that Stadia would allow you to download tiles is antithetical to the entire approach. If Stadia succeeds, there will quickly be many Stadia-only titled that will literally be impossible to port.
Stadia is not a fancy version of remote play. It's a rethinking of how games are designed.
