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This makes me shed a solitary tear for Google Reader :'( And another solitary tear from the other eye for Google Inbox :,(
Vote with your wallet and choices. Use non-Google tooling whenever possible.
Although Stadia might fail, I see cloud gaming (i.e. streaming A/V) as a revolution for multiplayer games. We can now have all kinds of complicated physics and particle engines, since all players are known to experience the exact same “world model”. It might help a lot with anti-cheat technology as well. It’s pretty exciting!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Modern multiplayer games already do the "world model" calculations on the server, with clients simply rendering the little data they have.
Then what’s stopping us from making a MMORPG with the physics of a simulator?
Of course I'm just theorising - it could be an idea that no-one's implemented yet.
Although Stadia might fail, I see cloud gaming (i.e. streaming A/V) as a revolution for multiplayer games. We can now have all kinds of complicated physics and particle engines, since all players are known to experience the exact same “world model”. It might help a lot with anti-cheat technology as well. It’s pretty exciting!
Hardcore gamers may not like it, but it's hard to argue against the observation that the overall trend everywhere is towards hosted services. Yes, there are some limitations imposed by physics but applications requiring specific high-performance local [client] hardware are going to be increasingly niche. (As, arguably, a lot of the most hardware-intensive gaming already is in the scheme of the population as a whole.)
I'm not a hardcore gamer -- I think hardcore gamers would call me a "casual gamer". But Stadia is not interesting to me at all. It offers tons of important limitations, and brings no actual benefit that I can see.
What is going on with Google? I used to think Google had the best product team in the world. In some ways I thought they defined what modern product management is/was. Now I have no clue what they are thinking with their product launches as of late. All of their products (and marketing) invoke this conservative, risk-adverse blandness that tries to appeal to everyone and in turn appeals to no one.
Gaming is big business, Google wants to own the consumer relationship so it can force publishers to advertise/sell through them.
Although Stadia might fail, I see cloud gaming (i.e. streaming A/V) as a revolution for multiplayer games. We can now have all kinds of complicated physics and particle engines, since all players are known to experience the exact same “world model”. It might help a lot with anti-cheat technology as well. It’s pretty exciting!
Modern multiplayer games already do the "world model" calculations on the server, with clients simply rendering the little data they have.
Although Stadia might fail, I see cloud gaming (i.e. streaming A/V) as a revolution for multiplayer games. We can now have all kinds of complicated physics and particle engines, since all players are known to experience the exact same “world model”. It might help a lot with anti-cheat technology as well. It’s pretty exciting!
Modern multiplayer games already do the "world model" calculations on the server, with clients simply rendering the little data they have.
Sorry, but pet peeve. Shutdown is not a verb. (should be "shut down") http://notaverb.com/shutdown
And I'd rather take it from Merriam-Webster than someone's belabored "notaverb.com" hobby horse.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shutdown
First known use of shut down as verb: 1779.
If your issue is merely with the lack of a space, then it just seems petty to me, like getting technical about raincoat vs rain coat.
Nice joke and nice irony. I actually think that Stadia will be very successful in the long run, and I think Google will never shut it down. Same for GCP. (Just IMHO, and not much to substantiate my prediction.)