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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 41 points 5 hours ago (11 children)

Cloud gaming is effectively impossible due to little things like the speed of light. Sure, you could play Civilization via cloud but good fucking luck with competitive shooters.

[–] Golden@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

That and the US being such a large market while having some of the worst internet in the developed world. Last I read only ¼ of the network is fiber 

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 hour ago

I live in France, has fantastic fibre, would still hate to play civilisation "in the cloud".

There is just no incentive to do so IMO. Even a cheap mobile phone can render well enough, and I just hate any kind of even "possible" lag.

/Rant off 😋

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I play games over 4G happily. Not likely to work very well with game streaming. Especially if everyone else is. I did it during covid and it was ok but input lag was noticeable. SSH dwarf fortress and got into cdda was a better experience.

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