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[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dingaling! They will rent it to you and it will have latency issues, but who cares money.

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I will say technologically my trials of both Google Stadia and Xbox Live Play Anywhere were both impressive and ran well for single player and co-op games. But the idea of actually paying an ongoing fee to play my games? Fuck that.

[–] kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People said this about movies too, don't be too optimistic

[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, perhaps they'll start bundling network play time with the game and we won't have a choice aside from playing our existing games.