Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. The more choices you have, the better. Limiting it will only lead to more problems.
“Cloud” future means that:
1) You don’t own anything, companies can block your account for any reason and bye-bye all your purchases. Or delete games that you boug– i meant to say “rented”, games that you rented, from your gaming library;
2) Less popular or failed games might just vanish one day, completely. And that’s it, you’ll never be able to play those games, because they’re tied to the service (BattleForge says hi, for instance);
3) Do you leave in any remote area with bad internet? Guess you aren’t playing anytime soon. Sounds great, right?
4) Companies can more freely spy on you, your habbits. And sell it to their “partners”. Or someone might “steal” it. You might think it’s not that big of a deal, but advertisers will try to squeeze every byte of information about people to sell you stuff later;
5) Exclusive content will mean you’ll have to buy multiple subscriptions, which might get overwhelming if you aren’t careful. It’s a “you” problem, i know. But it’s still a problem;
6) Content providers control the price. They want to increase the price? Eat it up. No one cares that you can’t afford it. Again, a “you” problem, but cloud-only doesn’t give you any additional choice (please, don’t start about sharing accounts, i can assure you they’ll ban that rather quickly);
7) (if companies will push subscriptions on top of the cloud) Say bye-bye to high budget games, because why spend $300+ million dollars on one game, when you can pay for 10 cheaper games?
8) If anything happens at content provider side (power outage, internet problems, system maintenance), you aren’t playing that day.
And there are more sticky things like that. If you think this is the future, well… Good luck. I don’t want this future. Companies what that so they can the control over you, so they can squeeze even more money from you, make you depend on them. But why anyone else wants that, i have no idea.
I mean, cloud games exists now and guess what – they aren’t doing anything special. It’s just a regular games that tied to a service. Nothing groundbreaking here. And don’t get me started on the “Power of the Cloud” BS.
