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Lol how about bringing Game Pass to Macs, iPads, the Deck and so on. You know, before hell freezes over. The difference being that Valve and Apple might actually welcome it. I really don’t see Sony and Nintendo ever agreeing to it. 😂
Iirc the reason why its not on iOS is because apple mandates each cloud title be a seperate entry in the store and not a hub to select a game. Its the same reason why geforce now requires you to use it over safrai browser and cannot be in the store.
Fuck Apple’s chokehold people’s pocket computers.
Their behavior on iOS has been intolerable for sixteen years running.
The thing stopping them from putting it on iOS devices was probably the fact that Apple would take a chunk off the top through App store fees. EU just ruled that they can fuck themselves and alternative storefronts must be made available on the platform.
From memory Apple rejected game pass on iOS because they wanted Microsoft to submit every game (even though they’re all streamed) as separate apps on the App Store to comply with the age rating systems.
Well, they will probably just avoid this entirely likely by launching an MS store. It would likely have a lot of Progressive Web Apps since those are pretty universal.
You’re right about that. You can still access game streaming on iOS through the PWA though.
The thing stopping them from putting it on iOS devices was probably the fact that Apple would take a chunk off the top through App store fees.
Just like Microsoft does on Xbox.
EU just ruled that they can fuck themselves and alternative storefronts must be made available on the platform.
No, they didn’t. For now the only thing the EU ruled is that Apple is one of six(?) digital gatekeepers. No consequences for now. Some consequence will come but it’s not a straight ruling to allow competing app stores as you claimed.
You can do cloud gaming through a browser, but not the same as native.
Valve can’t really stop it. The Deck’s just linux under the hood. That’s a big part of why I bought it.
But the way people have to bend over backwards to get Game Pass running on it kinda sucks. I’m a sub, and when I open the Deck I’m already dreading how much of a headache it’ll be.
Wait, it actually works? I thought the UWP base was a non-starter.
I’d maybe consider subbing every so often if it supported Linux. I’d more seriously consider it if it supported Steam Deck with a decent UI. But I’m not going to bend over backwards for a service I’m paying monthly for, that’s just silly.
Streaming “works”. As well as streaming does, which is mediocre.
You can’t locally run gamepass games unless you install windows on the deck.
The only way to get it on the Deck is with cloud gaming or by installing Windows.
Ew, no thanks. If M$ wants my business, they can make a client for Linux, or at least make it compatible with WINE/Proton.
As @[email protected] said, streaming works.
Unlike him, however, I’ve had a fair bit of luck streaming (on my computer. The Deck is my Christmas present from my wife). Starfield of all games. Good framerate, usually low controller-latency. That streaming thing is finally starting to improve. Finally.
I’d only consider using game pass if games wouldn’t rotate out of it. I want to replay stuff. Even worse, I don’t want to lose access mid-playthrough.
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All the first party developer acquisitions are the way MS are fighting against the rotation.
ABK games gonna be crown jewels.
Understandable. Xbox pays developers to have their games on GP and most games are on a timed contract. Xbox owned games are the exception. There are also a few games on gamepass that have been there for what feels like always, Slay the Spire, Monster Train, Monster Sanctuary, and many of the RyuGaGotoku games were on there, had the contract time out, then MSoft and RGG brought them back to Gamepass
No way Nintendo or Sony agree to it considering they have their own services, but I hope “Every Screen Possible” means they’re thinking of Steam Deck/Linux?
I mean, they did put up an official guide on how to use their cloud gaming on the Deck. But it would sure be nice if they enabled a way to play the games locally.
I mean, they did put up an official guide on how to use their cloud gaming on the Deck.
Yeah they told everyone to download Edge and stream the games which is hilarious and not practical at all.
Nintendo and Sony, probably: “End your own hardware line and we can talk.”
I always heard that consoles were sold at a loss and made up for with services. Sounds like the logical continuation of this saga is for MS to give up the hardware game so long as Gamepass generates more income due to being on virtually every platform.
They won’t even need to sell an expensive console, they want to sell a “streaming stick” and stream games to it.
This is what Amazon does already with Luna.
It’s what Google wanted to do with Stadia.
Fire Sticks can already Bluetooth connect to controllers and I have Moonlight installed on mine so I can stream games from my desktop to my TV downstairs. It’s not even that intensive on hardware.
How is this current news? This has been the strategy for the last 3 years with Gamepass. Who cares about consoles and exclusives when you just provide a rental service across-the-board.
Their strategy is to curate a good rental library and just deploy it everywhere there’s a screen and internet connectivity.
Right now the block on mobile which the EU just obliterated was store exclusivity taking a percentage, but even Apple will have to allow other storefronts on their devices.
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I have it on PC. There are a lot of games on it, but only about 10 I really want to play. I have PS+ highest tier and I feel the same way.
I think these services are like cable: 120+ channels, 5 thinks worth watching.
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FFXIV runs well on Linux with the equivalent hardware you would have used for Windows. Maybe less, actually.
Only thing that doesn’t work, which you wouldn’t have used on console would be a shader mod, but that’s splitting hairs.
I’ve run FFXIV on Arch (EndeavorOS) and Fedora (Silverblue) and they both perform on par or better than running the game on Windows.
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Yeah I have a T480S and it barely runs WoW Classic. I’ll sometimes do light games the iGPU is capable of. Most of the time I use my desktop to run games, and if I want to play it on this machine, I’ll use Moonlight and Sunshine to stream over to it from the desktop. That machine is a 3090 paired with a 12700KF though. It runs whatever I want it to.
I don’t have off-LAN game streaming working entirely just yet, but with ZeroTier you can theoretically run everything remotely - my upload speed is probably the limiting factor there, but the internet works well enough otherwise for Plex streaming off-LAN.
A Deck would probably run FFXIV pretty well, and with the form factor of a controller that you’re used to playing with.
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Firefox and GNU Emacs
Lynx and VIM are superior. /s
Emacs: Eighty megs and contantly swapping.
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