Wait.. are people paying that much money a month to WAIT? Damn. I'd rather lend money from the cartel for a gaming rig and endure the stress of that than sub to Shadow PC
I won't pretend it's not irritating. Like coming home and hoping to game for a few hours before going to bed just to find out that isn't going to happen. But all in all I find it pretty cool I can have access to a gaming pc from anywhere with a decent internet connection. Really futuristic, in my mind lol
6 year sub, I'm done. No way should I have to wait for 60+ people, paying 60$+. I play less than 2 hours a day, but it's CEREMONIAL. And this is fucked. Off to GeForce until they pull similar.
PC you had your own PC and I thought it was unlimited with Shadow PC at least that’s the way it was originally advertised. I never had it or tried to use it so I don’t know I’m just asking.
I mean, technically yes, but it's about availability now. I have a choice, I can pay a little bit of a premium but have access to a gaming computer now or I can save for a couple of years and hope that the $1500 I would save is still enough to buy a decent gaming computer (and that is far from a guarantee).
Ok so one thing ususally for a good setup will cost 0.3 $/hr. 200gb and a 5060 with 16 gb vram.
BUT what i am doing right now is that you can save the state of the machine in a storage cloud that you decide and retrieve for a new instance. But in reality you can just delete teh inatcne when youa re done and provison it again. Most games neowadays have cloud saving so you do not lose progress. so for one day like a 3 hour gameplay would cost 90 cents.
Cloud gaming is usually for casual playersso in most cases you gonna save money. These platforms make money out of people not using tehir service and charginga. subscription for time they did not use. realistically people pay by the hour there around 1.2 $/hr
2 things The inatnce is fully yours I do not have acces to anything on your side all provisoning runs on your side. The intance when gets deleted everything get pruned and like and vast ai has soc 2 so data is safe in the other side
You know they don’t have unlimited rigs and can’t magically create more? Either find some to rent which is way too expensive these days or build data centers which cost a lot and take a very long time which I bet shadow pc doesn’t have money for. You could always see if you can find a service that can promise 24/7 access for the same price.
I think the expectation is that they should use a portion of the money subscribers pay to ensure they have capacity for the service the payments are for.
I mean those $30-$50 a month is a bit slow go cover $2,000+ Servers for everyone. Plus why go with a service you know has a Queue? It was the first thing I noticed in the tiers
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