What do you think of this project and cloud gaming in general? I thought it’s dead already

  • abeltramo@lemmy.world
    33·
    6 months ago

    Not fully open source and trying to get paid subscriptions even before having a product doesn’t sound too good to me…

    • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.mlOP
      91·
      6 months ago

      Well you do need paid subscriptions in such services. Nobody will buy hundreds of $2000 GPUs and give them for free use

      • Telorand@reddthat.com
        7·
        6 months ago

        Even the Fediverse isn’t free. Running functional public instances costs money, and thank goodness for everyone who contributes to theirs.

          • Telorand@reddthat.com
            21·
            6 months ago

            Well, sure. But the point is that server administration isn’t free and it still requires somebody to actually do the administration. Open source is great, but people have to eat, and getting fair compensation for your effort isn’t an unreasonable ask.

            • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.mlOP
              2·
              6 months ago

              Some people just want to do good things to others if they can. They get some donations and more importantly love and respect from the community. It’s enough for them, at least as long as the project doesn’t become very popular. Unfortunately many people now don’t care about anything except money so they can’t understand. And the problem with paid subscriptions is more about privacy I think

    • SteveTech@programming.devEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      Just curious, what parts aren’t open source? At a glance it seems like they’re working on supporting self hosting and I couldn’t find any binaries.

  • variants@possumpat.ioEnglish
    116·
    6 months ago

    Cloud gaming is definitely the future, I stuck a oldish amd video card in my server and use it for plex transcoding and steam headless so van play a decent amount games on my phone anywhere I have 5g, I hardly turn on my gaming desktop anymore and opted for a thin client laptop.

    • Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works
      121·
      6 months ago

      self hosted cloud going you might be right. But I’m currently forced to use geforce now to play fortnite with my wife cause Epic hates Linux and goddamn is it a miserable experience.