Re: You know what I want?

On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:05:27 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

So it got me thinking; you know what would be neat? A *personal*
OnLive server, run from my house that could stream the games in my
library to any compatible device I happened to have in front of me.
Now *that* is something I could get behind. 

Hey 2010 me, this is me from 2025. Are you happy now? 'Cause you got
what you want! Home-streaming is one of the many features included in
Steam and I can do exactly what I wished for.


Sorry... while searching for an old article I happened to stumble
across this post of mine, and it amused me that what I thought
incredibly unlikely in 2010 is now such an unexceptional add-in that
most people don't even know it exists.

I've actually used Steam's built-in streaming to use the big at-home
gaming rig to play games my much-less powerful laptop struggled with.
It works fairly well; my biggest complaint isn't so much to do with
the streaming but having to play on a tiny laptop screen with a tiny
laptop keyboard. But the actual streaming works pretty well. In 2010,
I had a hard time imagining an ordinary PC could not only run a game
at ultra-settings but also compress and send the video over the
Internet.

I think my original assertion that had OnLive

      [Remember OnLive? They were a very early cloud-gaming
       streaming service, like GeForce Now except worse and
       more expensive]

sold their server software as a stand-alone product, they probably
would have lasted longer. I most likely would have bought it anyway.
But I guess it all worked out in the end, seeing as now I get the same
thing for free with Steam.