supernova8
Banned
I was looking at stuff like GeForce Now and Google Stadia and it got me thinking:
Why doesn't Valve just do it themselves?
- GeForce Now sort of does it (it: allows you to connect to your steam account) but not all games are supported from what I can glean from their website.
- Google Stadia has no connection with Steam so you basically would have to rebuy everything or hope something interesting is available in the free games list.
No point having a free Google Stadia account if you need to rebuy all of your games.
If Valve released something like "Steam Cloud" and made it directly connect with your account/library, that would be easier for everyone.
- You (in theory) wouldn't need to have a fancy gaming PC.
- They could set it up so that you pay more depending on how demanding your games are (so people playing eSports type stuff - including CS:GO - pay less).
- They could set it up so that you can "scale" your virtual PC environment (and pay more or less depending on what visual settings you want to use - how much grunt you want).
I'm not an infrastructure engineer so I have no idea how it all works, but Valve had something like this seamlessly connecting to my Steam account I would definitely consider it.
Or maybe.... you think it's bad for one company to have all the power like that.
Thoughts?
Why doesn't Valve just do it themselves?
- GeForce Now sort of does it (it: allows you to connect to your steam account) but not all games are supported from what I can glean from their website.
- Google Stadia has no connection with Steam so you basically would have to rebuy everything or hope something interesting is available in the free games list.
No point having a free Google Stadia account if you need to rebuy all of your games.
If Valve released something like "Steam Cloud" and made it directly connect with your account/library, that would be easier for everyone.
- You (in theory) wouldn't need to have a fancy gaming PC.
- They could set it up so that you pay more depending on how demanding your games are (so people playing eSports type stuff - including CS:GO - pay less).
- They could set it up so that you can "scale" your virtual PC environment (and pay more or less depending on what visual settings you want to use - how much grunt you want).
I'm not an infrastructure engineer so I have no idea how it all works, but Valve had something like this seamlessly connecting to my Steam account I would definitely consider it.
Or maybe.... you think it's bad for one company to have all the power like that.
Thoughts?