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Like anything the desirability of this solution comes down to whether it's better than what you otherwise have access to. 
 
I can't see a point in the future when I will be able to afford a 1080 (let alone a 2080 though I guess they'll be going for $50 eventually). If this service was being offered within my region and I was close enough for the latency to be low I'd be interested. I have no doubt I'd be getting better performance than with my current FX8350/RX480 setup. And that's what I've recently upgraded to. I've been playing with lag and low frame rates on old games for years. I'm currently enjoying reasonable performance on ok settings in BF4. 
 
Typically people only look at these solutions in terms of their own context. 'It doesn't apply to me so it shouldn't exist'. I could get into some BF5 with a bit of latency for a monthly fee. I could also see running a design business from a shared workspace on a cheap laptop and almost no overhead. 
 
Definitely see a future for this sort of thing but as people have pointed out it's about infrastructure. I'm on unlimited fibre at the arse end of the world so I guess we're getting there.

Like anything the desirability of this solution comes down to whether it's better than what you otherwise have access to. 
 
I can't see a point in the future when I will be able to afford a 1080 (let alone a 2080 though I guess they'll be going for $50 eventually). If this service was being offered within my region and I was close enough for the latency to be low I'd be interested. I have no doubt I'd be getting better performance than with my current FX8350/RX480 setup. And that's what I've recently upgraded to. I've been playing with lag and low frame rates on old games for years. I'm currently enjoying reasonable performance on ok settings in BF4. 
 
Typically people only look at these solutions in terms of their own context. 'It doesn't apply to me so it shouldn't exist'. I could get into some BF5 with a bit of latency for a monthly fee. I could also see running a design business from a shared workspace on a cheap laptop and almost no overhead. 
 
Definitely see a future for this sort of thing but as people have pointed out it's about infrastructure. I'm on unlimited fibre at the arse end of the world so I guess we're getting there.

I've tested it here in germany with a low latency connection (about 9ms to the Host's public IP via our own AS  -> Telia -> cogent -> blade), a normal Coax uplink (150/10 40-60ms unitymedia -> cogent -> blade) & a VDSL (250/40 22ms german telekom -> hupus -> blade) uplink.
Also tested Mobile connection on Train.... fail.
The wired uplinks worked fine, I've didn't notice any "lagging".
Only downside is, that my w520 & x201 GPU's does not like decoding of the stream, because I can hear the sound of the Hitman shooting, but had a decoding delay of about 300-800ms. So I'm more into this oldschool type of computing and because of that the GPU's Video Engine can't get the performance needed.
Alternativly I also test it on my old AMD Phenom 9750 + ATI HD5770 and on my NUC with i5-5250u, then it works fine.
Also the Steam link was able to run gread with a small hack - Setup a VPN endpoint on your home firewall, configure the VPN target on the shadow system, establish connection, tell the steam link the VPN IP of the shadow... works for me.
And because Valve stop selling their link, the ghost will be an alternative as soon it gets buyable. Hope they bring dual or 3 monitor clients soon. Because I use this as a working setup. In my Main house (weekend) & my work flat I've a fixed monitor setup that I can't carry around 3 times a week and having local computers also does not make any sense. Yes I have laptops, but because of my needs, they can't be newer then 2***/3*** gen cpu's (legacy bios needed).