Tim Sweeney Says Windows Cloud Is Ransomware

[Guest Kloaked]

8 minutes ago, leadeater said:

For the games that require always on internet connection it would be very simple no matter what you do, other than fake the server end/crack the game. Looking at you Ubisoft .

What, you don't like to use UDon'tPlay??

[Misanthrope]

Boy even I think that's a fucking stretch, that should tell you something.

[JAKEBAB]

He's clearly talking about the future when everyone's "PC" is just a client the size of a credit card.

[Guest Kloaked]

31 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

Boy even I think that's a fucking stretch, that should tell you something.

Such a stretch that it left a stretch mark on Tim's mom.

 

 

 

..or something

[Blake]

5 hours ago, Kloaked said:

You technically don't own games bought on Steam either.

my consumer rights are telling you off. That's the thing about having consumer rights, you wonder how people can even think of these stupid anti-consumer shenanigans. @leadeater will have it even better across the moat.

[leadeater]

16 minutes ago, Blake said:

my consumer rights are telling you off. That's the thing about having consumer rights, you wonder how people can even think of these stupid anti-consumer shenanigans. @leadeater will have it even better across the moat.

I have a moat? Who installed that, I authorized no such thing. I want a refund!

[Blake]

2 minutes ago, leadeater said:

I have a moat? Who installed that, I authorized no such thing. I want a refund!

Yeah some guy named Tasman just left it here. 

[shermantanker]

6 hours ago, nerdslayer1 said:

that's a streaming service whare you stream your games across a handheld or couch. grid is a platform stream you stream from Nvidia server. 

I may be wrong, but as far as I know it still is streaming games you own through steam/origin/uplay

[The Sloth]

13 minutes ago, shermantanker said:

I may be wrong, but as far as I know it still is streaming games you own through steam/origin/uplay

i though it plays it in your computer and stream through to your handheld or sheld.  

[Fetzie]

This is just the operating system that Microsoft will offer for ultra cheap devices. Given that it is unlikely that any games would actually run on the devices this OS is aimed at, I think the hype is rather exaggerated.

[cj09beira]

for those who like to listen:

 

[tlink]

8 hours ago, Schubaltz said:

I am aware of that, but it's essentially stealing another company's game which Microsoft would be trying to profit from; it's never going to happen and Tim Sweeney is just fear mongering.

it wouldn't since its still microsofts software. they can block you from installing programs all they want because you don't own your computer if it has windows installed.

[AlTech]

Can everybody stop fucking losing their minds?

 

Thank you.

 

Windows Cloud is not meant for gaming. Windows Cloud is meant to compete in the EDUCATION market. I would like to try a Windows Cloud enabled cheap notebook sometime in the future.

[vanished]

13 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Windows Cloud is not meant for gaming. Windows Cloud is meant to compete in the EDUCATION market. 

That's really the core of this.  There's literally no need to panic about Windows Cloud stealing your games any more than there is Android stealing them.  Both are an OS other than (full desktop) Windows which:

1. will not run them,
2. is completely unrelated,
3. is completely optional

I do not understand where Sweeney is coming from here...

[suicidalfranco]

8 hours ago, Schubaltz said:

Yeaaaah, if this happens there will be a large lawsuit. They don't own the games, they can't take them from you.

they also don't own the hardware on which you install the OS but that won't stop ms's from acting like they own it

[Trik'Stari]

9 hours ago, Schubaltz said:

Yeaaaah, if this happens there will be a large lawsuit. They don't own the games, they can't take them from you.

You don't own the operating system you purchased from them. You agree to their terms of service.

 

Basically, they have a permit, signed by you, the end user, that says "We can do what we want" because no one reads their terms of service.

[ThreePinkApples]

His tweets about Windows 10 Could just shows how crazy he is. Nobody will be force to use Windows 10 Cloud, it isn't meant for a gaming PC, it's meant for lightweight PCs. 

It's a Chrome OS competitor ffs, only cheap laptops are going to come with Cloud pre-installed. Windows 10 Home will still be the norm

[samiscool51]

9 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

iTunes does it with your music apparently  

annnnnnnd thats why i don't use it

to annoying to work with and unable to use it on my main phone?

f**k that i'm using google play music

[Trixanity]

I think the guy has lost his marbles.

 

This makes no sense. Microsoft can't do that. The devices running Windows Cloud would be running cheap hardware; likely many will be fanless ARM designs. Gaming won't really be possible nor is it the intended use and certainly not targeting that audience.

[Guest Kloaked]

6 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I do not understand where Sweeney is coming from here...

That's why I shittyshopped a tinfoil hat onto him with some other stuff

[AresKrieger]

15 hours ago, Kloaked said:

You technically don't own games bought on Steam either.

And they wonder why I won't buy from them, GOG is the only distributor I respect

[Tieox]

If MS really wanted to fubar Steam it would open the gates for Apple to do something crazy with Vulcan or something ( I'm not up on GPU coding ) and enter the market, sure it would be stupidly expensive but it would be a knife into the back for a hurting MS which now, in theory, would have a pissed off userbase.

 

In short, if MS did this it's PR suicide. Windows Cloud is just an educational tool, that will likely be dead years after it's release given how most ISP's in the Uk at least are tight-fisted with upload bandwidth, and I imagine an entire school using Windows Cloud would rapidly run into issues with upload saturating the downstream.  Or will have to have network admin cap the upload, slowing productivity.  And even with this in the UK at least most high schools have students bringing their own devices, which run full-fat Windows/MacOS, so what's the point?

 

 

[shermantanker]

8 hours ago, nerdslayer1 said:

i though it plays it in your computer and stream through to your handheld or sheld.  

I was talking about that grid thing that is running on their servers.

[SansVarnic]

Sweeney blows out a lot of hot air from the South end [if you get the meaning] ...

[Notional]

Remember when this moron whined about the Windows store and how it was going to kill steam? I know he loves OpenGL/Linux, and probably why he's going full retard, but it's not fun anymore. He just sounds like he lost his mind and rambles like a looney.