Why build a gaming PC when something like GeForce Now exists?

[igormp]

1 minute ago, ewitte said:

If you don't pay to remove the cap the overage fee in advance, I believe is $10 per 100GB.  So, if you go over 2TB that month will cost you an extra $200.   I have to be careful when I rebuild machines.  Steam is fine but I had to re-install everything on MS, EPIC, etc last time and I had to be extremely careful and still went over 200GB.

I used 1TB in the past week alone, I don't think I'd be able to deal with such silly caps on a daily basis, especially considering that I work from home.

 

My monthly usage is around 2~6TB, so I'm really glad that mostly a US-only thing.

[BondiBlue]

33 minutes ago, igormp said:

It still baffles me how the US have this stupid data cap thing for home connection.

Keep in mind that not all providers in the US have data caps. I have a 500 Mb/s cable connection, and my plan has zero data cap. 

[ewitte]

36 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

Keep in mind that not all providers in the US have data caps. I have a 500 Mb/s cable connection, and my plan has zero data cap. 

My cell phone doesn't but they throttle the crap out of you after 30GB.  Something like 1Mbit/s.

 

EDIT: It looks like I can get unlimited for free on Xfinity redoing my contract at a lower price now...

[Poinkachu]

2 hours ago, igormp said:

I mean, you'd need to use it for over 8 years before such a monster laptop paid off, and by then it'd be already way outdated whereas such cloud service gets regularly upgraded.

Well, true.
Although in a country where internet is bleh (pretty much every non first world country I think) it doesn't matter if the cloud service gets regularly upgraded.
While paying for a better internet to be able to fully enjoy the cloud gaming unhindered means adding to the monthly cost.

But yeah... I don't like the idea of relying too much on internet connection just to play a game I guess :x

[igormp]

4 minutes ago, Poinkachu said:

Although in a country where internet is bleh (pretty much every non first world country I think)

I mean, many 3rd world countries have better internet than some first world ones, and I do talk from experience lol

7 minutes ago, Poinkachu said:

While paying for a better internet to be able to fully enjoy the cloud gaming unhindered means adding to the monthly cost.

I don't think you need better internet, it's more of a matter of having a good provider. The latency won't change if you move from a 100mb to a 500mb plan on the same provider since the infrastructure is likely the same.

 

8 minutes ago, Poinkachu said:

But yeah... I don't like the idea of relying too much on internet connection just to play a game I guess :x

That, however, is pretty much understandable, specially given that you already mentioned that internet in there isn't that good.

[Poinkachu]

2 minutes ago, igormp said:

I mean, many 3rd world countries have better internet than some first world ones, and I do talk from experience lol

I don't think you need better internet, it's more of a matter of having a good provider. The latency won't change if you move from a 100mb to a 500mb plan on the same provider since the infrastructure is likely the same.

 

That, however, is pretty much understandable, specially given that you already mentioned that internet in there isn't that good.

Well, that's one of the problem of my country's internet. Sucky providers as well. The infrastructure.... meh. They're all pretty much uses the same base infra IIRC.

Not to mention the effin data caps that some of them impose but that's another story for another time.

 

There is some providers here that has "Premium Plan" which offers better latency and all, but yeah... the price is not funny for like (What I heard from peoples who used it) 200-300ms ping to google.

 

Oh well I guess, nothing I can do about those

Right now I'm just happy enough my current internet isn't down 25 days out of 30, like the one I used until like 3 years ago.

[diegoaccord]

Can you even mod games without local storage? No. 

 

Then its out of the question.

[ewitte]

Well renegotiating got me 1.5Gbit unlimited data for $12 extra but I also have about $400 in equipment I no longer need...