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Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought: Time-based a la carte charges come on top of the purchase price for the games themselves. (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

Oh I agree paying to rent a cloud xbox when you have one sitting at home is fucking stupid. A lot of cloud everything is fucking stupid, and I say that as an IT person who's been fighting cloud-itis since the term 'cloud computing' became a thing.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    I see this as a feature most people wouldn't actually use.

    Only use case I'd have for it is wanting a game to render at higher specs while travelling at like a hotel.

    I bought a steam deck for a vacation when it came out. Used it on the flight and that's it. Never played games except at the airport so I was fine rendering at the steam deck.

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