[HN Gopher] Ubisoft will let you transfer your Stadia purchases ...
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       Ubisoft will let you transfer your Stadia purchases to PC
        
       Author : alexrustic
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2022-09-30 19:06 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | midislack wrote:
       | All this time and they never solved the latency problem. Which of
       | course is a fundamental physics issue.
        
         | Rebelgecko wrote:
         | I've at least tried out all of the main game streaming options
         | (GeForce Now, XCloud, Stadia, Steam Link, Parsec, etc). Maybe
         | it depends on what games you play or your skill level, but
         | latency/jitter has really only been an issue with using self-
         | hosted options like Steam Link/Moonlight from a network with
         | low upload bandwidth. And to some extent with OnLive, which
         | doesn't exist any more.
        
         | cdumler wrote:
         | Latency is always a problem for multiplayer, whether on local
         | LAN or not. A lot of it comes down to how well the game engine
         | deals with latency. I play Guild Wars 2 on GeForce now given
         | that I have a Mac. Works just fine on normal days.
        
           | spicybright wrote:
           | Isn't this something different though? You're downloading
           | video and uploading game inputs, not passing game data
           | around.
        
         | bno1 wrote:
         | Their "negative latency" thing really didn't sound practical at
         | all for games where latency matters.
        
       | lern_too_spel wrote:
       | Even if Stadia refunds it?
        
         | ezekg wrote:
         | It's free real estate.
        
       | 98codes wrote:
       | Doesn't really matter because of the Stadia refunds, but if they
       | can figure out how to migrate the save files, that'll be
       | something.
        
         | sebazzz wrote:
         | Save files should be downloadable from Google Takeout
        
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