World of Warcraft runs on Facebook with Gaikai

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Posted at 12:29pm on Wed 18 January 2012
VG_Staff Posts: 18,023	0 0 World of Warcraft runs on Facebook with Gaikai Cloud gaming service Gaikai has teamed up with Facebook to offer users demos of games like World of Warcraft. Read Article Report Reply

Posted at 12:29pm on Wed 18 January 2012
FantasyMeister Posts: 4,002	0 0 In response to Topic Cloud gaming service Gaikai has teamed up with Facebook to offer users demos of games like World of Warcraft. Read Article » Go to VG_Staff's original post My experiences with cloud gaming lead me to belief that latency is a myth, it's just something people say because it makes them sound technical and the word seriously needs to be struck out in all articles pertaining to cloud gaming services. The biggest hit to my latency on PC is my PC itself running all those superfluous programs in the background and dropping my framerate and response times seemingly at whim. It loves to hit me with Windows Updates during PvP matches and my antivirus enjoys annoying me during bossfights. Everyone who plays WoW plays under these similar conditions, I'd argue that all the addons a lot of them use affect their latency much more than playing through a Facebook app would. In the end, a little fine tuning to your PC system and everything should equal out, although if you're uber and insane you'll probably want to move house next to an ISP that uses an exchange right next to a WoW shard installation. Report Reply

Posted at 2:35pm on Wed 18 January 2012
coletrain Posts: 195	0 0 In response to Topic Cloud gaming service Gaikai has teamed up with Facebook to offer users demos of games like World of Warcraft. Read Article » Go to VG_Staff's original post I'm not going to underestimate how big this news could actually be. Social integration of cloud/streamed PC games will be huge. While the tech and experience will likely be poor, MMO'ers may well choose to get their 'fix' in this way. It's a smart move for Gaikai after OnLive had it's Google TV news. Sounds like the PR team are hitting the right keys aligning the brand with WoW and Facebook. VG's Resident Designer & Frontend Coder XBLA & PSN: havveh Twitter: @sitegenius Report Reply

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