Originally Posted by Tatwi
Metered Internet will kill it. Every major ISP in Canada moved to metered Internet in 2012, with some allotting as little as 20GB for $90 with a $10/GB overage charge and no max monthly charge. I read yesterday that over 60% of Internet users in the USA have data caps. Netflix? Twitch.tv? Nah, I'd rather pay a $15 game subscription than a $400 Internet bill.
Streaming high definition video to play a game simply does not make sense when ISPs are going to charge for data usage. This concept is dead in the water until this issue is resolved.
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Indeed. The ISP's want to pretend bandwidth is a non renewable resource lol. And streaming high definition anything uses a crap ton of bandwidth. So the whole concept of streaming games is not viable in many places right now where they have no unlimited data plans.