Not content with merely censoring and tracking the web, Google are apparently considering how they can do the same to games, in the form of a game streaming service.
According to those who are supposedly informed of their plans, Google is seeking to accomplish 3 main goals: a streaming platform, some form of hardware and the acquisition of game developers, whether it be through recruitment or purchasing them outright.
Google’s endeavors to become part of the (non-mobile) gaming industry has been rumored as far back as 2014, when they were apparently attempting to acquire Twitch but lost out to Amazon – Google’s other attempts include launching an Android-based console like Amazon’s Fire TV (though it never came to fruition) and the successful Niantic who created Pokemon Go (after choosing to become an independent company prior to their success).
Representatives from Google introduced themselves to a myriad of game companies at the Game Developers Conference back in March (as well as E3), their intent supposedly being to measure interest in their streaming platform (apparently code-named “Yeti”) – whether or not they were successful has not been confirmed.
What Google are apparently pursuing – games screen-cast over the Internet from a datacenter and paid for as a subscription – has already been tried several times and roundly rejected by most of the gaming world as being too laggy, ugly or bandwidth intensive, but if any company can successfully start up such a service and then randomly shut it down after a year or two, Google certainly is the one.
Never forget google created the excruciatingly obnoxious and most annoying thing ever called captcha and a worse f♥♥k you, the reCAPTCHA with images…
They created the fucking contentID which pretty much ruined freedom and liberty on the internet.
They created two of the worst things in humanity’s history and now they want to do this?
Whatever they are smoking, i want some of that man, to actually feel this retarded for some time and laugh at anything while I’m fucking it up
DUDE!! Google’s bots visit EVERYTHING!!! If they find out you said bad against them they’ll report it to HQ and the next street view pass by will be a drive by!!!!
yah who ever came up with reCAPTCHA should be duct taped to the side of a rocket and came up with contentID should be frog tied and placed under the same rocket.
Don’t forget, Nintendo invented region locking and some people still love them for reasons unknown. I think some people just like to be fucked with.
region locking fucks only those, who are outside of a region. those who are inside a good.
Unless they also f♥♥k up the localization for your region, which Nintendo has a history of doing.
Nintendo loves to heavily censor JRPGs on its platform too. They covered up so many characters in Tokyo Mirage Sessions FE. Not to mention they removed the “boob slider” from the Xenoblade games when they released in the US/UK. They perhaps thought that giving your female characters huge tits/flat chests was too leud? lol.
Yes, but unlike isolationist ‘muricans, most people are familiar with multiple languages, cultures and travel around enough they don’t fit into a “region.”
Why the pathological shift to ‘muricans’? Your isolationism is showing.
I use as few Google products and services as I can muster. This s♥♥t goes in the trash.
“A streaming platform, some form of hardware and the acquisition of game developers”
Um, Google? This framework already exists. They’re called PC and consoles. You’re just pissed you can’t cash in more. Amazon and Apple already tried their own proprietary solutions. Even Valve had a go (the goofy as f♥♥k ‘Steam Machine’ s♥♥t when I can just build a PC instead).
Perfect time to break up Google via an equivalent to the defunct Glass-Steagall Act. They’ve gotten a little too big for their britches.
Always assume the worst when Google tries to push anything. This is just another way for them to data mine their customer base.
Google is the Monsanto of the Internet.