"invisiblgirl;c-17242038" wrote:
"darrenfroggy;c-17240337" wrote:
"catloverplayer;c-17239831" wrote:
I'm hoping cloud service will come to The Sims 4. Cloud saves would be so much easier especially if your game crashes and you didn't save. I'm assuming it would automatically save in the cloud.
I would welcome the option of cloud saves. If there's an automatic option. (not to start a comparison discussion but they did just recently introduce this on Freeplay)
Cloud gaming though, that's a whole different thing. Having the entire game online puts so many players at a disadvantage because it requires a good internet connection. Which not everyone who currently plays the Sims has access to. Maybe it would run on lower-end machines but honestly I doubt that it would be the case.
I was wondering how well this works for gaming. I work in the cloud, and I've lost entire days when something went wonky at the mothership servers. You don't lose your work (a plus), but suddenly, you can't do anything until it's fixed. (And you never know whether it's just you or everyone, so you waste time calling the help desk, which will inevitably tell you to reboot, which only jams up the servers even more.) We know Origin can get stuffed up when there's a holiday and loads of people are playing.
Also, if they're doing maintenance or back-ups, there's no access. That doesn't matter much at work, since I'm not (usually) working at 3 am on Sunday, but I might be playing the Sims. And there's a fair amount of lag for certain things - I can get a cup of coffee in the time it takes for a print to travel from the server to the printer, and our e-mails apparently orbit Saturn for a while before landing in the in-box of a co-worker three feet away.
They might get that sorted by the time a new game comes out possibly? I noticed a lag when I tried to play Sims 4 via Wi Fi on my TV. There is a lag of about a second which is no good when I am using a mouse. I bought a long HDMI cable and will try again later. I've disabled the internet on my TV now. It might be too soon using the Cloud for games but I like that they are testing it.
There is hope for some of us still who cannot hack the modern electronic world. There was news this week that an all electronic do-it-yourself checkout till store of Sainsburys' in the UK had removed them and gone back to the old checkouts. Too early apparently! Customers 1 Sainsburys 0.
