[MUD-Dev2] [DESIGN] OnLive might make MMOs much easier

Jeffrey Kesselman jeffpk at gmail.com
Fri May 15 11:45:53 CEST 2009


By the way...


As  unacceptable as it i to freeze the video for random amount of time
durign latency spikes, thats only half the issue.

The other half is latency UPstream, to the server, even if downstream
is chugging along at near-instantaneous tiem 9which it won't) and lag
upstream causes control lag which makes for a terrible user
experience.

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Jeffrey Kesselman <jeffpk at gmail.com> wrote:

>> In the OnLive case, yes, the most
>> likely result is frozen video.
>
> Which is unacceptable. ?A user cannot plame a game with the kind of random
> indeterminate latency the internet provides today. ?Thats why its hjidden from
> the user by thick game clients.



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