A long time ago, it was quite easy to buy and play a video game. You bought the disc or trolley, attached it to the console and played. Not so much anymore. Specific case: the not so great cloud streaming-only version of Heart Kingdom released on Switch earlier this year was recently updated and now has a warning telling you if it’s not the right time to play the single player games you’ve purchased. Welcome to the future. So bad.
Released yesterday, update 1.03 for everything Kingdom Heart Games on the Switch seem to mainly add two features. In Kingdom Hearts 3, players can now choose between two performance options: “Prioritize Performance” and “Prioritize Graphics Quality”. These settings can be selected before you start playing and allow the game to focus on more stable frame rates or higher resolution images, an option many games offer these days. .
However, the patch’s other new feature is mostly unique to the Switch’s controversial, cloud-streaming stream. Heart Kingdom Game. Now, New message on the game selection screen warning you about any “server bottlenecks” the header might encounter. If a game you want to play is currently dealing with busy servers, you can still try playing it, but it probably won’t be a great experience.
While it’s nice to know in advance if a game is working properly, it’s also bad that this even needs to be added in the first place and is a clear example of why so much work. many people are not allowed to sell games online through services like Stadia or Amazon Luna. That’s not to say it’s not a useful or powerful technology; I think what Xbox is doing with cloud streaming and Game Pass is awesome, lets you Play your favorite games like Gears 5 on the phone. However, Microsoft also allows you to install all of its games, so if the server is slow or you don’t want to experience lag, you can play the original version of the game on your local machine. mine. (This is also important for game preservation!)
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The thing is, unlike Microsoft’s Game Pass streaming, Square Enix only sells cloud-streamed versions of the game. Heart Kingdom games on Switch. Currently, there is no way to download and install any of them on your actual console. And consider these versions are not great even if you can play them, and also charge high price, it seems like a bad deal all around. And now Square Enix might ask you not to even play the games you bought? That’s just a very 2022 thing, isn’t it?
I look forward to Square Enix finds a way to cram NFT and blockchain technology into future cloud releases, only to really make this whole experience that much worse. In the meantime, you should just buy Heart Kingdom games on PS4 or Xbox if you want to play whenever you want at consistent quality without having to worry about servers getting “congested”.
