The difference between Starcraft II and Starcraft: Ghost is that Starcraft Ghost was a spinoff, Starcraft II however is the sequel to one of the best selling video games of all time, they likely won't let Starcraft II hit Development Hell
Wow. I can point out so many flaws in the logic of the boys in Redmond, for one, what if there's a slight internet outage? your computer would be braindead. Imagine trying to play Halo over a glorified VNC connection, or do anything that requires alot of bandwidth. Until the day comes that internet connections are typically 20+ MBits, this would be unfeasible for so many reasons. And even if speeds werent an issue, just think of security, how easy would it be for someone to park their car outside your house and with the right knowhow/programs see everything you're doing because it's going on an unencrypted WiFi?
Not to mention that this idea would be putting too much power in the hands of the few, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
But on the other hand, the only functional use for this would be a corporate intranet, and I believe they tried this with dumb terminals
In summary, this will be the death of Microsoft, and this will never work
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The difference between Starcraft II and Starcraft: Ghost is that Starcraft Ghost was a spinoff, Starcraft II however is the sequel to one of the best selling video games of all time, they likely won't let Starcraft II hit Development Hell
Wow. I can point out so many flaws in the logic of the boys in Redmond, for one, what if there's a slight internet outage? your computer would be braindead. Imagine trying to play Halo over a glorified VNC connection, or do anything that requires alot of bandwidth. Until the day comes that internet connections are typically 20+ MBits, this would be unfeasible for so many reasons. And even if speeds werent an issue, just think of security, how easy would it be for someone to park their car outside your house and with the right knowhow/programs see everything you're doing because it's going on an unencrypted WiFi? Not to mention that this idea would be putting too much power in the hands of the few, absolute power corrupts absolutely. But on the other hand, the only functional use for this would be a corporate intranet, and I believe they tried this with dumb terminals In summary, this will be the death of Microsoft, and this will never work