[krylon]

Now you made me remember how much I miss GrooveShark...

Also, the list makes me realize a problem with putting everything "in the cloud": with a traditional desktop application, if the vendor goes belly up or just doesn't feel like working on it any more, at least you can keep using the version you already have. If the whole thing runs on the web, and the vendor decides to pull the on those servers, it's just gone.

[wlesieutre]

Been saying this for years. Gaming has some egregious examples like Diablo 3 where the single player mode turned into "multiplayer server with nobody else in it" and if your internet connection goes down or battle.net has problems you can't play the game at all.

Blizzard has a good track record of supporting old games, and as a studio I think they'll be around for a long time, but they won't be forever.

I recently read that Shadow of War is similarly always-online single player. And I have much less faith in Warner Brothers Games to keep that running than I do in Blizzard.