[nomel]

> I wish macOS gaming wasn't so expensive.

The ever increasing number of GPUs of the world are making the cloud PC gaming services ridiculously cheap. I only pay $12 USD/month (boosteroid, gaming only).

If I bought a gaming PC with similar specs, it would take over 7 years to pay it off (no use for a PC besides gaming). That would be 7 years of fixed hardware, where the cloud hardware specs keep improving with time, and I can pause the subscription whenever I want.

You definitely pay with some extra input latency, but not enough to impact my casual play. Definitely worth trying, if you have nice internet.

[AuthAuth]

You can easily buy a gaming PC for less than $1000 that provides a better experience than cloud gaming. You also need to remember that these companies are trying to create a market for their product and right now they're happy to sell their services really cheap. Once its adopted it will be raised.

[nomel]

> You can easily buy a gaming PC for less than $1000

I've priced it in the recent past, and was not able to, but I'll believe you. Maybe I'm off by a year or two.

Note that boosteroid supports 4k@120Hz, up to 80Mbps streams. It's not the 1080p of the old cloud services.

> Once it's adopted it will be raised.

Since it's monthly, and switching services takes just a few minutes more than the time it takes to authenticate with steam and download the game, this is only an issue if competition ceases to exist, which would require that these datacenters become saturated. If it does happen, I always have the option of buying a gaming PC.