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> Rainway is not cloud gaming

Then right on your homepage:

"Play Your Favorite Games on Any Device Rainway makes game streaming so easy you'll be playing in just a few clicks. Download and join our beta today!"

I would make it way more obvious.

Also what's a good use case? I can play games on my powerful home PC from the crappy laptop at the office?



> Also what's a good use case? I can play games on my powerful home PC from the crappy laptop at the office?

I'm interested because a 27" iMac is front and center on my desk, with a 24" second monitor to the right. My gaming PC is hooked up to the second input of the second monitor.

Playing a game either means turning my head to the right while the rest of my body faces forward (to have good keyboard and mouse position), or turning my whole body right, and then having to reach left for the keyboard and mouse. Can't do whole body right with keyboard and mouse inf front of body, because that would put the mouse in free space and the keyboard right side sticking off the desk. Neither of these is comfortable.

Moving the gaming PC to its own space with its own monitor would take major rearrangement of the living room.

Something that lets me use the Mac as a display for the games on my PC would make things much much nicer.


Steam in-home steaming sounds right up your alley…


Is it just a steaming service? Or do they perma-press too? ;)


I think making fun of other peopl's mistakes is the kind of dick move that is only funny to jerks


...Can't tell if trying to make a joke (peopl's) or serious...


I'm sure you'll work out how to interact in polite society one day


Oh wow you were serious... Social cues dude. If you can't spot light-hearted humor idk how you make it through day-to-day life.


recognising toxic behaviour and calling it out is no joking matter dewd


Rainway should fit your use case just right. You can use whatever controller you'd like out of the box and stream directly from your PC to your Mac.


You should invest in a dvi/hdmi/displayport switch


>Also what's a good use case? I can play games on my powerful home PC from the crappy laptop at the office?

Fits my use-case pretty nicely. I have one decent gaming machine, and six landing spots in the house where I want to game from. Longer hardcore gaming sessions from the main spot, but that's an occasional thing. Most days/evenings I have half an hour, and need to be wherever my partner and parrot are hanging out. If I can properly deliver streamed gaming to those points on basic hardware connected to a TV and wireless joypad, I'm happy.

Steam in-home streaming gets me most of the way there already though. Gonna give Rainway a test run when I get the home network wiring finished.

If it's that good, I may end up also brokering it outbound for some mobile gaming.


Hmm - how about "slingbox for games" -- Can I have an account on your beefy rig at your house to play a game?

(Not you specifically - I am saying "Can you choose to just share a beefy rig with your friends as well..."




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