What I mean is the only way to play the game is though a streaming service. This way the game code is never public. This probably is already a thing but I haven’t heard anything about it.

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    3 days ago

    This probably is already a thing

    correct. it’s called cloud gaming. examples of services include AirConsole, Amazon Luna, PlayStation Plus, Xbox Cloud, GeForce Now, InstantAction, G-cluster, Gaikai, GameFly, Google Stadia, Jump, Kalydo, LiquidSky, OnLive, Playcast and PSNow.

    most of them have shut down. the ones that still exist are either offering streaming games as a value-add to other services, or marketing themselves as value-adds for other companies to include in their own product.

    most of these platforms tried attracting devs for exclusives, but it’s such a small niche that there’s no way to actually make any money.

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        3 days ago

        Yeah. This person is saying that for a streaming only game to exist, streaming has to do well first. Which it hasn’t.

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        3 days ago

        that’s why i added the last paragraph. onelive, stadia and airconsole all tcied doing exclusives.