News
Game Streaming is not Dead
Cordova, TN; September 4, in the year of our Lord
2017--Family Friendly Gaming, the industry leader in
covering the family friendly video games is revealing an
interesting truth we ran across recently. Video Game streaming
is not dead. Many of us considered it dead since so many
companies have tried and failed. Families like to own their
games, and not pay a monthly service to just use a few games.
Most families do not have the Cadillac Internet plans that allow
them to stream massive amounts of data like video games. Family
Friendly Gaming figured this was an interesting idea that would
appeal to a niche crowd. Ultimately it would not receive mass
success like physical copies of video games. Then we found out
about Utomik.
What is Utomik? It is a service with over 600 PC games on it
that has a single plan or a family plan. Family Friendly Gaming
was given a free one month subscription to try out Utomik. There
are plenty of games families can enjoy. What about the streaming
and Internet plans? Utomik loads a small part of the game on
your machine so you can start playing. Then the rest of the game
loads to your computer while you are playing it. As far as we
can tell it is like downloading the game before it is played
each time. We do recommend families on tight Internet plans pay
close attention to their data usage. Utomik has a fourteen day
free trial for anyone interesting in trying before they buy. We
did have issues with downloading Utomik, and downloading games
on Utomik. It was sluggish, and slowed down our aging gaming PC.
Yes we have plans on upgrading it once we get the funds.
As new technology emerges we will see new ideas like Utomik.
Will it eventually succeed? That always depends on the market,
and you. You will decide based on your purchasing or lack of
purchasing if something works in the industry or not. There are
plenty of retro games on Utomik. They are also adding new games
every single month. It is sad that Utomik is limited to PC
games. It would be neat to see games from other systems also
playable on Utomik. That might be a pipe dream on my part
though. At least I now know video game streaming services are
not completely dead.
God bless,
Paul Bury
Family Friendly Gaming