@7_armageddon_7 You and half the people on this comment thread are missing the point by a mile. That isn't the purpose of an event.
It's about alike people getting together at one convention, maybe they'll meet someone while they're there. They are a minority group, and feeling accepted and not alone is very psychologically beneficial. They wouldn't be able to do that nearly as easy at a regular convention.
@mrboone01 Funny, you assume I haven't upgraded my hardware just because you haven't had a bad experience with Comcast. Do a quick google search for "Comcast data throttling". In some areas, especially dense subscription zones, Comcast forces shared bandwidth. Not always a bad thing, but it often requires data throttling to allow the proper bandwidth be shared between all of their subscribers.
@sammoth I agree on the Bandwidth limitations, and we obviously have to come a long way before cloud streaming is the norm for gaming, but at-least they were willing to pioneer the industry. It has to start somewhere. Plus, Steam is great but it is simply a digital distribution service. It (currently) is incomparable to a streaming service. Now, if they roll out their rumored Steam-Box soon and at a low price point , then that would be a different story.
@Pyro978 Comcast won't cut it. They throttle data and therefore will not ever give optimum results for streaming services; Netflix, Hulu, Onlive, etc. I too am stuck with Comcast.
@blakeney It has a cult following (me included) and a considerable amount of patents within the cloud industry to keep it alive. It most certainly isn't thriving though.
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