We have been hearing about Playkey in the news recently especially the article by TechInAsia. But not everyone is aware that PlayKey.io has been developing their product and have been operating their game streaming service for 4 years. The game streaming service provided by PlayKey is at Playkey.net and partners with Steam for gamers to play their games from Steam on the Playkey.net gaming servers. They have 90% of the top games in house. This provides a playkey gamer plenty of choices.
As in investor, I have been meaning to test the PlayKey game streaming for a while now but I have been a bit busy and did not install the gaming client. Luckily over the weekend I had a chance to download and install the client and set up an account with PlayKey.net and Steam. By the way, my location at this moment is in Singapore; far away from all the Playkey Nvidia servers in Europe or US.
The installation is easy and took me barely 5 mins to get everything up. The client software from PlayKey is surprisingly light and is only 31.8MB. Nowadays to play desktop games, most of the gaming software are in GB and not MB. Been a long time since I seen any game with less than 1 GB of harddisk required.
My setup is an old Macbook pro 13 inch that I bought in 2013. I do not have an Ethernet port hence I was using my wifi connection to test the demo games on Playkey.net. This is definitely not fair to Playkey but I was pleasantly surprised by the performance of the games that I was playing.
I tried out Doom as well as Hitman on the PlayKey.net system. These are the demo games and there are about 6 demo games on the system that you can try out so as to determine the quality of the gaming experience provided by PlayKey.
At first connection, the login was fast and I was presented with the Steam login screen quickly. Upon login into Steam, I was immediately sent to the Doom main screen. This was unexpected as there was no lag and I was immediately in the game!
Confession here. I am not a serious gamer and had to get used to some of the controls for Doom. I played the original version of Doom back in the 90s (yes that’s how old I am) and still remembered many of the controls. The graphics was great and the monsters were moving too fast for clumsy old me; can you slow them down please?? The graphics were amazing despite me using a wifi connection and the only jerkiness that I experienced was when the game movie was being played. Other than that the game play was almost flawless and the game character followed my keystrokes with almost no lag. I felt that I was playing Doom with my gaming computer beside me.
The next demo game that I tried was Hitman. Similarly the loading of the game is flawless and it definitely felt like I was playing the game with a desktop system beside me. I tested the movement controls and you can see from the youtube video below that it was very responsive. From the point of pressing the keystroke to the movement of the Hitman character, there was virtually no lag. This is with a wifi connection mind you. If I was using a Ethernet port, I am sure the controls will be even more responsive.
From the two games that I have tested, I am very impressed with the seemingly zero lag game play and I think this is probably why Playkey can achieve 100,000 gamers to date and still growing. With the ICO and the development of the PlayKey ecosystem, we will see the growth of Playkey servers throughout the world, and even better quality game play. I am anticipating Playkey ecosystem and I will be joining their ICO as well as be part of their miner ecosystem.
Relevant Links
Website: https://playkey.io
Whitepaper: https://cdn.playkey.net/img/playkeynet/ico/Whitepaper.pdf
Bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1118743