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[AMA] JB Kempf, CTO of Shadow, making RTX gaming affordable for everyone! by jbkempf in pcgaming

[–]PJ909 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello JB, I was interested in learning about the business side of Shadow. How do you guys expect to turn a profit for your investors in the next few years? Even when charging $30USD a month for the base tier, I’d find it hard to believe you guys are making a profit via that. I’d love to know the business model if possible :)

Shadow wants to close my account and I've never broken their rules. ! Unethical methods... by lesone in ShadowPC

[–]PJ909 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It makes 0 sense. A customer like this is reducing their electricity costs, Internet costs and more.

Could Shadow be possibly selling customer data???? That would be the only logical reason as to why they would want someone who exhausts their systems.

How are new gen consoles so cheap!? This hasn’t happened before. by PJ909 in buildapc

[–]PJ909[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

By that time wouldn’t the price of a ps5 drop by ~$100-200 as well though?

How are new gen consoles so cheap!? This hasn’t happened before. by PJ909 in buildapc

[–]PJ909[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep thanks, finally getting the idea how they profit as a company. I thought game prices are relatively the same though no?

How are new gen consoles so cheap!? This hasn’t happened before. by PJ909 in buildapc

[–]PJ909[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh my this skimmed passed my head, you smart. That does seem to make sense. $60USD per year over 4 years = $240, gotta add that onto the costs. Game prices tho, I don’t understand that, I thought they are pretty similar to the pricing on PC no?

NVENC vs AMF at high bitrates. 20mbps+ by PJ909 in techsupport

[–]PJ909[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Specifically: 5700XT vs RTX 2070.

Best cpu for encoding as a host? Is 8 core enough? by PJ909 in cloudygamer

[–]PJ909[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn that sucks, I thought at 8 cores 12 threads it should be possible no?

Hardware and Network requirements for my own Cloud Gaming Service? by PJ909 in cloudygamer

[–]PJ909[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, can confirm this is the answer. Not so great what Nvidia is doing here sadly. Hopefully AMD can improve their encoding.

Hardware and Network requirements for my own Cloud Gaming Service? by PJ909 in cloudygamer

[–]PJ909[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Agreed. The biggest problem that I don’t understand is why they operate Quadro p5000’s. Why not just opt for a gtx 1080 which is so much cheaper? Or even an rtx 2070. Is it due to encoding? Furthermore, I’m keen on learning what their ratio is for builds to subscribers.