I truly appreciate your honest reviews. You've warned me off of two "alternatives" to stadia so far. I loved Stadia because I only game 1 or 2 hours a month, if that, so I don't want to spend money on a massive PC to play Steam on... but I despise loading my XBox 1 because it never fails that it needs an update that will use up my entire hour. I just can't find something with promise....looking forward to anything you would recommend as a decent Stadia replacement.
Glad I could help 😊 I'm working on a 2023 ranking list of all the services I'm aware of, so hopefully that will help you with some alternative options. Being honest though, there's no such thing as a Stadia replacement as every other service is built as a complimentary service to a core hardware way to play. Of those those Xbox cloud and PlayStation Plus Premium offer the best all round options and come with inclusive libraries
maybe boostroid massively improved in 5 months but despite living in Australia with 200ping having to use american severs I can still easily play most games and haven't encountered most of these issues except a once or twice so I guess they fixed it all or
It's not a paywall as the account is free, you just can't play, but it is a nefarious manner to get people to sign up and artificially inflate numbers. Remember those 4 million accounts they have? How many are people creating an account to see the service would be for them?
Great video mate! Regarding the speedtest: I think the Boosteroid speedtest is to your closest DC, whereas Ooklas is to the closest edgenode they have, meaning results are expected to vary between them. BUT, your differences seem strange! The results should be closer than that. Sad to see you didn't have a good experience! Maybe it's the fact that I'm in the same town as their closest data center... IDK... But for me, it's been VERY close to GeForce Now. Meaning butter smooth with rare occasional stutters or slight artifacting. And I can't for the life of me figure out why it WOULDN'T run well for you. On my Android phone, in the app, touch support in windows (while clunky) works perfectly, making launching games easy enough. On my PCs and Chromebooks, no trouble at all. So I have NO idea how we have such different experiences! I've even had great experiences on 4G, both via the Android app and via tethering to my laptop. The difference from user to user is insanely hard to understand and solve I think. Wish it was as plug and play for everyone around the world as it's been for me. Personally, I've come to terms with the PC-Bring-Your-Own-Games cloud services. It means I can bring my games to another service or locally, should I have access to a local machine that runs it. Did I prefer Stadia? Yes. But at least I still have my games with Steam, Epic etc.
I've just started testing this as really fancy a replay of RDR 2. I got it up and running fine via my Nvidia Shield, but did notice a fair bit of input lag on first session. Restarted and it was better but still there at times. Also am noticing a big difference in the speedtest between what the app was saying (50 ish) compared to what I get with Ookla etc (usually 400+).
Yeah, it appears there are quite a few inconsistencies for many users. I imagine in certain locations, closer to a server there are near perfect experiences to be had, but it's going to be a case of try it for every user to see if that is the case
@@Doragon86 Aye, I'm in Edinburgh with a solid / fast fibre connection and have generally had pretty much flawless experiences with Stadia and GFN, so this was a bit disappointing. Will play about with it some more.
@@mcsparshatt17 yeah it's very inconsistent I live in the countryside in kent where the wifi isn't that great but i still get a good connection but when i go back to london where i have ultra fast fibre broadband it's worse.
What alternative do you suggest to buying games on Steam/Epic etc. in addition to the cloud gaming subscription? If the games were to be included in the subscription, the price would have to hike, and there would most certainly be limitations on which games are included.
I actually had a great experience with Boosteroid ! Finished spiderman remastered and spiderman Miles Morales, also playing valorant with no lag whatsoever. The only problem is sometimes it does not load on iphone's safari but loads pretty fine on the ipad safari, no problem with chrome though which they recommend as a browser
I appreciate hard truth, as someone with an outdated rig I've been dying to play RDR2 Online with friends or other games GFN won't provide. It seems even though Boosteroid allows these games where GFN won't, I'm sad to see their services are either the same as (for good or for bad) other cloud clients or even worse.
Hi! Every time I watch your Boosteroid reviews, I feel like I’m entering a unique world full of exciting moments. You capture the atmosphere of the games so well! I’m eagerly awaiting your new videos-I’m sure they will be just as vibrant and inspiring! Thank you for your work!
I have spent this week testing cloud gaming. So far. Out of Luna, Geforce now "free", and xcloud. Xcloud is by far the worst. Worst pixelation, looks like 720p or just bad bitrate. And even gave me Ghost recon wildlands today at 720p AND 30fps. Its good for playing on mobile. But not for anything bigger than that in my experience. Iv tried it multiple times. Its not 1080p. Its just not. For me thus far in my testing. Its Geforce now clearly in the lead. Luna is a strong second. Xcloud is lacking big time and does not look good at all, despite being responsive enough. It didnt run any game as good as either of the others. My main testing game was ghost recon wildlands. Which is not very well optimized, but it showed the real differences between them. However, resident evil 2 remake on luna, felt and looked amazing. No pixelation at all, looked native. And I had no way to test input lag since I dont own that game. But it was very good. Xcloud...is really behind. It seems like you feel like boosteroid is worse, so thanks for reviewing it. I will avoid it for now. I do know they have a deal with asus and will be getting 4k and 60-240fps sometime possbily in 2023. Maybe more server centers so more people can get optimal experiences. Who knows. But im excited to see where cloud gaming goes. *Edit. Yeah so, i paid for a month of boosteroid just to test it. Now I see why they dont offer any kind of trial. Unable to maintain 60fps in valheim at 1080p? Really? It was a mess and felt worse than any other cloud streaming service I have tried. It was awful. Definitely deserving of the bottom spot. Which is sad, because they support many more cool games. Bioshock, Dark souls. Stuff the others dont support. I hope they do well with their partnership with Asus and get some better hardware and stuff to run things. And optimize their interface better. Cause compared to the others. Its just...not as good. They arent a big mega corporation. So hopefully they put it into gear and get up to speed sooner rather than later. Cheers!
Should have another take and see how much things improved now.......NOT! 500+ people que and at the end you get a "Error message" and get kicked back at the end of the que.
Great listen... don't often hear analysis of these aspects of Boosteroid, but it's sad for the result of the current sphere of cloud gaming to be so... underwhelming
Your personal negative experience does not negate thousands of positive reviews online. Too bad you couldn't enjoy playing, but it does not mean everybody else won't as well.
You are right, but if it cannot offer parity to every player, like AV cloud platforms such as Netflix, or cloud computing platforms such as Shadow, it should go back to the drawing board and perfect that experience and stop charging users for a beta test. It sells itself so big and even under perfect circumstances cannot deliver, that is false advertising, by any measure of the words. A review is a reflection of the experience had by the individual reviewer, which doesn't nullify anyone else's experience, nor do theirs nullify mine. But if a service has many polar opposite reviews out there, we should question what is wrong at the core of that service to cause such a massive swing in experiences. Thank you so much for watching and commenting, I really appreciate it
The lag is unplayable, ive never had this problem w them other cloud gaming platforms, and it keeps downloading something every time i open fortnite, its the first game im testing, i hope its because the service is on beta, and they fix the problems asap.
Thanks for the review Dorgaon. Just wondering - have you ever made a video about PS remote play? Do you think it's a viable way to game on a mobile device?
I'm an American and I get pretty good connection to e.U But ya'll have good servers out here as well In america So Boosteroid Is getting Spreaded worldwide And it works perfect
I think its too expensive for what it is. Took a half year subscription by mistake. only to discover i can only play about 40 procent of my games with this. plus it takes forever for them to put on new games. When I subscribe and pay about 9 euros a month i expect to be able to play any game I want. For I have to buy those as well..
Too expensive for what it is Are you really that ignorant It's literally only $10 dog $10 You tell me you can't afford $10 what are you Really that dirt poor or are you just too lazy and ignorant to pay a price that sheep and claim that it's expensive when it's not
Hmm, really strange, for me all work well, didn't have any problem with input lag or picture quality. Most likely you are far from the server or there are some speed limits don't know, strange 😵😵😵
Yeah my thoughts too. I spoke to a Boosteroid ambassador and I'm around 170 miles /273 KM from the nearest server. Personally, given experiences with GFN, Stadia, PS Plus etc, I would expect a good experience with that distance, but something somewhere isn't allowing that to happen with Boosteroid
And by the way your videos a little misleading because you don't actually install the games on a virtual PC It just starts the games automatically and also their servers are not only in the Ukraine first off They got them in the US everywhere too A lot of information in this video is not accurate
yes gfn is better, too bad my account got banned, when im trying to buy the membership, i have a bug where i get this pop ups, after trying to use a debit card, it say insufficient funds, which is a lie, or fraud validation, which i think that what got me banned, because it happened right after it.
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I truly appreciate your honest reviews. You've warned me off of two "alternatives" to stadia so far. I loved Stadia because I only game 1 or 2 hours a month, if that, so I don't want to spend money on a massive PC to play Steam on... but I despise loading my XBox 1 because it never fails that it needs an update that will use up my entire hour. I just can't find something with promise....looking forward to anything you would recommend as a decent Stadia replacement.
Glad I could help 😊
I'm working on a 2023 ranking list of all the services I'm aware of, so hopefully that will help you with some alternative options. Being honest though, there's no such thing as a Stadia replacement as every other service is built as a complimentary service to a core hardware way to play. Of those those Xbox cloud and PlayStation Plus Premium offer the best all round options and come with inclusive libraries
maybe boostroid massively improved in 5 months but despite living in Australia with 200ping having to use american severs I can still easily play most games and haven't encountered most of these issues except a once or twice so I guess they fixed it all or
Same here.
Great Honest Review. I didnt know there was a pay wall behind seeing what games are on boosteroid...
It's not a paywall as the account is free, you just can't play, but it is a nefarious manner to get people to sign up and artificially inflate numbers.
Remember those 4 million accounts they have? How many are people creating an account to see the service would be for them?
Great video mate!
Regarding the speedtest: I think the Boosteroid speedtest is to your closest DC, whereas Ooklas is to the closest edgenode they have, meaning results are expected to vary between them. BUT, your differences seem strange! The results should be closer than that.
Sad to see you didn't have a good experience! Maybe it's the fact that I'm in the same town as their closest data center... IDK... But for me, it's been VERY close to GeForce Now. Meaning butter smooth with rare occasional stutters or slight artifacting. And I can't for the life of me figure out why it WOULDN'T run well for you.
On my Android phone, in the app, touch support in windows (while clunky) works perfectly, making launching games easy enough. On my PCs and Chromebooks, no trouble at all. So I have NO idea how we have such different experiences! I've even had great experiences on 4G, both via the Android app and via tethering to my laptop.
The difference from user to user is insanely hard to understand and solve I think. Wish it was as plug and play for everyone around the world as it's been for me.
Personally, I've come to terms with the PC-Bring-Your-Own-Games cloud services. It means I can bring my games to another service or locally, should I have access to a local machine that runs it. Did I prefer Stadia? Yes. But at least I still have my games with Steam, Epic etc.
I've just started testing this as really fancy a replay of RDR 2. I got it up and running fine via my Nvidia Shield, but did notice a fair bit of input lag on first session. Restarted and it was better but still there at times.
Also am noticing a big difference in the speedtest between what the app was saying (50 ish) compared to what I get with Ookla etc (usually 400+).
Yeah, it appears there are quite a few inconsistencies for many users. I imagine in certain locations, closer to a server there are near perfect experiences to be had, but it's going to be a case of try it for every user to see if that is the case
@@Doragon86 Aye, I'm in Edinburgh with a solid / fast fibre connection and have generally had pretty much flawless experiences with Stadia and GFN, so this was a bit disappointing. Will play about with it some more.
@@mcsparshatt17 yeah it's very inconsistent I live in the countryside in kent where the wifi isn't that great but i still get a good connection but when i go back to london where i have ultra fast fibre broadband it's worse.
What alternative do you suggest to buying games on Steam/Epic etc. in addition to the cloud gaming subscription? If the games were to be included in the subscription, the price would have to hike, and there would most certainly be limitations on which games are included.
I actually had a great experience with Boosteroid ! Finished spiderman remastered and spiderman Miles Morales, also playing valorant with no lag whatsoever. The only problem is sometimes it does not load on iphone's safari but loads pretty fine on the ipad safari, no problem with chrome though which they recommend as a browser
hello bro , do you use wi fi or ethernet ?
@@dragosrtx4090 hey bro, mostly ethernet, but I played on wifi as well on my ipad, and it worked pretty nice
I appreciate hard truth, as someone with an outdated rig I've been dying to play RDR2 Online with friends or other games GFN won't provide. It seems even though Boosteroid allows these games where GFN won't, I'm sad to see their services are either the same as (for good or for bad) other cloud clients or even worse.
Hi! Every time I watch your Boosteroid reviews, I feel like I’m entering a unique world full of exciting moments. You capture the atmosphere of the games so well! I’m eagerly awaiting your new videos-I’m sure they will be just as vibrant and inspiring! Thank you for your work!
I really appreciate the beautiful words. Thank you so much, I hope I can continue to inspire
I have spent this week testing cloud gaming. So far. Out of Luna, Geforce now "free", and xcloud. Xcloud is by far the worst. Worst pixelation, looks like 720p or just bad bitrate. And even gave me Ghost recon wildlands today at 720p AND 30fps. Its good for playing on mobile. But not for anything bigger than that in my experience. Iv tried it multiple times. Its not 1080p. Its just not.
For me thus far in my testing. Its Geforce now clearly in the lead. Luna is a strong second. Xcloud is lacking big time and does not look good at all, despite being responsive enough. It didnt run any game as good as either of the others. My main testing game was ghost recon wildlands. Which is not very well optimized, but it showed the real differences between them. However, resident evil 2 remake on luna, felt and looked amazing. No pixelation at all, looked native. And I had no way to test input lag since I dont own that game. But it was very good. Xcloud...is really behind.
It seems like you feel like boosteroid is worse, so thanks for reviewing it. I will avoid it for now. I do know they have a deal with asus and will be getting 4k and 60-240fps sometime possbily in 2023. Maybe more server centers so more people can get optimal experiences. Who knows. But im excited to see where cloud gaming goes.
*Edit. Yeah so, i paid for a month of boosteroid just to test it. Now I see why they dont offer any kind of trial. Unable to maintain 60fps in valheim at 1080p? Really? It was a mess and felt worse than any other cloud streaming service I have tried. It was awful. Definitely deserving of the bottom spot. Which is sad, because they support many more cool games. Bioshock, Dark souls. Stuff the others dont support. I hope they do well with their partnership with Asus and get some better hardware and stuff to run things. And optimize their interface better. Cause compared to the others. Its just...not as good. They arent a big mega corporation. So hopefully they put it into gear and get up to speed sooner rather than later. Cheers!
'sign up was easy enough' - I can't even create an account error: server timeout
Well... That's unhelpful for you! Hopefully it's weather related issues that'll be resolved shortly
(speaking from a slightly underwater England)
I have a question - if i buy steam keys or rockstar keys, will i be able to use boosyeroid with those keys? Will it count as me owning the games?
Should have another take and see how much things improved now.......NOT! 500+ people que and at the end you get a "Error message" and get kicked back at the end of the que.
Is it really smoother on chromebooks than windows laptops?
I love this video I appreciate somebody actually telling the truth about cloud gaming
Thank you so much for the positive feedback
Great listen... don't often hear analysis of these aspects of Boosteroid, but it's sad for the result of the current sphere of cloud gaming to be so... underwhelming
That's much nicer than I put it 😂😂
Great vid 😁
Your personal negative experience does not negate thousands of positive reviews online. Too bad you couldn't enjoy playing, but it does not mean everybody else won't as well.
You are right, but if it cannot offer parity to every player, like AV cloud platforms such as Netflix, or cloud computing platforms such as Shadow, it should go back to the drawing board and perfect that experience and stop charging users for a beta test. It sells itself so big and even under perfect circumstances cannot deliver, that is false advertising, by any measure of the words.
A review is a reflection of the experience had by the individual reviewer, which doesn't nullify anyone else's experience, nor do theirs nullify mine. But if a service has many polar opposite reviews out there, we should question what is wrong at the core of that service to cause such a massive swing in experiences.
Thank you so much for watching and commenting, I really appreciate it
The lag is unplayable, ive never had this problem w them other cloud gaming platforms, and it keeps downloading something every time i open fortnite, its the first game im testing, i hope its because the service is on beta, and they fix the problems asap.
The service isn't in Beta I'm sorry to report, they went into full release around 1 year ago. Unfortunately this is their "complete" product 🙁
I just have one question can i play the new warzone and mw3?
I believe so with the deal they signed with Microsoft. I remember hearing about it recently so if COD isn't on there yet it will be soon
Paying to play on GeForce now is not a big deal to me as i had to pay just to play with friends on ps5. As for lag i get none with basic cable.
How many fps on rdr2??
As far as I'm aware zero. I don't think RDR2 is on any cloud platform
@@Doragon86 its in boosteroid. gta 5 too in boosteroid.
What game is this cat girl in at 14:20?
It's called F.I.S.T Forged in Shadow Torch
Top work sir. Really emjoyed it
Thank you my man, glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for the review Dorgaon. Just wondering - have you ever made a video about PS remote play? Do you think it's a viable way to game on a mobile device?
I've actually made 2
This is the focused one and the other is remote play vs cloud gaming
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And this is the Vs one
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Wow! Thanks a lot!
Anytime I can!
Hell yeah cloud games is amazing I think As long as you got the speed and server Connection
I'm an American and I get pretty good connection to e.U But ya'll have good servers out here as well In america So Boosteroid Is getting Spreaded worldwide And it works perfect
Thank you for doing this review.
You're most welcome 😁
I think its too expensive for what it is. Took a half year subscription by mistake. only to discover i can only play about 40 procent of my games with this. plus it takes forever for them to put on new games. When I subscribe and pay about 9 euros a month i expect to be able to play any game I want. For I have to buy those as well..
its not like you can just get games for free,what you are paying for is the service, not the games
Too expensive for what it is Are you really that ignorant It's literally only $10 dog $10 You tell me you can't afford $10 what are you Really that dirt poor or are you just too lazy and ignorant to pay a price that sheep and claim that it's expensive when it's not
Im on the basic paid tier, the wait times in the queue is bloody ridiculous, waiting 30 mins to play mortal kombat 1. I cancelled my subscription
Hmm, really strange, for me all work well, didn't have any problem with input lag or picture quality. Most likely you are far from the server or there are some speed limits don't know, strange 😵😵😵
Yeah my thoughts too. I spoke to a Boosteroid ambassador and I'm around 170 miles /273 KM from the nearest server. Personally, given experiences with GFN, Stadia, PS Plus etc, I would expect a good experience with that distance, but something somewhere isn't allowing that to happen with Boosteroid
@@Doragon86 If you ask me, you'd better contact Boosteroid support. It's their job to find out exactly what's wrong.
100%
Trading boosteroid for nfa steam accs with hella games
Love boosteroid
Its Terrible image quality is just bad and blurry its stuttery laggy has a lot of latency geforce now is so much better boosteroid is an actual scam
And by the way your videos a little misleading because you don't actually install the games on a virtual PC It just starts the games automatically and also their servers are not only in the Ukraine first off They got them in the US everywhere too A lot of information in this video is not accurate
Wow the quality of this video is insane, you deserve way more subs bro! Thanks for the in depth review--I think I'll just stick with GFN for now
yes gfn is better, too bad my account got banned, when im trying to buy the membership, i have a bug where i get this pop ups, after trying to use a debit card, it say insufficient funds, which is a lie, or fraud validation, which i think that what got me banned, because it happened right after it.