Amazon connects two of its big gaming efforts, the streaming platform Twitch and its gaming service in the Luna cloud, a little closer to each other. If you’re looking at a game page on Twitch and this game is available on the amusement park, you may now see a “play on the amusement” button that takes you to the title in the cloud gaming service (Through 9to5Google).
While the button can be a useful way to jump directly into an interesting game you found on Twitch, there are still a lot of limitations to Luna that make the process of just jumping and playing a game harder than it should be.
First of all, to see the button at all, it seems you need to be logged in to Twitch, link your Amazon account to Twitch, and Admitted to the Early Access Program for Luna. It did not appear to me when I checked the Sonic Mania or Tom Clancy’s Six Rainbow Extract Page spasm in Chrome incognito mode.
The button is also not found in the Twitch streams themselves – instead, it is buried in the game’s overall Twitch page. I think the button will be much more useful in a single stream of a game, where I can press it while watching something to immediately try the game streamed from the cloud.
Suppose you are connected to Twitch, you have connected your account to Amazon, you have been accepted into Luna’s early access program, you know where the “Play on Luna” button is, and you click on it to play something in the cloud gaming service, Luna’s business model tells you More He may not be able to just jump into the game.
Unlike a service like Netflix, which allows you to access all the content available with one monthly subscription, Luna instead offers different sets of games grouped by “channel”, and each channel has a separate subscription. This means that you will not know if you subscribe to the correct channel in Luna to play a game from Twitch until you press the button. And since I did not subscribe to any Luna channel, it means that I actually could not press the button and start playing a game.
as 9to5Google Note that this combination of Twitch / Luna was promised in the framework The service’s debut in September 2020, So it’s been in the works for quite some time. And the addition of a “play on Luna” button to Twitch could be a sign that Amazon is taking Luna more seriously. But in my opinion, it’s too hard to find the button and make it work is more complex than it should be. Fellow Sean Holister argued that cloud games need to disappear in order to be successful, and right now, the “Play on Luna” button has a lot of friction that prevents it from providing a smooth experience.