so I love plex it streams all my tv, movies and music. so here a good challenge for the Plex guys gaming! I know it is ■■■■■■■ hard but a great feature in the future.
Congratulations, this is possibly the laziest post I’ve seen here. It’s also in the wrong section. There is a feature voting forum but you might actually want to flesh out your suggestion before just posting a random medium of entertainment.
Also Plex has absolutely no business entering the gaming world. This is probably one of the two or three dumbest suggestions I have ever read on these forums.
@Elijah_Baley
LOL
Don’t worry about it.
Plex will prolly do it next…
Basically just for the reason you mentioned!!
@danjames92 said:
Congratulations, this is possibly the laziest post I’ve seen here. It’s also in the wrong section. There is a feature voting forum but you might actually want to flesh out your suggestion before just posting a random medium of entertainment.
I am sorry but did you want me to present a whole power point presentation on why this should be included. I don’t want it to be voted on. the subject title was clear a CRAZY FEATURE! I am never expecting it but 20 years down the line maybe. How is it random? the covered media is films, music, tv, you can even do audio books? so how are games random? Having your PC stream content is the whole point of PLEX so gaming is not out of the realms of possibility when you have STEAM and co doing it.
This is a general discussion it is a general discussion on where PLEX can go.
The problem is, your 20 years down the line is where I would have expected features like Plex Cloud, PMS on a router or PMS on a gaming platform… Yet we have those features today.
The thought isn’t far off the mark, that this is as likely to happen as not. It almost makes me angry to think of it. Crap like this is just too obvious as a “step” that it’s just possible. Which is pretty sad we are even discussing the probabilities of it… 
To be honest I do not expect Plex, in anything resembling its current form, to be around in 20 years. Technology is evolving so fast that in 20 the tech that is used for entertainment will almost be unrecognizable. That includes whatever replaces TV and gaming and some new immersive experience that VR is only a pale shadow of what will be the reality.
It would not surprise ne to find that the movie “Brainstorm” was closer than most anything else or maybe Star Trek’s hollowdecks but most likely we will discover that no one has really envisioned what will be the “thing” of 2037.
Regardless of that it matters little to me. The odds of my old body still being operational in 20 years is so small that what Plex is doing then matters to me very little.
in 20 years I will be 50 so I will be the one hanging on the past, which is funny because I only got plex 1 year ago.
@Elijah_Baley said:
Also Plex has absolutely no business entering the gaming world. This is probably one of the two or three dumbest suggestions I have ever read on these forums.
Why? Why can’t plex be use as a game launcher? Storing all your game locations in it’s database with a link to launch games? Games are also media (IMO anyway). It’s a similar function to Steam, without the content delivery. Steam merely acts as a launcher. Plex could fairly easily do the same.
Your reply shows you aren’t a gamer.
@Thradar said:
@Elijah_Baley said:
Also Plex has absolutely no business entering the gaming world. This is probably one of the two or three dumbest suggestions I have ever read on these forums.Why? Why can’t plex be use as a game launcher? Storing all your game locations in it’s database with a link to launch games? Games are also media (IMO anyway). It’s a similar function to Steam, without the content delivery. Steam merely acts as a launcher. Plex could fairly easily do the same.
Your reply shows you aren’t a gamer.
Steam in-home streaming and Nvidia gamestream already exist… Why would you want Plex to try and replicate those companies’ expertise? Makes no sense.
@KarlDag said:
@Thradar said:
@Elijah_Baley said:
Also Plex has absolutely no business entering the gaming world. This is probably one of the two or three dumbest suggestions I have ever read on these forums.Why? Why can’t plex be use as a game launcher? Storing all your game locations in it’s database with a link to launch games? Games are also media (IMO anyway). It’s a similar function to Steam, without the content delivery. Steam merely acts as a launcher. Plex could fairly easily do the same.
Your reply shows you aren’t a gamer.
Steam in-home streaming and Nvidia gamestream already exist… Why would you want Plex to try and replicate those companies’ expertise? Makes no sense.
To be the all-in-one home media solution.
Plex wouldn’t need to replicate those functions, just allow their existing integration into the “portal”… The holy grail for most families is a single user interface that allows the connections to the various services/applications we all use. Plex should NOT replicate the work they are doing (it just further fragments and its a LOT of work on its own)… but they could, as some have proposed become a launcher and a display vehicle… Let Steam/Nvidia do what they do best, and let Plex do what it does best which is the presentation of that data and the unification of media/entertainment.
This ironically would also let those media sources (Steam and Nvidia also have their smaller movie collections) to be rendered as well.
@dstwins said:
Plex wouldn’t need to replicate those functions, just allow their existing integration into the “portal”… The holy grail for most families is a single user interface that allows the connections to the various services/applications we all use. Plex should NOT replicate the work they are doing (it just further fragments and its a LOT of work on its own)… but they could, as some have proposed become a launcher and a display vehicle… Let Steam/Nvidia do what they do best, and let Plex do what it does best which is the presentation of that data and the unification of media/entertainment.This ironically would also let those media sources (Steam and Nvidia also have their smaller movie collections) to be rendered as well.
But that’s EXACTLY what Roku and AppleTV and AndroidTV offer… A portal to a bunch of apps. I have Plex and Nvidia Gamestream side by side on my ShieldTV… I don’t see why it should be in Plex. But that’s just me.
I would agree, but then I have to switch to my Roku (another streaming system), or AppleTV, etc…
I have a work flow theory (I’m sure there is a more technical term for it) thatI refer to as WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor… Which is to say, as much as I can add features and functionality to the house via other tools/schemes… if it becomes overly complicated (ie: exit Application A to launch Application B to function 1, rinse and repeat for the various functions/applications I can bring into the house) I will never hear end of it and budget approval for enhancements are more difficult to come by because she sees little value (to her) in the expense. What Plex (platform doesn’t matter) could bring to the same is a universal portal to many of these things… so just like selecting what movie you want to watch… potentially it could also select what game you want to play (from game sources that support streaming).
