the problem with cloud is that it goes offline for maintenance, in blizzards case hours at a time, sometimes even all day. in a business day i know for more than a few, that's $80 million in sales vanished per day, break it down into hours, that's 10 million dollars lost per hour the cloud is down.
in gaming, that is how word gets out a game isn't worth $60 but $10 at best.
and lets not forget patching, CLOUD GAMING WILL NOT LET YOU PLAY unless you have the newest patch. and if the log in server goes down.
well that happens so much with cloud gaming, where you can't get on to play it's irritating as all hell, just the internet connection to play is bad enough.
for all you diablo3 players every time the servers go down you should not forget to post " can't play diablo3 because the servers are down, but we can play another game that doesn't require the internet.
play station network incident, megaupload take down.
who can really afford the cloud for as unreliable as it is? it's about as valuable as fools gold for all i have to say in my experience.
seems to me the only people who are for the cloud are the ones that want communist, fascist, dictatorial control over the people using it, for the same reasons those governments give excuses for being.