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The more people know about crypto's the more people will be building rigs and the more rigs the less profit they have with mining.
All those GPU rigs need a new market and Playkey is a great new way of making money with your mining rig.

I'm sure a lot of miners will go to Playkey! They will make much more money with Playkey then mining a crypto.
Great idea Playkey!

Miners have computers unsuitable for playing on them. In addition to a heap of powerful video cards there is nothing. Usually the processor is weak, the HDD is slow (or there is none at all, and the OS starts from the flash drive), RAM is small.

Sad to hear, it would have been a great alternative source of income for GPU miners.

But it depends on the game. Games from a few years ago were more GPU demanding. Now there are better GPUs but more recent games started to be bottlenecked by storage, CPU and RAM. That trend may continue with the rising popularity and availability of multicore processors, especially since Ryzen.

Don't forget for whom this service is ... for people with crappy PCs that want to play new games with max graphic settings :-) So most of the customers will use a lot of hardware resources.

It is still possible PlayKey have data centers with powerful servers to take care of the required CPU, storage and RAM, while offloading the 3D rendering to GPU miners. Although I am not sure that is technically possible without the game being built for that kind of separate computation. Also I suspect it would introduce a lot of lag, while the shorter distance and the resulting lower latency between the player and the miner could have been one of the main benefits of GPU miners.

But that would centralized them and makes them reliable at their own servers not to mention that they will need to prioritize their servers to make money