I think the goal was to play without attracting IT attention. Someone running Teamviewer will attract it and will most likely come and see what you are doing. Also, Teamviewer uses a lot of bandwidth, I know I noticed within the hour when someone on my network was using.

Back in the early 90s I was playing a game off of a floppy disk on a company PC while working night shift, and our IT engineer happened to be staying late and caught me. He laughed it off but I wasn't sure how much trouble I was in. I thought we were friends.

The PC wasn't networked yet so we had to back up everything on a tape drive and send the tapes to corporate. So the engineer typed up a phony letter on our company letterhead, from the corporate IT department head to him, saying he was going through our backup tapes and noticed some "save game" files that don't belong there. Telling him that game playing on company PCs, let alone company time is unacceptable, and that it must be dealt with.

He showed it to me and I nearly shit my pants. I thought I was getting fired for playing Jeopardy? No, I think it was Bass fishing. Either way, best joke ever.

has anyone ever tried using teamviewer to remotely play a game? in my experience its pretty much unplayable.

Not probable (don't even think possible). My typical P99 usage is on the order of 4MB per hour. One full day of constant use would be just less than 100MB. I've downloaded single books that were bigger than that. The information being sent back and forth isn't that big, since most of the work is done with the client and no large media is ever sent.

maybe you guys don't have a real job or still have mommy pay for your things, but if he's questioning whether IT is going to detect him playing games during work then that should be a red flag that maybe it's not a good idea. it's just risky in general and to be honest it's going to open up Pandora's box. forumquesting at work is one thing, but once you start actually playing, it's going to be a bad addiction and risking your career over it is just not a mature thing to do, but do what you like man. it's your life.

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Maybe, but everyone wastes time at work. Playing online games, browsing forums, shopping, facebook, standing around talking, etc. If you are able to do that and get your job done and you're not breaking company policy I don't see what the problem is. Just because you play outside your home doesn't mean you will become addicted and destroy your life. It does happen, but it's not inevitable or even likely.

Killed vox this way a couple weeks ago, true 1999 experience.

It is laggy for sure. But it's also not going to show up on reports. Teamviewer will but I'd rather be caught using Teamviewer to "organize photos" during lunch than playing a video game. I work in IT so the risk is quite low for me, I have actual uses for Teamviewer outside of gaming.

Yeah, I wouldn't recommend playing at work for most people. Some jobs have a lot of leeway as far as browsing social media, goofing off at addictinggames.com or agar.io, or frequency of break times...but If you have to try and hide it then you shouldn't be doing it, as hackneyed as that sounds.

This is funny I was just thinking how many people I run into during my day in game that are also playing from work!