My friend and I decided to try out an internet cafe for the first time and we really wanted to enjoy this unique experience, but we were hampered by numerous problems in our two hours there. What I can say is that the place was clean, had a nice atmosphere, and the man at the counter was hospitable, but those were the only positive aspects I can vouch for.
In terms of the issues, my friend was not able to log into his account at all. We spent nearly thirty minutes troubleshooting until we found out that the PC he was using kept refusing to open the web browser in order for him to complete the login to Battle.net using his linked PS account, which he needed to do for us to play Overwatch. Since the PC I was using did allow for browser access, my friend and I switched PCs after already wasting much of our time.
The second issue would be that while the PCs were able to run Overwatch quite seamlessly, both PCs we were using were not able to run Fortnite even at 30 FPS. I'm not sure what I was doing wrong, yet if we were expected to change the settings to be on the lowest graphics and restart the game, that would have been good to know at the outset. We expected the PCs to be able to run Fortnite in general, but that was just another disappointment since the framerate was choppy and gunplay was really extremely unenjoyable as a result.
The third issue was that we were able to hear other people in the internet cafe in our headsets. You read that right. Another customer a few rows down from us was laughing and talking loudly, and we were able to hear him clearly with the headset off as well as from the audio in the headset. I have no idea how that is possible, but that was the case for both myself and my friend's headsets. We thought he was in our game chat, that's how intrusive his communications were to ours.
The final issue is the worst, and it was what made me want to write this review. As we were approaching the end of the session, an automated message stated in Korean that we had three minutes left in our session. That was fine, and we acknowledged it. However, we were just about to finish our game before the PCs just exited to the locked screen, and all of our accounts were still open. I know this because in the following day, I saw from my phone that my Discord account said I was playing League of Legends. Since I've never played that game, I could only conclude that my Discord account was still open in that cafe and told my friend immediately. We both changed all of the passwords for the accounts we used at the cafe as a precaution. When it comes to account security and privacy, I would have expected a warning that we risked exposing our game accounts to public access if we didn't immediately shut off our game and start logging out as soon as possible. Also, what about people who do not speak/understand Korean? They would be the most at risk of experiencing this issue, which is the worst part in my opinion. read more