OnLive - New era in Gaming?

[159th_Viper]

Interesting.......:joystick:

 

http://www.onlive.com/index.html

[Grimes]

I've been skeptical of it since it was announced a while back. I think that someday a service like that might be the norm, maybe 20-30 years from now. But in this day and age I just don't know. You will always have the camp that want to have a physical copy of a product in hand, there are some who like stuff like Steam, Impulse, and Direct2Drive. With Direct2Drive and Impulse you just download the game to your computer just a single time and you no longer need the internet to play. Steam has an offline mode, but for the most part you must be online, on the other hand it is much more than just a place to buy and download games. Almost nobody likes Ubisofts new DRM present in Assassins Creed 2 and Silent Hunter 5 where the user must be online to play and have a constant connection to the server.

 

IMO, Onlive is more of the same, it just gets you your games differently.

[Peyoteros]

• The first qualified 25,000 users who successfully register for OnLive’s Game Service will have the monthly Service Fee waived for the first 3 months of usage. The monthly service fee is currently $14.95, subject to change...
  
• We gonna extract all your money, muahaha...
  

I hate them already

[Distiler]

So, with that, you don't need to upgrade your PC and play the most modern game at full graphics? and I can buy games and use them in that "cloud" or download and run in my computer? or loan them?. That's cool, the problem I see are latency, if this service doesen't have a server near my house, lag won't be good.

Edited March 11, 2010 by Distiler

[Pilotasso]

• The first qualified 25,000 users who successfully register for OnLive’s Game Service will have the monthly Service Fee waived for the first 3 months of usage. The monthly service fee is currently $14.95, subject to change...
  
• We gonna extract all your money, muahaha...
  

I hate them already

 

Yep. Pay to play, like cable TV. And you wont own any titles.

And if the trend gets fashion your hardware will be reduced to a mere server terminal. It has a destructive potential on many genres.

 

Great for fast mindless trigger puller kidds, but the rest of us will be left out.

Edited March 11, 2010 by Pilotasso

[Peyoteros]

HOW IT WORKS

 

 

We’re excited to get the OnLive Game Service into consumers’ homes beginning June 17, 2010. Sign up to be placed on our priority waiting list to be amongst the first to experience OnLive gaming.

 

• The first qualified 25,000 users who successfully register for OnLive’s Game Service will have the monthly Service Fee waived for the first 3 months of usage. The monthly service fee is currently $14.95, subject to change.
  
• Waiver of Service Fee includes free access to OnLive’s Game Service including game demos, video profiles and community features, but does not include playing full versions of games, which are to be purchased or rented separately.
  
• In order to register for the OnLive Game Service, you must be 18 years or older and located within the contiguous 48 US states or the District of Columbia, provide a valid VISA or Mastercard, and pass a computer and Internet connection performance test.
  
• Qualified users will receive an invitation to register and must respond and successfully register within 7 days.
  
• Other conditions and restrictions apply—see Pre-Registration Terms.
  

 

By clicking Submit, you agree to the Pre-Registration Terms

 

 

Buy as many games as possible while you can... :)

Edited March 11, 2010 by Peyoteros

[159th_Viper]

^^^^^^^^^

In other words;

 

B.O.H.I.C.A.

[Pilotasso]

:huh:

[Grimes]

It seems like Netflix but with a dynamic product. To me, this service makes sense with single player only games. Play it once through, enjoy it, move on to the next. Multiplayer games are a whole other animal. I've got hundreds of hours in TF2, Lockon, and several other games. If you play a game for more than 3 months then you end up paying more for the game. But then again if you use it to rent other games.. it sorta pays for itself.

[digital_steve]

Be handy for those wanting to play the latest games without upgrading their systems... seems that it doesn't rely on your own system specs.

[gumball360]

Is this saying I can run modern games on my P.O.S. computer? For cheaper than I'm currently paying for GameFly? With no waiting for the next game to arrive in the mail?

 

I'm very, very interested in this...

 

EDIT: But it looks like you have to pay to buy or rent games, on top of the monthly fee. What's that about? Most programs like this have either a monthly fee OR pay to play, not both.

Edited March 12, 2010 by gumball360

[Distiler]

Yes it seems you pay to maintain the servers that make run games like Crysis at full graphics and high fps in your pos computer. You just recieve a interactive video, but the game is executed in the "cloud" server.