Onlive

[GTFO. Luckyg]

Speaking at the GamesBeat@GDC conference today, OnLive chief executive Steve Perlman said gamers will be able to subscribe to the PC or Mac games-on-demand service for $14.95 a month, and get access to a wide variety of current titles from major publishers. It is partnering in this launch with publishers including Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, 2K Games, THQ and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The games will also include new releases like Mass Effect 2, Borderlands, Assassin’s Creed II, as well as a bunch of other titles. Perlman anticipates anywhere from a dozen to 25 titles to be available at launch time, and more after that, depending on how negotiations with other publishers proceed.

not found a thread about this after doing a quick search,
the service was announced at last years GDC, now it makes its appearance this year,

It is launching on the 17th June in america this year

at $14 a month, thats pretty good to say you can play any of the game from then in whenever you want, and at maximum graphics,

I expect when they launch the service in the UK it will be about £10 - £15 a month based on those values,

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET! (if it works)

[GTFO. Irritant]

Which it won't, plain and simple.

If you get lag over current connections sending relatively small packets of game data in current pc-in-your-house games, what sort of lag do you think you're going to get when you're relying on a system to receive all your input data without hitch, run the game based on your controls, compress the image/video and audio of the game in real time and upload it back to you?

Plus, how many top spec PC's are they going to need to have running? At least one per user, more if you factor in the real time video compression. The video settings of the game may be on max, but the image you view will be shit and full of artifacts. It's simply not possible to stream that much data reliably.

It'll be shit. It'll never work. It wouldn't even work today in the countries that have 100Mbit connections to homes as standard. The service will die on it's arse within a year.

[Orv]

I don't think this sounds very good. Obvious are the things stated by Irritant. Also I don't want to pay monthly to play games. Doubt that that many companies will sign up, and overall, even if it would let you play many games, i think you'd end up paying more then you'd do for buying the few games you'd play. (Atleast in my case)

[fraginator3000]

The service will die on it's arse within a year.

Absolutely agree, they cant possibly make this work. What i suggest they do is either give up, or keep the concept but download the games like you would on steam, but for a flat rate. Keep them encrypted so that you can only play them when paying a subscription fee and have it go like that. I think something like that already exists TBH...

[GTFO. Coxy]

Found out about this last year, and the idea is great... However, it will never work. Irritant summed it up tbh.

[GTFO. Luckyg]

bumping this back up, you can now try it out on your PC here in the UK.

However you still connect to USA servers as it isn't officially coming over to the UK until late next year. However in practise, even with the amount of distance from the servers input lag was not a major problem for me, sure it was there, but not as bad as i was expecting, so you can only assume it can get better when we get UK servers.

Graphics are sort of in between high and medium settings of a modern video game, but its still pretty cool to play with and means I can play some video games on the laptop when I am away from the PC which is cool

Its completely free to run and use and you can play any of the games for a 30 minute trial period unlimitedly but you cannot buy any games as it doesn't accept UK cards.

They are also planning on introducing movie streaming abilities next year as well which I also think is a good idea

[GTFO. kk20]

I cant imagine a 32 player LT working though. Maybe a 32 player sims game.

[GTFO. Luckyg]

bumping once again, it has now been released in the UK!

http://www.onlive.co.uk

and if you sign up before the 9th of October you can buy your first game for only £1 (can be any game bar pre-orders)

Waiting to get my account swapped over from a US one to a UK one before i can play

[Getsuga Tensho]

Yep I signed up a while back and got a US account. I've ended up with 2 accounts now though since my first account took a while to migrate and I made a second one for the meantime. Works pretty damn well.

There was a really good deal up where if you preordered saints row the 3rd then you got a free onlive games console sent to you. Great thing about that is you could get your first purchase, the playpack gets you 30% off all games as well as access to over 100 games for a month, saints row the third and the console for less than it costs to preorder Saints Row the Third on its own. Had to miss out on that offer because of not enough monies atm. Shall need to just go ahead with the £1 for a first purchase offer and just wait for another offer like that to come up again (offer with free console).

Would love to be able to do some normal PC gaming then switch over to playing on my TV with a control pad that looks almost the same as the Xbox 360 one whenever I want and keep playing with friends and such. Trying to decide what game to get atm.

Oh and if anyone is interested in Deus Ex HR then the normal and Augmented Editions are both available for the £1 offer. Just in case anyone has a look and decides to get the normal without realising you can get the AE for the same price.