Onlive...Your thoughts?

[Ghost-Rhayne]

Wow these guys are pretty fucking confident considering that they are basically running a glorified rental service. Have you seen the prices you pay for games that you WILL NEVER EVEN OWN? http://www.onlive.com/games/featuredgames . Sorry but anyone who pays $49.99 to play Deus Ex when they will never even have the data on their PC is crazy. You can get the retail version cheaper than that and you get the disc, box and booklet. You can play it when your net goes down,no latency, nothing. Gawd, I cant even imagine sinking my money into these games knowing they will always be on their turf and my dollars will never have any kind of physical manifestation.

Also, this year I will have purchased 9 PS3 exclusives and 11 multiplats. Without Sonys exclusives Onlive offers me 50% less than what I would experience with a console. Sony has it's 16 studios that work all the time in bringing exclusive content, and these games will never ever see the shady digital realm of Onlive. Same goes for 360 and WiiU content. So basically Onlive need to figure out their own exclusive content, buy it, or realise that traditional home consoles offer a bigger, better home entertainment solution, with more games, that are seemingly cheaper, and that you tangibly own.

My opinion, Onlive can kiss my ass!

What do others think? :)

[DarkVincent07]

Its not for me, at all, as I like to have all my stuff physically and on a shelf.

But the idea of OnLive is interesting, and I think its good for those people who aren't too into games and maybe just wanna grab a few games a year and not have to sell out heaps of money for a console, or can't afford a console and the games - which ARE cheaper on OnLive.

Not for me, but its cool that its out there for people who are willing to get this, and may not have enjoyed games otherwise.

[Tyrien]

Considering larger ISPs such as rogers will see this as some kind of "threat" to their network and/or other entertainment services I can see them throttling connections.

[Soldier 95B]

I have been enjoying OnLive since day one. More so lately now that more games have come out and they have had great deals (like steam deals). It's nice that I can pick up and play my game anywhere I travel, be it my laptop, computer, or friends computer, in a hotel, anywhere. It's pretty slick. It's not for everyone, but they have their niche and it works for me.

[keefy]

Can you give us some screens of the video stream please?

I have tried it a few months ago and the video quality was rather poor in 720p only (it didn't max my connection) and it didn't offer any sort of anti aliasing which I thought was big let down I am far better off playing on my system than theirs.

[Yungstar 2006]

just been using this (uk) very impressed so far.
i've a 5meg connection and my pc sits some 30ft from my router and gets its signals through the use of homeplugs.

[Fenix]

It would be good for those cheaper games/ones on sale if the latency was better.

Whenever I try rentals its always super laggy to control cause of my net connection :(

[MjW]

So, any idea on how the developers are getting paid with Onlive?

[keefy]

Onlive UK has a promotion on £1 for your first game until October 9th.

http://www.onlive.co.uk/go/one-pound?ol_campgn_internal=featuredgames

[BoyBettaKnow]

Onlive UK has a promotion on £1 for your first game until October 9th.

http://www.onlive.co.uk/go/one-pound?ol_campgn_internal=featuredgames

May give that a go once I get back home. I can never pass up
a bargain


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[dodops3]

I'm impressed with onlive- got deus ex augmented ed on the £1 promo, which came with the original Deus Ex free. So in effect I got the entire Deus Ex series for a quid (we're not counting the underwhelming Invisible War)

I'm meant to get 10meg but ran a test and I'm only getting about 3. Yet the games run smoothly and the graphics are good enough. I like how I can use an xbox360 controller and it automatically detects that Im using it and in tutorials etc tells shows the xbox buttons rather than making me figure it out.

[scottscorpion]

i just signed up

if you have BT you get access to the playback bundle for 3months for free...there is loadsa games in there

http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumerProducts/displayTopic.do?topicId=33551

not had chance to play any but will get on it later

[mudshark]

just read about this, may give it a try.

[Guymelif]

I love the idea of Onlive cause its a win win win for everyone involved with gaming.

[keefy]

I gave it a try again but this time using the UK service so it is closer to me and in theory the input lag should be alot less but in reality its not much better it feels like the game has vsync on (which I hate) no idea if it is because they removed most of the video settings which leads me to the fact it only supports 1 resolution 16:9 so if use an old 4:3 monitor like I am at the moment the video gets letter boxed.

So far fro FPS gaming I cannot recomend Onlive there is simply too much input lag and the quality still is pretty bad, it hard to see anything in the distance and the general picture Quality is blury.
will have to check out some other free trials and see if they are affected the same way.

Its a bot match.


http://youtu.be/Htp8r5RuVaU

[Lethal_NFS]

Wow you are not kidding about it being blurry. Everything in the background is constantly blurry.

[keefy]

To be fair the video has lost some of its quality due to being compressed it was originally 27GB I compressed it down to 310MB then uploaded to youtube its not much better uncompressed to be honest.

I set up playclaw to take a shot every 30seconds in png format my screen is 1024x768 so the video stream gets letter boxed as said earlier.

http://i524.photobucket.com/albums/cc324/k33fy/onlive/d2b062bb.png
http://i524.photobucket.com/albums/cc324/k33fy/onlive/8b234bbd.png
http://i524.photobucket.com/albums/cc324/k33fy/onlive/121b8c21.png
http://i524.photobucket.com/albums/cc324/k33fy/onlive/4f816b1d.png
http://i524.photobucket.com/albums/cc324/k33fy/onlive/dbcfc9bf.png
http://i524.photobucket.com/albums/cc324/k33fy/onlive/d58c8ff5.png

More pics here http://s524.photobucket.com/albums/cc324/k33fy/onlive/

[Eric]

So, any idea on how the developers are getting paid with Onlive?

It's a 70 / 30 split. Devs (or publishers) get 70% of the money, OnLive gets 30%.

[Inzane2050]

Onlive comes with compressed video feed and latency issues. It's just the nature of online connectivity.