OnLive opens beta program
Some of you may remember the very interesting OnLive from E3 and various other trade shows. The idea was streaming gaming – you pushed forward, the command was sent to a server, and whatever was happening on the other end was sent back your way. They had some intriguing ideas, and it looked fascinating. However, many thought they would just fade away, and nothing would become of them. But no! A post on their blog informs us that they are starting a beta program.
The OnLive founder and CEO Steve Perlman made the post to the company blog. Here’s an extract with some info.
When you sign up for OnLive Beta, you tell us some general information about your ISP, your computer configuration and your location. We use this information to organize Beta testers into test groups so that our engineering team can focus at different times on testing different situations.
You have to be in the USA and over 18, so that’s me out. However, sign-up isn’t over, so if you’re going to do it, tell us what it’s like (unless you’re under NDA). It looks like it has major potential.
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Beh! That's me out, too
One of the cable internet companies or telcos will buy this, or they will kill it with their stupid capping technologies.
I can not wait to get a look at it.
I applied for the beta a while back, while they were at E3. I just feel that the audience that would be interested in this will not want to lose the benefit of tweaking the games, or patching in mod support, etc.
I could not imagine playing something like Oblivion, Left 4 Dead or Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, and not having the community patches and mods that followed the release of the game.
i signed up for this yesterday probally wont get in maby because of my location i will but i dobut it.
I can not wait to get a look at it.
I applied for the beta a while back, while they were at E3. I just feel that the audience that would be interested in this will not want to lose the benefit of tweaking the games, or patching in mod support, etc.
I could not imagine playing something like Oblivion, Left 4 Dead or Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, and not having the community patches and mods that followed the release of the game.
i signed up for this yesterday probally wont get in maby because of my location i will but i dobut it.