Comments on: OnLive Had Me Until They Went Crazy With Subscription Fees

By: watch mobile

watch mobile — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:56:11 +0000

Nice stuff

By: dual sim mobile

dual sim mobile — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:43:49 +0000

great post

By: morphiend

morphiend — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:02:27 +0000

Oh, and the 5Mbit connection is insane. That alienates over 50% of the “broadband” users in the US since the FCC only said that “broadband” had to be 2Mbit. And even then its only “up to a possible” meaning that for people like me who are shafted by AT&T not caring about their copper lines which are being slowly devoured by the goddamn gophers, we can only peak at 2Mbit and slowly retard to a ~1.2-1.5Mbit connection, before having to reboot our DSL modems.

That means that now you have limited your customer base to those that use cable, and as we've seen over the past 2 years, streaming ANYTHING over cable has become the thorn in those providers side and they'll do whatever they can to limit your bandwidth or charge you extra.

Epic Fail FTL.

By: morphiend

morphiend — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:59:15 +0000

I too was very interested in this service since it was going to be able to save me from having to pay hundreds of $$ each year to keep a gaming PC up-to-date. It was perfect, roll the cost of the ownership of the hardware and software into one fee and be done with it.

But now that they want to charge an extra fee for the games, here's a big hardy : "NO EFFING WAY". I'll stick to my PS3 thank you.

Geez, NO ONE has any respect for the PC anymore.

By: Gon3Sceptik

Gon3Sceptik — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:57:04 +0000

OnLive should be called OnLie. It was bad enough when were trumpeting unrealistic silliness that everyone would play in HD. Now the reality that most will play in SD's 480p with framerate TBD. And with $15 per month you get access to nothing but the right to give them more money. I have less than zero interest in this. Its now shifted in line with my feelings years back around Circuit City's Divx/DVD initiative, I can't wait for them to crumble and die. Good riddance.

By: Engles

Engles — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:55:08 +0000

injulen has it right: Gaikai has the basic service for free with purchases additional. And they have 300 data center locations whereas OnLive has 6. Since the Ubisoft debacle, I've become more sceptical about services which are entirely online.

By: kaya122

kaya122 — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:51:28 +0000

I was pretty excited when I heard about onlive. I pretty much had my money ready….if it worked that is. I was completely fine with paying 15 bucks a month for unlimited games. They never said you get unlimited games but I just kinda assumed. But now that you have to pay a monthly subscription and a fee for each game I am no longer interested.

By: injulen

injulen — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:44:03 +0000

http://www.gaikai.com/

By: Jordan_Snyder

Jordan_Snyder — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:52:13 +0000

There should just be a subscription to have access to have all games on the service.