Onlive

[WorldDomoNation]

Check out this awesome new game service thing,

http://www.onlive.com/

It was shown at GDC last night, and it looks crazy! I read something in an interview or some article about how they were developing something that would allow games like Crysis to be played on a crappy low-end computer, and I guess this is it! I already know that you guys are extremely skeptical, because thats just how this forum works but whatever

You can sign up for the beta on the site, so maybe sometime near the end of this year we can be using this!

Also, there's going to be controller support, on the little console thing, but I don't know how that's gunna work out. PC controls are MUCH better than console controls. I dunno, they might have controller dedicated servers... for noobs who like using controllers instead of mouse + keyboard

[Drofder2004]

Not sceptical at all. In fact, I wonder why it hasn't been thought of before. From what I see, all it is, is streamed gaming. No different to a video. You send input commands to another computer that is running the game, the other computer sends back video signal.

[WorldDomoNation]

One question I have is, what if you already have a game that you want to play with this service, will you have to buy it again?

[Koekie]

Sounds great, wouldn't have to buy or upgrade your pc every few years

[Drofder2004]

Sounds great, wouldn't have to buy or upgrade your pc every few years

Could you imagine playing a SP game and instead of low fps you get connection lag?

[Pedsdude]

You need to be at least 18, based in the US and have a broadband-connected PC running Windows Vista®/XP®, or an Intel®-based Mac.

US bastards!

[Nightmare]

You need to be at least 18, based in the US and have a broadband-connected PC running Windows Vista®/XP®, or an Intel®-based Mac.

US bastards!

I wouldn't use this service anyway.
They've got plenty of ways to screw people over with this one.

[WorldDomoNation]

imo, I can't see why you wouldn't use this! You could sign up for the service and play games instantly! You'll also be able to play those games anywhere! Just think of steam, but without downloading and installing on every PC you use! In addition to that, it won't take up any HDD space! Just a tiny bit for the initiall install.

And. Regardiing lag, using clusters of servers in several states, there will be NO lag at all!

Succks for everyone not in the US though, which is most of this forum.

[Infinite]

imo, I can't see why you wouldn't use this! You could sign up for the service and play games instantly! You'll also be able to play those games anywhere! Just think of steam, but without downloading and installing on every PC you use! In addition to that, it won't take up any HDD space! Just a tiny bit for the initiall install.

And. Regardiing lag, using clusters of servers in several states, there will be NO lag at all!

Succks for everyone not in the US though, which is most of this forum.

Europeans discriminate Americans for reasons which are very "retarded" to say the least. They will hate anything that's for the US only.

[BlueDamselfly]

As usual, I'm of course confused about this but it looks cool kinda since my net sucks and I'd not have to download anything I guess?

But anyway even if its only in USA for now I believe it ll come in other countries like awesome Canada and europe or whatever soon like every other product does.

edit: oh no wait if I read right its only the beta which is in US? I guess I was retard, whatever.

[Pedsdude]

Surely if it's gonna be high quality video, that'd be effectively streaming very high quality video, which could lag considerably?

[JDogg]

Hmm, sounds like a good idea.

[Drofder2004]

And. Regardiing lag, using clusters of servers in several states, there will be NO lag at all!.

Of course there will. Stop reading the media hype. If I am running on a 56k modem. I will lag, no matter how many clusters there are in use. If I am running on a connection that has high traffic/noise on my line, I will lag. The only thing they can be sure that is lag free is their end. Their lines may be lag free, but your personal connection (different for almost everyone in the world) will be different. If I had a 300 metre long ethernet cable locally connecting me and my modem, that would cause lag.

Think logically, this isn't a LAN connection, anything on the internet can and will lag at some point.

This is not going to be a free service. You will have to PAY for the service AND the games. I would not be suprised if they introduced P2P (pay2play)

[Pedsdude]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/gdc-w ... cle?page=1

[Drofder2004]

I'm glad someone posted this, as this is been sorta bugging me for a while. How could this be possible on the scale that would be worthy?

It sorta clicked in my own head earlier, thinking that I could play games on my laptop by using a "remote pc" type conenction, but surely even the minor latency between the LAN computers would be too much for reaction speed to kick in.
It wont work, I would recommend people just spend £300 if they want most games to run at 60 FPS.