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Money For Nothing

So basically, any game you buy is streamed to you and it's all in "The Cloud" so you don't even have a local copy on your machine??

Not only that, but any game i do purchase, i will be subject to a monthly fee of roughly $15 to continue playing a game that i have actually purchased once already, and failure to keep paying this "Service Fee" will render any games that i have purchased, unplayable?? So basically it's a $15 charge for the right to keep playing the games that i have already purchased, a $15 charge that dosen't include any purchase of games??

Is that right so far??

What happens in the years to come if/when the service is cancelled or taken offline for whatever reason, will i be able to play my legitimately purchased games, will you make them downloadable to me, DRM free, so i can transfer them between any device that i want? What happens when the service is down because, if you say it is going to be as much of a "milestone" that it's going to be, the servers are overloaded, am i locked out of playing my legitimately purchased games despite the fact that i've been paying my $15 "service fee"??

Let me guess, diddly squat happens! The service ends and you lose any gamesthat you've paid for, and shoud the servers go down temporarily, well then i'm sorry, but s**t happens!

Also, it's completely dependent on a minimum broadband speed of 1.5mps, so if it drops below that, depite the fact that i've been paying my "Service Fee", i won't be able to play my legitimately purchased games??

Have i got all of that??

And "this" is supposed to be the future of gaming, the "milestone" that we've all been waiting for?

If it is, then Heaven help us all?! Geez, i thought Ubisoft DRM was bad...............

posted by : steve foster, 11 March 2010 Complain about this comment
Everlasting Disbelief

I still believe in physics. So unless the onlive team have found a way to make data signals travel faster than the speed of light, I can never see them making this a viable option for anyone that cannot tolerate at least a 10th to a 5th of a second delay on their controlling of what’s happening on the screen.

Someone please explain some theory that will explain a plausible solution to this mass delusion of marketing. Because until someone does I am left with the torture of this feeling that every logic bone in my body is suddenly trying to jump out of me every time I see the written words of Onlive.

posted by : Graeme, 11 March 2010 Complain about this comment

Onlive is nearly online live

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