Onlive

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Sure they will, but for example; if Black Ops is going to be released, _a lot_ of people are going to want to play it. Just like on Steam, servers won't be able to handle it, and either you have to wait for shizzle to calm down, or you'll be playing on laggy servers. Something that isn't an issue on Steam.

But I wouldn't imagine them allowing it to be that laggy that they'd lose a huge chunk of there base. There will be times when the service wont work as it should and you brought up the example of steam, when that first came out it too lagged, had issues and etc., there's even a GIF mocking the early steam.



Here's an early article on steam

http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/32981


oh found a number being thrown around of 25,000 current onlive members, so yea its not a lot but I think that was there intention (PR!).

http://onlivefans.com/showthread.php?378...Onlive-now

People that tried OnLive out already complained about major lag issues + performance flaws.

The idea behind their system may seem great, but they still have to work a lot to make it run good.

There was one guy who tried onlive that had borrowed the account from a friend and gave a preview of it. The issue with this is the accounts are tied to data centers.


"I first have to admit that I don't actually have a beta account with the OnLive service; instead a friend of a friend of a friend passed to me their login information after I requested it in order to write a preview of the technology.  Why is this a note-worthy point to make?  There is a chance that OnLive is only selecting beta members that are on ISPs close to their current data centers and as I live outside that area that could affect my experiences with cloud-based gaming. "

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=859&type=expert

So far experience differ but I've been having a really smooth game (even on wifi!!) and i've seen others from as far as Florida giving it good reviews.


OnLive Review June 2010

someone elses review, but ya so far its a mixed bag among many people.

Isn't this still on a beta stage?

This is now for retail, the beta is over I think.