i think this can be great if its a sucsses it means more games can be run on a mac but i think the only thing that holds this back are ip caps i can see this eating alot of it.
letsrock wrote:
If any of the games require grinding levels count me out... after the roller-coster ride with MXO and all the time it has comsumed over the years I will never waste my time ever again grinding A character.
Don't want an RPG game, don't get it, get a racing game, or a shoot-em-up, or an action-puzzler...
As for "Oh, they're gonna run out of bandwitdh really quickly," wouldn't they just buy more servers with all the people paying to play? Cuz, you know, that's, like, expansion, 'n' stuff, and they could totally afford it if it came to that. I hope they'll have a stress test in their Beta, though.
I don't want to pay a subscription fee to play games that aren't MMO's, especially when I would have to upgrade to a faster broadband connection just to use it. I don't want to play any of the latest games anyway, my PC can run any game I want to play (Again remember I have no interest in any of the latest games coming out) at quite reasonable specs, and it's considered 3rd-4th generation by now.
To me it doesn't seem like the kind of service I want, there will always be people who want to buy and build a custom PC that is top notch, and those people won't be interested in this service. While it might make high end gaming more accessible to some people I don't think it will revolutionise the market as we know it, there will always be people who want to play games on their own hardware.
but there are still thousands and thousands of people who cannot afford to spend £800 on a new rig to run it at max settings, maybe a rig to run it on reasonable settings, but to have it on max on your HD TV has its attractions
Blast proccessing is anti-consumer and a bad thing, but hey give up your rights to own the things you buy for shiney graphics. Because instead of saving up for that computer you want; you have to have those graphics RIGHT NOW and what's a little bit of personal freedom for graphics?
Mistakes wrote:
serious LOL is serious
This is the direction we'll be going in. Personally I don't think it's a good direction. I'd rather all my media was kept in one place so I know what Mistakes is on about when he says our rights, although I wouldn't put it so melodramatically.
It's going to be good for the little kiddies and the casual gamers as they no longer need to think. they just click, buy, play. and really it's a good idea for the most part but I'm worried about how this technology will be implemented in the future. It might not just be the death of Minimum requirements but it could be the death of PC's.
If a game which requires huge amounts of input and output operations to be performed every second can be done across the world from the actual processing portion of the game then it has implications for the entirety of data storage. Soon we could be seeing (as just one possible outcome of course) the localization of all the data into one central point. At the moment computer power is progressing so far that it's becoming possible for one central database with a huge multilayered processor to power thousands of dumb terminals. We could potentially be looking at a future where we no longer know exactly where our data is being stored. You would sit infront of a dumb terminal which would be a computer which can perform input/output and send/recieve data through the internet. Then you would just login and have your files available to you on a server.
Everything then can be localized at one central point and then there's no limit to what the companies owning this system can do. They could charge a user a specific amount of money for each song you listen to, each time you listen to it for example.
Looking back over I maybe over dramatised this situation and maybe went a little off topic as well but I'm posting it anyway because it is one of the things that I feel is a possibility with increasing chance. Anyway to sum up (and to stay on topic) Do I think OnLive will be a success? No doubt in my mind. Do I think it's a good idea? Nope.
Hey not bad.
The way I see it is, if it turns out exactly how they want it to, that for a monthly price (hoping cheap) I am getting a bunch of triple A title games that I can play without updating my computer all of the time. I think it saves money in the long run...not sure though. Plus if you can rent the games and they are cheap...you are saving about 50 / 60 dollars a game if you beat them in about a week. Idk, maybe thats my crazy logic...
