• RIP OnLive - 2009 - April 30, 2015
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[QUOTE=DrogenViech;47449914]Is no one in this thread afraid of sony for buying shitloads of patents? Let's just stream games to the player so they will never own a physical copy ever again (Your argument about steam does not count - i have all the files and i can just download a crack for steam if steam ever goes down unexpected)[/QUOTE] Sony already have a streaming service, it's called Playstation Now. It's shit and the prices are ridiculous, it'll never replace buying a disk or installing your games on your own machine and it isn't designed to.
Too bad. Didn't Onlive recently release a new service where the games you were playing would download to your computer as you play? So eventually you could just play them offline?
I was actually wondering what happened to Onlive a couple of days ago. Guess that was to be expected.
[QUOTE=s0beit;47449971]It'll be back. It was defeated because the implementation was pretty crappy and the technology just didn't scale well, especially for the price. But as evidenced by phone apps, people will pay for DRM laden bullshit for the convenience. If you think this is the end of attempts retain full control over game licensing to consumers, don't make that mistake.[/QUOTE] It will be back in some form yeah. The assets were sold to sony, who are working on something similiar.
[QUOTE=Adarrek;47462351]It will be back in some form yeah. The assets were sold to sony, who are working on something similiar.[/QUOTE] I know that Gaikai was bought by Sony but OnLive assets to go there as well? Doesn't sound too bad.
[QUOTE=Te Great Skeeve;47448232]I tried it once when it first came out, I played Driver San-Francisco and I was impressed with how well it was actually running. Unfortunately, it didn't justify the price when I could just purchase the game and play it forever and with better everything. It was a good idea for low-end computers, but it's assumed people with low-end computers have low-end internet anyways, so the idea kind of falls apart since it needs a lot of money to run and is only useful for a very small demographic, which many of those in that demographic probably wouldn't even know about it anyways. Doomed from the start.[/QUOTE] I'm sure it was meant for the people that have good internet but don't want to buy a high-end pc. Oh well, something else for Steam to replace. They already have the streaming tools.
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