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ackblom12:
Alright, I'm necroing this thread because I actually managed to get into the year beta and I thought I'd post my initial thoughts. Haven't messed around with it all that much just yet, but I will continue checking things out over the week.
So far the service actually works much better than I expected. command input lag is quite noticeable, and in a twitchy game I can see it absolutely murdering people, but in the games I've tested it with it works for the most part.
The graphics settings for games are pretty decent, not quite to the levels you could get with your own PC, but quite playable. The color seems just ever so slightly off to me on everything I've played. It feels slightly washed out if that makes any sense. Colors just don't seem as vibrant as they're supposed to be. I'm not sure if that's an actual issue or if I just have a terrible eye for color though.
Pricing is a goddamn crime on the service though. As we all know you have to subscribe to Onlive normally. In the beta it's a free year and if you get in you have the option of getting a second year for $4.95/month, not sure what the final sub pricing will be. The games are outrageously priced.
The pricing models I've seen thus far are FreePlay, you can play the game for as long as it's on the service, and then Rental, which is 3 - 5 days. Splinter Cell only has FreePlay and it is the full $60.
FUCK
THAT
SHIT
So yeah, this is only a beta, so there's not a massive number of people fucking with the servers just yet, but it's working out much much better than I had anticipated, but unless the pricing is made more reasonable, it's utter bullshit.
Ytoabn:
--- Quote from: ackblom12 on 05 Jul 2010, 09:28 ---Pricing is a goddamn crime on the service though. As we all know you have to subscribe to Onlive normally. In the beta it's a free year and if you get in you have the option of getting a second year for $4.95/month, not sure what the final sub pricing will be. The games are outrageously priced.
The pricing models I've seen thus far are FreePlay, you can play the game for as long as it's on the service, and then Rental, which is 3 - 5 days. Splinter Cell only has FreePlay and it the full $60.
FUCK
THAT
SHIT
--- End quote ---
BUAH HA HA HA HA HA. THAT's what they're trying to charge for this? I don't think they've quite caught on to what was supposed to be the main motivation to going to such a radically different system (IE, lowering costs). Yeah, we'll see if they improve once they're out of beta, but right now OnLive is just a laugh.
est:
I thought the lower cost is more of a "you don't have to have a super good pc to run games" thing. Like, that you could run it on anything that can play back the video stream for it, which isn't very taxing compared to running the games locally.
ackblom12:
Yeah, it definitely doesn't undermine the whole point. This is more like paying the subscription to Netflix, then paying full price for a full season of a show and being told that the studio can pull it whenever they wish.
JD:
So now Onlive is basically Steam
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