This tool is essentialy the key to enabling all games to be played on one platform. Unfortunatly this only works for PC titles (hopefully they'll upen it up a bit.). However, thats a good thing. Because if OnLive is a success, and only does PC titles (also, oOnLive is gonna be cheaper than a Wii), the consoles will become obsolete! Thus developers will start making games only for the PC, and all xbox 360 and ps3 games will be ported over to the OnLive network! (Wii might survive). Microsoft will quite gaming (it should) and sony will go back to making headphones. rofl

Basicaly, you buy the game online, and to play it, it accesses a local server that plays the game based on your commands, and resends you live feed of your gameplay. Thus, you can have the crappyest laptop ever, you can still play Crysis as long as you have a decent enternet connection. This also solves the LAG issues on multiplayer because the onlything going back to users are video and command. Everything is taken care of by servers. AMAZING!!!

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/47080.html
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/47082.html
Edited by roosterMAP on Mar 24, 2009 at 02:25 AM

So you just need a good internet. Its anti cheat, no lag, always good preformance. But requires internet all the time... No custom content, no true privacy.

Wow, it's basically a wireless controller that plays a game from a total different location. They run the game at their servers and you see what your doing on your TV or Monitor. Very interesting, makes me wonder how this will affect the consoles. Depending on the cost I'll buy it at launch.

Most probably the "feed" you get back from the server would be video.
Though latency would most probably be increased alittle since it has to send information to the server, processed and back.

You can't, you don't have any file of the game on your PC. Your playing the game on their servers. You pay to play the game but you don't physically have it. Which is why you need to have a good connection. If you didn't you would lag while playing the game. Think of yourself playing your Xbox from a different room with a wireless controller, just a larger distance and over the internet.

Yeah, its like you're controlling an xbox or pc, thats like a 100 miles away, and its filmed and sent to your screen, with extremely high speed (if you have a good connection), so it looks like you're playing it live. Their PC's are very high quality, which means that you dont have to care about your PC rig, because their PC's will handle it all.

You mean server :P
Though im certain they need one hell of a computer.

I WANT HALO 3 GAME ONLINE! NAO!!!!!!!!!!!!

And how would they put an editing kit on a game when you don't even actually have the files for it?

I don't know how microsoft will react to this. I wonder if they know about it yet lol....

Wow, this is truly amazing.

for modding, im sure they'll devise a way to upload mods. In fact, you may even able to play the mods withought having to spend 1-2 hours downloading them. No ripping, and no piracy. PC gaming could become mainstream soon!

buying? Lmao, you have to pay for a period of time and then again and then again. That's balls.

Really....

BUT I STILL WANT HALO 3 ON IT!!!!!!!!!! NAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was confused about those tests too, until I found out there's a difference between "kb" and "KB". The lowercase "kb" means kilobits/second, and the uppercase "KB" means kilobytes/second. One byte = 8 bits. So in your case, 80 KB/s times 8 bits/byte = 640 kb/s, near 650, meaning the speed test was right.

Never once did it say Microsoft Game Studios was participating. Considering this could kill the xbox, I highly doubt Microsoft will go with the flow. Ubi soft is on there, that means Crisis :O And maybe Gears :) So, I'm gonna keep an eye on this, and I'll suggest this if it's a good deal. You're basically renting the game, I don't know what the rates are, but it better be pretty cheap.

Interesting. I am sure you have to pay for this service, I do not see the publishers wanting their games to be played for free from another party.

lol i have 4754 kbs

can someone upload this to youtube, this dont work with firefox beta 3

I got about 4,000 kbs.

Anyway, rent/buy game+$3 per month = max, 36+60= 96 a month with the game. I hope it's no more than 3 dollars. I mean seriously, you're buying the game as well.

Hm, things like this will help make the gaming industry more uniform, rather than spread out. Means bad news for Nintendo and Sony though.

dang :)

ffff so i need to get decent internet now eh?

ok so what happens to xbox live? or the people who play on consoles? or the people who already own and have installed games on their pc? and the people who want to play offline?
think people. this is an awesome advance and i can totally see it being useful, but what are the cons?
also:

omg wtf bbq.

i have no clue if this is good or not, someone mind explaining.

oh, and this is the hotels internet service, I'm in Columbia, Tennessee
Edited by AlwinRoth on Mar 24, 2009 at 09:50 PM

Mine's bad :l But better than yours Roth :P

Im using the hotel's internet,

Didn't i tell you i wasn't Home?
and i hate the south, its freaking hot, i need to get somewhere cold, been putting ice cubes down my pants the whole time -_-

Keep in mind, my internet is from a 2002 styled laptop on it's own wireless hookup. I also have not tricked out my internet.

I also use Bellsouth.....
Edited by DarkHalo003 on Mar 24, 2009 at 10:35 PM

I'm not sure about my connection, too lazy to check at the moment, but I don't think I'd be able to really use this. It does not catch my attention much though, other than the fact that it seems somewhat revolutionary.

it seems like a good idea at first, but when you start thinking about things like saves, people hacking into the main server, people hammering the main server, and so on, there are some major flaws to this idea.

Woot is this a good conection?


Edited by Slayer117 on Mar 24, 2009 at 11:01 PM
Edited by Slayer117 on Mar 24, 2009 at 11:04 PM

try IMG /IMG tags around the link to the picture
edit: whoa actually, dont. lol.
Edited by Donut on Mar 24, 2009 at 11:03 PM

ooops here it is

So this good^?
Edited by Slayer117 on Mar 24, 2009 at 11:06 PM

Eh, looks like you got one tricked out dial up connection.

stupid, this wont last any further than the videos you have seen.
Edited by Scott on Mar 25, 2009 at 12:37 AM