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Sign up here:
http://www.onlive.com/beta_program.html
Now, what I want to know is if it actually works or not.
Let's see them put their money where their mouth is...
This should be interesting.
I wonder if we'll get any extra info on Gaikai soon as well?
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How Onlive Works
Powerful Gaming Made Easy
* Connect to OnLive with your TV, PC or Mac and start a game
* Your game runs in a state-of-the-art OnLive game server center
* OnLive connects you to game servers through the Internet, instantly sending your controller actions upstream and the results back downstream at blinding fast speeds
* Enjoy ultra high-performance gameplay on your TV or entry-level PC or Mac
These (in bold) are the key points for me.
Post edited September 02, 2009 by Andy_Panthro
And so begins the age of magic...
Oh I LOVE diagrams like these, they're so pretty and shiny and fucking useless. Instead of Broadband Internet the cloud might as well just say "Magic" though it could do with some sparkly stars
I'll be interested in a review if anyone here gets into the beta
Post edited September 02, 2009 by Aliasalpha
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Andy_Panthro: Let's see them put their money where their mouth is...
This should be interesting.
I wonder if we'll get any extra info on Gaikai soon as well?
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How Onlive Works
Powerful Gaming Made Easy
* Connect to OnLive with your TV, PC or Mac and start a game
* Your game runs in a state-of-the-art OnLive game server center
* OnLive connects you to game servers through the Internet, instantly sending your controller actions upstream and the results back downstream at blinding fast speeds
* Enjoy ultra high-performance gameplay on your TV or entry-level PC or Mac
These (in bold) are the key points for me.

I'm sure they can send the "high resolution" images back, and while it technically will have that many pixels in it, it'll be HIGHLY compressed with massive compression artifacts in it. Kinda like how digital download "HD Movies" compare to Blu-Ray Movies.
It'll probably be "good enough" for some people, but I don't think it'll be the paradigm shift they want it to be.
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Aliasalpha: And so begins the age of magic...
Oh I LOVE diagrams like these, they're so pretty and shiny and fucking useless. Instead of Broadband Internet the cloud might as well just say "Magic" though it could do with some sparkly stars
I'll be interested in a review if anyone here gets into the beta

Oh oh... I want a "magic" could... then it could be my internet and do my dishes as well!!!
But on another note, I signed up for the beta, and I'll let you know if I get in.
Post edited September 02, 2009 by Sielle
Meh, I can not see myself using something like this at any point in the future as I like owning my games, not renting them. As someone who does not even enjoy Steam *Gasp - Yes, someone who does not laud Steam!* I will never be content with OnLive's system and will thus not be buying their product. :P
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/3/25/
No thank you. I don't like the idea of relying entirely on the internet to even run a game.
Fuck, can't try it out.
Why not?
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Aliasalpha: Why not?

18+
You can't just lie? Adults do it all the time
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Aliasalpha: You can't just lie? Adults do it all the time

Yes, but I am not in that big of a craze to try it. Sides, I don't do much online gaming in terms of these games on the site. I find I usually get paired with a dumbass.
I signed up, if they know any, they'll invite me already.
OnLive is only available to Americans. What a bunch of hacks.
Even if it were available here, I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot barge pole.