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Onlive died today.

Will you try Onlive?

  • Yes

    Votes: 3 4.0%
  • No

    Votes: 61 81.3%
  • KC(I am gay)

    Votes: 11 14.7%

  • Total voters
    75
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Arem said:
Detailed Onlive analysis + Batman AA & AssCreed 2 gallery.

I have already subscribed, no longer will I need to buy every fucking year a new $4000 rig to keep up with PC game requirements. Thanks Steve! :)


Who spends 4,000 bucks a year to keep up with requirements, and why would you even need to? When's the last time games had a dramatic jump? Crysis? Requirements have been in a certain ballpark for years now. Most people will just swap in a new graphics card, or add another stick of ram (maybe replace it with a better quality brand), or spring for a SSD when they want to add pep to their rig. They're not going to dump the whole thing. Games still don't really take advantage of anything more than two cores, let alone those six or eight core monstrosities the companies are beginning to loose upon the world.

If someone actually pays that much because he *has* to stay ahead, he'll be miserable with this, anyway.
 

Monocause

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I guess if someone's a big enough idiot to spend thousands of dollars on his rig yearly then OnLive is the better choice for the man.

Whatever savings he'll make, however, are bound to be lost on porn site subscription dues or other completely redundant stuff.
 
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SuicideBunny said:
Overweight Manatee said:
FeelTheRads said:
Arem said:
I have already subscribed, no longer will I need to buy every fucking year a new $4000 rig to keep up with PC game requirements. Thanks Steve! :)

Xi alt, advertising plant or just plain regular moron?

With a join date of 2007, if so then the codex penetration runs deep.
you all fail your irony detection rolls. the article is rather devastating, despite mild wording, as are the screenshots (esp the ac2 ones), or the following statement:
OnLive talks about not having to upgrade your PC or buy new console hardware, but the performance level they offer can easily be approximated or even exceeded simply by adding a £80 graphics card to the base-level system OnLive requires to operate.

I see. In our defense, the page he linked us to started talking about response times and said they were fine, Eurogamer only crushed Onlive in the ass on later pages. I guess Eurogamer didn't get its bribe from Perlman?

Amazing how everything we told Xi about Onlive was true. I don't think I could have predicted the failure better, though to be honest who could see the ridiculous pricing scheme coming?
 
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ElectricOtter said:
MapMan said:
Arem said:
I have already subscribed, no longer will I need to buy every fucking year a new $4000 rig to keep up with PC game requirements. Thanks Steve! :)

:retarded:
FAST FORWARD TO 2013...

"oh hey im bored to day

i know, i'll play some Dragon Age 3"

(friend) "What about Batman Arkham Asylum? You loved that game"

"Bat who on the what now?"

fix
 

DragoFireheart

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This is easily the worst idea I have heard in a long ass fucking time.
 

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OnLive: Now in your TV and Blu-ray players!
 

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If OnTurd started here in Brazil and flopped like this, the creators would complain that the general public is prejudiced against this new service and this caused its demise.

How would the creators react if OnTurd happened on your country, Codexers, and it flopped like this?

Discuss!!
 

MetalCraze

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OnTurd wouldn't have happened in my country because as soon as it appeared here our local mafia called "government" for some reason would've killed its owners and sold all assests abroad so they could have had even more yachts.
 

Xor

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This is pretty much exactly what I thought would happen. In a year or so they'll go bankrupt and a series of lawsuits will emerge as people who invested into the service try to work out who to blame.


If they had bothered to do some market research it would have been obvious that the service would fail from the get go.
 

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