Idea of OnLive making me not happy :(

[sycogrim]

Everyone is raising good points, imo. One thing i forgot to mention is the fact that were all games to run on OnLive, you'd be completely dependant upon the internet, which I don't like the concept of.

Very true and with these cable breaks here and there and Telscum causing problems on a constant basis I dont think it could really be stable enough to run an infrastructure like that but ja i dont mean to be the bearer of bad news.

 

[mcryan]

Well, I'm simply going by what they're saying, which is that they'll do everything and will simply need to stream it. Goodness knows how, but if they can pull it off I certainly am not complaining!

Yeah, fair enough and I do agree.

Very true and with these cable breaks here and there and Telscum causing problems on a constant basis I dont think it could really be stable enough to run an infrastructure like that but ja i dont mean to be the bearer of bad news.

Lol! Yeah we are far off in this country from enjoying something like that. But we don't need to turn this into a South African broadband complaint thread, because I know how we all feel But with patience we will be rewarded. Hey, Telkom's 8MB ADSL is expected for around April... so maybe things will improve faster than we hope.

 

[tpex]

shamrock I agree with the OP, even tho steam is so cheap, I look up in pride right now to the game cases in the cabinet beside my PC I love having the original, but Music CDs are totally different, I hate putting in all the info when I rip it, so I haven't brought a CD in a wile

It will be a very long time before it is introduced into our country due to the fact that our Infrastructure just isn't stable enough to sustain a heavy implementation when it comes to Gaming... But I can tell you it will certainly benefit most people however it will cause alot of problems for others especially companies...

Can you imagine going onto your favourite server to play whatever game and getting fired because you spent the entire day playing games . There are 2 ways to look at it... Firstly how will it benefit the public community of gamers here in SA and what problems do we see arising when such a system does come into play??

that being true, it just means we will loose out on games, alot of new releases have shown us developers/publishers don't give a fuck for South African conditions, so we will just be left behind till out infrastructure get better and cheaper

 

[Raven Gold]

I'm not a fan of games becoming like TV, soon games are gonna be funded the same way, advertising.

 

[mcryan]

I'm not a fan of games becoming like TV, soon games are gonna be funded the same way, advertising.

Dude some of them already are. I know that a lot of guys are protesting this quite a bit, and it has slowed down lately - I think. But I remember one of the earlier NFS games, possibly Underground - the racetracks were laden with advertisements.

I know that some advertising is fine and it fits in nicely - but in the game I am talking about it stuck out and it just felt like you were playing a free game sponsored wholly by ads!

 

[Lydon]

Everyone is raising good points, imo. One thing i forgot to mention is the fact that were all games to run on OnLive, you'd be completely dependant upon the internet, which I don't like the concept of.

I doubt a single company/service would have control of all the world's game sales/operation And I equally doubt that a single method of delivery would be available, too.

You're always going to have the folk who want a physical copy of something they buy. Chances are that the actual physical media will change rather than be done away with completely.

 

[Raven Gold]

Dude some of them already are. I know that a lot of guys are protesting this quite a bit, and it has slowed down lately - I think. But I remember one of the earlier NFS games, possibly Underground - the racetracks were laden with advertisements.

I know that some advertising is fine and it fits in nicely - but in the game I am talking about it stuck out and it just felt like you were playing a free game sponsored wholly by ads!

NFS:U/U2s advertising was allover it, clearly, but it didn't interfere with the game.

I'm talking about the same suddenly taking an intermision for add break, unskipable. Just like TV. And this IS going to happen if OnLive becomes the standard.

 

[mcryan]

NFS:U/U2s advertising was allover it, clearly, but it didn't interfere with the game.

I'm talking about the same suddenly taking an intermision for add break, unskipable. Just like TV. And this IS going to happen if OnLive becomes the standard.

Well that would be nothing short of unbearable. Not if I am paying my hard earned money for a game.

 

[Lydon]

I'm talking about the same suddenly taking an intermision for add break, unskipable. Just like TV. And this IS going to happen if OnLive becomes the standard.

I doubt they'd get away with it.

Let's assume that OnLive's service does become the standard...do you really think OnLive will be the only service of its kind? Other companies are going to hop onto the bandwagon and do whatever they can to compete.

If OnLive were to suddenly introduce "ad breaks," thus pissing off the majority of their customer-base, a competing service would most likely take note of that and advertise their lack of ad breaks.

 

[Shamrock]

Haha, I think The Decline of Video Gaming made fun of that idea years ago, since they already whore out games at E3 every year. At every demo there's some ad tailored to target the gaming community. Their parody was "Zombeez" -- anti bacteria zombie spray.

It would be incredibly annoying to have an add play in the middle of a game. Considering how terrible and long American ads are anyway (seriously, in comparison to our ads they are horrid) it'd be like replacing Gerard Buttler with Jessica Simpson in 300.