OnLive Invades Britain With Sweet Launch Deals

[The_Emperor]

I will not be getting this or trying it, I prefer to own the games I play.

 

[Davih]

OK, I haven't really been following this but, what is OnLive? The first time I'd ever heard of it was with that whole GameStop/ Deus Ex thing.

It's a cloud gaming service.

It basically means that the 'console' doesn't run the game, one of OnLive's servers will run the game at the best performance and you play the game on your end.

It pretty much relies on having a high speed internet connection, which let's face it, doesn't really exist in the UK.

Also, you don't own any of the games, despite paying for them.

Well. This sound rather unreliable. I'm already with Sky (which sucks in my area) and BT has a nasty habit of throttling your connection because it assumes your a thief if you download anything.

Tell me about it. I'll be lucky if I can get 3 meg from BT where I live.

[http://www.speedtest.net]

Well, at least it's slightly better than mine, overall.

The most annoying thing is that we used to be with Virgin Media, but the folks changed to SKY even though Virgin Media is better in every concievable way.

And I thought I was getting shafted. Being in the UK sucks when it comes to internet. Here's mine. Just as bad as yours and I'm in Glasgow.

[http://www.speedtest.net]
As for Sky vs Vigin Media they are both as bad as each other. I've had them both, decided to go with Sky because Virgin stopped getting the Sky channels.

 

[Baldr]

OK, I haven't really been following this but, what is OnLive? The first time I'd ever heard of it was with that whole GameStop/ Deus Ex thing.

It's a cloud gaming service.

It basically means that the 'console' doesn't run the game, one of OnLive's servers will run the game at the best performance and you play the game on your end.

It pretty much relies on having a high speed internet connection, which let's face it, doesn't really exist in the UK.

Also, you don't own any of the games, despite paying for them.

It only requires 2 Mbps, which is not that high and free to try including a 30-minute full game demo on almost all games, you be stupid to at least not try it.

 

[Catchy Slogan]

And I thought I was getting shafted. Being in the UK sucks when it comes to internet. Here's mine. Just as bad as yours and I'm in Glasgow.

[http://www.speedtest.net]
As for Sky vs Vigin Media they are both as bad as each other. I've had them both, decided to go with Sky because Virgin stopped getting the Sky channels.

But Virgin has the Sky channels now. And I miss Virgin on demand. And a sensible mini-guide that lets me find out the info on a programme that I'm not currently watching.

 

[funksobeefy]

lol my favorite thing about onlive is that they allow me to skip their commercial after only 4 seconds

 

[Daystar Clarion]

OK, I haven't really been following this but, what is OnLive? The first time I'd ever heard of it was with that whole GameStop/ Deus Ex thing.

It's a cloud gaming service.

It basically means that the 'console' doesn't run the game, one of OnLive's servers will run the game at the best performance and you play the game on your end.

It pretty much relies on having a high speed internet connection, which let's face it, doesn't really exist in the UK.

Also, you don't own any of the games, despite paying for them.

It only requires 2 Mbps, which is not that high and free to try including a 30-minute full game demo on almost all games, you be stupid to at least not try it.

I still wouldn't get it.

I'm partial to actually owning my games. Not renting them.

 

[Blights]

OK, I haven't really been following this but, what is OnLive? The first time I'd ever heard of it was with that whole GameStop/ Deus Ex thing.

It's a cloud gaming service.

It basically means that the 'console' doesn't run the game, one of OnLive's servers will run the game at the best performance and you play the game on your end.

It pretty much relies on having a high speed internet connection, which let's face it, doesn't really exist in the UK.

Also, you don't own any of the games, despite paying for them.

Well. This sound rather unreliable. I'm already with Sky (which sucks in my area) and BT has a nasty habit of throttling your connection because it assumes your a thief if you download anything.

Tell me about it. I'll be lucky if I can get 3 meg from BT where I live.

[http://www.speedtest.net]

Well, at least it's slightly better than mine, overall.

The most annoying thing is that we used to be with Virgin Media, but the folks changed to SKY even though Virgin Media is better in every concievable way.

And I thought I was getting shafted. Being in the UK sucks when it comes to internet. Here's mine. Just as bad as yours and I'm in Glasgow.

[http://www.speedtest.net]
As for Sky vs Vigin Media they are both as bad as each other. I've had them both, decided to go with Sky because Virgin stopped getting the Sky channels.

[http://www.speedtest.net]

^ My Sky connection over here in Northern Ireland, however my friend has Virgin and runs at about 15mb/s download speed.

 

[The Random One]

Ha, stop complaining! I'm in Brazil! If you want to see bad internet...

...wow, those results are actually way better than most of the British guys'.

 

[razer17]

Well thats great but the recommended specs for BF3 are only for its medium settings, probably without AA and probably not at a high resolution or very good FPS (1600x1080 probably, at 24+fps).

The community manager at DICE has stated that if you want to play BF3 on the PC and get the same visual experience that has been showcased in the demo's then you're going to need at least two GTX580's in SLI mode...those two GPU's alone cost more than your friends entire computer.

I hate to break it to you, but Gaming PC's are still quite expensive (~£1500+), but your mate does not have a Gaming PC...he has a cheap PC that adequately plays games.

His PC maxes out Crysis and the Witcher 2. It's a gaming PC. If you build a high end PC now, you'll pay maybe £2,500, and that PC will max every game for a few years. Also, the best CPU you can get at the moment is the Intel 990x, which will run you about £750 ish.

And I call bullshit on Battlefield 3 needing SLI 580s. There's no way they would have such a poorly optimised game, or a game so much more graphically intense that they need twice the GPU power than other games at the minute. And I know that's not true, I've played the beta, and it looked good, really good, but not that much better than other games.

If maxing it out required £800 worth of graphics cards, then they're doing it wrong. Maybe, MAYBE they use dual 580's in the test rigs they have been using at the games expo's, but I can not believe that that's what it takes to max this game, you haven't even given a source. I think they even said a while ago that they couldn't harness the new power that modern PC hardware offers them.

Edit - I should note that's maxed out without any AA.

 

[Jazoni89]

OK, I haven't really been following this but, what is OnLive? The first time I'd ever heard of it was with that whole GameStop/ Deus Ex thing.

It's a cloud gaming service.

It basically means that the 'console' doesn't run the game, one of OnLive's servers will run the game at the best performance and you play the game on your end.

It pretty much relies on having a high speed internet connection, which let's face it, doesn't really exist in the UK.

Also, you don't own any of the games, despite paying for them.

Well. This sound rather unreliable. I'm already with Sky (which sucks in my area) and BT has a nasty habit of throttling your connection because it assumes your a thief if you download anything.

Tell me about it. I'll be lucky if I can get 3 meg from BT where I live.

[http://www.speedtest.net]

Hmm... that's strange, I'm on BT, and I've got it rather good.

A couple of months ago though, it was 6 meg, and I was using this same connection. Maybe it's because of BT increasing the speeds of connections in my area.

I'm sure you will be getting the faster speed very soon as well, I hear they are rolling it out one region at a time.

I live in Hampshire if you are wondering.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

OK, I haven't really been following this but, what is OnLive? The first time I'd ever heard of it was with that whole GameStop/ Deus Ex thing.

It's a cloud gaming service.

It basically means that the 'console' doesn't run the game, one of OnLive's servers will run the game at the best performance and you play the game on your end.

It pretty much relies on having a high speed internet connection, which let's face it, doesn't really exist in the UK.

Also, you don't own any of the games, despite paying for them.

Well. This sound rather unreliable. I'm already with Sky (which sucks in my area) and BT has a nasty habit of throttling your connection because it assumes your a thief if you download anything.

Tell me about it. I'll be lucky if I can get 3 meg from BT where I live.

[http://www.speedtest.net]

Hmm... that's strange, I'm on BT, and I've got it rather good.

A couple of months ago though, it was 6 meg, and I was using this same connection. Maybe it's because of BT increasing the speeds of connections in my area.

I'm sure you will be getting the faster speed very soon as well.

I live in Hampshire if you are wondering.

I live just outside of freaking Nottingham city centre (literally a 10 minute bus ride when there's no traffic), so I don't understand why the speed is so terrible.

 

[Ickorus]

the games are £39.99? may aswell just buy them new and actually own the game.

Well the idea is that you can play games at super-high end PC quality without needing a £3000 PC, you only need a fast internet connection. I imagine that console fanboi's (not saying you are one) will over look this point entirely.

OT : I wish i could demo it but my internet is not fast enough.

Oh for fuck sake, a high end gaming console does not cost that much, I could get one that would run all the latest games for the next few years for about £400 if I wanted.

And not just play games on it too, I could shop, work, look-for-work-to-do-the-work, browse YouTube, look at pictures of cats in silly hats, browse forums (Alo 'scapist)* and many other weird and wonderful things. Pretty good value, huh?

Especially when you consider most people have both a PC and a console (or two) which sets them back quite a bit and then on top of that they have to spend more money on the games than PC users.

 

[Jpwolf]

[http://www.speedtest.net]

Mine is actually not that bad xD Good enough to run OnLive

 

[BumblebeeEU]

A couple of months ago though, it was 6 meg, and I was using this same connection. Maybe it's because of BT increasing the speeds of connections in my area.

I'm sure you will be getting the faster speed very soon as well, I hear they are rolling it out one region at a time.

I live in Hampshire if you are wondering.

[http://www.speedtest.net]

Also in Hampshire, damn you talk talk!

 

[Rawne1980]

Can't complain. I'm with virgin.

Still not getting this tripe though.

As someone said above, I like to OWN my games and my PC is high end and capable of running them on it's own thankyou very muchly.


With a few companies throttling speeds at certain times or when people steam/download over a certain amount I can't see people being happy with a system that relies on a steady speed.

 

[bjj hero]

In case, however, you aren't, let me tell you this: My mate 2 months ago built a PC for less than £500, and it meets the recommended specs they recently released for Battlefield 3. So gaming PC's aren't that expensive anymore.

Thats still considerably more than any of the current gen consoles and involves having the knowledge to build your own PC. It's an expensive exercise for someone to just "have a go" at building a PC.

I wont be getting onlive as I dont trust my ISP to run it.

 

[razer17]

In case, however, you aren't, let me tell you this: My mate 2 months ago built a PC for less than £500, and it meets the recommended specs they recently released for Battlefield 3. So gaming PC's aren't that expensive anymore.

Thats still considerably more than any of the current gen consoles and involves having the knowledge to build your own PC. It's an expensive exercise for someone to just "have a go" at building a PC.

I wont be getting onlive as I dont trust my ISP to run it.

It is more than a console, but that doesn't account or all the factors. If you're getting a PC anyway, upgrading to a gaming PC could well represent a saving on a console. Then there s the fact that PC games are considerabley cheaper, the peripherals are cheaper.

As opposed to "just having a go", it's incredibly easy to build a PC. Neither me nor my friend had ever built a pc before. It's pretty much like a very easy puzzle, where you just slot a few bits into the correct position.

 

[MajorDolphin]

Cloud gaming, no thanks.

 

[Baldr]

OK, I haven't really been following this but, what is OnLive? The first time I'd ever heard of it was with that whole GameStop/ Deus Ex thing.

It's a cloud gaming service.

It basically means that the 'console' doesn't run the game, one of OnLive's servers will run the game at the best performance and you play the game on your end.

It pretty much relies on having a high speed internet connection, which let's face it, doesn't really exist in the UK.

Also, you don't own any of the games, despite paying for them.

It only requires 2 Mbps, which is not that high and free to try including a 30-minute full game demo on almost all games, you be stupid to at least not try it.

I still wouldn't get it.

I'm partial to actually owning my games. Not renting them.

Still IT IS FREE to try, all kinds of trials for games and buy the game for another platform if you wish. Gamers are all complaining about lack of demos, here a perfect service for that and people condemn it.