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OnLive Pricing Structure Revealed
by Brian Leahy, Jun 22, 2010 1:00pm PDTOnLive, a cloud-based gaming service currently open to a small group of early adopters, allows players to experience PC games through a special client that handles interaction with the game. The rendering and processing of the actual game occurs on machines owned by OnLive. Given a good Internet connection, netbooks could conceivably play graphics-intensive games.
While the OnLive service itself will run $4.95 a month, games are not included in this deal. How much will the games cost? Eurogamer has found a list of pricing for 19 games on the service. Options include purchasing the game for the duration of OnLive's current licensing agreement -- through June 17, 2013 -- or renting certain games for 3 or 5 days.
- AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! A Reckless Disregard for Gravity - $19.95 - Full Purchase
- Assassin's Creed II - $39.99 - Full Purchase
- Batman: Arkham Asylum - %6.99 / $4.99 - 5 days / 3 days
- Borderlands - $29.99 / $8.99 / $5.99 - Full Purchase / 5 days / 3 days
- Brain Challenge - $4.99 - Full Purchase
- Colin McRae: DiRT 2 - Demo Only
- Defense Grid Gold - $13.99 / $6.99 - Full Purchase / 5 days
- F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin - $19.99 - Full Purchase
- Just Cause 2 - $49.99 - Full Purchase
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 - Demo Only
- Madballs in Babo: Invasion - $9.99 - Full Purchase
- Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands - $49.99 - Full Purchase
- Puzzle Chronicles - $9.99 / $3.99 - Full Purchase / 3 days
- Red Faction: Guerrilla - $19.99 - Full Purchase
- Shatter - $8.99 - Full Purchase
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction - $59.99 - Full Purchase
- Trine - Demo Only
- Unreal Tournament III: Titan Pack - $19.99 / $6.99 / $4.99 - Full Purchase / 5 days / 3 days
- World of Goo - $19.99 / $6.99 / 4.99 - Full Purchase / 5 days / 3 days
OnLive is playable on a PC or Mac. A set-top box is planned to allow for play on a television through a "MicroConsole". The service was even shown running on an iPad at E3 2010.
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Bad idea?
Bad tech?
Bad licenses?
All of the above?
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Awesome, so even when you buy it..you don't own it forever.
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Oh wait full prices on games thats how....
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2) There is no such thing as a "Full Purchase"! There are short rentals and there are long rentals. I'm unwilling to spend much per-game through their service; I'd rather throw those dollars at Steam.
I think a better pricing model would be $10-$30/month unlimited everything.
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Files are cached on our hard drive, right? Like Q3 Live ?
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Second, I live in indiana and although I've got a connection that is supposed to be more than fast enough I got a lag warning. I'm guessing they don't have servers terribly close to me.
Third, the games were pretty ugly. I played Fear 2 and I kept wondering if it was actually the first game because it looked blurry. I had just finished playing Arkham Asylum so I tried that too and it was also pretty ugly. Then I tried to play UT(3?) and it was really really ugly.
Fourth, controller input lag was noticeable. Admittedly they said it would be laggy, though. It was like trying to move under water. Once you were moving it was ok but when you stopped and then hit forward there was a noticeable delay.
Finally, would I actually pay for this? No way. There's no way this would be worth a monthly fee and the prices are way too high. It might be nice if the prices were lower and there was no monthly fee. For the first year there isn't a monthly fee so I"ll keep it installed and check on it from time to time. If nothing else this way it will be a nice way to play demos without bothering to download and install them.
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Either way I have a year of free service and we'll see what happens with the service.
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What gets me is that I just don't understand who OnLive is going after with their system. Are they trying to lure console gamers? Or maybe Mac users who don't own or use consoles much? They're pahetically dumb if they're trying to go after moderate to serious PC gamers, as 98% of them don't own a netbook / cheap laptop without also owning a viable gaming PC. And 98% of the time their gaming PC will already give them a better gaming experience than OnLive will once you factor in video degradation, lag input, and the need to be connected at decent bandwidth at all times.
Also, with some pretty big sales from Steam, D2D, and Impulse on a weekly basis means OnLive needs to have some pretty good sales themselves or monetarily speaking it will just never make sense in the long run.
If this can help PC gaming then great, I'm all for it. I just don't see how this whole service will be successful.
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They keep using this word.
I do not think it means what they think it means.
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