Weekend Open Forum: OnLive Games on Demand -- the future of gaming or destined to fail?

This is destined to fail and I want it to. No matter what is stated about gaming and gamers people want to own what they buy. Renting a game is not what gamers want, at least not me.

And what would happen if the servers crashes?, all the gamers won't be able to access their info offline, to me it will looks the same as the DRM problem with Ubisoft this month. We will all be depending on the reliability of some server outside our control. On a Galaxy far, far away...

Let me put it this way, if Steam made me pay monthly, I wouldn't have it. Then again, I'm in the generation that gives their entire paycheck away to monthly fees and sees 15 bucks as nothing.

hello ...

i want to try the online game portal, which is free to see if it works for me & if i will go for it.

cheers!

i have been thinking some more about this and am not sure i get the cost reasoning. One of the claimed benefits is that you won't have to keep upgrading your computer to be able to play the latest games. After 4 or so years i am going to want to upgrade my computer at this point regardless of gaming performance so that cost isn't going to go away. And at $15 a month or $180 a year i can buy a new mid-high end video card every year.

Maybe i could for adding high end gaming to more mobile devices as it would improve battery life, cost, and gaming ability (rather then having to include an embedded high end video card). Now that i say this it could make sense in that context.

This will fail Americas internet connections are way to unreliable at the moment maybe in 5-10 years down the line it will be a different story hopefully we have 100mb connection with 1ms latency.
what we really need is to have the next consoles bring this technology to local area networks i want to play my ps4 on any-screen of my house whether it be any TV, laptop or mobile. this will eliminate the latency issue, you could still buy physical media or digital media. that would be in all around win
imagine Networked external GPU thing