Anybody else not expecting much from Onlive?

I really dont know much about it more than the basics, and I havnt been around system wars that much recently but it seems everybody is pumped.

I just really dont think its gonna be as good as some may think, its gonna have problems you werent expecting, its just not gonna end up as were expecting it right now...

I expect it to start up, kind of work with a ton of problems, then die off..

What are you people expecting?

There are a few posters who are excited for it. I however am not. If it works, then power to them, but I do not like the concept.

They are promising so much I can see Online falling on its face. People say bandwidth is getting better but Internet Providers are starting to charge you for how much bandwidth you use rather than the speed they are giving you (I hope this doesn't happen everywhere), that is going to hurt Online. And you are even going to own less of your game because it won't even be downloaded on your computer anymore and you will have to be constantly online just to play any game, even a SINGE PLAYER GAME! Wouldn't that also destroy mods and other custom made content? :|

I'm expecting a bunch of investors to be very, very sad.

That's about it, though.

it seems like many people here are very opposed to the idea whether it works or not. i personnaly im willing to wait and see how it performs before i form an opinion.

Everybody is pumped for On Live? :lol:

On Live is going to be an EPIC FAILURE. There's just no way that business model can succeed with today's internet infrastructure.

i think it won't be released for a while. i think they will say it is coming at X time but then later postpone the release date to something else. it will keep on doing it until they finaly don't say anything about it. kind of like how the phantom was like. iam2green

It'll never work. Even if they can get it to run lag-free on a half-decent internet connection, even if they manage to work around bandwidth caps, and even if they find some publisher support (Crysis was only licensed to be used for demoing the technology), the fact remains that it'll be prohibitively expensive.

Onlive is going to live or die based on their pricing structure. They can roll it out in a few areas and slowly expand over the years, but if the pricing is screwed up they can forget it. ESPECIALLY when some cable companies are getting really greedy about bandwith. I signed up for the beta so hopefully I can take a whack at it for myself.

i am not even vaguely interested.

I think it is going to be quite a few years before ISP quality can match the quality ofresolution consoles do.

Gamers here complain about graphic flaws/framerate flaws. Even reviews of games here do. People don't want to play a game on any weaker resolution than is possible, let alone pay for it.

Unless Onlive can supply an equal resolution than an at-home game, consistently and speedily, and people don't mind losing their games if they discontinue service, it might happen.

I still think it's a pipe dream.

The 720p at 30 fps thing and input lag aside, I like the concept. I'm not expecting it to be successful, however; too many potential issues. I have a feeling games that require an extremely rapid input response time (racing, action, FPS) will play absolutely terribly with ~70+ milliseconds of input lag. 70-100 ms doesn't sound like alot, but when you're playing a game that relies heavily on player reaction time and requires very precise inputs, it's a huge amount.

There are a few posters who are excited for it. I however am not. If it works, then power to them, but I do not like the concept.

-Traveller-

Nice avatar :P

I really dont know much about it more than the basics, and I havnt been around system wars that much recently but it seems everybody is pumped.

I just really dont think its gonna be as good as some may think, its gonna have problems you werent expecting, its just not gonna end up as were expecting it right now...

I expect it to start up, kind of work with a ton of problems, then die off..

What are you people expecting?

im not expecting much from onlive itself, but i think it will open a doorway, and other consoles will look into it.

with the bandwith cap that time warner is going to implement,i just think other companies will follow. it just spells doom for onlive.

I'm very interested to see how it turns out but I'm not going to use it. I reckon it will be a relatively successful, something along the lines of Steam. I also think it'll work despite some people claiming its impossible. I won't rule out some technical difficulties to start out with but I reckon they will iron out the bugs and it will run smoothly for the few with high speed internet connections. Good luck to them I say.

I won't rule out some technical difficulties to start out with but I reckon they will iron out the bugs and it will run smoothly for the few with high speed internet connections.Archaic8

Bandwidth isn't the big problem here. It's latency. There's no getting around the laws of physics..and unless they plan on putting OnLive servers in every major city (the only way they can reasonably reduce latency is by moving their servers closer to the users), latency is going to be an issue for the vast majority, especially with the faster-paced genres.

[QUOTE="Archaic8"]I won't rule out some technical difficulties to start out with but I reckon they will iron out the bugs and it will run smoothly for the few with high speed internet connections.Velocitas8

Bandwidth isn't the big problem here. It's latency. There's no getting around the laws of physics..and unless they plan on putting OnLive servers in every major city (the only way they can reasonably reduce latency is by moving their servers closer to the users), latency is going to be an issue for the vast majority, especially with the faster-paced genres.

If its impossible then why are they even bothering. I reckon the people creating OnLive know more about this stuff than you or I so the fact that they are even trying to do what they are doing must mean that there is a possibility that it can run smoothly.