Another insightful post on the themes behind the OnLive service:
I’m deeply against this sort of thing in the first place, because I’m a dinosaur that doesn’t want to connect to the internet to play a game, or request permission to do so, leaving my choices in hands not interested in my best interest. OnLive may be the next Big Thing, but they will have to pry my games from my cold, dead, reptilian claws.
I really can’t see OnLive actually providing better than NES graphics to millions of users at once for at least the next 10 years.
I don’t really think the technology is viable yet, but I find it interesting to realize that this would change nothing at all about my gaming habits.
All I play are online games, web games, steam games, or MMOs. I haven’t bought a physical videogame in over a year.
I think they made a lot of fuss about OnLive. I also have doubts they can deliver what they promised in the next years, too.
The problem is also, there are often viable technologies that users just do not accept at some point in time.
My personal gripe nowadays is that we are about to register accounts at various services to online-activate “offline” games.
I guess I will be exclusively watching movies and reading books the moment where I cannot install the software on my own rig, too…^^
I’m with the others. I ain’t buying it. I connect to work sometimes using virtual desktops and it ain’t that great and I’m not using graphics intensive applications.
Besides which, I like have my uber PC. It’s not just for games so no, I won’t be giving one up for a 3rd party connection to my MMOs. I want my PC and my games in my possession thank you very much.
However, this might appeal to the very casual gamer who is playing ultra casual games, which ain’t me. It’s also not likely to be anyone who’s hardcore enough into gaming that they are running blogs. hehe
Aye, the technology sounds cool, but I really can’t see them doing Crysis online… at least, not yet, and probably not for a while.
There definitely are those who would get something out of this… but I do tend to agree that it’s not the dinosaurs or the hardcore, and I’m not sure that the middle market (and netbook users) is big enough to support the money that it will take to make this thing really work (turn a profit).
That said, I do wonder if Japan will get more out of this than the ‘States, considering the infrastructure and geography.
Apparently Dave Perry is also starting up his own OnLive company *rolls eyes* I’ll never understand that guy.