Eric Lam

http://www.1gameconsole.com

A number of reasons.

- Lag input between the time you press the keys and the image updating on your computer
- If the server goes down, or your internet connection dies, you’ll be disconnected from the game. Not fun if you haven’t saved.
- If the service doesn’t take off, or go bankrupt, you’ll never be able to access the games again.

It’s a pipe-dream.

If works then I’ll be happy if it doesn’t then its only a matter of time till it does.

With the current speed of hardware advancement outstripping its implementation in the market by a laaaaaarge amount, hardware is at the cheapest its ever been.

Entry level PCs right now are starting at less than £300.

A good graphics card costs less than $100. a 1 terabyte hard-drives cost less than $60 pounds. You can buy 2GB of RAM for less than the cost of a budget game.

Nowadays, you can easily upgrade your PC well beyond the requirements needed for a game like Crysis’ for half the price of a PS3. The idea that it’s expensive is pretty out-dated.

Onlive could offer retailers cards with voucher codes equal to the price of a specific game or bundle so I doubt it will be the end of the retail side of gaming.

Things change so stores change to suit the current market.

Onlive if it works the way the promise sounds like a great idea and a welcome change in my opinion.

At as long as that exists, there’ll be piracy.

whatarepiratesgoingtostealifnocontentischanginghandslol

Everything is hosted. Everything. The only way you’d get around it would be to steal someone else’s account, at which point they’d just shut the account down.”

Pirates like their privacy, and their anonymity. They don’t like someone else controlling what they have access to, and they refuse to allow that to be the case.

Cloud gaming is not going to suddenly kill every and all other forms of distribution. We are not going to suddenly see the death of retail stores and other online distribution services, *especially* if latency becomes an issue with this cloud-gaming.

As such, the content and files are still going to easily available for pirates to get access to.

I’m not an active pirate, I only torrent things that aren’t easily accessible to me by normal means, and 90% of my games are shelf bought. – my piracy is limited to music, rare or hard-to-find games, and movies.

But it’s easy to get wrapped up in the hype of all this. The reality isn’t quite so sugar coated though. And the reality is this = the more you try to stop the pirates, the more they’re going to stick their finger up in your direction and laugh at you for falling for the paid option in the first place. They’re always one step ahead, and they’re legion in numbers.

Everything is hosted. Everything. The only way you’d get around it would be to steal someone else’s account, at which point they’d just shut the account down.

Oh yeah… Good point, hehe…

I’m sure there’s a way around it though… Whether it’s hacking passwords or whatever, I doubt they’ll be able to stop the pirates.

Also, just saying that you will be able to eliminate piracy completely is just a proverbial red flag to a bull.

I think it’s a good idea, but agree with everyone who says it’s a few years ahead of its time because the (internet) infrastructure just isn’t here to support it yet!

Yeah, as for the piracy thing though… Theoretically, all you would need to do is get some sort of ‘chipped’ reciever that thinks that all subscriptions have been paid, and boom!

Free games.

Although instead of only having one or two free games, they’d have every single game that the subscription provides for free!

A bosster-box for all cable-connections to every apartment in the building died.
They replaced it within 4 hours though thanks to a service-plus agreement with the cable-provider.

Talk about missing the point.

Do you know what’s more attractive about piracy? It’s FREE! The pirate are not going to care about any sort of fancy infrastructure as long as they get something for FREE.

This is going to encourage piracy just as much as DRM did, especially if it becomes popularly supported by major developers, like DRM was for the five minutes it stuck around.

Personally, I think it’d be completely awesome if that were the case.

Although what are we going to end up with? A Microsoft cloud? And a Sony cloud? And one cloud being a bit flakier than the other cloud?

AND WHAT IF THERE’S A THUNDERSTORM?

Anyway, I don’t like the idea of being completely depended on one provider for all my games.