Sat, Mar 13, 2010 | 05:27 GMT
OnLive Game Portal announced, won’t require subscription fees
Some things are just too good to be true. For instance, a streaming videogame service that pipes big-name videogames straight to your PC, sans hefty hardware requirements. The catch? A big fat subscription fee on top of “competitive” game prices.
Like we said, some things are just too good to be true. Except when they aren’t.
In a recent blog post, OnLive CEO Steve Perlman announced the OnLive Game Portal, which trims off a few of OnLive’s more enticing features, sure, but also axes the subscription fee altogether.
“The OnLive Game Portal is for gamers looking for direct access to OnLive games without being required to subscribe to the features of the full OnLive Game Service. Through the OnLive Game Portal, gamers will be able to play select games directly on a rental basis as well as game demos for free; subject to available OnLive service capacity and whatever usage limits are associated with each given demo. Rentals will be priced on a per-game basis. There is no service fee for the OnLive Game Portal,” Perlman said.
Is it perfect? No. But at least you’ll be able to see if OnLive’s really all it’s cracked up to be without cracking open your piggy bank.
More through the link.
5 comments
#1
endgame
13/03/10, 9:41 am
gaming can’t get better than this. unless u’r willing to spend 2 to 3000 thousand dollars on a gaming rig every 2 or 3 years or so.
#2
Psychotext
13/03/10, 1:00 pm
They made that decision pretty quickly. I guess they noticed that people were realising they could get a HD games console or high end graphics card for what they’d have to pay for a couple of years of onlive.
#3
blackdreamhunk
13/03/10, 1:41 pm
I would like to add there is Gaikai we don’t know how their service will cost.
http://techie-buzz.com/gaming/gaikai-and-instantaction-team-up-for-streaming-games.html
#4
Neolucifer
15/03/10, 1:05 am
@1
I never spend that many and can game fine on PC . BDH is funny plague with his often unwarranted console hatred , but the “pc are too expensive” argument is quite tired and silly as well .
A good gaming pc cost close to a console’s (launch) price and far less if you only replace a few pieces like the graphic card .
In the past years , one of the only few game actually requiring big expensive card to play at highest setting was Crysis .
Wich hardly made it mandatory .
Imo Onlive so far seems , costing , in the not so long run , more than upgrading a pc .
Anyway wake me up when a better solution like maybe , who knows “steam-cloud” appears instead .
#5
blackdreamhunk
15/03/10, 9:28 am
meny pc gaming genres have been threatened to extinction in order to appease the wider audience of first and third person shooter market. consoles are crappy gaming machines that plague gaming.
by the I was one of people on the net who first prove pc gaming is not expensive.