Onlive Cloud-Gaming Offers $10 Flat Fee
Cloud gaming company Onlive will soon be offering a gaming flat fee.
The "PlayPack" plan is priced at $9.99 per month and allows users to play as much as they want. Onlive calls it "gamer nirvana." It appears that Onlive will be positioned the PlayPack as the standard subscription plan, as opposed to the PlayPass subscription. PlayPass charges from $4 to $50 for games that are played for only 3 or 5 days or are being purchased in full.
The company said that some games will only be available in the PlayPack or in the PlayPass plan. For example the latest NBA 2K11 is just available in the PlayPack. Games are not impacted by plan changes, Onlive said.
PlayPack is scheduled to launch on January 15 and include 40 games. People who are signing up for Onlive now get access to the Beta of the flat fee service free of charge.
Originally announced in 2009, Onlive came online in June of this year. Other than traditional consoles, the game system is entirely cloud-based and uses remote servers to deliver, render, store video game data. The basic Onlive game system sells for $99 and includes one game.
Good idea. How about it Tom's?
Good idea. How about it Tom's?
But it has been a month or so since I tried a game (I still can't resist upgrading my hardware). It is certainly worth a try. The main complaint from everyone is the selection is slow taking off.
I tried OnLive over Wi-Fi, and I got relatively high settings for around 30 FPS. This service is no joke
I hear they are adding a ton of games over the next several months too.
I haven't used the console yet (it's in the mail), but during the beta of the service I bought and played through Borderlands via OnLive. Overall it's a pretty good experience. I could play with the settings turned up higher on my home pc, but through the onlive service I could play on just about anything (when I played through Borderlands via OnLive it was on a 6 or 7 year old machine that wouldn't have had any hope of running the game natively). Saved games and that kind of thing are all stored on their servers as well so you can pick up and play from any machine. When I was using it, the minimum bandwidth requirement was 5 mbps, not sure if that's still the case or not.
Overall, judging from the beta, i found it to be surprisingly good considering the fact that you can play such high quality games over the internet.
My connection is 10-15 Mb
It seems like it has potential as a demo delivery service, but I don't think the internet is really fast enough for this kind of program yet.
just happens to post on this and nothing else for who knows how long.
Who's willing to bet it was about a Onlive article in the past too?
Either this is a grand case of coincidence or really obvious and horrible advertising. If this is indeed the case of Onlive using a online PR company that they should really consider replacing.
HOWEVER, if this is a way to get people away from "freedom oppressing" products like consoles and back into PC....AND if this will get PC developers to actually get back where they should be....I'M ALL FOR IT!!!!