OnLive Service

http://www.onlive.com/

I think I may give it a shot they have some pretty good games on here, has anyone else heard about this service?




Welcome to the OnLive
Founding Members Program

presented by AT&T.
Subject to availability, Founding Members will be
selected from this Waiting List on a first-come, first-serve basis
starting June 17th, 2010. Limited-time, limited-availability offer. See
information below for additional terms of this program.

OnLive Membership


1^st year is FREE


Optional 2^nd year is $4.95/month

• No purchase necessary. Subject to availability
  and eligibility. Must sign-up between June 15, 2010 at 12:01 AM PDT and
  July 15, 2010 at 11:59 PM PDT.
  
• The OnLive Game Service (the “Service”) Fee will
  be waived for the first 12 months from the date you activate your
  OnLive Account. During these 12 months, your access to the Service will
  include free demos and community features, such as member Profiles,
  Friending, Chat, Spectating and Brag Clip™ videos, but will not include
  any games, content or other services that are offered for purchase, and
  which must be purchased separately.
  
• To be eligible for this offer, you must be 18
  years of age or older and located within the contiguous United States,
  provide a valid VISA, MasterCard or Discover card (your credit card will
  not be charged to take advantage of the free offer) and pass a computer
  and Internet connection performance test.
  
• Qualified users will receive an email invitation
  to register and activate an OnLive Account.
  

Ya I've heard of it for about a year
Now, is up and running now? Gonna have to check it out. I heard it was like $20/ month gonna try it while it's free . Good find . I kinda forgot about it

yeah buddy of mine has says its pretty desent i think i may give it a shot as well

I thought you had to pay a fee for the service, then another fee per game you play (like a rental on each game). Not sure about that, but you may check into it to see what the total cost will be.

~mrmiller

I got this in my inbox today anyone else get a notice



Hi ,

Congratulations! You have been selected from the wait-list for membership
activation and immediate access to the OnLive Game Service.

Click on the one-time-use URL below to begin the OnLive Founding Members
Program registration process. Upon completing registration, you will receive 12
months of free access* to the OnLive Game Service on your PC or Mac via a wired
broadband connection with the option to continue your membership for a second
year at $4.95/month on a month-to-month basis. Note that a valid US credit card
will be required to confirm you are at least 18 years of age, and will be used
for any purchases within OnLive.

A year free is a year free lol I just signed up hopefully I get an invite in.

I was in the Beta for OnLive. Its an excellent service so far for me. I like the Arena the way you can watch any game at any time and rate people. The Brag Clips are a nice touch too. And of course playing on any internet capable laptop or PC, no matter the specs is awesome. The controls are just as responsive as any game console, which is insane! All they need to do is to make a cross-game voice chat system, and that would work. Also fix the issue with the Xbox 360 Wireless Controller vibration, currently, I haven't seen any games that it works on. I haven't tried out the MP games only single-player so far. The main reason is because it doesn't have voice chat, yet. I got Just Cause 2 with my PlayPass coupon since I had all the major titles on 360 already. As they improve and add wireless compatibility and resolution changes, they need to make it more appealing to users. They have the 3 and 5 day passes, which work, but many people are gonna want to play the games for much longer. The 3-year release time is probably gonna change to a longer period, but in all reality, in that time frame, most people will have already moved on to other games.

My theory is that they'll have a longer term plan for the games that are the most popular, say for example a Modern Warfare or a Halo or Gears. They would gauge it by that and the ones that they see are consistently played like that, they'll grant a permanent PlayPass to it. Even if they expired, they'll have your purchases in their database, so if they changed their minds on some games, they open it back up free of charge.

Anyway, that's my two cents.

Great writeup Knowledge - thanks!

S7 Coolhand wrote:Great writeup Knowledge - thanks!

Certainly.

I just got an invite Saturday I forgot I signed up lol.

So do you have to pay for the games again if you let your membership slip? Also what about extra downloaded content?

My microconsole has been shipped finally, I must say they surprised everyone, apparently the output is in 1080p, per the people posting on onlivefans.com. The controller is nearly identical to the Xbox 360 controller, and there is no lag at all. All they need now is achievements and voice chat. If you use the service and care to look me up, my tag is: Knowledge.

I really love the PlayPack they have! Its $9.99 to play an unlimited time on a selected library of games (the library is obviously going to increase). It comes with the purchase of the console, right now its in Beta. You can't beat it anywhere! The microconsole is perfectly priced at $99 and it comes with a free Playpass for a full game. It comes with an HDMI cable, and ethernet cable, the plug and the controller. It does support wireless through a wireless bridge, but natively, a wired connection is obviously best. It supports up to 4 controllers wirelessly as well. Its still hard to believe that all this is possible without a single game disc or download needed! The controller feels exactly like the 360 controller, except the thumbsticks are in the center, but the D-pad is ingeniously designed, perfect for fighting games! The buttons on the inner curve of the controller are for your Brag Clips in game. you can simply press the button in the center to start recording the clip. The others are fast forward, rewind, stop, etc. And they're gonna be streaming movies next year sometime too! Too many people are sleeping on this service hardcore. All they need is to hurry up and put the achievements in and the voice chat, and it'll be all good!