| Snake4eva said: "nightsurge" i'm sure it'll be secure but having so much gaming info one place would draw the attention of many hackers and when people work together there bound to break in and when that happens us the persons paying for the service will feel it. Not only that what would happpen if the service was down, No gaming, Hell No. Also if you can only rent the games what about titles that you want to own. Not only that as the amount of consumers increase latency will be a big issue. I'm just saying I like the assurity that if I buy a hardware as long as there is power it will work independent of anything else. Thats the same problem i have with the concept of digital downloads. People will always Want CD's Due to the fact we like to have physical backup of our media that is in close range. The net is great but putting so much of our lives on it our dependency of the net will become a problem in the future as more information is stored on centralized servers. |
Kind of like all those businesses having all their customer data, all the sensitive files, etc? If Microsoft and Sony games servers are secure, then OnLive I am sure will be secure as well.
The service itself would never entirely go down. They will likely have clusters located around the globe, using one server cluster for a certain region. So if anything, it would likely be only a region go down rather than the entire service.
As far as I know, it is subscription based ONLY. As in, you pay $10 a month for ALL the games you want to play. Either that or it is $5 a month for free rentals/demos and a small purchase price for the actual games.
People will not always want CD's. The trend is constantly moving toward internet dependency and downloads. It's all about convenience. Sure there are some individuals who will always want a hard copy, but more and more people are opting for digital distribution and that trend will increase over the years while hard copies will decrease.
I'm pretty sure the future is bound to have a universal and super fast network, sorta like a newer, better version of the internet. Having all the information on there is really not THAT big of a risk, because even today there are tons and tons of servers holding very valuable information and are still secure.
