Onlive to kill pc gaming LOLL!!

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NJ5 said:

JaggedSac said:

NJ5 said:

JaggedSac said:
Why will there be no mods for OnLive? Seems like the best way to distribute them. No having to download them. Someone would just have to go through a distribution process with the OnLive creators to place mods on the service.

^ That's the problem. You would probably need to pay, or at least go through a lot of hoops to launch a new mod, and probably every version of the mod.

It's not like Onlive will just run any random software on their servers, surely they have a QA process.

 

Oh, definitely.  But the process could be put in place.  And would probably clean out the 90% of the mods that are absolute trash anyway.  They could implement it in a way such as XNA where submission is automated for the most part with the final go ahead given by the community of developers.

 

But who is going to pay for all this?

 

I would assume the OnLive group.  If it is an issue on this forum, I am sure it is an issue for others as well.  Mods could only help the service, so they would have to determine if the costs were acceptable to increase their appeal.  If they automated it well enough, and their cloud service infrastructure was scalable enough, it would not incur too many additional costs after the initial development.