How many of you feel OnLive will be the decider

[vlad321]

Onyxmeth said:

vlad321 said:

Onyxmeth said:

vlad321 said:

Well it seems that right now the first year is free and the second is $5, so do the math.I don't know how much it will be after that. Furthermore you can rent games for like $6 for a week, so instead of droping $50 on MW2 you can drop 6 and then wash your hands of it and cry a lot less in a corner than you would have otherwise.

Then this is a viable replacement for traditional PC setups then, not consoles. It's PC players that feel the need to wipe their hands of MW2. It's actually quite a popular console game, and anyone into the online knows it's limitless value. Renting it for $6 a week instead of a singular $60 purchase(or less depending on sales), will add up rather quick.

We've been over this, just because people don't know any better, it doesn't make a a pile of shit any good.

That's not relevant to the argument you originally made. We're talking about this being a viable replacement for consoles, and you used the most popular online multiplayer game on consoles to somehow show that Onlive's rental service will be a benefit, with equating their model a saving grace to the dissatisfaction most console gamers have with MW2. However, since no major dissatisfaction exists, it's a poor argument to show the viability of the platform as a replacement for consoles. A rental service for gamers to wipe their hands clean of games they don't like sounds far more like a viable replacement for traditional PC gaming, since it's a common argument of theirs/yours to say games just aren't worth the purchase price, resulting in your/their heavy piracy.

Oh, well you can permanently rent the game, as in buy it as well for a given amount. The biggest problem I have seen with OnLive is the fact that the graphics are not top notch. As for why it will rpelace consoles, it's because it's would, theoretically, offer what you get on the consoles. No hassles, no worrying about hardware, plug and play, etc. In fact it is out consoling the HD consoles in those terms since you don't even have to deal with installs or hardware failures. If done right OnLive will steal away console sales easily. Now for the PC, it has far more features than the consoles, so the people who want them will still be able to get them on the PC, and not on OnLive. Basically it has all the benefits of a console and does them better, and none of the benefits of the PC.