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OnLive: Just Play for Free!
It’s official: There will be no base monthly fee for the OnLive Game Service going forward. WOOT!
Free Instant-play Demos, Free Massive Spectating, Free Brag Clip™ videos, messaging, friending.
No credit card needed, unless you decide to buy a 3-day, 5-day or Full PlayPass. And ongoing access with no monthly fee. Of course, we’ve had a promotion waiving the monthly fee for the first year, so this announcement is confirming what we had hoped—that we can continue without a monthly fee beyond the first year. Although we wish we could have confirmed no monthly fee from the get-go, pioneering a major new video game paradigm is hard: we had to first grow to a large base of regular users before we could understand usage patterns and operating costs. Now that we’ve reached that stage, we can confidently say a monthly fee is not needed, which deserves a double WOOT! WOOT!
We’re excited because this opens the door for the OnLive Game Service to be used by everyone whenever they feel like it, whether for playing a full game on OnLive, or for just instantly playing a demo before buying a game for a console or a PC. Or, even for people just wanting to spectate games in the Arena or friend other gamers. Whatever interests you in gaming, OnLive provides it instantly, without complexity or hassle.
And…stay tuned for some exciting announcements coming this holiday season:
- MicroConsole™ TV Adapters and OnLive Game Pad Controllers in manufacturing now: Founding Members get first dibs.
- Just Cause 2 contest going on now. Follow @OnLiveCommunity for more contest news.
- More international announcements coming. Check out recent ones: www.onlive.be andwww.onlive.lu.
- Improved video quality and lower latency.
Come one, come all. Just Play!
—Steve Perlman, Founder & CEO
Makes the service actually interesting?
