onlive is so much talk but that is pretty much it? I do not understand how they can survive because unless they could buy wii consoles in bulk would they really make that much money?

This. No mods and studd make Onlive absolutely useless.

OnLive would be useless on less developed countries like mine. I mean, a 2mb ADSL costs $100USD per month. My entire PC cost me $700.

When Valve went to Microsoft to propose them their Digital Distribution concept, Microsoft said to them that such Digital Distribution Service was 10 years too early... you know what Valve did? They made Steam without Microsoft's help! HAHAHAHA Thank God!

Yeah, but just because Valve were right doesn't mean this lot are.  Steam seemed perfectly sensible at the time (at least to me) both in terms of concept and infrastructure.  Also Valve, apart from the wobble with Half Life 2, have been good are carefully building the service and letting it grow.

OnLive is promising massive jumps right from the start, with hard to believe claims technically and a much more dubious position with reference to infrastructure - at least IMHO.

Still, at least Steam is great.

Onlive will only sell to people who want to play PC games, but don't have a gaming pc. Is that a large group of people?

A major point of PC gaming is the fact that we get free mods addons and content from others. No BS like DLC or other shit like that.

But if your PC can't even run the game, then what good would it do to you if it supports mods or not? Onlive atleast allows you to play those recent games in a crappy PC.

May as well pick up a 360 or a PS3 then shio. Sounds like you'd like it more than the PC gaming there.

Fortunately you can buy a PC cheaper than 360/PS3 that you could use Onlive with, so there's really not much point to buy a console.

And for the record I do use mods, but there are people who can't even run the games they want, and they won't be so bothered by the lack of mods if Onlive allowed them to play those games.