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OnLive, the streaming video game service, is now free
Games still cost money to buy, but the main thing thing is that you now have access to fully-playable 30 minute demos for free. We were finally able to test the service, and it really is rather good. The client is attractive, smooth, feature-rich -- and playing any game is just a matter of two or three clicks. The video quality really is astoundingly good -- and even though we were warned that latency might make games unplayable in the UK, it certainly felt responsive enough!
As for pricing, games cost the same as they would in the store, or perhaps a few dollars cheaper. Batman: Arkham Asylum is $39.99, while Assassin's Creed II is $29.99. There are also 3- and 5-day passes for $4.99 and $6.99 respectively, however -- and a 5-day pass is probably all you need to finish a game...
OnLive is currently only 'available' (i.e. low-latency) in the US, but it's set to launch in Europe in 2011. How exciting!
[via VentureBeat]
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Subscribe to commentsJarasMOct 5th 2010 8:33AM
Weird, I registered for a free trial account, but I can't play. Every time I go to play.onlive.com, click a game, click play, or go anywhere resembling a way that should start the service I just get returned to my account page. So okay, I'm in Europe, but maybe I should get some message at least?
Sebastian AnthonyOct 5th 2010 8:35AM
Worked fine from the UK -- but perhaps it's still geotarded for other countries...
JarasMOct 5th 2010 8:40AM
I'm fine with that, my connection's probably to crappy to use this anyway, I'm just pissed that the site just plainly ignores me. I spent 10 minutes wandering around their site, trying to figure out how to launch this thing.
Sebastian AnthonyOct 5th 2010 8:46AM
I signed up, hit the 'download installer' button (or something like that)... and then ran the program from my Start Menu. Voila.
mini_man71Oct 5th 2010 2:34PM
Wow, finally an option to play some games I want without SecureROM messing with my computer.
hazardOct 5th 2010 7:45PM
Latency too high from Melbourne, Australia.
hazardOct 5th 2010 7:47PM
Oh yeah .. looks like they are trying to inflate the user base stats as there is no confirmation or any other checking mechanism on the sign up ..
Sebastian AnthonyOct 6th 2010 4:21AM
Yeah, that was a little surprising, I have to admit :)
And re: Australia and its high latency, 'no shit' :P