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Post by sovietstu on Nov 23, 2010 7:47:36 GMT
Guys - what happens if onlive goes bust? Say bye to your £300 streaming game catalogue you shelled out for... how is this any different from steam? you've just formatted your new hard drive after the old one broke and don't have a backup copy of all your games. steam / valve goes bust. download access denied. is it really any different? those games will be gone /sadface. It's completely different, Barnett. Steam didn't start out as a digital games shop - it was valves own software to install and run/update their games. And by making valves games all install and run through steam, they gave themselves a huge steam userbase by which to launch (or at least step up) the digital sales part of steam. Plus with steam - if they announced they'd gone bust - you'd download all your games, back them up and have them forever... TL;DR - Steam was already popular and a success before it started seriously dabbling in digital sales and distribution. Its not risky use of your money. Now, onto OnLive. It's new. It's a risky business endeavour. It could easily go arse-over-tit. I am not paying £30 for a game that will go bye-bye with them if they do. I can't download it if they go bust. All I can do is man-up and lose money. Onlive for me, I'll probably rent a few games, for a couple of quid, to see if they're worth buying. Buying through steam.
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Post by si on Nov 23, 2010 9:11:33 GMT
Good point Stuart - The best part of OnLive would potentially be a rental system! I can rent Xbox, Wii & PS3 games from anywhere (In fact, I do)... But obviously not PC games because of a reliance on CD-Keys and the easy ability to pirate!
Allowed me to rent a game streamed over the net would help my purchasing decisions!
There are some games I'd NEVER buy, but would play anyway -- Normally I'd pirate it.. But honestly given the choice, I wouldn't mind giving the developer a couple of quid for a few hours play time.
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Post by BtizeF200 on Nov 23, 2010 10:48:06 GMT
there is an awful lot of speculation going on here. i get it though. fanboys want a copy of their 'game'. fine. but while were speculating, i sincerly doubt most users of steam back up their games. i have 1TB of space and even still i dont have enough room to backup all my games. a silly notion indeed. rule number 1 of any failing business... dont let people know your going out of business, try and get more money. i know steam are like the angels of pc land but c'mon, your willing to sit there and claim they would offer a grace period for downoads or just keep the servers running for x amount of time. bollox! that shit costs money.... REAL money.
either way there are risks with digital distribution. as stu said, if it happens 'man up' and get on with life lol. maybe we would of saved hundreds of pounds in consoles / upgrades anyway (to a greater value than that of the games i'd purchased)? something to think about.
the renting side of things is a good point stu. i had never played borderlands untill OnLive. i like the single player mode. you can rent games for a few days using the service. IMO this is a GOOD feature.
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Post by sovietstu on Nov 23, 2010 14:13:39 GMT
Borderlands is an awesome game played co-op, you should be able to pick it up cheap these days on pc or xbox
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