So the uk service of onlive has launched today available on your mac/pc theres a box for sale to plug into tv for 69.99.  Apprently will be available via ipda and mobiles etc as well. 

So simply put is anyone going balls deep? You can sign up for 6.99 a month and play the whole collection of games which is for me quite tempting.  You can also buy or rent individual games and until 9th october you can get your 1st purchase for a quid. 

I have signed up for an account thinking of going for the 6.99 a month if I got rid of my current rental company tho I think will see the benefit more in future as my pc continues its decline into the dinosaur ages. 

Also theres one really cool thing that it does that I liked the Arena.  You can go in and watch people as they play on games on the service. Its quite cool to watch some people playing I think you can chat to them as they play as well but not quite worked it all out.

dudester24 is my profile if anyone else wants to give it a go.  

Also demos are free if you just want to test the service. 

you're not wrong. Fad / tech experiment / a nice starting point etc. I thought exactly the same about this. I have only been playing for about half an hour, but this is fantastic. 

I have a gaming PC setup downstairs and am never off in all honesty, but I miss being able to game in bed on my PC. My lappy can run the odd indie game which is great but thats it. I played a bit of Borderlands and Tropico there. Theres pretty much no difference. I'm gonna have a good rattle tonight, its more than what I thought earlier.

Sure, the games selection is a little limited in the Playpack bundle. But I'll probably play a load of Borderlands at least even though I own it already on Steam and XBox. 

Given I pay Boomerang 15.99 a month already, I could cut that back and invest it in this when my 3 free months run out.

Considering the load that must be on their servers for launch day I can't believe how good it is.

Unreal Tournament was belting along over wireless with next to no lag.  I have to say I think the bit they have really got right is the integration of the games into their service.  You can move between games really easily and it all feels very professional and well put together with all the tech crap hidden away behind a nice interface.  Playing trials of games instantly without the 14gig download feels utterly bizarre but also bloody awesome.  Also the Arena function is very good,  its the fact that every things instant which makes it so usable.

I found the graphics seemed a tad sharper if your running through wired rather than wireless but to be honest on the laptop it looks great anyway.

It can only get better, but for a day one effort…. congrats to Onlive for actually delivering what they promised  

Tbh I imagine they were expecting a bit more a battle to get people to try the service but have delievered well and have got the rewards for that. Am sure they can beta the ass out of the servers but its not the same as demand from the general public and will adjust it as needed. 

Now they just need to work on getting the games on the system. 

Tempting but my net connection is terrible. I'm almost 100% sure it wont work…. or even if it does, the resolution would be so low that i would be better of just installing it on my comp.

I like the idea, but until the internet infrastructure in this country is of a high enough standard…. then many people are gonna be left out

im impressed. im using a dell inspiron laptop, ive trialed a few games running on wifi and 10Mb virgin.video quality isnt as good as a….normal game but its playable and it gives me a chance to get back into some pc gaming which i have missed, now which game to choose for a quid? thinking of dawn of war 2, missed that one so much on steam lol  also add me: mixindave

Try at a quieter time.  I have connected with a 2 meg connection.  Biggest problem I have is the server full messages.

ive had a few server full but after a minute or two i get in. no issues with the game so far, got dawn of war 2 with chaos rising for a quid.

Yeah just tried again at half 11 on a Sunday night…. same response.

Will try again in a few days time, but i think my connection isn't good enough for it

Ti1t said:

Well i've tried it and it wont let me even attempt playing.

Unable to proceed

'Your connection speed to the internet is not sufficient to provide good video quality'

*application shuts down*

 

So yeah… apparently a 3meg line isn't enough, and with no option to upgrade in my area… Onlive is as useless as you like for me!

I did a postcode checker for a generic post code for that villiage in Leicestershire and was given options of braodband up to 20 mb.

http://www.uswitch.com/broadba…..vanced%3D1

You should look into that.

Just checked that site and got the result of:

Standard broadband

Up to 8Mb (estimated speed: 2Mb)

which translates to 2mb broadband. Either way….. I've tried over the last week or so and have only been getting the same result…. My connection is far too slow. I did install the program on my laptop when i took it to work earlier in the week and it ran brilliantly. Played the space marine demo (30 minutes of the game) and it was silky smooth and played fantastic. Downside is that i don't get paid to play games.

So yeah i can see its a good service….. I just can't get the connection to run it so for me and im sure many others…. it's useless. Also it seems to be missing huge game releases like BF3 / MW3 / Rage etc etc.

The tech is there…. the infrastructure and games are not.

Post edited 13:32 – Oct 6th 2011 by MaGe1974

Any issues I had with OnLive between the hours of 6 and 12 in the evening have disappeared since they discovered issues with my ISP, TalkTalk (who, to be fair, responded with a fix very quickly).

Managed to get hold of a tv system cheap and this seems to run more smoothly than on my laptop (not surprising since my laptop is in its autumnal years).  Whole thing runs really well, even at peak times.  And because they were a few days late in getting my box out to me they sent me a code to get any game free currently on the system!

In case anyone is interested, due to my router being in another room, I used Powerline adapters to connect the tv box.  I got the 200mbp TP Link ones as the pack of two are the cheapest on Amazon, despite being bargain versions they work fine for me. You do, however, have to plug them into their own socket and not a powerstrip (like many others on the market to be fair) and the cat5 extensions come out of the bottom of the adapter so no good for you if you have your sockets close to the floor.

My OnLive tag is 'Widderman' if you wanna make fwiends.