OnLive reports smooth launch, adds Lego Harry Potter

I got in on the free year subscription for early adopters. I've downloaded the client but haven't played any games on it yet. Very much looking forward to it, though.

Considering this is a possible way that we will be playing our games in the future.. I wish them all the best.

We'll see how they do.

I spent about an hour playing demos on OnLive yesterday. I must say that I was impressed with the service as a proof of concept. Racing games worked to an extent. Borderlands and Just Cause 2 were hopelessly unplayable. It's basically what I expected it to be.

I likely won't be a major customer for the service.

Weird, I have rented Just Cause 2 three times and found it very playable. I also played Borderlands earlier today with a mouse and keyboard and while if I paid close attention I could see a little bit of lag, I was headshotting people left and right.

Then again I'm in San Francisco, so maybe that makes a difference.

yeah i've been playing onlive since about saturday. i'm in long island right now on verizon fios, and my onlive has been excellent. i've had very, very small lag with borderlands occasionally and even dirt 2 felt right. now all i need is my mass effect 2/dragon age....

So far my experience with OnLive has been good, but I do prefer the Steam way of content and upgrading my PC. There's just something I enjoy about building up a rig and feeling that extra FPS.

But I love the idea of cloud gaming. I personally feel OnLive should find a way to make money besides subscriptions, since I can really only tolerate it with the fact I got in free. I mean, the game prices are about the same as retail, although I enjoy the rental options.

I haven't had a lag problem however, on a 10Mbps down/1Mbps up. A couple of little spikes, but I expected as much. And for the most part, the video I get is HD quality. Sometimes less than, and at one point it was like watching an old YouTube video encoded poorly. But not a recurring thing.

It's not bad, but of course, the subscription cost will kill it for a lot of people.

@Ashkental Hey hate to ask but if you don't mind since you don't plan on using it do you think I could have your free game coupon? I got in and used my code but was looking to try out the new harry potter game. you can email me @ georgekuka@gmail.com I would really really appreciate it!

Thanks a bunch!
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I have to admit that I still find it hard to believe that they're delivering on their initial promises.

Still, Gakai may have the more winning'er business model thus far, offering their services for deep pocketed corporations and all.

"Brag Clips"? This might actually make sense.

I think OnLive is a scam designed to trick us out of ownership of our games... Cloud gaming and digital distro are great things, but removing the ability one has to actually own the material is just moronic from a consumer standpoint (I'll admit that from a publisher standpoint it's genius, but it's also EVIL)

I also got in on the free first year promotion. However, my current PC isn't really powerful enough to run the service.

I can connect, by it warns that my CPU is low (Actually below minimum requirements) so I have not tried to play any of the games.

I knew that going in though. I am going to upgrade my PC in late August/early September so I am waiting until then.

I am holding onto my free game code until near the 30 day mark, so I can see what is available at that time and choose from there. Right now I am leaning towards the Harry Potter game.

Despite all the haters, I got the 1 year free deal and it's actually really cool to be able to start playing a game at home, and pick up my game right from where I left off on my netbook on the go.

The main problem right now is that there are no games. There's only like 15 games available in any capacity and most of those are only available for rent or as demos. When they initially talked about this game I thought basically every game was going to be available for it, including console exclusives.

Lag definitely exists, to the point you probably wouldn't want to play any MP shooters on it, but it's pretty much unnoticeable when playing single player games.

All well and good in America, but where I am, in a rural area of Ireland, I'm maxing out at 5Mb/s at the minute and it can slow to as low as 500Kb/s at a really bad time. I can ping 80ms to a server 300 miles away now, but later in the day it could slow to 120ms. OnLive will never be for me for this reason. I can't really do anything to increase the speed here, without drastic and very expensive measures.

I also prefer to have the option of for most things having the game. Even WiiWare or Virtual Console, I can have them all on my SD card and as long as my Wii lasts, they will be playable (and by the time they aren't I'd imagine emulators will have long surpassed what is required to play them elsewhere as my original Gameboy is still playable, so I don't expect my Wii to fail due to misuse, only age).

OnLive will hopefully be a fad. Steam is as far as I'm willing to go with digital media, and even then, at least you have the game actually on your computer, so a simple patch is all that is required.

Think of xbox live. They removed access to Halo 2 online recently. If OnLive does that for older games, then eventually the game you have paid money to access would no longer be accessible.

I signed up for OnLive a few days ago. I am experiencing a slight lag with keyboard and mouse, but it has been great with my wired Xbox 360 controller. I purchased a 3 day pass for Just Cause 2 and with my 360 controller I've really enjoyed it. The graphics are definitely better than my PC can handle locally and the game performance has been perfect.

Of course OnLive will report a smooth lauch. The best way to know how things are going is to check the feedback and technical help forums for the users...if there are any.

Everyone is talking about lag for their single player games...I just can't commit to that.

I still do not think its fisable for nation wide launch(bandwidth issues galore) not with game prices being fing ridiculous for a rental service. The games need to be no more than 20$ a pop and stay with the account until the consumer cancels it.

OnLive is stupid, and is not a practical idea for today's networks. That's pretty much all there is to it.