Onlive (Games On Demand) Free Play ends on 1/31st

[rasmasyean]

Check this out. It takes like 1 minute to sign up and DL the player. All you need is an email.

http://www.onlive.com/playpack

It's pretty cool. You get to play these games on the list for free and you also get to watch anyone else playing their games.

I think the "playpack" games are sort of like "Standard Cable". You pay a subscription fee to play any of them. Then you have the "premium channels" like new releases "Assasins Creed", etc. That you pay for either a couple of days or lifetime.

 

[bluebomberman]

OnLive's been awful for me. Can't get a good connection half the time, text is often illegible, game is fuzzy to the point of ugliness.

It's telling that the only time I can get decent performance is around 3am. And this is with a cable connection over Ethernet.

 

[rasmasyean]

OnLive's been awful for me. Can't get a good connection half the time, text is often illegible, game is fuzzy to the point of ugliness.

It's telling that the only time I can get decent performance is around 3am. And this is with a cable connection over Ethernet.

I think it's 720p, so what kind of computer you have? Maybe you actually need a half decent video card even though it says it can work on any computer.

 

[bluebomberman]

I think it's 720p, so what kind of computer you have? Maybe you actually need a half decent video card even though it says it can work on any computer.

It's the latest iMac model, el cheapo version. No way is my compy the problem; all the symptoms point to a bad connection.

Unless I'm willing to get my very own personal fiber optic cable, there's no way for me to improve Internet speed on my end.

 

[rasmasyean]

It's the latest iMac model, el cheapo version. No way is my compy the problem; all the symptoms point to a bad connection.

Unless I'm willing to get my very own personal fiber optic cable, there's no way for me to improve Internet speed on my end.

Yeah, I guess since they advertise with EVE Online in the picture you'd think it can at least run that at decent settings.

I imagine it's prolly your cable provider. It should work decent in NYC but latency would be a big problem.