[Bacsu]

Onlive wants to revolutionise the gaming scene. Basicly only a client must be installed at the local PC/MAC or there TV Box system could be purchased. Both of them will stream "everything". Everything means gamesinformation like movements and also the grafic and physics. The client will decyrpt those information and will show it on the screen. This means a game which have been purchased will not be saved at a local harddrive anymore and will only run on there dedicated servers. Publishers like EA, Ubisoft aso. has already announced there support of it with gametitles like Assassins Creed 2 and Mass Effect 2. Everything sounds nice to to me until the part nothing getting saved at the local harddrive. For sure its a really save way to prevent cheating but what 's about modders? There wouldnt be a game like CS, NS, DOD aso. Also would there be a game like Half life and there following titles (HL2, TF2,L4D,L4D2 aso.) if ID Software havn't released there gameengine TECH 1 which was getting used to code Half life 1?

[vts]

Would that mean the end of the steam system?

From CD/DVD storage
to Off line local storage
to online storage

Each stage you get less owner ship to the product you just payed for

One good point about steam,
if your cd/dvd/licence is unreadable you looses the game.
with steam if your hard drive becomes unreadable, you just download the contect again and have lost nothing.

One big bad point about the steam system
when you have sunk all that money into the steam system, what happens IF that company stops trading and its server shut down?
These, backup CD/DVD's are looking promising again...

I like the idea of online apps, and data stores, e-mail is a good example, which can be accessed anywhere and on all sorts of hardware.

This totaly online idea seems ok, until you looses you connection to the internet, then, with no contect stored localy, you have a piece of hardware that can only heat the place up....

as much as I dislike steam, at the moment its a good medium between DVDs storage and online storage

I would guess the mod creator would have strict guidlines as how to create an addon, which would also have to be downloaded or the game creaters will just release another game style for an extra cost...




Do you have to pay a subscription to Onlive?

I did not get world of warcraft due to the subscription