Will anyone else be trying OnLive come June 17th?

[Booster37]

I received an e-mail for them offering a 12 month free subscription along with a free game start starts whenever they start their service, which has been said to launch on June 17th. I decided since there's no risk in trying it out that I might as well register and reserve my name right away.

Has anyone else received an e-mail from them? It looks like today is the last day that they'll accept this deal. However, they say that they are going to have 3 month free subscriptions when E3 arrives on launch day. Let me know.

 

[GbrilliantQ]

I was in the beta. It was awful. Graphics were washed out, jittery, jagged and slow. I would not pay for OnLive. The 12 month deal is great though, but they have to improve their service.

 

[oboy90]

I am just going to wait and see what other people think before I spend my own money. The whole idea seems to be unreliable, since the experience depends on the ISP.

 

[Booster37]

I was in the beta. It was awful. Graphics were washed out, jittery, jagged and slow. I would not pay for OnLive. The 12 month deal is great though, but they have to improve their service.

Well that stinks. Another thing to add to the cons.

 

[Ph?bus]

I am just going to wait and see what other people think before I spend my own money. The whole idea seems to be unreliable, since the experience depends on the ISP.

Well, I'm out. My connection sucks.

 

[oboy90]

The whole concept behind the OnLive is sending the signal back and forth between your computer and their servers. As you can imagine, this causes a time delay (don't know the actual number of ms). Modern gamers are extremely concerned about the time delays, especially since they (or we, whatever works) are not willing to buy a monitor which has more than 5ms delay. I am sure that OnLive service will have a much greater delay than that.

 

[Ph?bus]

I remember reading somewhere that it was at least 80ms, or all the way up to 120ms, I'm not sure.
Either way, it sounds like a good idea on paper, but the majority of people don't have good enough internet to run these games.