OnLive Cloud Gaming Service Now Offering FREE 2 Week Trial
source: http://www.ddgameworld.com/2011/01/onlive-cloud-gaming-service-now-offering-free-2-week-trial/
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ood news, bad news.
The good news first. OnLive is offering a free 2 weeks trail of their cloud gaming service to anyone with a computer and an internet connection (no credit card required). The bad news, should you decided to take them up on their offer, prepare to hate your internet service provider (ISP).
OnLIve’s on-demand gaming service runs over the internet from state-of-the-art game data centers. Controller actions and game play are replayed through your internet connection, thus eating up your bandwidth like a summa-ma-bitch.
IMPRESSIONS THUS FAR
I’ve signed up and had the opportunity to try the service on 3 different ISP packages, and only 1 of the 3 worked. The one that worked was my own home connection, as I have the highest upgraded service package from Rogers designed for gaming. The other two connection I tried using the service on all lagged out and I couldn’t even start a game without a connection error message coming up. OnLive recommends making sure your WiFi download connection speed is consistently above 3 Mbps (and ideally above 5 Mbps). You can test your speed here. Mine was running at 15 mbps ATOT.
OnLive does offer a pretty good play pack of games to try out if you are able to sustain connection, they include:
To continue reading play pack: follow the jump http://www.ddgameworld.com/2011/01/onlive-cloud-gaming-service-now-offering-free...
The good news first. OnLive is offering a free 2 weeks trail of their cloud gaming service to anyone with a computer and an internet connection (no credit card required). The bad news, should you decided to take them up on their offer, prepare to hate your internet service provider (ISP).
OnLIve’s on-demand gaming service runs over the internet from state-of-the-art game data centers. Controller actions and game play are replayed through your internet connection, thus eating up your bandwidth like a summa-ma-bitch.
IMPRESSIONS THUS FAR
I’ve signed up and had the opportunity to try the service on 3 different ISP packages, and only 1 of the 3 worked. The one that worked was my own home connection, as I have the highest upgraded service package from Rogers designed for gaming. The other two connection I tried using the service on all lagged out and I couldn’t even start a game without a connection error message coming up. OnLive recommends making sure your WiFi download connection speed is consistently above 3 Mbps (and ideally above 5 Mbps). You can test your speed here. Mine was running at 15 mbps ATOT.
OnLive does offer a pretty good play pack of games to try out if you are able to sustain connection, they include:
To continue reading play pack: follow the jump http://www.ddgameworld.com/2011/01/onlive-cloud-gaming-service-now-offering-free...
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