Onlive Bankrupt

[DiscostewSM]

I don't doubt that in time, cloud gaming in this fashion will be viable. It just isn't right now.

 

[Bladexdsl]

knew this wouldn't last half the world can't even use it so their market was very slim

 

[Gahars]

OnLive was a company just a little too ahead of its time... and was doomed for it. It's a shame, but hopefully this experiment will give way to more successful attempts in the future.

If that's the case, then OnLive lives on.


...What? They can't all be zingers. I'm only human, damn it!

 

[Wintrale]

OnLive will, indeed, LiveOn. But I'm just glad I never bought into the service 'cause, obviously, nobody is getting a refund.

 

[Janthran]

I'm only human, damn it!

Humans are the top thing right now, though. Being human isn't an excuse.

 

[Deleted_171835]

http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/17/confirmed-onlives-assets-sold-to-another-company/

Assets sold to other company.


Oh well.

 

[Gahars]

I'm only human, damn it!

Humans are the top thing right now, though. Being human isn't an excuse.

Ah, got it. I'll remind myself that I'm an apex (or would that be a-pecs?) predator the next time I'm making with the word play.

 

[Ghostyis40]

Today Onlive is laying off its staff and declaring bankruptcy. Shocking news, but many sites are reporting it. It is also reported the service will probably be acquired by a new company
"Shocking news" ummm no not really did any one even care about Onlive, oh wait their Bankrupt! I guess not. I personally saw no reason for this and can see and understand why this has happened to the company!

 

[LightyKD]

First off *snippity* Seriously, you sound like PS360 gamer hating on everything Nintendo does.

secondly, eat this statement from OnLive.

We can now confirm that the assets of OnLive, Inc. have been acquired into a newly-formed company and is backed by substantial funding, and which will continue to operate the OnLive Game and Desktop services, as well as support all of OnLive's apps and devices, as well as game, productivity and enterprise partnerships. The new company is hiring a large percentage of OnLive, Inc.'s staff across all departments and plans to continue to hire substantially more people, including additional OnLive employees. All previously announced products and services, including those in the works, will continue and there is no expected interruption of any OnLive services.

We apologize that we were unable to comment on this transaction until it completed, and were limited to reporting on news related to OnLive's businesses. Now that the transaction is complete, we are able to make this statement.

*snippity* OnLve isn't going anywhere!

 

[Deleted-236924]

Seriously, you sound like PS360 gamer hating on everything Nintendo does.

What Nintendoes, or what Nintendon't.

 

[Deleted_171835]

First off *snippity* Seriously, you sound like PS360 gamer hating on everything Nintendo does.

One, chill out. And two, there's a reason people aren't fond of it versus traditional PC gaming.

- Input lag/Compression
- No modding support
- Can't adjust graphical settings
- No way to play offline, reliance on their servers

It's a pretty flawed idea.

 

[LightyKD]

For a community of people who claim to have a love of gaming, you all get very xenophobic when a company dares to present to you something outside of your bubble. I expected more mature reactions from members of this forum. 50% of the company lost their jobs today. Show some fucking empathy! Get your heads out your asses and stop hating on shit just because you don't use or understand it!

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

For a community of people who claim to have a love of gaming, you all get very xenophobic when a company dares to present to you something outside of your bubble. I expected more mature reactions from members of this forum. 50% of the company lost their jobs today. Show some fucking empathy! Get your heads out your asses and stop hating on shit just because you don't use or understand it!

I beg you don't cry ;O;

No one said it wasn't a good idea, no one said it was bad. We said it was to be expected, because the company is ahead of it's time. With the average internet connection speed and the average bandwidth costs there's absolutely no way OnLive would ever turn a profit in this age. Is it a shame? Sure. Does it mean OnLive was a bad idea? Nope, and not a single person in this thread said it was. So please, wipe the tears from your eyes.

EDIT: Sorry, one person said it was.

 

[Hyro-Sama]

For a community of people who claim to have a love of gaming, you all get very xenophobic when a company dares to present to you something outside of your bubble. I expected more mature reactions from members of this forum. 50% of the company lost their jobs today. Show some fucking empathy! Get your heads out your asses and stop hating on shit just because you don't use or understand it!

Seriously, why are you talking this so personally? Shit, it's like no one around here can take a joke anymore.

 

[Deleted_171835]

Does it mean OnLive was a bad idea? Nope, and not a single person in this thread said it was. So please, wipe the tears from your eyes.

One, chill out. And two, there's a reason people aren't fond of it versus traditional PC gaming.

- Input lag/Compression
- No modding support
- Can't adjust graphical settings
- No way to play offline, reliance on their servers

It's a pretty flawed idea.

But I'm pretty sick of your condescending attitude. it just makes you seem like a giant asshat.

I'm pretty sick of you pushing your opinion as fact. Makes you look like a giant asshat.

wut

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Does it mean OnLive was a bad idea? Nope, and not a single person in this thread said it was. So please, wipe the tears from your eyes.

One, chill out. And two, there's a reason people aren't fond of it versus traditional PC gaming.

- Input lag/Compression
- No modding support
- Can't adjust graphical settings
- No way to play offline, reliance on their servers

It's a pretty flawed idea.

But I'm pretty sick of your condescending attitude. it just makes you seem like a giant asshat.

I'm pretty sick of you pushing your opinion as fact. Makes you look like a giant asshat.

 

[LightyKD]

For a community of people who claim to have a love of gaming, you all get very xenophobic when a company dares to present to you something outside of your bubble. I expected more mature reactions from members of this forum. 50% of the company lost their jobs today. Show some fucking empathy! Get your heads out your asses and stop hating on shit just because you don't use or understand it!

I beg you don't cry ;O;

No one said it wasn't a good idea, no one said it was bad. We said it was to be expected, because the company is ahead of it's time. With the average internet connection speed and the average bandwidth costs there's absolutely no way OnLive would ever turn a profit in this age. Is it a shame? Sure. Does it mean OnLive was a bad idea? Nope, and not a single person in this thread said it was. So please, wipe the tears from your eyes.

Not crying bro I AM very disappointed in the reaction here. This is the shit that makes me want to stop calling myself a gamer and the type of action that makes us all look like a bunch of duchebags.

 

[the_randomizer]

For a community of people who claim to have a love of gaming, you all get very xenophobic when a company dares to present to you something outside of your bubble. I expected more mature reactions from members of this forum. 50% of the company lost their jobs today. Show some fucking empathy! Get your heads out your asses and stop hating on shit just because you don't use or understand it!

Not liking something and not understanding something are TWO very different things. Just because you worship cloud gaming like it's some deity somehow makes you better than those who would prefer physical (and DRM-free) media? Wow. Looks like someone had their lunch money stolen today.

Reasons cloud gaming isn't viable yet:
DRM-restrictions (which are evil in all circumstances)
No ability to backup your saves
No configuration options to chose from
If your connection sucks balls and drops frequently, you're SOL
Input lag
If a cloud gaming service goes under or their servers experience a DDOS attack, no game for you

Until companies allow people to disable DRM, download the game and not have a required internet connection to play said game, cloud gaming will never be viable.

 

[KingVamp]

One, chill out. And two, there's a reason people aren't fond of it versus traditional PC gaming.

- Input lag/Compression
From what I heard, as long as if you have decent internet, it runs well.
- No modding support
As far as I know, that isn't official feature for any game.
- Can't adjust graphical settings
The whole point of this is to get games that can't normally run on your
computer. I guessing this is the farthest thing of that person mind.
- No way to play offline, reliance on their servers
True.
It's a pretty flawed idea.

I think it is just young. People are going for it. It not something I would want to use tho. The best thing for me is to stream from my own storage from home.'

I would say, this could have been a mass of games lost to people. It didn't happen this time, what about the next?
I guessing they have a no compensation policy.

 

[Vulpes Abnocto]

- No modding support
As far as I know, that isn't official feature for any game.

Well, there are the Elder Scrolls games which are all pretty much open to modding.
Surely there are others as well.

But I digress.

Now people, please keep the flaming to a minimum and knock off the image posts.