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So from various news sites it seems all is not well at onlive with staff been booted out...
Anyone use onlive? I used it for a while when my ISP did a deal where you could play all the games for free for a few months and the bandwidth didn't add on to my usage... oh and I got FEAR 3 for £1... didn't play it much after the bandwidth deal stopped... and to be honest most times of day the quality was a bit crap.
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Onlive in trouble
#1 Posted 17 August 2012 - 10:56 PM
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#2 Posted 17 August 2012 - 11:08 PM
It was doomed from the start.
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[HLF]GUI: Seeing your name in red brings nothing but shadows to my dark soul. you will ruin this site. humanity. will burn.
EatChildren: oh god not dr matta what have we done
#3 Posted 17 August 2012 - 11:15 PM
you beat me to it city17!
I dont think the whole premise of remotely playing games is a failure, to the contrary, I think its the future. Having full featured games on low end devices by taking advantage of our ever increasing network infrastructure is a great idea. I guess the gaming population wasnt ready and maybe the technology was not there yet.
Why they would think that the massive layoffs would not impact the publics view of the company makes no sense. They essentially put a stake through themselves.
I dont think the whole premise of remotely playing games is a failure, to the contrary, I think its the future. Having full featured games on low end devices by taking advantage of our ever increasing network infrastructure is a great idea. I guess the gaming population wasnt ready and maybe the technology was not there yet.
Why they would think that the massive layoffs would not impact the publics view of the company makes no sense. They essentially put a stake through themselves.
#4 Posted 17 August 2012 - 11:18 PM
Apparantly the running costs were $5million a month.. I don't think they made that much money from people buying games off them.
#5 Posted 17 August 2012 - 11:23 PM
City 17, on 17 August 2012 - 07:18 PM, said:
Apparantly the running costs were $5million a month.. I don't think they made that much money from people buying games off them.
Amazon, Ebay, Sirius/Xm, etc all had operational costs that put it in the red for several years. As long as your business grows, then investors are happy.
They layoffs are really meant to divert funds to pay top officers, make the quarter look good and get a nice bonus before they go screw everyone else by declaring bankruptcy
#6 Posted 18 August 2012 - 09:13 AM
Apparenly, their assets have been bought, and everything is fine in the confusing land of capitalism.
A Vvaardenfell sunset
#7 Posted 18 August 2012 - 10:34 AM
Appart from the people who lost their jobs 
#8 Posted 18 August 2012 - 11:05 AM
City 17, on 18 August 2012 - 05:34 AM, said:
Appart from the people who lost their jobs
That's just fine in the confusing land of capitalism.
#9 Posted 18 August 2012 - 01:08 PM
We should all become freeloaders like Guillermo.
<Brumisator> dr matta is starting to act more and mor like the retarded part of gui's brain when he posts
[HLF]GUI: Seeing your name in red brings nothing but shadows to my dark soul. you will ruin this site. humanity. will burn.
EatChildren: oh god not dr matta what have we done
[HLF]GUI: Seeing your name in red brings nothing but shadows to my dark soul. you will ruin this site. humanity. will burn.
EatChildren: oh god not dr matta what have we done
#10 Posted 18 August 2012 - 01:17 PM
DrMatta, on 18 August 2012 - 04:08 PM, said:
We should all become freeloaders like Guillermo.
Hey CHEESE EATING MEMBER buy me a videogame.
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