In a recent batch of emails, OnLive revealed that it is quadrupling its original free subscription offer to those first 25,000 lucky souls who preregistered for the service. Instead of three months as previously announced, these optimistic folks--after completing registration before June 3--will receive 12-months of the $15.00-per-month cloud-based, online streaming gaming service for free--and with no future obligations. 

In a recent batch of emails, OnLive revealed that it is quadrupling its original free subscription offer to those first 25,000 lucky souls who preregistered for the service. Instead of three months as previously announced, these optimistic folks--after completing registration before June 3--will receive 12-months of the $15.00-per-month cloud-based, online streaming gaming service for free--and with no future obligations. 

sweet 
 
EDIT: No Quest?  WTF?

Fuck, I didnt get it 

Is this US only? 

"Do you with you did now?"

Do you with you did now?

Did you bite your tongue when you wrote that? :P

" "Do you with you did now?" "

i got the email a couple days ago.  i had totally forgotten i'd preregistered and now i get a free year and a free game, which is pretty sweet. 
 
i really hope this thing doesn't suck.

I got in, but I don't know if I care enough to give them my credit card.

I hope OnLive is a complete failure. Horrible idea that should die ASAP.

I wish I preordered :(

I did, with I did now.

I with there wasn't a typo...

If it works as intended, then it's a pretty good deal, if it doesnt, then the offer makes it look a little desparate.
 
One can but keep looking in the future to see if it holds up.

While the idea has promise, it will fail at this price point.  If they offered games at a lower price then maybe, but probably not.

Aw man, now I wish I singed up. I would have gladly done so if I knew I would be getting a free year of service!

I did sign up, guess I was too late. 

I preregistered and signed up for this promotion last night. I'm skeptical that it will deliver but I'll certainly give it a try for free :)

So this is being posted when all the registrations are over?

free for a year plus a free game....ill see how it goes :)  The beta wasnt to bad.

 Still, even with that free subscription, you are still going to have to pay for the games, and I as Microsoft on Xbox Live, all of their games are going to be over priced, and probably go for retail MSRP. so what is the point of digital?  Help mother Earth?  After BP's recent oil spill, I don't think anyone can rag on me for being not environmentally aware.
 
All digital does is makes getting games at midnight viable and reduces a bit of clutter, but then it takes 6 am to download anyways (for most services sans onlive), but with onLive, you have to be online all the time which means you have to; one, always have an ISP and two, always have an active subscription to On Live, otherwise all the games you paid for are non-accessible.
 
No thanks.

Got my email and registered already. I am very curious to see how well it works.

I got the promotion a few days ago and signed up. Even if the service sucks...free is free right?

" So this is being posted when all the registrations are over? "

I tried the beta out.  It seems like it sort of works, which is amazing in itself, but I don't see it being a serious platform for gaming.  The lag while playing is noticeable and their pricing model is going to kill it.  You've got to pay basically full price for games you can't even run on your own hardware if you wanted to.  That's just crazy.

Yeah, I got the same offer and I'll try it but I'm not super optimistic.

"  How many of you pre-registered for the service? Do you think OnLive will be able to deliver? Sound off in the comments and on the boards!" 
Did I accidentally click on a Destructiod link?

To be fair, I don't think that OnLive will deliver its promise. You are going to need some unrealistically powerful servers, with tons of bandwidth to support a gaming-on-demand service. On the other hand, maybe they've found a solution to all of this. 
 
Anyway, I predict that OnLive could easily flop based on any of 3 things:

• Frequent hardware/connection issues (e.g. server downtime, lag, connectivity issues. Its a cloud-computing based service so it would be reliant on servers and connectivity.)
• Pricing (Apparently the service is $15 per month and you'll still have to buy games for a high price, perhaps even retail or more expensive than retail.)
• Lack of developer support. Many platforms flopped or underachieved (e.g. the Wii) due to lack of third party support. And what happens once you end up with next to no good games on a platform? Declining sales. However, I think a lot of PC developers could jump to it as it won't be too easy to pirate games through this service.
  

"  Still, even with that free subscription, you are still going to have to pay for the games, and I as Microsoft on Xbox Live, all of their games are going to be over priced, and probably go for retail MSRP. 
 

Hold up. You pay 15 bucks a month just for the service and then pay for the individual games as well? That sounds crazy.

The answer is: No. Never.

Until I can get a broadband service with no download cap this will not be a viable alternative to discs and downloads.

No thanks. Not interested.

If this was in HD, which it's not, and if it was like a streaming rental service with a ton of games it would do gangbusters. Offering titles from two years ago is crazy. Offering titles from two years ago without HD is asinine.

Haha, 180 bucks a year AND you have to buy the games!? Or you could just buy a console for 200-300 $ and you're good for a few years of gaming.

" I hope OnLive is a complete failure. Horrible idea that should die ASAP. "

Sounds like it has FAIL written all over it...
 
My prediction it will come out with glitches and lag, shut down for a few days while they patch it, then come back with some reference to the user end bandwidth not being enough to support the video algorithm...blah, blah, blah, then die a quick death

25,000 beta testers. Smart idea, let's hope it works...and that the pricing model works/changes.

June 17? What? Really? I thought this was months away. I can't believe this thing is actually coming out.

I was in the beta and no intention of ever signing up for the live service, given the $15/month fee. However, the free 12 months + game is something I'm absolutely going to give a try. I have low expectations for twitch-fps games, but hopefully there'll be plenty of rpgs or strategy games to try.

I sitll don't like the idea of OnLive.

i got the same email and im actually not interested now. i couldnt be bothered to type in all my credit card info for something i actually dont care about.

DES-PER-A-TION.  YAHHHHH!

I hope they at least offer a free week for something cause yea I'm still on the fence with this service. If it actually works for single player games.. then I might give it a shot.

From now and forever going foward, games can only fall into two categories: 
Vin Diesel games and non-Vin Diesel games