Onlive better then steam?

When you buy a game on steam you have to download it then install then update and run it on your hardware. With onlive you can play almost in a instant No downloads no updates no need to worry about hardware.

Onlive runs the game for you so its a much better deal then buying a game on steam. the hardware treadmill is over with onlive.

When you buy a game on steam you have to download it then install then update and run it on your hardware. With onlive you can play almost in a instant No downloads no updates no need to worry about hardware.

Onlive runs the game for you so its a much better deal then buying a game on steam. the hardware treadmill is over with onlive.

Oh dis gon' be gud.

Okay. But what if I say I prefer steam?

do you mean like steam when you boil a kettle and stuff

When I buy a game on Steam, it lives on my hard drive and I can play it whenever I want as opposed to whenever I have a really good internet connection. Also, because I know my system and what it can handle, I'm pretty much guaranteed better performance than if I was to rely on my internet connection and having to deal with latency, not to mention that the game will probably look way nicer on account of not being streamed.

Also, your thread isn't a question so much as two sentences barely arguing for OnLive.

do you mean like steam when you boil a kettle and stuff

I really don't like the idea of playing a stream. I just really don't. Steam all the way for me. At least I can play in offline mode.

No. With British internet, I tried playing a game on OnLive and it was below HD and even below SD video resolution. Compression was bad. Even with an extremely good internet connection I can't imagine it being as good as a local installation.

I think Steam is far superior: larger library, not 100% dependent on an always-on internet connection (Offline Mode), supports mods and the best damn sales ever. 
FIGHT ME, ONLIVE BOY!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_Law_of_Headlines

OP your fucking avatar man, not cool

I hope this never takes off.. I'd really hate to rely on an outside source for all that.

Which is steam you also kinda do... but that is just pushing it to far for me.

@Bell_End said:

do you mean like steam when you boil a kettle and stuff

This has to be it. It is the only way this makes sense.

Half of this guys posts are about onlive being better the steam or steam just plain suckin. Look at his forum history.

@Ravenlight said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_Law_of_Headlines

Ahaha that's great.

@banishedsoul1: Do you work for OnLive or some shit? And/or did you only find out about it 2 days ago? Because it sounds like it.

@Ravenlight said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_Law_of_Headlines

I prefer solar powered, personally.

there's this thing called latency and streaming a video of you playing a game is no bueno for games that require precision.

Ive used onlive. The delay is not super big but after a wile its annoying. 

Onlive was ok when I tried it, but I would still rather have the games on my computer.

If the infrastructure required to be able to smoothly run the games in high resolution on a consistent basis was there, Onlive would have my interest. As it is I'd rather know what my game experience is going to be like with a locally installed game.

No.

@The_Drizzle said:

OP your fucking avatar man, not cool

whats wrong with jeff the killer?

Good for you. I'll stick to Steam, thanks.

@Dagbiker said:

Half of this guys posts are about onlive being better the steam or steam just plain suckin. Look at his forum history.

Think he's on the onlive payroll?

Now if playing only didn't look like a fullscreened Youtube video, that'd be great.

@banishedsoul1 said:

When you buy a game on steam you have to download it then install then update and run it on your hardware. With onlive you can play almost in a instant No downloads no updates no need to worry about hardware.

Onlive runs the game for you so its a much better deal then buying a game on steam. the hardware treadmill is over with onlive.

The logic is flawless. I sincerely don't know how to counter these arguments.

Onlive > Consoles > PC > Coding the game yourself.

Steam feels almost like a religion to many gamers. I know steam has done many things right and thats why they are popular. But they are becoming apple cult like and wont touch anything else. So when i ask anything about steam i get lots of hate. I think Onlive could be better as a service because it gives you more. It could save you 100s on hardware while you need to keep a up to date pc to run games.

Than*

@Dagbiker said:

Half of this guys posts are about onlive being better the steam or steam just plain suckin. Look at his forum history.

This doesn't actually appear to be the case, eyeballing his post history. However, this topic comes off as more of a strange advertisement for OnLive and its advantages over Steam than an actual comparison or argument. For that reason, I don't see anything to discuss here, and I think it's best to lock this topic down before it devolves into further flamebaiting.

@Ravenlight said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_Law_of_Headlines

Also, I didn't know this existed, and it is amazing.