In the falling post i want it to be apparent that i am against Onlive, so dont expect a ton of positives about it, if you have any, tell me about them.....

I have done alot of thinking lately about Onlive, and what it will do to gaming as a whole. And im worried. Yes it introduces the ability to play games, anywhere, without the expensive hardware, but is this a good thing?
 
First they will charge a monthly fee, something gaming normally doesn't require. You could say that, basically, gaming will be come one big MMO. Then they will take away the consumers access to what they pay for, by streaming everything, rather then installing it, which would normally give a gamer access to the files they purchased. Mods will be done away with, game collections will cease to exist. But worst of all in my mind is what this will do to the gaming community.

Gaming becomes more and more mainstream every year, with the advent of the Wii, where people who never play games are able to jump in, those people may one day cross over to games that are more hardcore and complex. But with Onlive this all changes, how will a, lets say, 40 year old mother whos never touched a game, become interested in this strange streaming service, that requires a strange device, and a monthly fee to play games, that arent mini game collections and therefore, intimidating to most people. How will that same mother, be willing to buy this service for their kid to play games? Why would she want to pay a relatively large sum of money each month on something that does nothing but keep the child indoors and inactive. With consoles today, many kids will save up for their console of their choice, and eventually they will buy it. They borrow a friends games for awhile until they save up enough for their own. But how will they cope with onlive, where a sum of money is required every month, in addition to buying the games, and box itself?  Where they cant get a cheap used game, or rent one, nor can they borrow it from a friend. (Although that might be an option in onlive, who knows.)This might start turning off alot of kids to gaming and the user base for games could shrink.

Finally, it will make PC and console gaming obsolete (Eventually anyways, if its as revolutionary as they propose.) , the wii might however make it out fine, because of its unique style of gameplay that On live cant copy.

Theres a good chance im wrong about this. Maybe im wrong in thinking OnLive is the Skynet of gaming. Sure the whole thing wont even get working for years. But im concerned.

So what do you think? Will Onlive make things better, or worse?