The Gaming News Thread

**Husar** · 03-28-2009, 12:48

My thoughts on OnLive:

- works ONLY online, meaning the whole data of everything is on their server and you depend even more on their server than you do with Steam
- even if you have a 100Mbps connection and their servers are lightning fast, there can be lag and I seriously doubt that there will never be lag between your input and the picture, unless you live next door to their server farm, perhaps
- you will pay quite a bit more for your games, you may not have to upgrade your own PC but you pay for them to upgrade their servers
- I'm european
- they're american
- you get the point

**Jolt** · 03-29-2009, 16:12

Let me see if I get this right (I had heard about this, but didn't really care as I don't think it'll have that much success): Even with my graphics card (Something close to GeForce 2), I can buy Crysis and ETW and play them in the highest graphics without any lag (Other than Internet lag)? Even so, with a 4 MB broadband, I doubt it could bring in enough information at enough speed to run it laglessly.

**Crandaeolon** · 03-29-2009, 16:58

According to their claims, you could play in standard definition with a 4Mbit connection. HD would require 5Mbit.

**TinCow** · 03-31-2009, 13:28

EA strips all DRM from The Sims 2 except for serial numbers:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7972677.stm

Looks like they've finally learned their lesson.