Virgin Media Customers (suppsoe anyone)

Yeah and to be honest with most single player games, the bulk of the value is gone once you've completed it. OK so games like FM, Civ etc have a very high replay factor but for generic linear FPS completing them once is normally enough for me.

Like I mentioned previously, I reckon for people with a lot of time on their hands who can complete half a dozen games a month, I reckon it's a good deal.
 
Can you only keep 1 game at a time or an you download as many as you like as long as you're within the daily download limit?

I'm on the 2mb connection atm so 350mb per day is just unacceptable. I mean most of the new titles takes up 4Gb+ each!

Besides I've already played most of these games before so it's not worth it for me.
VM doesn't have a 350MB cap, it has a 350MB throttle limit. If you exceed that limit between 4pm and 12am, you will be throttled down to 1mbps (i.e. your maximum speed will be halved) for 4 hours. When that 4 hours is up, your speed goes back to normal and your data counter reset.

So assuming you manage to max out your connection, you'll be able to get the first 350MB in just over 23 minutes. In the next 4 hours you'll be able to pull down 1800MB. Then 350MB in 23 minutes, 1800MB in the next 4 hours, etc. So you'd be able to get your 4Gb in under 9 hours if you leave it going and you get full speed (and assuming you started at 4pm).

Having said that, one of the FAQs says that they attempt to package the game in such a way that the engine and early levels are downloaded first, so you can start playing before it's finished downloading.

Looks like you can download as many as you like and play them when and where you like (even on different PCs, though you can't have two people logged into the same account at the same time). They just stop working if you end your subscription.

Note also that they do a 'download to own' service too. Probably no cheaper than buying from the store though.
 
But the 350mb limit only applies in the peak hours (4pm - 12am)? So if I leave it downloading from 12am onwards through the night I should be able to pull full speed and download the whole 4Gb in under 5 hours?
 
it's only between 4pm and midnight, and it doesn't throttle anywhere near as people think. I barely even notice the throttling.

Looks like a brilliant idea, but how long does it take games to be released and are all majour studios signed up?
 
Looks like a brilliant idea, but how long does it take games to be released and are all majour studios signed up?

Looks like there are some major studios missing, but a lot are there. Looking at what is available compared to what is highlighted in the "buy" area, I'd say there will be a wait before they go on the subscription service. Not only does this give them time to prepare the download, but also means they make more money from sales from impatient people! As to how long that wait is, who knows.

(See what I mean about saying we should keep Virgin throttling out of here :p lol)
 
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