OnLive now FREE and WORKS in the UK!

cheets64 said:
being trying all day, no way would I give them hard earned money and not be able to play my games
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The server are based in America hence why most of us can't connect as the ping drop off point is probably 400ms or so. I believe OnLive is coming to the UK around Christmas time but I heard that BT were doing a deal? So might rely on having a BT connection etc.
 
maxilive said:
The server are based in America hence why most of us can't connect as the ping drop off point is probably 400ms or so. I believe OnLive is coming to the UK around Christmas time but I heard that BT were doing a deal? So might rely on having a BT connection etc.
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http://blog.onlive.com/2010/05/13/onlive-coming-to-europe/ said:
OnLive Coming to the UK

Since OnLive’s unveiling a little over a year ago, we have been inundated with requests to introduce the OnLive® Game Service in Europe. Literally, not a day has gone by without requests pouring in. And, from the day we opened up sign-ups for OnLive’s US Beta testing—making it very clear the sign-ups are for US-only testing by gamers with a US zip code—a huge percentage of the sign-up requests came from gamers from European locations who used popular US zip codes to try to get into the US Beta (indeed, we had more sign-ups using zip code 90210 than the actual population there).

We got the message.

So, for all of you Euro gamers who have asked about OnLive, I have some very good news: OnLive is coming to Europe in a big way. Secretly OnLive has been operating a test site in Europe from a BT (British Telecommunications plc) data center in Wales since 2009. And I’m happy to report, that over the European Internet infrastructure, OnLive is AWESOME. We’ve tested OnLive across all of Western Europe spanning from the UK to Italy and from Scandinavia down to Spain.

Today we are announcing that BT, the largest broadband operator in the UK, has formed a partnership with and has made an investment in OnLive. We’ll be working together with BT to bring the OnLive Game Service to the UK, such that it operates reliably and with high quality over the UK’s Internet backbone to BT’s broadband customers. BT has an exclusive right to bundle the OnLive Game Service together with their broadband service offerings in the UK, although UK gamers will also be able to order the OnLive Game Service directly from OnLive to run over any UK ISP.

I know everyone would like the exact details of when OnLive will be available in the UK, but we are not announcing dates just yet. We’re completely focused on our US launch this summer. Once we get the US service up and running, we’ll be sharing more details, including when we’ll be starting a UK public Beta (with UK postcodes, no less). One thing I can say is when we do launch in the UK, gamers will have the benefit of everything we’ve learned from the US launch, as well as the latest OnLive features. Also, unlike the US launch, where we are ramping up with PCs and Macs, then introducing the OnLive MicroConsole™ HDTV adapter later, the UK will launch on PC, Mac and HDTV from the get-go. Still, I’d like to make it very clear that we still have a lot of work to do before we launch in the UK.

What’s great about Western Europe geographically is that so many countries are within a 1000 mile (1600 km) radius, which is within the latency limit for a single OnLive data center. For a technical explanation see Beta Testing at the Speed of Light. This means that all gamers in Western Europe can play multiplayer games together through OnLive. It will be pretty amazing.

Lastly, we’ve designed OnLive from the start to be a global service. Community features of OnLive work fine at any distance through the Internet, so this means US and Euro gamers will be able to spectate and chat with each other, and check out each other’s user profiles and Brag Clips™ video captures.

We’re really excited about OnLive’s potential in Europe, and looking forward to kicking it off in the UK through our partnership with BT.

—Steve Perlman, OnLive Founder & CEO
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Sounds like BT will bundle it with some ISP offerings (maybe a discount or free trial thing, or have some sort of timed exclusive crap :)) and other ISPs will be able to offer it as well.


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It works just looks terrible and is laggy. Can see it being awesome for laptop users if the lag is sorted out and once in the uk.

I also love the arena been spending time watching us users mucking about :D
 
Fascinating glimpse just now when I got connected. Only tried the Arena where you can watch others play. That's pretty cool. Will try again and see if I can stay connected long enough to start a game tomorrow.
 
Sleepery said:
They're still very much the rage, but it's not exactly cloud computing - the sessions are being piped to dumb terminals, but they're still running from servers on your local network. We have upwards of 500 citrix sessions spread around the country on a farm of about 25 servers in our head office.

Believe me, it beats the hell out of buying / supporting 500 pcs, especially when it comes to rolling out new software and not having to deal with people putting rubbish on their PCs.

Any network admin still running PCs where the desktop is fairly standard needs his ass firing ;)
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ditto. Just ran a project to migrate 45 GIS users to run their very heavy client software via CITRIX. Works a treat for the users (mostly ;) )

Definate benefits from a support view.

It is all very well for a corporate network but in regards to OnLive; I just do not think that we have the infrastructure in place yet to support such a service to make it an attractive alternative to physical or local media just yet. In the future though....................................

I get the same latency message that most have been reporting.

We will have to see when it becomes local to the UK as I am definately interested in this. If it means that a crudy £150 laptop will play the latest games then sign me up!
 
Played some last night, fantastic considering it was in the US.

Going to be great from my brother, set him with a his netbook attached to TV & a wireless/mouse keyboard. When he's playing Crysis on that without having to spend 400-800 on a gaming rig, I'll be annoyed!
 
Frapple said:
Played some last night, fantastic considering it was in the US.

Going to be great from my brother, set him with a his netbook attached to TV & a wireless/mouse keyboard. When he's playing Crysis on that without having to spend 400-800 on a gaming rig, I'll be annoyed!
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Or get the microconsole itself http://www.onlive.com/service/microconsole

Rumoured to be around the £25 mark... Still, under £100 would seem like a good compromise to me, plenty of mark-up to cover the no longer subscription based service. And considering you wouldn't HAVE to buy it...
 
I tried this last night and I was really, really impressed! Once they have servers in the UK the latency issue should become almost a none issue.

Really looking forward to the official UK launch now. :D
 
I think I'll investigate the micro-console if it's a decent price. I already have a PC under the telly, but if this is designed purely for OnLive, accesses it all quicker, that would be preferable. It's certainly impressed me and I was already a 'believer' following a piece in Edge magazine.
 
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