It was to cost $14.95 a month and then whatever price came with a game title you wanted but now you just cough up for the games - as it should be.
”It’s official: There will be no base monthly fee for the OnLive Game Service going forward. WOOT! Free Instant-play Demos, Free Massive Spectating, Free Brag Clip™ videos, messaging, friending,” blogged OnLive boss Steve Perlman.
”No credit card needed, unless you decide to buy a 3-day, 5-day or Full PlayPass. And ongoing access with no monthly fee. Of course, we’ve had a promotion waiving the monthly fee for the first year, so this announcement is confirming what we had hoped—that we can continue without a monthly fee beyond the first year.”
Why was a subscription fee announced anyway?
”Although we wish we could have confirmed no monthly fee from the get-go, pioneering a major new video game paradigm is hard: we had to first grow to a large base of regular users before we could understand usage patterns and operating costs,” he said.
”Now that we’ve reached that stage, we can confidently say a monthly fee is not needed, which deserves a double WOOT! WOOT!” OnLive launches in the UK by the end of 2011. Currently the service is only available through your PC in the US but the OnLive TV adapters and controllers are ”in manufacturing now” with ”first dibs” to founding users.
Are you an American gamer with OnLive flowing through your PC?
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