OnLive Pricing Structure Revealed
While the OnLive service itself will run $4.95 a month, games are not included in this deal. How much will the games cost? Eurogamer has found a list of pricing for 19 games on the service. Options include purchasing the game for the duration of OnLive's current licensing agreement -- through June 17, 2013 -- or renting certain games for 3 or 5 days.
- AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! A Reckless Disregard for Gravity - $19.95 - Full Purchase
- Assassin's Creed II - $39.99 - Full Purchase
- Batman: Arkham Asylum - %6.99 / $4.99 - 5 days / 3 days
- Borderlands - $29.99 / $8.99 / $5.99 - Full Purchase / 5 days / 3 days
- Brain Challenge - $4.99 - Full Purchase
- Colin McRae: DiRT 2 - Demo Only
- Defense Grid Gold - $13.99 / $6.99 - Full Purchase / 5 days
- F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin - $19.99 - Full Purchase
- Just Cause 2 - $49.99 - Full Purchase
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 - Demo Only
- Madballs in Babo: Invasion - $9.99 - Full Purchase
- Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands - $49.99 - Full Purchase
- Puzzle Chronicles - $9.99 / $3.99 - Full Purchase / 3 days
- Red Faction: Guerrilla - $19.99 - Full Purchase
- Shatter - $8.99 - Full Purchase
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction - $59.99 - Full Purchase
- Trine - Demo Only
- Unreal Tournament III: Titan Pack - $19.99 / $6.99 / $4.99 - Full Purchase / 5 days / 3 days
- World of Goo - $19.99 / $6.99 / 4.99 - Full Purchase / 5 days / 3 days
OnLive is playable on a PC or Mac. A set-top box is planned to allow for play on a television through a "MicroConsole". The service was even shown running on an iPad at E3 2010.
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Visceral Monkey
reply"Options include purchasing the game for the duration of OnLive's current licensing agreement -- through June 17, 2013 "
Awesome, so even when you buy it..you don't own it forever.-
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The difference between OnLive and Steam is that Steam is a distribution agreement were OnLive is a licensing agreement (between the company and the publisher). With OnLive, even if you "buy" the game, you're limited to the time that OnLive has the license for the game, regardless if the company stays in business or not. With Steam and even XBLA, you have the game as long as the server is up. And, even in those cases, there are legal requirements for the content to be made available for a period of time after the service goes down. I've negotiated a few digital distribution agreements to know.
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They can't promise that, because they aren't actually *selling* you anything. They're renting it to you, the same way Netflix streams movies. They have to have permission from the copyright holder to stream that data at you.
They should really be legally barred from using the term "purchase" in any of their documentation.
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