Opinion on the Skeptics?

[ZULND3R]

I was just wondering what your guy's thoughts were regarding all the people who are very skeptical of the OnLine service and its potential success.

Do you think that those working for OnLive will be able to portray the service in a manner that will be able to entice potential users and convince them to try it?

Or do you think people will remain to be skeptical and shoot the idea down without trying it, killing off the service?

[gronfors]

I think the main problem is just people not fully understanding it.

You don't need to by a super computer, a cheap laptop works fine
There are no downloads
There isn't any lag

Once it's released in the public beta it will be shown that what they have claimed is actually true. Then people will no longer be skeptic.

As long as they have a semi-large fanbase (which I'm sure they do) those people will be enough to prove the service works

[Squeakygoose]

I think that a lot of the skepticism is coming from people actually working in the IT industry (myself included). We understand what it would take to make something like this work in the real world. The hurdles that onLive claim they have overcome are the same that we all are working with (streams, latency, cloud computing). If they truly have done this, the technology will have massive implications. To think that a startup has done all this in seven years and then is using it on a GAMING service is crazy to me. They could have taken this to many other markets and made huge money.

One thing that really worried me about the tech demo was the presenters comment about "working on the speed of light problem" the speed of light is not a problem you can work on, it's a constant. If they are able to overcome this "problem", forget Spore, we'll be going to other planets for real...

I'm skeptical, but only because I work with this kind of stuff all day but gamer in me can't wait to see if they have pulled it off. Therefore I reserve the right to be both skeptical AND sign up for the public beta ;)

[ZULND3R]

Agreed.. anyone has a right to be skeptical of something this monumental. And you are absolutely right, the implications of using this technology in other sectors is endless. Billions of dollars are to be made if this works properly.

[Thogin]

I do not know, I mean I was hooked once I saw the news.

I am stuck in Japan and nothing to watch on TV, so I read Google news like crazy. And what did you know? something like this comes along.

I guess I am a believer, lets look at it this way. In this day and age, someone tells you there are Dragons and Zombies and Magical Creatures beyond this hill. Just wait and I will show it to you in a few months.

If they have to balls to tell me that to my face with out batting an eye, what can I say, I will walk with them over that hill for a look.

:D

[Man]

He was joking when referring the "speed of light" problem.

I think as soon as we get some solid specs on how this thing actually works and we get to try out the beta this summer, we'll see exactly just how it lives up to all this hype. All we can do is wait, and the best thing to do when you're waiting for something is to not get too excited over it. That way you won't be let down.