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Gaikai-A Competitor to OnLive

Stev_o · 2009-07-02 23:23:48

Came across this http://www.dperry.com/archives/news/dp_blog/gaikai_-_video/ in another forum. Seems to be the same ideas that OnLive had really. One thing though that interested me was the the demos of WoW and Eve it's seems a bit iffy for that those games how you'd go around paying for them if your already paying for a…

02-07-2009 11:23pm

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Came across this http://www.dperry.com/archives/news/dp_blog/gaikai_-_video/ in another forum. Seems to be the same ideas that OnLive had really. One thing though that interested me was the the demos of WoW and Eve it's seems a bit iffy for that those games how you'd go around paying for them if your already paying for a license to play the other games hosted.

Any thoughts?

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#2 02-07-2009 11:44pm

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not sure they might offer a combo/reseller deal into those games so you would only be paying once? i'd imagine as part of the onlive stuff the publisher/developers are effectively being paid on a subscription basis rather than game's 'bought'

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