OnLive shutdown

[tthurman]

Cloud based gaming company indicates customers won't be getting refunds.

I suppose it's sort of the ugly side of cloud based services, as well as how hard it is to go up against a 800 pound gorilla like Steam.

[ExedExes]

I'm not surprised. OnLive reminded me very much of a similar service that was out before that, Gametap. That was run by Turner/Time Warner, then in 2010 they sold to Metaboli, a European company doing the same thing Gametap was. They pretty much drove that into the ground too, I know because I was a subscriber.

[uberpubert69]

This is exactly why I highly disagree with games being stored on the cloud/streaming. I want to physically hold my copy of my game. Or at least be able to point to a physical object in my possession and say "my game is in that." Cause if not when the company sinks, or their servers crash, so do your games and chances of getting them again.