Onlive vs Steam : LA Noire Complete for £12.24 , Street Fighter IV £10.49

Over on Steam , Valve have you collecting coal , freebies and doing chores to collect more coal and freebies, as well as the usual cheap daily deals with a countdown ticking away to force your purchase. Ironic then when Steam has you Pavlovian conditioned to complete a purchase in the shortest of times and get your reward , once you complete that purchase it then tells you the servers are too busy and you should come back later , if you luck out and have just purchased 3 or 4 games and downloads are about to start , your 100 meg connection is rendered moot by the Steam server overload caused by the sale , and you find yourself waiting hours for downloads , which you will also have to repeat on each of the machines you own. Now if you have over 300 games on Steam , that is  a lot of life wasted downloading . 


So  then ,time, is one reason to get the on the onlive cloud , another is the platform agnostic nature of the cloud , so when I buy LA Noire onlive,I am going to play on desktop, laptop, tablet , windows 8 tablet , and android phones and soon even the iPad and iPhone ( if someone gifts me one) ... Then we come to price , get a one month sub for £6.99 , and onlive give you 30% off all purchases  , and that includes sale items , in this way you can pick up and instantly play :


1.  La Noire Complete Edition for £12.24
2.  Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition for £10.49
3. Deus Ex Human Revolution Augmented Edition  for  £15.74 ( was £10.51 earlier)
4. Aliens Vs Predator for £2.62
5. Just Cause 2 for £4.89
6. Borderlands 2 for £3.50


and of course Assassins Creed Revelations for £24.49, Batman Arkham City for £24.49
and Saints Row The Third for £20.99.


So your £6.99 is easily made back and you have tons of games all accessible on any device and instantly , plus an excuse for your better half to get you a 100 meg connection...


Whilst I am a devotee of Steam and literally have several hundred games , the awesome instant cloud based magic of onlive has me enticed and if that monthly sub saves me this much money , I mean how cool is playing Street Fighter IV Arcade edition . the full game on your phone  , tablet , pc , mac and tv ? Instantly? Or the 20 meg plus download of LA Noire completely eliminated by onlive for £12.24 .... ? 


Prices are changing even as I type this so be quick ! Check out the video below to see how I made my £6.99 back...

This year I have spent significantly more on onlive , this may be due to my aversion to anthracite collecting , this may also be due to my having almost every game , and publisher catalogue I need or want , and also when you get to the point where you have several hundred games , you can no longer be bothered to download all of them . Recently my desktop raid hdd set up died , taking all my Steam games with it , it will take some time to download them all again on a new hdd , but get this , I did not lose a single onlive game because it is all cloud based and so are all my game saves , and even if my gaming rig is down I can still play on tv , phone , tablet ,laptop etc ...


So what are you waiting for get on to onlive and experience the cloud gaming revolution. 


The world of downloading is not totally dead , this year I spent even more money on a very different kind of game download sale , more on that later 

this content is © and originated from thegameveda http://the-games-veda.blogspot.com/  if you are reading it from any other site that has not provided a link back it has been leached