Oh, I tried the service. It was lagging, the graphics were terrible and at times it was usable.

In short, it was everything that Microsoft hopes their X1 will be with "cloud usage".

Good luck with that.

Dude, OnLive is a fucking trainwreck of a clusterfuck. It doesn't work for shit.

Thanks for playing but better luck next time.

Installation of better high speed backbone throughout the United States. I am basing this on Microsoft's lack of worldwide installed user-base.

This might be available sooner in countries with a higher high speed Internet infrastructure.

Hey, if you're willing to endure what they're shoveling in the hopes that this system might have a long enough life to MAYBE acquire the technology to do what they are proposing, be my guest. It's your money and time and you are certainly free to do with both as you see fit.

Me? I have no interest in supporting a…

I don't need more information because what they have proposed is. not. possible.

Maybe in 5-10 years...

The fact that upload speeds, download speeds and latency are all unavoidable aspects of what these people have said they want to use the cloud for and, oddly enough, we do not have the capacity to get around these hurdles. They want to use the cloud to make games better looking and better performing, yet they have…

Aside from the many other ways to input data onto an iPad OTHER than directly connecting to the Internet?

Aside from being able to make use of the iPad without connecting to the Internet?

Yeah, great comeback.

The guy's analogy was ill-thought, at best, and full blown retarded, at worst.

Dedicated servers and "using the cloud to make the game run faster" are not the same thing. At all. They are saying that they want to offload a massive amount of workload to the cloud and then feed it back to players. That feeding back is going to be directly affected by download, as well as upload, speeds and will…

You DO realize that the "cloud computing" bit is bullshit, yes?

As in, they can't do it now and they can't do it in the near future because of bandwidth differences between all players and data capping?

In other words, the stuff that you think will help absolutely will not happen.

If my ipad could not connect to Apple's stores, I could still use it AND still put music, programs and other shit onto it.

There's just so much cognitive disconnect going on right now at Microsoft that it is pretty frustrating.

I think you mean "They'll do fine ONLY in North America."

That...that is glorious.

I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

I don't know what this is but I love it.

But, the power of THE CLOUD can let us do ANYTHING!

That's what we're being led to believe, yes?

All snark aside, I would LOVE to mod on the console. But, since I don't see it happening, this title is a PC pick up for me.

I just wish they'd put back in the Create-A-Play feature. Not even Create-A-Playbook (but I would take that, too), just the ability to create plays.

It has already been addressed. You used sarcasm, which is a PART of satire, and you didn't do it particularly WELL.

You can keep saying you were using satire, but you were using a piece of it. It honestly is pretty basic, and, as someone who claims to teach the language, a nuanced response that you should understand.

Madden and FIFA both have the same updates year after year. To say that one does and one does not is disingenuous.

Dude, if that is honesty the best you can muster, I hate to tell you this, but I've shit nastier than that.

Try hard troll needs to try harder.

Kind of like Madden?

Don't get me wrong, I don't understand the infatuation with soccer, but Madden doesn't get a pass on this.

Aaaaaaand snap.

I was literally just about to type a remarkably similar post.