Packing OnLive with Your Passport
You can take it with you: U.S.-based OnLive users can now play their games and try free demos when traveling overseas and over the border!
With OnLive, high-performance gaming is no longer limited to the home. Until now, dedicated gamers had to drag around high-powered laptops and bulky accessories whenever traveling … or else just leave their rigs, consoles and favorite games behind.
OnLive changes the traveling equation: You can play any game on almost any PC or Mac within your reach. It doesn’t matter if it’s your ultra-light netbook or your friend’s old computer. Wherever you’re staying, you can pick up a game from where you last left off or sit back and watch live gameplay in the Arena (a favorite pastime of mine while waiting for a delayed flight to board).
Although OnLive has data centers throughout the world in various stages of tests, at this point only the U.S. data centers are enabled for the full OnLive Game Service. So, as I explained earlier this year, if you travel too far from our U.S. data centers, you’ll eventually reach the point where you can’t play games. This limitation will be eliminated once we open up non-U.S. locations. Then, you’ll automatically connect to the closest data center and be able to play games almost anywhere.
The best way to see if OnLive works for you outside the U.S. is to give it a try. And, you can look forward to the performance getting steadily better (and the range increasing) in the coming months. So if it doesn’t work now, definitely try again later.
OnLive data centers for the rest of the world are coming soon! www.onlive.be and www.onlive.lu just made announcements and there are more on the way.
Until then, safe travels and enjoy OnLive gaming on the go!
—Steve Perlman, OnLive Founder & CEO
October 13, 2010 at 3:14 PM
I can’t wait for OnLive in Europe! Please, do not hesitate launching it here.
October 14, 2010 at 12:47 AM
Go europe (especielly sweden), iiiiiim waiting
October 13, 2010 at 4:52 PM
Nice! So next time I’m away from home I can probably still play my OnLive games. You guys rock!
October 13, 2010 at 5:35 PM
You need to enable a lower bandwidth connection for use in international locations maybe a 1mbps .
October 13, 2010 at 11:44 PM
Lower bandwidth would surely result in lower quality video/graphics wouldn’t it? I think its better to keep at the current minimum threshold, ensuring that people don’t think that the onlive service is far poorer than it really is. Onlive is an awesome experience. The graphics make your jaw drop when you realise that this isn’t running from some high powered gaming rig, or the latest gaming console. If someone’s first experience of Onlive was from a 1Mbps connection, I’m sure it wouldn’t have the same impact.
October 14, 2010 at 10:55 AM
Sure but that’s still better then no Playability .
My point I don’t really mind playing games in windowed mode and not full screen
and hence a lower bit rate stream can suffice.
October 13, 2010 at 8:48 PM
I’m tellin’ you guys. Roll this out in South Korea and Japan and you can tap a sizable market.
October 14, 2010 at 1:32 AM
Make sure that it works from Finland too, we are part of Western Europe too.
October 14, 2010 at 2:25 AM
Extend your service to Europe please!
October 14, 2010 at 4:54 AM
I’m waiting for it in Taiwan. My laptop can just about manage Left 4 Dead 2 but I want to run some beefier games on it. Onlive is such a promising service and I am sure it would do well in Taiwan.
October 14, 2010 at 4:58 AM
WHAT ABOUT CANADA! I tried to play here, I have a 3 Mbps network, and it still tells me it’s not enough.
October 14, 2010 at 6:16 PM
I can actually play OnLive in Toronto Canada, too bad i cant buy any of the games! OnLive is providing me with a great demo service but i really would like to support OnLive and its publishers by buying games, unfortunately its doesnt seem possible to use Canadian credit cards to pay
Bring OnLive to Canada! It works, all you have to do is LET US PAY!
October 14, 2010 at 11:33 PM
Onlive works great in toronto canada, i’m connected through a vpn to the US servers and it works fine. Give it a shot!
Oh and hear rumours they were opening data centres in canada as well in the near future anyways.
October 15, 2010 at 2:10 AM
Go To the Holldand i was hear at start (Bata) but NOW We can try it Plz go NL
its like the 1st e-mail send over the internet Over seas ^^
October 16, 2010 at 7:43 AM
Please, has anyone got a release date fo onLive in France ? I’m dying waiting for it
October 17, 2010 at 11:57 AM
Over 2 years i know that Onlive will come. Now its run in US. But what is with germany? I have never read a word, when Onlive appears in germany.
A response would be appreciated.
November 5, 2010 at 4:02 PM
Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine is waiting for OnLive! Make it please!
January 6, 2011 at 11:41 AM
OnLive + Belgacom sounds great! I’m a Belgacom VDSL customer so hook me up please!