Personally I've found two things great about onlive : 1/ It's an alternative to downloading demo - 30mn is enough to see if I like a game, and saves me the has

Personally I've found two things great about onlive : 1/ It's an alternative to downloading demo - 30mn is enough to see if I like a game, and saves me the hassle of downloading, installing/uninstalling etc - I don't understand why every new game demo is distributed this way now 2/ Their $4 for a week-end rental - for a lot of games, this is enough for me to play and get out of Video quality is good for playing on a laptop - not on a gaming desktop. Note though that many of the games on onlive are very aggressively discounted on steam at every steam sale - so I usually end up buying them from steam instead.