Comments on: AWOMO Beta, Tomb Raider: Legend

By: Biz

Biz — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:50:51 +0000

also, this could turn out interesting. here’s one of their options:

Subscribe – Pay a monthly flat rate for access to a broad range of games from top publishers

renting a game for 1/5 the price per hour and then owning it might be a ripoff… but paying a flat rate money and renting an unlimited amount of games is something I can see myself doing. the feature exists for console games which i almost never find worthy of a purchase. however, with a rental plan i have gone through 25 games ps3 games in a span of 2 months for a total of $45.

gametap has a rental plan, but their library doesn’t have many recent games. if awomo manages to get new games up for flat rate rentals, that would be awesome. i wouldn’t end up renting stuff for consoles and play with retarded controls and low framerates and low resolutions if I had a choice to rent them for the PC instead.

this ties back into their downloading system too. you don’t need to download 10 gigs if you just want to try out a game and see how it is for the first couple levels. certain places have bandwidth caps, and downloading huge amounts can be problematic and unnecessary. it taxes their servers. it taxes your connection. only DL if needed makes sense especially when the “if needed” is a significant probability.

i’m not sure if this client breaks ability to mod the game, but for renting that’s not a big issue. thing is if you use your subscription year round, then you might have some games on it you play extensively and could use mods for – maybe they can offer an alternate distribution method for those who choose this.

By: Biz

Biz — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:58:32 +0000

from entering the website to playing the game it took less than 5 minutes for me on very fast internet

i haven’t found a situation in my life where this is useful since i’m fine with just letting the game DL completely in the background, but it is a nice bit of technology. iirc steam tries something similar (play before it’s 100% done) with nowhere near as good results.

By: Perdiga

Perdiga — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:58:34 +0000

No support for vista 64 bits >.< sucks

By: catska

catska — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:12:42 +0000

For those that got turned off on tomb raider due to the awful installments from core, try this one. Its a return to form and the 2nd best TR after underworld.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:42:41 +0000

Steam has a similar system for games, but as far as I know they’ve only used it on Half-Life. I expect we’ll see it make a come back in the next year or two…

By: Ofoug

Ofoug — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:28:06 +0000

Ok, so this service that solves a problem that doesn’t really exist can’t quite manage to do even that on my puter =) It got the first 700 megs or so rather speedily then presented me with a Launch button. At this stage the game is supposed to launch and download the rest in the background, except it doesn’t actually launch, it just continues downloading. And now it’s at around a quarter of my max speed.

I do see it firing up a trl.exe and loading it into memory where it stays till I hit Exit game in the webpage plugin, but that never seems to even as much as try to load the game. I’m leaving it to download the rest of its 7GB of data in the background but at this rate it’ll take more than all day. Not quite the speedy delivery promised by the service so far =)

Any of you guys getting the same or a similar problem?

By: James T

James T — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:05:53 +0000

Wow, an unexplained ‘installation failed’ message from the client installer!!!!!!!!! This is the wave of the future!

By: Kitt Basch

Kitt Basch — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:36:55 +0000

The service does seem a bit pointless to me, at the moment at least.

But I think it does have a little potential for old and casual games. Say, every time I had a weird craving to play X-Com or Peggle, I could have it running straight away on any computer.

Then again, those sorts of games I could probably just leave installed on the computer.

Like Mr Pink (and Dragon’s Den) says, it’s solving a problem that doesn’t exist.

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:53:41 +0000

If you get real files from the service when its out of beta this service sounds fine.

Expecting to never be able to install a mod ever is too much to ask in return for a prefetching system.

By: Ben Abraham

Ben Abraham — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:01:43 +0000

Hmm, so if an 8Mbit line means 11 minutes, that means… carry the one…. divide by zero…. my 512 connection can get me playing in 176 minutes! WOOOO! I have not a moment to lose.

By: Caiman

Caiman — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:06:19 +0000

Also completely useless for those of us who live in areas not blessed with any kind of fast broadband connection. More interesting is the games being offered, their prices, and ease of use of the service.

By: St4ud3

St4ud3 — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:59:49 +0000

meh, they dont even support x64, so pretty much a fail!