Games on Demand

Laurens Simonis writes "Yesterday, the Dutch ISP Planet Internet introduced a games subscription service. For a small monthly fee, about $10, you get unlimited access to a growing list of (sort-of) current games which you can legally download from them. Currently, you can pick from 20 titles including Tomb Raider Chronicles, Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare and Commandos 2. New ones are added monthly. To my knowledge, this is the first time an ISP offers this kind of service. Personally, I'm all for the idea. Could this be the future? Half-Life developer Valve Software seems to think so." This looks really cool, but I'm curious as to how well it will catch on. It feels about 5 years too early to me, but here's hoping it performs well.

Comments

Since its in German

[teamhasnoi]

Can I assume that Tetris is the only game not on the restricted list?

Old news...

[levik]

My ISP has been offering this with all the old consoles for a few years now. And I don't even have to pay anything extra - it's included in the monthly fee I pay.

Though because it's an advanced feature, they don't publicize it. I have to google for these games myself. They even code-named them "ROMZ" so that newbie users don't stumble on them by accident and cause a support nightmare.

G.O.D.

[ADRA]

It will survive forever, unless Nietche Says anything about it...

Re:Game sites blocked at work

[Anonymous Coward]

Game sites blocked at work, but Slashdot isn't.

Which consumes more of anyones time?

(cough)

Re:Good for occasional gamer

[Some Dumbass...]

But for the hardcore gamer, I think they'd prefer to have the game in hand.

Heh. I've seen quite a few young "hardcore gamers" who don't actually have a copy of the game "in hand" at all...