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Poetic.Injustice

Member

• Jan 19, 2014

• #1

In a message posted on the company's support site, Square cited "limited commercial take-up" as the reason for the service's closure in late 2013.

Launched in August 2012, CoreOnline enabled users to play console quality games straight from the web.

Users could purchase single levels or entire games, or opt to play free, ad-supported content, with game time earned by watching video content.

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http://www.computerandvideogames.co...discontinues-cloud-gaming-service-coreonline/

 

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Nokterian

Member

• Jan 19, 2014

• #2

Well no surprise there isn't it?

 

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RaikuHebi

Banned

• Jan 19, 2014

• #3

Good.

But also bad. More resources for social games now.

 

GHG

Gold Member

• Jan 19, 2014

• #4

This existed?

 

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qualitydisc

Member

• Jan 19, 2014

• #5

I've never even heard of this and I'm a Square fanboy

 

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TronLight

Everybody is Mikkelsexual

• Jan 19, 2014

• #6

For a moment I thought it was related to the awful DRM that FFVII and VIII use.

Never heard of this thing, not hard to believe nobody used it. :lol

 

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Poetic.Injustice

Member

• Jan 19, 2014

• #7

Here's the Gaf thread on it from 2012.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=489045&highlight=coreonline

 

Haunted

Member

• Jan 19, 2014

• #8

From the announcement in that thread:

Click play now on one of the missions and you'll be asked to install the Square Enix Secure Launcher. Once the game begins, you get 10 minutes of play time. After this expires, you're asked to watch an advert to earn additional minutes of playtime. Or you can pay $0.49 to unlock the level.

We were given a choice of a Mini Ninjas Adventures ad that lasts for one minute and 15 seconds for 25 minutes of game time; a Game Globe ad for 24 seconds for eight minutes of gaming; and a one minute one second Koozac ad for 20 minutes of game time.

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Gee, I wonder why this wasn't popular.

 

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wrowa

Member

• Jan 19, 2014

• #9

1 Minute ad for 20 minutes game time doesn't sound too bad, though.

But, yeah, I had no clue it existed either.

 

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Camisado

Member

• Jan 19, 2014

• #10

Yeah I never heard of this either, I wonder if better advertising would of made the difference.

 

EdwardTivrusky

Member

• Jan 19, 2014

• #11

I'm apparently in the majority who had no idea this was a thing.

 

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Mario007

Member

• Jan 19, 2014

• #12

And their Flare Cloud service will fare similarly. Seriously Square, stop trying to invent the new frontier and just focus on the things you've done well in the past: making good games. If you do that, people will actually buy them.

 

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Faiz

Member

• Jan 19, 2014

• #13

GHG said:

This existed?

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I imagine a chorus of this response to this news.

 

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Famassu

Member

• Jan 19, 2014

• #14

Mario007 said:

And their Flare Cloud service will fare similarly. Seriously Square, stop trying to invent the new frontier and just focus on the things you've done well in the past: making good games. If you do that, people will actually buy them.

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It's not like Nomura & his team(s) is(/are) working on this or something...

 

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Carl

Member

• Jan 19, 2014

• #15

I've never even heard of it. Sounds pretty cool though actually

 

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Asd202

Member

• Jan 19, 2014

• #16

Famassu said:

It's not like Nomura & his team(s) is(/are) working on this or something...

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Well instead of wasting time and effort on such shit services they could use it toward game development other than FF or DQ.