The game streaming service will make almost all of its users pay extra for extended access.
4.6 trillion dollar company btw.
The dollars come from charging us extra. Nvidia has been well known in the early days being premium compared to AMD graphics.
Watch just tells you how greedy and miserly they are.
Next up is rentable GPUs with a subscription. You’ll eventually own nothing
I mean, that exists. Just not for gaming specifically
I wish I could hit 100 hours of playtime a month.
Still cheaper than buying a gaming PC by far.
Got kids?
And a spouse who wants together time. Also other hobbies than gaming.
The only thing I consistently do over a 100 hours a month is sleep 😅
Aye, same. Should hope you’re getting more than 100 hours of sleep!
Second highest is work. Boo.
Have you considered local 2 player games?
And a spouse who wants together time.
That’s nice.
100h is fucking nothing. Such a waste of money
I don’t know if you’re joking or not. That’s 3h 20 min per day spent on gaming lol
What a sober reminder that most people on these platforms are either 20 years old or don’t have kids, jobs and responsibilities, lol.
Regardless, fuck this enshittified subscription bullshit.
what are people even paying for, 100h per month isn’t that much if you have a fair amount of free time or would pause the games between doing other things. i’m expecting for posts about someone accidentally leaving it open and not being able to play for the rest of the month.
Its 3h per day. Enough for moderate user, but if you share with a family or just a hardcore gamer, you’ll run out
The Venn diagram of moderate users and GeForce subscribers has an overlap that’s about 2mm wide.
I imagine hardcore gamers will not tolerate the input lag. When I think hardcore gamer, I think high-end PC with high refresh display
Theres an afk timeout, so that should only result in loosing a few minutes of playtime
First they came for your music. Then they came for your movies. They came for your Games. Now they want your computers.
And now the other shoe drops. We can see what kind of future these companies are shaping for us. Where you have to pay them a subscription fee in order to use premium hardware. While they slowly stop selling it to the public.
That’s. 3.33 hours/day. That’s a whole lot of playtime…
For now…
“It’s twice the price now, or the same price for 55h”
Wasn’t it 50 h before? So now 2x as much? No need to be anti someone based on prejudice alone.
Maybe for dad gamers.
Dude I’m lucky if I get 3 free hours a week! And I’m not even a Dad! What’re you guys doing with your lives!?
Between work, marriage, yard work, working out, and taking care of dogs, I’m lucky to get 10 hours a week and I make time for it as it’s my primary hobby. How do other adults get 50+ hours online?!
Don’t have a yard, don’t get a dog, don’t work out, don’t be married etc
That makes me both jealous and sad for them at the same time.
yeah I’m literally unemployed and gaming is my primary hobby. I have NEVER hit 100hrs on GFN and I’ve been using it for years. I may not have a job, but I do have a life outside of games. I can’t imagine someone who has both that has more than 100 hours of free time to game.
I hit 112 hours in Black Ops 7 in two weeks.
Genuinely eat shit, Nvidia.
If that’s the game you choose to dump your time into, maybe you should be given a limit…/s
I don’t listen to influencers who make their entire damn money out of yelling at people “QUIT HAVING FUN!!!” or “YOUR GAME IS SLOP!!!” (while they literally play a slop of a different flavor) or got burned out by CoD for playing for so long that they hate it now and spend 90% of their time trashing it, sorry. I play the game myself and decide if I want to buy it or not.
Note that when Battlefield 6 launched I also put 100+ hours into it in like 2 weeks.
But yes, I should definitely be given a time limit sometimes LOL
In other words “Nothing beats having restrictions!!! bdsm cbt ftw!!”
From what I understand about this subscription (I never looked into it before) it’s basically like a reverse Game Pass? So you pay the monthly subscription, and you can play the games that are on the service, on different devices aside from just a PC?
While that does sound pretty cool and impressive, I can’t imagine most people, or most anyone that calls themselves a gamer would touch this service with a 20’ pole. Like at that point, just own the game and system you want. You can play whenever and for however long you want.
Also, this may sound weird, but after reading the article I have a strong urge to start a game and just let it run idle, racking up playtime. Out of spite for Nvidia I guess.
Game Pass also lets you do this via cloud play.
That too. Even though my Game Pass has been cancelled and I haven’t had Xbox Live in a couple years, I can also still go into the Xbox PC app, install any game that I’ve bought that’s also PC compatible or stream whatever I own that isn’t (but still has cloud workability).
It’s how I’ve been playing Halo Wars 2 lately. And I’ve seen the Fable games are cloud compatible, but I haven’t tried those on PC yet.
You’re really just renting hardware. You own all your games and they aren’t tied to that service. The appeal is to play PC games without being on the perpetual hardware upgrade hamster wheel.
Yeah its for casual gamers, you can play on phone, iPad, mac etc comfortably
Just part of the lifecycle of every digital service.
I wonder where they got 100hr?
I wonder if there’s some metric they’re going off of where the majority of the subscriber base only plays less than 100hrs and the “abusers” or whales play over the 100hr mark.
100hr / 30 days is 3.3 hours a day. Which as a father of two… I’d be lucky to get that much in a day.
100hr / 20 days(5 days a week) is 5 hours a day.
100hr / 8 days (weekends only gaming) is 12.5 hours a day.
None of these are outrageous and probably are the “average” user of the service.
Now if you’re doing 8 or 12 hours a day for 30 days, that’s 240-360 hours a month. Which is pretty much gaming full time.
I think 100 hours is a weird number to land on. I think 120 hours makes more sense (4 hours a day over 30 days).
I do expect Nvidia to lower the hours over time. Expect to see 80 hours or 50 hours soon IMO.
you really don’t want to piss off your paying customers who have more than a hundred hours of free time a month to trash you online lol
Oh come on! I could get through that in just over four days.
IIRC it used to be 50 hours. Most people don’t hit that.
As a Mac user in an area with good ping, I like GeForce Now. I’m not currently subscribed, though I have been in the past. Recently I’ve been leaning more into my Xbox for gaming.
