8mo ago

Nvidia is making some changes to GeForce Now membership, with a new monthly playtime limit provoking some controversy on social media.

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Nvidia GeForce Now is changing, and gamers aren’t happy about it

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My buddy was toying with investing in this service. I cautioned him that he’d be a the mercy of a company that isn’t at all consumer friendly. Case and point
- An expense or purchase is not an investment.
- How so? The games aren’t purchased on GeForce Now and he could just cancel his subscription if they changed the service in a way he didn’t like.
  
  He doesn’t have the hardware to support non-streaming so he’d effectively have no way of playing them if the service continued to get worse. I suggested he pay upfront for hardware that can play the games he wants without being dependent on nvidia
The endgame of all these subscription services is always the same. They make you reliant, and then they jack prices and reduce service.
At this point, there are enough exemplars that anyone still buying in is just not paying attention.
Genuinely when there was actually some competition in this space, GeForce NOW was actually the consumer friendly one
Guess we have another case study in why competition results in worse outcomes for the customer in its eventual conclusion
- i mean its not like Microsofts XCloud is an unusable service. they just have a completely different monetization approach.
  
  The big win for GeForce NOW was you could fire up games from your steam library—you didn't need to directly invest in a service which might die for your ownership of a game
This fucking sucks, even if 100 hrs/month isn't crazy unreasonable.
- It will be 90 eventually.
This is why I dont care about game streaming. These corpos want us more reliant on them so they can suck out more money.
deny the parasite profit. exhibit 2109325897
This could be reasonable depending on the limit. I think 1 hour limit for free tier is generous, 6 hour limit for medium tier is reasonable if most users play less than 6 hours per session. But 8 hours for the top tier sucks balls and is a major scam.
There’s probably a small portion of people that just leave it on so they never have to wait in queue to get back on.
- An AFK kick seems simple enough to stop most of those situations.
  
  Mouse wiggler, auto clicker, not hard to bypass any of those.

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