Cloud gaming is a plague. More fuel for the “you will own nothing and be happy” camp. Let it die. GeForce Now was at least one of the better options since you just use their servers to play games from your owned library, but the whole concept is a plague nonetheless. Let streaming nonsense die. Streaming from your own PC is the only streaming solution that doesn’t exist to weaken consumer ownership of their gaming experience.
Yeah I have to disagree with you on that one. I understand where you’re coming from but you can game on high end equipment without buying it. Not to mention the situation with heat build-up in my room. Basically sharing the costs with 100 other users.
When my current PC is dead in 5 years or whatever I will probably transition to cloud gaming (and SteamDeck).
you can game on high end equipment without buying it.
This is how they get you to give up ownership of your games. I’m fine with it as an option, but I fear that one day publishers will decide it should be the only option.
You already don’t own your games.
It’s not exactly hard for me to make “backups” of most games I can download, as the DRM is usually cracked within weeks or months of release.
A single player game that is exclusive to streaming would just be gone forever the instant it gets delisted.
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A single player game that is exclusive to streaming would just be gone forever the instant it gets delisted.
I agree with this, but what does it have to do with GeForce Now? They don’t make any games exclusive on this platform… nor do they have rights to many other games that are exclusives. Beyond that, none of the games on GeForce Now are owned by the user because the games are available through Steam or Epic mostly.
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It still has more upsides than your average X as a service. Beyond what the OP already said, it lets you jump right into a game without having to wait for it to download, which is pretty big when games regularly take >100GB of space, even more so if you like to switch between different games often.
If you try a game and decide you don’t like it, you may as well end up using up less bandwidth than if you had downloaded, not to mention zero waiting time (unless there’s a queue, but usually there isn’t assuming that you have an actual paid subscription and it isn’t an absurd peak demand).
We anticipate that this change will reduce average wait times for free users over time.
Sure will.
(Also, TIL that GeForce NOW has a free tier. I assumed it was one of those “pay $10 a month” kinda things even at the lowest level)
Because more players will leave the queue by closing the ads in disgust.
Ha, They just won’t count watching ads as waiting time.
I mean it practically doesn’t. I tried it a few times and the queue was so long that I just gave up. And now they want you to watch ads.
Honestly fair to show ads in the free tier. They could also simply not have a free tier.
I don’t mind this. It’s unreasonable to expect them to provide a free service forever without any kind of monetization.
Fuck NVIDIA for shutting down GameStream. Killing it had no impact on their servers and this was a tactic to coerce customers to subscribe to their streaming service
As Linus Torvalds eloquently put it:
Nvidia, 🖕 Fuck you!
Fuck NVIDIA
Could have just left it there
At least the reverse engineered foss client is better than the original
Yes long life sunshine and moonlight
It’s amazing how scummy and gimmicky Nvidia is and the fact that they are, in fact, a real company with real products.
How is it scammy or gimmicky to put ads on a product you don’t pay for? I guess I’m just missing the disconnect here. This service costs Nvidia money to run.
I’m speaking to Nvidia’s tactics in general. See G-Sync
Is this their cloud gaming service? It was free?
Yes. There are tiers and the free tier is limited to 1 hour play sessions.
It was straight-up free (as in: no tiers, just free) for a long time to early adopters of the Nvidia Shield. I can’t remember when it was introduced but I think it was with the first iteration of Shield TV.
There is a free tier which limits you to 1 hour playtime sessions and does not let you use RTX effects.
and afaik it’s the only one that is actually free
While I have no interest in using a service like this, I understand why they are doing this. I would imagine that a service like this probably costs a lot to run and it looks like they are adding them in a sensible way. It’s not like how a lot of mobile games are where the game just randomly stops in the middle of game-play to show you an ad.
FYI, this is not about free GPUs. “GeForce NOW” is a streaming service.
Headline would’ve been less confusing if it had the service name in quotes or something. I can see how people might read that and assume it means free, ad-supported GPUs. It does not.
Whoops, edited the headline, thanks
People use Nvidia for anything other then a video card and installing drivers without their useless bloat?
I have never once attempted to use them for gaming and never will aside from the hardware. Even then, 1080ti ftw
by allowing you to game on a GeForce PC for free
Are they implying that soon they’re gonna charge you a subscription just to have one of their fuckin’ graphics cards?
No? I really hope this isn’t a serious question, because I can’t imagine how you’d come to this conclusion, if you read the full sentence.
No they’re not
This is about GeForce Now, their streaming service.
giggles in 7900 xtx
I can get a free gforce? And I have to watch ads in exchange? No? So there’s no free users.
