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Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month
Submitted 10 hours ago by simple@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
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chocrates@piefed.world 21 minutes ago
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 47 minutes ago
First they came for your music. Then they came for your movies. They came for your Games. Now they want your computers.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
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.
Dojan@pawb.social 10 hours ago
Don’t pay for this shit. It’s another case of “you’ll own nothing and stop fucking complaining, peasant.”
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
This is one of those situations where you’re correct, but also being poopy about it. For people who don’t regularly play games or can’t afford a system, this is basically a modern blockbuster.
Dojan@pawb.social 3 hours ago
Yeah, I’ll own that.
The reason people can’t afford a system is because NVidia is screwing with the market in the name of AI. Before that they were doing the same in the name of crypto. They’re one of the big companies manipulating politics in their favour, against the better interest of the general populace. They’re standing alongside the companies that are pushing for mass-surveillance, they’re pushing for people to lose their jobs, and for all the other nefarious ways AI is being applied.
But at least we can ignore our culpability and blame a computer when it decides to bomb a bus of brown school kids on the other side of the planet now, I guess.
MadameBisaster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
Wut? Its a streaming service like Netflix and you own the games…
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
If they can turn off your ability to play the games you don’t own them
BetaBlake@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Next up is rentable GPUs with a subscription. You’ll eventually own nothing
Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 hours ago
Just save what you would spend on subscribing to tbis dumb shit for a few months and build your own machine so you don’t have to throw money away on a subscription service.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
In a few months there won’t be any affordable equipment.
FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
There is the Steamdeck OLED still, Steam Machine and Steamframes on the way early 2026. Also there is enough used machines in the second hand marketplace to tide everyone else over until the AI bubble pops.
theterrasque@infosec.pub 2 hours ago
I paid $200 for ultimate for a year and got borderlands 4 included in it.
You’d be challenged to build a decent gaming PC for 3 times that.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
No, no, no. They said save up for a few months. So we’re looking at $75 tops.
artyom@piefed.social 8 hours ago
for a few months
I’d love to see what kind of gaming PC you’re going to build with $30.
etchinghillside@reddthat.com 10 hours ago
If they hear you say that they’ll jack up component prices more.
IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
5 trillion dollar company btw.
arin@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The dollars come from charging us extra. Nvidia has been well known in the early days being premium compared to AMD graphics.
Dojan@pawb.social 3 hours ago
Aye, this is premium pricing, not necessarily premium quality. The biggest hassle I have with my PC comes from NVidia and their bullshit.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 7 hours ago
Watch just tells you how greedy and miserly they are.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I wish I could hit 100 hours of playtime a month.
Still cheaper than buying a gaming PC by far.
ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Got kids?
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
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 😅
placebo@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Yep. All this outrage, but 100 is a lot of time. I’d consider it if the picture quality wasn’t terribly bad in my region.
Don_alForno@feddit.org 4 hours ago
You’re literally the boiled frog right now and it would be funny to watch if it wasn’t so sad.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Destiny players looking nervous
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
That’s better than what I heard earlier. The article o read the other day made it sound like it would buy the next block of 15 hours
Holyginz@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
100h is fucking nothing. Such a waste of money
ThoGot@feddit.org 4 hours ago
I don’t know if you’re joking or not. That’s 3h 20 min per day spent on gaming lol
Signtist@bookwyr.me 2 hours ago
I know a lot of people who would consider 3 hours of gaming a day to be plenty, and I know a lot of people who buy Nvidia products. They are not the same people.
simple@piefed.social 10 hours ago
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.
BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 10 hours ago
Its 3h per day. Enough for moderate user, but if you share with a family or just a hardcore gamer, you'll run out
Prox@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
The Venn diagram of moderate users and GeForce subscribers has an overlap that’s about 2mm wide.
MadameBisaster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
Theres an afk timeout, so that should only result in loosing a few minutes of playtime
artyom@piefed.social 10 hours ago
That’s. 3.33 hours/day. That’s a whole lot of playtime…
Valmond@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
For now…
“It’s twice the price now, or the same price for 55h”
Eheran@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Wasn’t it 50 h before? So now 2x as much? No need to be anti someone based on prejudice alone.
RabbitMix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
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.
Elextra@literature.cafe 10 hours ago
Yeah I do this because I don’t want to spend $$$ upgrading my rig and I don’t have as much free time to justify hardware costs.
artyom@piefed.social 9 hours ago
Yeah I mean it makes a whole lot of sense if you have the connection to support it, in my opinion.
Evotech@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Maybe for dad gamers
artyom@piefed.social 9 hours ago
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!?
SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I hit 112 hours in Black Ops 7 in one week.
Genuinely eat shit, Nvidia.
turkalino@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
If that’s the game you choose to dump your time into, maybe you should be given a limit…^/s^
SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I don’t listen to influencers who make their entire damn money out of yelling at people “QUIT HAVING FUN!!!”, sorry. I play the game myself and decide if I want to buy or not.
arin@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
In other words “Nothing beats having restrictions!!! bdsm cbt ftw!!”
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 hours ago
Remember, you’re bor ong their hours from AI data centers, and AI takes precedence. Don’t use this service
Zahille7@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
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.
breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
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.
Prox@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Game Pass also lets you do this via cloud play.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
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.
MadameBisaster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
Yeah its for casual gamers, you can play on phone, iPad, mac etc comfortably
eli@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
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.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
Oh come on! I could get through that in just over four days.
Enzy@feddit.nu 8 hours ago
Use Boosteroid instead.
Fuck NVIDIA.
Elextra@literature.cafe 3 hours ago
Hey! Thanks for providing another option for me to check out! Appreciate
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
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
silver_wings_of_morning@feddit.dk 9 hours ago
Then what’s the point
the_q@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
Show of hands, how many if you calling nvidia out for their bullshit are running nvidia GPUs?
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
raises hand
I bought my GPU 6 years ago tho. My steam deck is amd. And my next gou will be amd also.
Elextra@literature.cafe 3 hours ago
I’m not sure how close they are and how their familial relationship affects things but the CEOs of both companies are related.
hank_the_tank66@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Am I allowed to call them out if I’m running a 1080Ti that I got second hand?
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
EVGA 1080Ti owner here. Definitely not happy with the way NVidia has been acting for a while.
The loss of EVGA GPUs was already tragic enough because of NVidia. Now this?
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
I’m not calling them out for their bullshit, but my GPUs are onboard M2 and M2 Pro Apple Silicon chips. I’m a Mac user. I think my Xbox Series X uses an AMD GPU. I didn’t choose it. My Switch has CPU/GPU technology by Nvidia. The original Switch was just a modded Nvidia Shield tablet and it originally ran Android (before it was released, I mean, the prototype did). Or it was rumoured to. I forget. My last Windows computer used an AMD GPU.
So as a Mac user, I’m actually a good candidate for GeForce Now. Mac guys tend to hate it because it’s not taking advantage of the actual Apple chip, but if you’re a gamer, you game where you can, how you can, when you can.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
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.
Damage@feddit.it 8 hours ago
IIRC it used to be 50 hours. Most people don’t hit that.
Adding this limit doesn’t make sense then. Why anger your customers for minimum benefit?
DoctorPress@lemmy.zip 28 minutes ago
theory: they limit players’ access to gpu so nvidia can sell them to ai companies.