Submitted 2 weeks ago by simple@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
The game streaming service will make almost all of its users pay extra for extended access.
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.
In a few months there won’t be any affordable equipment.
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.
for a few months
I’d love to see what kind of gaming PC you’re going to build with $30.
If they hear you say that they’ll jack up component prices more.
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.
No, no, no. They said save up for a few months. So we’re looking at $75 tops.
5 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.
Aye, this is premium pricing, not necessarily premium quality. The biggest hassle I have with my PC comes from NVidia and their bullshit.
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
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 😅
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.
You’re literally the boiled frog right now and it would be funny to watch if it wasn’t so sad.
Destiny players looking nervous
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah I mean it makes a whole lot of sense if you have the connection to support it, in my opinion.
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!?
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 one week.
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!!!”, sorry. I play the game myself and decide if I want to buy or not.
In other words “Nothing beats having restrictions!!! bdsm cbt ftw!!”
That’s just the game plan for NViDiA
Remember, you’re bor ong their hours from AI data centers, and AI takes precedence. Don’t use this service
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
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.
Just part of the lifecycle of every digital service.
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
First time I heard of this saas
Use Boosteroid instead.
Fuck NVIDIA.
Hey! Thanks for providing another option for me to check out! Appreciate
Then what’s the point
I prefer buying Nvidia stock instead of their offerings
Oh come on! I could get through that in just over four days.
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
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.
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?
Show of hands, how many if you calling nvidia out for their bullshit are running nvidia GPUs?
raises hand
I bought my GPU 6 years ago tho. My steam deck is amd. And my next gou will be amd also.
I’m not sure how close they are and how their familial relationship affects things but the CEOs of both companies are related.
Am I allowed to call them out if I’m running a 1080Ti that I got second hand?
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?
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.
Get a GPU and install moonlight. You can even do gpu passthrough and do it on a VM.
Changes like this are to be expected considering the fact that the average RGB Joe Doe consumer swallows everything while throwing crap at it simultaneously.
Sincerely not a subscriber that swallows everything.
Dojan@pawb.social 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
HetareKing@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I’m not sure I entirely buy that. For cloud gaming to be any good at all, you need a high-speed, low-latency internet connection. Yes, nowadays having an internet connection is pretty much a requirement in the industrialised world and even someone of lesser means will probably have one good enough to watch streaming video at a decent enough quality (unless they live in the middle of nowhere), but that’s not good enough. So with the expensive internet connection and the monthly subscription, cloud gaming doesn’t strike me as a very economical.
We’ve also been living in a period of diminishing returns when it comes to visual fidelity improving as hardware power does for a while now, so you can buy older, more affordable hardware and still have games look great on them. Meanwhile, I don’t think someone who insists on being able to see the surroundings accurately reflected in every window and puddle is going to accept the compression artifacts and latency of cloud gaming.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I agree but we have barely seen anything of what cloud gaming will become. Platforms like Steam will introduce it too. Especially after the Steam Machine is turning out to be such a headache for them because of uncertain hardware prices. This will happen and I am very afraid a lot of users will welcome it with open arms. We could be witnessing the end of home computers right now.
MadameBisaster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Wut? Its a streaming service like Netflix and you own the games…
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
If they can turn off your ability to play the games you don’t own them