NVIDIA GeForce Now Gimps Game Streaming With New Monetization, Monthly Play Time Caps

[LittleBro]

When one plays Starcraft 2 league and has free account, will the game pause for all because the dude gets to view the ad?

 

[StimpsonJCat]

If you don't get nGreedias message that they hate you, then you're a lost cause. Just wait for the 50x0 pricing with their barely usable memory amounts.

(The PS5 Pro just changed the game by now having an additional 2GB of system memory (separate to the GDDR pool), for the system to reside in, thus freeing up additional texture memory for games, with the hard limit that Sony imposed increased to 14GB for texture and game data... So a 16GB card really will be the lowest limit for upcoming games, surpassing the previous lowest limit of a 12GB card minimum)

 

[lexluthermiester]

nGreedias

That really says more about you than it does them. And only you can fix that.

 

[StimpsonJCat]

That really says more about you than it does them. And only you can fix that.

Whatever, my opinion counts just as much as yours.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Whatever, my opinion counts just as much as yours.

Maybe. The difference is that I'm not resorting to silly, and pedantic, name calling.

 

[Calmmo]

It's part of their rebranding, GeForce never.

 

[StimpsonJCat]

Maybe. The difference is that I'm not resorting to silly, and pedantic, name calling.

No, but childish insults to other forum users because they do not paste a link to Nasdaq when they address your favourite corporation obviously is not below you.

Please don't waste my time and just mute or block me, ok old man?

 

[lexluthermiester]

No, but childish insults to other forum users because they do not paste a link to Nasdaq when they address your favourite corporation obviously is not below you.

Please don't waste my time and just mute or block me, ok old man?

You haven't been paying attention. I'm not defending NVidia in this thread, or about their garbage service. Reading comprehension is important and you failed there. What I'm calling YOU out on is the sophomoric name-calling, first at them and then at me. It's very silly.

 

[Dr. Dro]

I dunno, I got points for a whole lot less last Monday, let's break this one off folks

This service just doesn't cater to the needs of people such as us, I suppose.

 

[lexluthermiester]

This service just doesn't cater to the needs of people such as us, I suppose.

What I want to know is who it would cater to? People on the go? People who can't afford a PC? I can't imagine a situation where this kind of service is more appealing and better than the real thing..

 

[Dr. Dro]

What I want to know is who it would cater to? People on the go? People who can't afford a PC? I can't imagine a situation where this kind of service is more appealing and better than the real thing..

Primarily people who can't afford a gaming PC or a current-gen console. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate's cloud service can also be used to play Xbox Series games on an Xbox One, for example, since the console is just the terminal receiving the video stream. Game renders on the cloud server, which means there are next to no compute requirements on the player's side.

GeForce Now or Abya Go (both operated by the same brand), Amazon Luna, xCloud (and the late Google Stadia) can be run off your smart TV, phone or anywhere that can receive and decode a video stream, really. The primary issue is bandwidth (and even at perfect networking conditions, it's a 4:2:0, usually no more than 15 Mbps video stream - so quality suffers), ping and data usage.

 

[tpuuser256]

This is the future of PC gaming and it's already locked in.

There will always be outliers !

 

[Kapone33]

No, you're still in a service model with a gatekeeper function, you have and own nothing, and you never will. If MS chooses to monitor and limit playtime you're fucked just the same. They'll just not allow you to get updates, or whatever.

Don't fool yourself. Cloud is always a clusterfuck - even Steam isn't entirely 'safe', it just has the neat quality not costing a monthly fee.

This is spot on and you mean when. You see I disabled All Cloud services. I know you know this but all cloud is, is your data sitting on someone else's hard drive. Including and especially 1 drive. I have 2 Outlook emails and if I only had my one PC I would have had to have paid MS a monthly service to have the other Email function properly. The kicker was that when I reset Windows it first told me that my email was too large. Then it told me that I had 5.1 GB of messages in my 1Drive. Let's keep in mind that I disabled it. I do not use Game Pass as I think it is detrimental to the PC Gaming space with some Games getting super low Day 1 sales as most people will play it on Game Pass. Another reason I don't use Game Pass is because it is another service that reminds you that you don't own anything. I own Forza 7 and MS wanted me to redownload the Game files even though they already existed. I also like to adjust the Settings text file in the Game folders but with Game Pass you have no right to that folder. Even on Games you "own" through MS.


Steam and GOG have turned out to be the best as most of the Games I play on Steam can be played Offline. GOG is an ode to the roots of PC Gaming. I am sure some of us still have Physical Copies of our Games (I know I do) and the flexibility of GOG is highly refreshing. I remember wanting to see how Witcher 3 would work on my HTPC. I copied the Game to a USB drive and used that and the Game loaded up just fine. The performance was not good but the fact that anyone could use that USB drive and play Witcher 3 is very refreshing.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Surprised it's still alive to be honest, seeing every other game streaming platform died swiftly.

I played Destiny 2 on Stadia for a while, but never to the point of dumping money into it. I just questioned the concept, even though it worked okay probably 95% of the time. Just feels like any of these could be shuttered tomorrow.

You haven't been paying attention. I'm not defending NVidia in this thread, or about their garbage service. Reading comprehension is important and you failed there. What I'm calling YOU out on is the sophomoric name-calling, first at them and then at me. It's very silly.

As someone who buys Apple stuff occasionally, I’ve been called worse here. Never directly to my face, of course, but rather by being lumped in with all Apple customers. Because, you know, we’re all the same brainless stereotype. It’s so ridiculous, TBH. It’s never enough to not buy a product or judge it on its merits. Nope, we must also attack the buyer. Like none of us have ever spent any of our money on anything another might find questionable.

 

[mechtech]

That's it?!?!?!

They should charge 10x that. Nvidia owners will pay it

 

[lexluthermiester]

This is the future of PC gaming and it's already locked in.

There will always be outliers !

They were joking. That statement is not to be taken seriously.

 

[b1k3rdude]

So a crappy service gets crappier? What.. a.. shocker..

Indeed. I have the popcorn ready for when this 'service' falls on its face.

 

[RayneYoruka]

Its how lots of video streaming services started.

And they are doing well today! /s

Thats only just above 3 hours a day. That's completely doable for most adults nowadays.

This, people who work a 9 to 5 will want to relax playing something fun or watching something they enjoy, aside from preparing food (if that) there is plenty of playing time till sleep is due

 

[DaemonForce]

seriously, who has time to play video games for 100+ hours a month

It averages out to ~3hrs per day and for the working dude that's fine.
For the weekend warrior that plugs into COD for 8-10hrs it's roughly 20hrs/wk.
The streamer that keeps pushing for this and that commits to around 4-8hrs/day.
So the streamers might have a problem. The rest, probably not.
I used to daily VR stuff for 6-12hr days, averaging 2000hrs/yr for 4 years in one game with over 15K total hrs in SteamVR.
I'm not worried about this monetization thing since I'm team red but it really does make me think about making something out of all of this to make some serious $$$$$.

 

[A&P211]

And they are doing well today! /s


This, people who work a 9 to 5 will want to relax playing something fun or watching something they enjoy, aside from preparing food (if that) there is plenty of playing time till sleep is due

Doing so great that they cancel shows after 2 seasons.

 

[StimpsonJCat]

Doing so great that they cancel shows after 2 seasons.

Or one!

 

[Ruru]

It's hella worrying that the "you will own nothing" is going to be more and more a realistic thing.

 

[lexluthermiester]

It's hella worrying that the "you will own nothing" is going to be more and more a realistic thing.

Not if we all fight it by NOT buying into it.

 

[RayneYoruka]

Doing so great that they cancel shows after 2 seasons.

Facts xD

Not if we all fight it by NOT buying into it.

It's hella worrying that the "you will own nothing" is going to be more and more a realistic thing.

Remember kids.. If you can't own physical media there is only one and rightful thing to do