Geforce now is for a limited demographic already.
The only people this would affect is those that have the time to hit the 100 cap, and the money to pay for the sub, but either can’t pay for the rig or are using it for remote play. In either case 100 hours a month is plenty, you can buy more and honestly the rate they’re offering is fine considering the maintenance costs likely involved.
I know this is going to be unpopular, but I know people that use it and I genuinely don’t know of anyone actually negatively affected by this. Neither of them have ever managed to hit the 100 hour threshold with gaming as a primary hobby.
Something to think about. GeForce Now isn’t about making it so you can play video games no matter your own hardware. It’s a test bed to show that cloud based hardware rental is a viable and achievable goal for the likes of Micro$oft etc. it’s a proof of concept for those companies to “show” that people would be “happier” renting their hardware than buying personal computers.
Long term goal is to price the average user out of the computer market and have them just buy a dumb terminal to do their computing on. This will also have average income gamers not able to buy a PC and instead be forced to rent one. This was M$ goal about 20 yrs ago, but internet speeds weren’t good enough for the ~30% if the population of the world they care about. These days we are getting much closer to that being a high enough % of people with good enough internet to start pricing people out of their luxury gaming PCs. And eventually grandma is going to be buying a preset Chromeb00k style laptop to connect to a subscription based service so she can check her email.
Been drinking tonight, but this idea has been sticking with me for more than a year, punctuated by the recent Micron public statement.
The anti corpo part of me: That’s utter bullshit!
The middle aged part of me: That’s… 3 hours a day… That much gaming can’t be healthy.
You are at work for usually 8-9 hours a day. Some games require so little attention you can play while at work. Like EVE Online mining could be optimised to only giving a control input a few times an hour. Isk/h would be shit, but it’s not zero.
Sometimes I forget that I’ve left a game open overnight
On Geforce Now as well? Does it not just kick you off if you’ve been inactive for a while? That would at least make sense.
Almost 4 hours if you only count weekdays. In other words, more than poeople should, debatably, have to work to survive.
I lean towards anti-work for the masses, but anyways, if that amount of time should be enough to survive-on; Does anything else, besides, unavoidably, sleep, ANY one thing, deserve that much of your time?
Honestly, I would bet they are having issues meeting demand, or AI demand is high-enough and pays enough to cause a supply issue, what with RAM prices and non-sensical gibberish I won’t bother finding to have a second bit for that “and”, right now. I was surprised to learn the GeForceNOW rates are still the-same-as-or-better than when I last looked-into it, a few years-ago.
EDIT: Math, verbiage to adjust to corrected figures, and another paragraph or two, Sorry.
I’m gonna need to see that math
4 weeks and change gets … well fuck, I messed-up by a factor-of-two somewhere.
Some people have jobs that involve gaming for more than 3 hours. This is going to actively affect how some people work.
Fuck Nvidia and fuck Ai
Those people don’t stream their gaming sessions from remote servers. They have their own gaming PCs.
That or a second-subscription would be worth-it to them. Still five years to equal the cost of a high-end gaming rig.
Sub is tied to an account that needs to own the games. There might be a way around to trick it, but I’d be surprised if you didn’t need to buy the games twice with that method. You can extend the amount by 15 hours for $3 or $6 based on performance requirements.
There’s an emoji for this: 🤑
Is that it? What is even the point then.
