The game streaming service will make almost all of its users pay extra for extended access.
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?
First they came for your music. Then they came for your movies. They came for your Games. Now they want your computers.
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.
for a few months
I’d love to see what kind of gaming PC you’re going to build with $30.
looks like it can run crysis
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.
Let’s be generous and say $100. That’s 6 months with the most expensive tier.
That should be plenty to get a gaming PC capable of playing latest AAA titles in 4k 60 fps and high settings.
It’s one computer, Michael. What could it cost, 10 dollars?
In a few months there won’t be any affordable equipment.
Pirate 🦜🦜 time
…Pirate hardware?
That was the OG way of piracy. Except the hardware was, like, rum, sugar, and cannons. 🤷♂️
“Yeah, we’re gonna do this new fangled form of piracy. It’s like the old way, but without the boats and parrots and stuff. We’re just stealing stuff now.”
Why can’t we have boats and parrots? 😕
Unfortunately they also come with scurvy 😔
Finally, a programmer that actually knows what he is talking about… PirateHardware…
Pretty hard to pirate RAM. Sadly all the wam you can download is DDR3
Just download some RAM.
cough read the full comment cough
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.
The machine and frame are expected to be 1,500+ dude….
And for the price of the deck, you can get a console that does 4k/240, the deck is great, but it’s no high performance gaming machine, it’s purely portable and has its limitations.
What console does 4k/240hz?? Even PS5 Pro can’t do 4k/60fps in most games, and usually it’s at lower graphics settings too, Digital Foundry does pixel counting and frame rate tests
Sorry meant 4k/120, which the ps5 does natively, doesn’t need to be pro.
And there’s a host of games that are 4k/120, sorry to burst your reality bubble, consoles hit heavy now.
And if you want to talk down sampling, the deck does it worse.
The deck is weak yeah, much weaker, so there’s no need to embellish. PS5 runs plenty of games even below 1080p/60fps. Output is rarely the same as the actual rendering resolution.
You can’t just look at the output resolution, otherwise that makes the PS5 and PS5 Pro equivalent in most games, which obviously doesn’t make sense. You need to analyze the internal resolution, image quality, average frame rate instead of peak frame rate, graphics settings, etc
I’m not arguing against your point of the Deck being poor value if you just want to plug it into a TV and let it sit there.
Do you not know what the term “native” means?
Not all games use the checkerboard upsampling. If they do, they can’t be called “NATIVE” 4k.
I’m not looking at the output resolution, I’ve educated myself on what the console is capable of.
You haven’t.
I don’t think it will pop. I think it will continue to gobble up components for the next 5 years.
I think it will pop. But oh no! Now what do we do with all these data centers equipped with endless GPU power and RAM that we are building? Oh, I know! Cloud gaming! In fact let‘s buy up even more GPUs and RAM then rent the computing power to companies Epic Games, Valve, Apple, Nvidia. Look! Microsoft is already adding it to Gamepass+++! And what‘s that? Is that Google Stadia with a steel chair?! Better be quick folks!
This is the future of mainstream gaming. I wish I was being sarcastic. It will be horrible.
It has to eventually, right? It’s just straight up not sustainable, especially in its current form. But I do think the hype will carry things along for a little bit. No doubt things are gonna be ugly in the meantime
I big game machine that gives money to rich people isn’t going to break until there literally isn’t any more money left.
Take a look at countries with people starving in the streets while rich people live in gated compounds. Still think it “has to pop”?
I mean “eventually” yes but for the foreseeable future Trump could continue dumping your and my money into it indefinitely in the name of “national security”.
Yeah you’re not wrong. The AI market only exists in its current state because it’s heavily subsidized, and that very well may continue to be the case for at least the time being
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.
I’d think the main users of GeForce now are people who don’t play games that much and won’t spend that much money on gaming hardware.
I imagine hardcore gamers will not tolerate the input lag. When I think hardcore gamer, I think high-end PC with high refresh display
Theres an afk timeout, so that should only result in loosing a few minutes of playtime
Oh come on! I could get through that in just over four days.
I prefer buying Nvidia stock instead of their offerings
Next up is rentable GPUs with a subscription. You’ll eventually own nothing
I mean, that exists. Just not for gaming specifically
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.
Get a GPU and install moonlight. You can even do gpu passthrough and do it on a VM.
Then what’s the point
Just part of the lifecycle of every digital service.
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
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.
I wish I could hit 100 hours of playtime a month.
Still cheaper than buying a gaming PC by far.
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
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 😅
Aye, same. Should hope you’re getting more than 100 hours of sleep!
Second highest is work. Boo.
Have you considered local 2 player games?
Use Boosteroid instead.
Fuck NVIDIA.
