Nvidia director Andrew Fear recently addressed the 100-hour monthly playtime limit introduced for GeForce Now’s paid Performance and Ultimate tiers.
Fear explained the reasoning: “We understand everyone’s concern and that everyone is upset about it, but we’re trying to find a way to make sure that the people who are abusing our service are not taking away capacity from everyone. That’s the first principle.”
On potential improvements, he responded positively to suggestions for a true unlocked tier with no monthly cap:
“They’ve even asked us about offering an unlocked tier plan. Yeah, we’re thinking about it. We’re thinking about other options.
We haven’t announced new things yet, but we’re definitely looking at new ideas for plans and ways to let people get additional playtime. One could be a family plan.”
Current tiers include Free (1-hour sessions, lower priority), Performance (6-hour sessions), and Ultimate (8-hour sessions with RTX 5080-class servers and highest priority).
@Pirat_Nation It seems silly, but if anyone ever manages to replicate Fortnite or League of Legends again they are set for a decade at least without having to make any more games.
All these big publishers seem to think the gamble is worth the sunk cost.
Hollywood didn't care about buffering when they phased out the DVD.
iTunes didn't care about audio quality when they replaced analog.
Nvidia won't care about your latency when they can charge $25 a month for a "Pro" subscription to fix it.
@Grummz PC gaming will soon transition to neural rendering done entirely in data centers.
Games will be rendered real time and streamed to you.
This may be the last generation of hobbyist PCs with high-end GPUs.
PC gaming will soon transition to neural rendering done entirely in data centers.
Games will be rendered real time and streamed to you.
This may be the last generation of hobbyist PCs with high-end GPUs.
NVIDIA has removed "gaming revenue" from their financial reports.
It's now a footnote in their "Edge Computing" section of their filings. Datacenters are the bulk of the report.
It's so over, boys.