Nvidia GeForce Now faces backlash and cancelations from fans as new playtime limit announced

Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service faces backlash following an announcement that limits playtime to 100 hours per month.

[OtterX]

One thing you never do with gamers is give them play limits. That'll never go over well!

[thorstein]

If they limited it to 750 hours a month, they'd still complain.

[thorstein]

Most months have 740 hours... way to go N4G!

[JL2930]

Why are you sensitive over a arrow next to a comment?

[thorstein]

@JL Sensitive? Me making fun of gamers who a) complain about anything and b) couldn't figure out that 750 hours a month wouldn't be a limitation is hilarious. And calling them out is even funnier. Just like how angry you are because I pointed that out.

Now I get to laugh at you... you fell for it to, didn't you?

[DodoDojo]

No genius, you're getting down votes for seemingly defending crappy practices. As if complaining about a 100 hour limit is unreasonable.

[S2Killinit]

I people unliked your comment because it sounds like you are blaming them for being too entitled for not wanting time limitation.

[gunfan]

This is perfect. So many triggered by this. 750 a month is no enough. If this ever happens I only hope the unused time especially in February rollover.

[Amplitude]

You do kind of need limits on streaming, though. You're temporarily renting a PC to play your games on and using pretty massive amounts of data. You cant really just leave that run 24/7

Not saying NVidia made the right move here by attacking literally all of the top GeForce Now users, but they definitely made an absurdly generous move by *not* having limits prior to this. Anyway, this is just another reason why streaming can never be the future for games. GeForce Now is by far the best as far as bit rate, resolution, hardware (4080), price, and response rate (heck, its not like they even sell you games. You connect it right to Steam and stream the supported games you already own) - but even GeForce Now is completely awful compared to a local install.

[Profchaos]

If you're offering a subscription service you really need your infrastructure scalable

[jwillj2k4]

That’s the whole point of the subscription, smart guy. I’m paying for that rental already. Raise the price up if you need to, but don’t tell me how much time I get to play I’m not a child.

[Amplitude]

You're not paying for a rental, jwill. You're thinking of any other streaming service.

GeForce Now connects directly to your Steam, Epic, Blizzard etc accounts and let's you play the games you bought on those stores, but streaming remotely from a PC with a 4080.

The 20 bucks per month can't possibly let you stream 24/7 365 days per year. That would be an absurd business for NVidia.

[jwillj2k4]

You said absolutely nothing to help your argument. As I’ve stated before, they should raise their prices if it’s not sustainable. The tech for how it works doesn’t matter. I am paying to play don’t limit how much time I have just increase the cost to cover it. Keep in mind all of this Is for bleeding edge of people who have this kind of expendable income.

What’s the more acceptable message to a user of this caliber?

“Due to unforeseen cost, we are going to limit how much you can game even though you’re renting”
or
“Due to unforeseen cost, we’re going to need to increase the cost of the service to ensure you can game as much as you want”

[Eonjay]

Nvidia claims the 100-hour monthly playtime “accommodates 94% of members”

Gotta love the PR speak. How do adding restrictions accomidate anyone?

[DarXyde]

Sounds like these people need PS5s.

.....Where play has no limits 😎

[OtterX]

Ooohh!! 😎😎

((nicely played!))

[badz149]

Sony needs to be on this quick!

[Rynxie]

As long as you cough up $80+ a year and settle for only having two preset customization options for you games. .

[lelo2play]

If I want to play 25 hours a day, nobody can stop me...

[gold_drake]

the fuck?

ill decide how long im going to play, not them., especially if i have to pay for it

[thorstein]

"If you want to play more then you'll have to pay more." -Nvidia suit probably.

[Amplitude]

GeForce Now actually has a completely free tier that lets you play for an hour. There's no time limit between sessions either, so you can just immediately boot back into the game every hour.
NVidia is hardly money-starved. This had to have been a big enough financial loss that they decided to take the L.

[Relientk77]

That's so stupid. They thought gamers would be ok with this? Lol

[QuantumMechanic]

Here comes the inevitable slow squeeze. The managers of these game-streaming services are drooling over the prospect of a return to arcade-like monetization: pay per unit-time; no end-user physical ownership!

[MeteorPanda]

An arcade where you bring your own games lol

[Gamingsince1981]

You don't even own the games though

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

Let’s see how long it takes them to reverse this terrible decision.

[DaniMacYo]

What?!? Who’s the psychopath who thought this was a great idea? This feels like a terrible April Fools joke. Absolutely ludicrous. My mind is blown. Wow.

[rippermcrip]

Low likelihood that anyone responding here actually uses the service, let alone uses it that much. Whiney gamers as usual.

6% of theirs users would be affected by this.

[TheNamelessOne]

You're right. Gamers should expect less and less every year.

[rippermcrip]

Come on, let's see your average playtime. I'll be waiting.

[Sgt_Slaughter]

It never fails when there's someone complaining about the people not happy with a bad decision. Shills, man. It's sad.

[goken]

Wow the audacity… Nvidia needs some competition

[Inverno]

Pay for a service then be told how long you can use it. Doesn't matter if it'll only affect 6% of subscribers. They want you to pay extra for going over, and that's the issue right now with all these services. Give them enough time and they'll start including ads in the top tier and force you to pay an extra 5 bucks to remove them. People really need to stop paying for pointless subs, realize that you probably don't even wanna play half the games they include in the service. Just wait around for sales and buy to own. These things are no longer a convenience. Better yet see how you can improve your upload speeds. Remote play is available on Steam, PS, Xbox even. Just stream your own games to your own devices.

[derek]

3 trillion dollar company no longer cares and/or listens to one of their most insignificant customer bases. I'm shocked.

[TheColbertinator]

Leave it to Nvidia to destroy their own best idea

[ravens52]

All digital still looking good to you folks? What's it gonna take?

[Jingsing]

Been saying this or ages, people think they are safe with digital downloads. Your digital library can be changed to a streaming library at the drop of a hat and you have no say. Physical media is last defence against industry madness. People need to wake up and buy physical media.

[Jingsing]

Waiting to see Microsoft looking at this and thinking how can be one up NVIDIA in further destroying gaming.

[Gamingsince1981]

Ms has done a pretty good job at ruining a lot of gaming, along with their xbox brand, so I wouldn't be shocked if they did this kinda thing next. Maybe they will add a new thing to the game pass tiers so you can only dl a certain amount of games a month or pay more to get a bigger limit.

[Eonjay]

While true, their stream service is not even close to Nvidias so they would be wise to resist the urge to eff consumers over.

[isarai]

A sneek peak at That all digital future

[127maXimus]

If anyone over the age of 18 is playing games more than 100 hours a month you really should have your head examined.

[Profchaos]

It starts here at 100 hours then in six months time it's 80 a year after that it's 40 and before you know it you're paying for the subscription plus hour increments.

The digital cloud future is coming.

NVIDIA and ms are playing the long game with streaming eventually they would like us to abandon local hardware and this is a clear glimpse of what's to come if we do

[iEatNapkinz]

"This change will only affect 6% of GFN subscribers"

....so what you're saying is the other 94% didn't even use 100 hours a month on average, yet you still put the limits because 6% of users did? I'm not understanding this logic

[anast]

They should keep this policy. People will still buy the product and complain. Nothing lost here.

[Obscure_Observer]

Good. More Gamepass subscribers.

[PRIMORDUS]

I don't use this shit but man, what greedy sons of bitches Nvidia are. "Nvidia's net worth is $3.572 trillion" You tell me what's wrong with that picture. Pretty disgusting. It's people like that at Nvidia who actually deserve cancer.

[LostPotato]

Unchecked capitalism as enough is never enough. They'll always find a way to raise revenue.

[Furesis]

i wonder why they did that since most people will never play that much in one month anyways so it makes me think this is just the start and eventually it'll be like "30 hours a month unless u pay extra" etc.
we'll i don't care anyways since i don't use cloud gaming

[mastershredder]

I’ll just have to limit their pay time to = 0.00

[Pyrofire95]

While this does not bode well for this horrible streaming only future, I do wonder how many hours the average GeForce Now player plays per month.

[PrecursorOrb]

You will own nothing and be happy

[LostPotato]

Reminds me of Comcast when they limited their internet with caps and claimed most users didn't use 250 GB a month.

Then raised the cap and still charged users more for unlimited use.

[CrimsonWing69]

That is ridiculous and I can’t fathom how you’d even think this was going to be accepted, especially if you look at gaming metrics.

[darksky]

NGreedia always trying to squeeze out more cash from thier customers. I thought the playtime limit was an early April Fools joke at first. What a farce.

[S2Killinit]

Lmao welcome to the service world everybody. How long have I been warning you about this?

[Lexreborn2]

Lmfao wasn’t there an article about how this is such a better option the buying a ps5 pro?lol

[Trilithon]

In reality its pay per second compute. Many people probably game less than 3.33 hours a day or 100 hours a month which means nvdia is earning more money from that group. The residual hours could potentially be allocated to the much smaller group that does game over the 100 hour mark.