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- pcgaming@lemmy.ca
NVIDIA has announced that starting January 1, 2026, each GeForce NOW cloud gaming subscription will be limited to 100 hours of play time per month. The company is implementing its long-lasting promise revealed in 2024, with the option for users to purchase additional play time as needed. Under the standard Performance tier, which costs $9.99 per month, after the 100-hour play time is reached, users can buy extra 15-hour blocks for $2.99 each. For the Ultimate tier, priced at $19.99 per month, additional 15-hour blocks are available for $5.99 each.
Since months are averaged to about 30.437 days, any play time exceeding the 100-hour limit is rounded up to the next 15-hour block, potentially leading to extra charge if someone wants more play time. For instance, playing around three hours per day (approximately 91 hours per month) remains within the base fee, but playing four hours daily (about 122 hours per month) results in extra costs of approximately $15.97 on the Performance tier or $31.97 on the Ultimate tier.
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100hours is quite a bit but also fuck Nvidia.
Yea… 100 hours a month of your life consuming 1 form of media is… a lot.
I can’t imagine this will make Nvidia much money at all. The vast, vast majority of people aren’t playing more than 100 hours of videogames a month but having a tagline that you can play as much as you want is a very attractive offer to a consumer, at least to me.
100hours is quite a bit
10hrs for 10 days… oops busted…
Oh dear… I was in hospital a few weeks ago and I’ve been recovering at home. In the last two weeks I’ve manly played three games: 64 hours in the first, 50 hours in the second, and 10 hours in the third (that one was all in one day)
I’d never use a thing like GeForce Now either way, but I’d be boned hahaha
How good is hospital recovery?
Sure, there’s some cons, but you basically get a free card to game relentlessly, undisturbed, and guilt-free. Tragically, you eventually heal up and have to go back to being a normie.
Oh my gawd it’s best thing. Hospital was insane but very interesting and by the time I got home I was feeling pretty awesome… my boss told me to not think about work and that he set me up for a leave of absence I still get paid for with HR. I’m treasuring every day.
Dunno, still pretty cheap for so much entertainment
Yeah that was basically my thought too. I probably do less than a quarter of that on average, but that’s not really the point. I should be allowed as much time as I want. Not that I use a Nvidia subscription anyway, but still. This makes me mad on behalf of other people.
memory prices up, parasites come to feed
The timing is impeccable isn’t it?
Forgive my ignorance, but does this mean that my gforce card performance will be degraded if I don’t pay for this subscription? Why would I want to use this cloud gaming to play games I already own?
No, not if you own your own card/gaming pc. This is about their cloud gaming service where the game is run on their servers and streamed to you.
Okay, thanks.
Have you ever tried it? It sounds like a ping nightmare, especially for multiplayer. You gotta wait first for the game server lag and then again while you wait for Nvidia to remotely render your draw call?
I know this service exists but it has always sounded absolutely terrible to me.
Never tried it and don’t really want to! Been thinking the same as you. Seems like a privacy nightmare too.
Would be cool to stream my entire pc in-home though so I could get rid of all fan sounds by putting it in a closet or something, but haven’t been something I’ve prioritised to experiment with.
The latency is way better than you’d expect, but still noticeably worse than local. I think if you’ve got a decent connection and Nvidia has a server nearby it’s about the same as 1 extra frame of lag (or playing on a TV without game mode…)
Because some people have digital libraries but no hardware to run them on.
At the very least, this is a loss in gaming accessibility by cost since a month of GeForce Now used to be a decent gaming backup for when mygaming system was down (had to RMA GPU) or a friend wanted to test the PC gaming waters.
That makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.
HA!
Oh look a pricey solution to an issue they made, who would have seen it coming?
Some of the comments on this story sound really addicted to PC gaming.
I long for the weekends where we spend all waking hours gaming on the C64
Yea even if you’re literally landlocked to Nvidia and have no other platforms / interests, I still don’t get how 3 hours a day would be a problem.
Smart timing though with the kids on winter break. They’re for sure getting that extra charge this month lol.
So, let’s do some breakdown. Let’s say 365.25 days per year. Divide by 12, that’s 30.4375 days per month. 100 hours per month is 3.29 hours per day. That’s almost 23 hours per week.
A reasonable person working 8-5 might get 2 hours of recreation per day during the week. That takes up 2 hours per day, 5 days a week for 10 hours during the week. That leaves 13 hours on the weekend, or 6.5 hours per day.
Realistically, that’s a reasonable amount of time to play video games. On the other hand, fuck these arbitrary restrictions, play games locally.
6.5 hours per day every weekend does not seem reasonable or healthy to me.
Hell, if someone was exercising that much or fishing or knitting or any hobby, it wouldn’t seem healthy. Once in a while, sure. But, not every weekend.
There’s a lot of unhappy gamers downvoting us.
Only 2 hours of recreation a day seems like a terrible time to me, unless you have kids, in which case I get that’s how it is when they’re small.
I spend like 1 hour in the morning to get ready and travel to work, then about the same to get home and have dinner. Let’s say 1 hour for chores every day (though even if I do both laundry and cleaning the same day it won’t take that long, and I don’t do those every day.) That leaves me with at least 5 hours a day for recreation.
But weekends are 14 hours of recreation per day, not 6.5 surely? 8 hours sleep + 2 hours for some extra time to cook good food etc. and we already did most chores during the week.
I sometimes spend a weekend gaming, but most of the time many of those hours are spent on a variety of things like visiting family, sports, crafts, going downtown etc. because I like a lot of different recreation. But yeah, we can certainly agree on fuck arbitrary restrictions, and everyone should be able to own their own things. Would just be very interested to know where you are coming from with those numbers.
I can only imagine you might be in the US and a lot of it is driving? That seems to suck, I would hate to drive for hours every day :(
So you, with a family and spouse can just plop your ass in front of a computer for 14 hours in Saturday and Sunday every week without any repercussions? AND play 5 hours every day on top of that?
Teach me your ways.
I don’t have a spouse, no. But in this subthread we were discussing time available for recreation in general, and I personally definitely count spending time with family as recreation.
And yes, If I’m not visiting family I do have time to sit in front of a computer for 14 hours on a Saturday, or paint, or go for a full-day biking trip, or anything else I want to do :) Why wouldn’t I?
What I think some people do is take on responsibilities that they they think they “should” have, but not really appreciate the rewards of. Like cleaning their house every other day, or getting a pet, or a pool they don’t want to clean and barely use, or a too big garden they don’t really enjoy caring for. All those things will be worth it for some, but a burden for many others…
But that’s why I’m asking, I want to verify if this is true or what else other people do when they say they don’t have time to have fun and relax.
Your definition of “reasonable” is way low I think. Especially with a lot of people working from home so their time isn’t eaten up by driving anymore. I do not know a single gamer who doesn’t consistently put in over 3 hours a day average. More broadly most people I know put that much time into their hobbies (many with kids).
If you only get 2 hours of recreation a day then your life fucking sucks or you have shit time management skills.
God I would hate my life if I only had 2 hours of me time a day.
You sound like someone whose kids go no contact after they move out 👍🏻
ew! what about families/households with shared computers? what about gametesters, whose job is to play games and find bugs or streamers or game devs? this is absurd! fuck nvidia!
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What a way to basically double prices for users that actually use the service as it was promoted…
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You’re a fucking moron if you buy Nvidia at this point and you deserve everything you lose because of it.
Ngreedia
YOU VILL OWN NOTHING, GOY!!
You will own nothing but you will pay for it forever.
Yup, and you won’t be able to build your own PC because the same assholes pulling this shit are sucking up all the hardware resources for “AI”
I’ll never game or do my general computing as a subscription to a server.
If it comes a day when I can’t buy a GPU and run a game myself, I’m not going to game anymore. Simple as that.
my general computing as a subscription to a server.
You say this, but I think most of us have offloaded formerly local computing to a server of some kind:
- Email organization, including folders and attachments, has mostly shifted from a desktop client saving offline copies retrieved and then deleted from the server, to web and app and even IMAP interfaces to the canonical cloud server organization.
- A huge chunk of users have shifted their productivity tasks (word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, image editing and design) to web-based software.
- A lot of math functionality is honestly just easier to plug into web-based calculators for finance, accounting, and even the higher level math that Wolfram Alpha excels at.
- Lots of media organization, from photos to videos to music, are now in cloud-based searchable albums and playlists.
All these things used to be local uses of computing, and can now be accessed from low powered smartphones. Things like Chromebooks give a user access to between 50-100% of what they’d be doing on a full fledged high powered desktop, depending on the individual needs and use cases.
Almost all of my desktop usage is gaming. No, I don’t think a Chromebook and a server somewhere is going to replace that for me.
I think they mean stuff like cpu and gpu processing power for games and similar? anyways have a great day and happy holiday!
those are good points though
emulators for the win baby!!! (assuming it’s all games between snes to dreamcast) :P
Xemu does decent. I am torn on whether changing loaders has any real benefit on the emulator though. I used third party loaders back in the day on the original machine… (I miss my baby. Softmodded via MechAssault, led changes, 250Gb HDD installed. Sadly, somehow shorted it out whilst copying from a 250GB HDD to a larger one that I was going to use for more storage. Magic smoke, BIOS corrupted)
Same but I’ll be old
Modern integrated GPUs have gotten pretty good lately. If it comes a day where we can’t buy GPUs, we’ll be able to enjoy older titles without much trouble at least…
Or you could just buy a used gpu that runs 10 times faster than an integrated one and doesn’t overheat your CPU in CPU demanding games… Just sayin
A used gpu equivalent to an igpu is dirt cheap
Until the day CPUs aren’t sold to you either. Just the weakest most useless little blob of silicon that’s enough to connect to their servers, and then you run everything on the server.
Bold of you to assume they won’t just market to the top 10%. They already make up over 55% of market trends and are steadily growing. Eventually, companies will consider it too risky or burdensome to market and sell to the bottom 90%.
And those people will also be fucked over by these companies.
I can’t recall why, but I was tired of 3DFX. I think they had a monopoly on 3D acceleration or something, and at the time OpenGL seemed like the way to go. An unknown company called Nvidia released a card called the Riva TNT and it contributed to OpenGL becoming widely supported as well as ending 3DFX’s once deserved dominance.
Nvidia kept hitting it out of the park, creating iterations of cards that made it worthwhile to upgrade every several years. I think the competition from ATI (now AMD) may have kept them from falling into the same rut as 3DFX, and as gamers we’ve enjoyed the result of that relationship with good cards from both.
Today…Nvidia has grown into something that had shed its reason for being. It’s crazy to see their logo in business news top stories. What they’re doing, contributing to a tech development that is so far out front of government oversight that could protect people from the consequences, I see them more as a threat to society than anything else. It’s crazy.
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A giant sea bird?
Hah thanks. I had no idea about the reference and I was like “That’s a pretty weird animal to use in this context”
It’s still occasionally used, but man it’s an archaic reference!
