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I am the ideal customer for this service. I don’t have a gaming computer, and I don’t want to own a gaming computer, but I want to dip into new titles as they come out and indulge once in a while.

I tried this service, but the waiting rooms and the time caps make absolutely no sense. You are paying for convenience here, and yet you can’t play when you want to play, and you get kicked if you play for too long. And then you wait again.

there’s actually no ideal customer for this service. it doesn’t make any sense.

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RamRabbit@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I hear ya. You probably want something like a Steam Deck. No PC building required and it goes wherever you are.

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- BrazenSigilos@ttrpg.network ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Also the sleep function on Steam Deck is pretty good. I bring mine to work and grab some offline playtime during my 15 minute breaks, and sometimes during my 30 min lunch after i eat. No Man’s Sky is chill and easy to pickup/putdown, Minecraft as well. I’m sure other titles would work as well.
  
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- bonenode@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Absolutely. I play mine during my lunch break at work since I got it a year ago.
  
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- Camille_Jamal@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I so badly want one but I’m saving up for a laptop (framework 12 probably) but I want it so badddddddddd
  
  I’ll only get one after I get the laptop, don’t worry! :D
  
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- funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Also seconding. I don’t have kids but I play dad game hours: I’ve been playing hollowknight a few hours a week for about 6 months. Did the same with Celeste, Quake 1, FF1–6
  
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Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Aren’t the waiting rooms mainly for the non-paying customers? I thought as soon as you subscribe, you jump way ahead of most other users.

Surprisingly, if they have such waiting times, it seems to indicate they do have people using the service.

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- RamRabbit@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  Surprisingly, if they have such waiting times, it seems to indicate they do have people using the service.
  
  If there are waiting times on a regular basis, it mostly says they under-bought hardware to service what customers they have. Which comes at the cost of future customers as people hate lines.
  
  But, yeah, I think GeForce Now is the only cloud gaming service that didn’t flop instantly. Though, with the prices listed in OP’s article, the value proposition just seems really bad. They may be killing what audience they have.
  
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  - theyoyomaster@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Well you forget that the purpose of a subscription is just to take even more money regularly. It was never about providing a service. The fact that they’re limiting playtime shows they have insufficient hardware and have no intentions of correcting the issue. The answer is to just charge more money for the same flawed “service. “
    
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- nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The last time I tried it was over a year ago and I paid for the premium. whatever and I definitely waited a lot
  
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