Comment on $6.2B in profit wasn't enough: Nvidia hikes GeForce Now prices for Canada and Europe

• SamSpudd@lemmy.lukeog.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I believe back when it was in beta a good few years ago, it was a remote PC, but now it’s only whatever games are on the service, with more added about every week via licensing them.

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  • ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That would have changed within the last 6 months then, we had it then and as far as I know it was just a remote pc

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    • variants@possumpat.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      its been like that for a good while now, I remember when I first tried geforce now playing cod 2019, then at work I wanted to setup my classes during lunch and it was gone, turned out blizzard/activision got mad that nvidia was letting people play their game even though you had to own the game so they pulled it off the service

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• dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ah I didn’t understand that. That’s almost worse though, that’s buying the game and then paying to play it.

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  • cholesterol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I haven’t done the math, but I’m actually not sure what’s more expensive: Maintaining a performant desktop PC, including paying power bills, or subscribing to GeForce Now. PC parts and electricity are both pretty expensive in my country.

    I’m pretty happy with the service. Can play Cyberpunk at 4k, 120 fps on a Mac Mini without noticeable lag. Only major problem is the limited amount of games supported.

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    • dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Guess the cost tradeoff depends on how much you play and how updated you keep your PC. My PC can’t play Cyberpunk at 4k 120fps. You must have good Internet though.

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    • qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Owning a computer, especially if a desktop, makes more sense, in my understanding.

      In my country, a gaming laptop is about €2500, while a decent gaming desktop starting on the €800.

      Even when factoring in the energy, unless running a 1KW+ machine, 7 days a week, non stop, it still makes sense. You have your data in your machine, in your home.

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      • cholesterol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        These machines are a bit above decent, though. Nvidia claims gtx 4080-equivalent performance on their subscription ‘ultimate’ tier. Those cards alone start at the equivalent of around 1400 euros in my country (Denmark). You’d still need CPU, motherboard, storage, ram and PSU. I’m not sure exactly how the ‘ultimate’ servers perform in benchmarks, though. I hear their processors are relatively underpowered.

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    • orgrinrt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I have personally done the math for myself, and it is ultimately cheaper to subscribe to the middle tier of GFN. That was before any price hikes though, I am yet to pay or calculate the new prices, not sure when they start, but I am fairly sure it’s still cheaper at least here where I live.

      In addition, it relieves a lot of stress and time spent on buying, fetching, installing and changing the thermal pastes and keeping it clean etc, as well as doesn’t contribute to the already barely tolerable heat in the summer, which high-end GPUs tend to do under stress.

      All around it’s much more convenient for me, since I only need those high-end specs for gaming, and have a good light laptop setup for work and other uses.

      But YMMV, of course.

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can still play it on any computer you own. You just login with your steam account.

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  • nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s renting a computer but it doesn’t actually work like that since shitty publishers can get force them to not allow you to download your bought games on rented computers.

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Back when it was free for shield users, it was game streaming

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