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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macaroni1556@lemmy.ca 11 months agoI don’t use the service, but I believe you bring and install your own games. They’re just offering a remote computer.
At least, last I checked.
dan1101@lemm.ee 11 months ago
cholesterol@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
dan1101@lemm.ee 11 months 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.
qyron@sopuli.xyz 11 months 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.
cholesterol@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
orgrinrt@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
lud@lemm.ee 11 months ago
You can still play it on any computer you own. You just login with your steam account.
nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 11 months 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.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Back when it was free for shield users, it was game streaming
SamSpudd@lemmy.lukeog.com 11 months 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.
ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 11 months 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
variants@possumpat.io 11 months 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