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The game streaming service will make almost all of its users pay extra for extended access.

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[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

From what I understand about this subscription (I never looked into it before) it's basically like a reverse Game Pass? So you pay the monthly subscription, and you can play the games that are on the service, on different devices aside from just a PC?

While that does sound pretty cool and impressive, I can't imagine most people, or most anyone that calls themselves a gamer would touch this service with a 20' pole. Like at that point, just own the game and system you want. You can play whenever and for however long you want.

Also, this may sound weird, but after reading the article I have a strong urge to start a game and just let it run idle, racking up playtime. Out of spite for Nvidia I guess.

[–] Prox@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Game Pass also lets you do this via cloud play.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

That too. Even though my Game Pass has been cancelled and I haven't had Xbox Live in a couple years, I can also still go into the Xbox PC app, install any game that I've bought that's also PC compatible or stream whatever I own that isn't (but still has cloud workability).

It's how I've been playing Halo Wars 2 lately. And I've seen the Fable games are cloud compatible, but I haven't tried those on PC yet.

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 5 points 15 hours ago

You're really just renting hardware. You own all your games and they aren't tied to that service. The appeal is to play PC games without being on the perpetual hardware upgrade hamster wheel.

[–] cuckmaster69@lemmy.billiam.net 3 points 11 hours ago

damn finally someone on the same page as me. we used to own things, now they're being rented to us at a premium.

companies are returning us to mainframe infrastructure so they can rent it out at the most optimized-price-gouging fashion. nvidia's just hedging their bets for when their taint-guzzling ai gambit inevitably splatters into the irrevocable shards of what's left of the US economy.

[–] MadameBisaster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 14 hours ago

Yeah its for casual gamers, you can play on phone, iPad, mac etc comfortably