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The goal is to get you to rent your computer forever.
AI, vast datacenters, hardware “shortages”, cloud services, DRM, TPM… it’s all part of the same pipeline: remove compute power from the user and concentrate it under control of the manufacturers in order to lease it back to the public in tightly controlled environments.
You will own nothing and be happy.
Where "happy" is a euphemism for something not to be said amongst mixed company.
Hanlon’s razor applies here. The margins for selling to datacenters are higher for the producers of RAM and GPU’s. The chance that it is some kind of conspiracy is very small.
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I wish I could find the people on Reddit that called me a lunatic when I said subscription services always enshitify, NO MATTER WHAT. It's a matter of when, not if.
And this is combined with cutting Blackwell production by 40% and exacerbating a market already dominated by scalpers and AI data centers. Everything is getting enshittified, subscription just one component of it.
I've always held out for PCMR but these companies are making it near impossible - or just prohibitively expensive - to be a PC gamer.
Friendly reminder that there are a bunch of fantastic indie games out there that don’t have insane graphic card requirements for a smooth frame rate.
At this point I scowel at any game with higher minimum hardware requirements than fallout 4. Like, come on, did you really need all that shit?
Rent your shit, and be a slave of price changes.
When you agree to a subscription, you are enrolling to get fuck, sooner or later.
100hours is quite a bit but also fuck Nvidia.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
saw this coming the second I heard about GeForce cloud gaming...never in a million years will I subscribe to play games. wow was the only exception to that rule previously, but now I just run my own server locally so even that, never again
Aren't they making a shitton of money? They can't even use the usual enshittification excuses, this is just being greedy dicks.
The excuse is, and has always been, "Because we can". Never think otherwise.
Gamer Nexus said it best pointing it out that the tech bros want to do to computers what private equity did to the housing market of turning everything into subscriptions.
There is little difference between enshitificstion and being greedy dicks.
A shitton is not the amount they are aiming for. All is the goal.
They can’t even use the usual enshittification excuses, this is just being greedy dicks.
The usual enshitification excuses are companies just being greedy dicks, and more than anything, a lack of regulation enforcement existing to stop companies simply outspending other companies out of business.
I’m guessing they want to sell more computing power to AI bc they make more that way
Ngreedia
memory prices up, parasites come to feed
What a way to basically double prices for users that actually use the service as it was promoted...
i am the ideal customer for this type of 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 geforce now and the waiting rooms and the time caps make it unusable to me. i am paying for convenience here, and yet I can't play when I want to play, and I get kicked if i play for too long or if I make a coffee. and then I wait again. im paying money to wait in a line on the internet.
im trying to sneak video games into the small amount of time that I have, and it's not letting me do that. there's actually no ideal customer for this service. it's a product that doesn't make any sense. they can suck my balls with this shit
HA!
Oh look a pricey solution to an issue they made, who would have seen it coming?
results in extra costs of approximately $15.97 on the Performance tier or $31.97 on the Ultimate tier.
Wouldn't these be the total costs: base fee + overages? ($9.99+ 2*$2.99) or ($19.99 + 2*$5.99)
Not defending it, just want to correct the math
What is a GeForce Now Subscription and why would you want a subscription to your graphic card? 🤔
Basically you rent NVIDIA's GPUs, they render the games, stream to you. This way you "save" money by not having to, heyoooo what a surprise, buy cards that have been getting more and more expensive over the years because of reasons that totally have nothing to do with GPU manufacturers.
Thanks! That seems wild, I never knew that existed.
You need at least better than average internet and even then it's not the best experience.
It's game streaming, except you stream an entire PC.
