Activision, Bethsada, Among Other Companies Pull Their Games From GeForce Now -

[Anonymus Fluhre]

If anyone wants to know how greedy as well as stupid game developers can be look no further.

Nvidia’s GeForce Now is becoming an important test for the future of cloud gaming

Game developers are pulling titles left and right from the cloud gaming service

www.theverge.com

http://archive.md/JnfXU

Of course, being the Verge they get shit wrong about the service too because they understand nothing about PC's.
Nvidia doesn't sell games on their GeForce Now service. For your $5 a month you get to rent a "PC" with some of the best hardware around to stream games to whatever device you want and play games that you have already bought on services like Steam. However, these companies don't understand that. They see dollar signs and want some of that sweet sweet cash. There are multiple companies out there doing this and charging more so why get upset when Nvidia does it cheaper?

 

[RadicalCentrist]

Oh is that shit The Long Dark was pulled from? What's the latency rate of this cloud gaming shit, anyway? Don't see the appeal.

 

[A shitty ass clover]

He look like one of those League streamers, what was his name? Darrkmane?

 

[ThinkThankThunk]

Oh is that shit The Long Dark was pulled from? What's the latency rate of this cloud gaming shit, anyway? Don't see the appeal.

Years ago I tried free trials of OnLive and PS Now and the latency was actually very good. Even in multiplayer everything ran well enough that there wasn't a noticeable difference when streaming a game and playing it on a console. I tried another PS Now trial early last year and it ran just as well if not even better than before, even with the inclusion of the more demanding PS4 games.

The real problem with cloud gaming is the pricing structure - by the time you're done getting PS+ and the Now subscription it's $120 per year for just one platform of games, and that's not including whatever data plan you're on. To make that worse Geforce Now is proving that game publishers are going to go the exact same route film distributors did a few years ago - they'll all pull their licenses to make their own shitty services with the same price points and try to fight for a sliver of the pie.

Microsoft, Ubisoft, and EA all currently have download-based subscription services and together they'd run you $35 a month as is, which is already too much for the junk they peddle. Now add exorbitant bandwidth and server upkeep into those costs and that number balloons into the hundreds. Every game could run at a billion frames per second and look like life itself but nobody is going to be paying 200 bucks a month just to play Looter Shooter 69: The Game when they could buy a used console or rig for that price and be done with it.

 

[Nephi]

SomeOrdinaryGamers

No thank you, that Pajeet got famous out of deep web creepypastas, which is the second most mindless shit in Youtube, only fucking SJWs ownage compilations are lamer.
He's so fucking fake, but I guess that's true for most Pajeets anyway.

He look like one of those League streamers, what was his name? Darrkmane?

interestingly you're not the first one to make that connection

r/LeagueofFailures - Is this darkmane?

2 votes and 1 comment so far on Reddit

www.reddit.com

 

[DragoonSierra]

Years ago I tried free trials of OnLive and PS Now and the latency was actually very good. Even in multiplayer everything ran well enough that there wasn't a noticeable difference when streaming a game and playing it on a console. I tried another PS Now trial early last year and it ran just as well if not even better than before, even with the inclusion of the more demanding PS4 games.

The real problem with cloud gaming is the pricing structure - by the time you're done getting PS+ and the Now subscription it's $120 per year for just one platform of games, and that's not including whatever data plan you're on. To make that worse Geforce Now is proving that game publishers are going to go the exact same route film distributors did a few years ago - they'll all pull their licenses to make their own shitty services with the same price points and try to fight for a sliver of the pie.

Microsoft, Ubisoft, and EA all currently have download-based subscription services and together they'd run you $35 a month as is, which is already too much for the junk they peddle. Now add exorbitant bandwidth and server upkeep into those costs and that number balloons into the hundreds. Every game could run at a billion frames per second and look like life itself but nobody is going to be paying 200 bucks a month just to play Looter Shooter 69: The Game when they could buy a used console or rig for that price and be done with it.

I hear the Microsoft service has a shit ton of games and is worth it. Ubisoft however is just a bunch of shooters.

 

[Tim Buckley]

interestingly you're not the first one to make that connection

r/LeagueofFailures - Is this darkmane?

2 votes and 1 comment so far on Reddit

www.reddit.com

No, you uncultured baboon, that's not Darkmane, that's Mutahard.

Here's some Rule 34.

Spoiler: UwU

 

[ThinkThankThunk]

I hear the Microsoft service has a shit ton of games and is worth it. Ubisoft however is just a bunch of shooters.

Games Pass on Xbox might be less insufferable, but my few months with it on PC were absolutely awful. The games on it are pretty good and it's nice that it's only five dollars a month during the beta, but besides that it's ass.

There's still no way to view a list of applicable games while in the store, so if you want to play something you'll have to go into a browser and fight with Microsoft's shitty site to find the catalog. Downloads are a pain to manage and fail regularly and once you do get in there's Xbox Live sign-ins for every game, which are really finicky about when and how it'll let you log into a game. Switching networks or using a VPN will boot you, make you sign in again and bombard you with notifications. Once you're finally in you get to deal with the Windows Store DRM which will straight up brick your games whenever it feels like it. I never got to finish Mutant: Year Zero or Metro Exodus because of it and it left a very sour taste in my mouth. This all assumes the game is even actively being supported on the W10 store in the first place; most are long since broken and abandoned compared to their versions on other stores.

It illustrates my point that if Microsoft of all companies can barely make a functioning subscription service I have no idea how any other smaller publishers expect to put one together. Much less any that are built on the back of expensive cloud services and sparse catalogs.

 

[RadicalCentrist]

Years ago I tried free trials of OnLive and PS Now and the latency was actually very good. Even in multiplayer everything ran well enough that there wasn't a noticeable difference when streaming a game and playing it on a console. I tried another PS Now trial early last year and it ran just as well if not even better than before, even with the inclusion of the more demanding PS4 games.

Sounds better than I expected but still not selling me on it.

I assume you have to give them all of your account info too for PS+, Steam, etc... not tenable at all imo

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Oh is that shit The Long Dark was pulled from? What's the latency rate of this cloud gaming shit, anyway? Don't see the appeal.

depends on what the connection is like. I don't see phone providers getting good speed for at least another three to five years so don't expect to stream to your mobile device anytime soon, but most ISP's in most cities can get you a good connection. Currently though with everything in your favour you're looking at 20 milisecond latency which is better than most online games (WoW will often get up to 28 or higher even on a dead server). However , average is in the sixties for games like the new Metro game (local PC will get about 40). Stadia will get 100 or more.

The real appeal for streaming at least with GeForce Now is the hardware you get to use.

 

[ThinkThankThunk]

Sounds better than I expected but still not selling me on it.

I assume you have to give them all of your account info too for PS+, Steam, etc... not tenable at all imo

I wouldn't expect anyone to be sold on it, and I don't think many are considering OnLive died within a year and Sony puts their PSNow subs on sale constantly. Looking briefly over my shelf, which has a pretty complete collection of PS3 and PS4 games, I would say that you could pick up a complete set of the two console's exclusives for about $300. It's pricey for sure, but you're buying those copies forever, and you'd end up paying almost half that for just a year of cloud service access anyways. A cloud service that could be shut down any minute without warning. Sony is the company that had a two month long outage of services following a fuckhuge hack in 2011; nobody in their right mind should trust them or any company like them with either their data or network.

 

[Marissa Moira]

I wouldn't expect anyone to be sold on it, and I don't think many are considering OnLive died within a year and Sony puts their PSNow subs on sale constantly. Looking briefly over my shelf, which has a pretty complete collection of PS3 and PS4 games, I would say that you could pick up a complete set of the two console's exclusives for about $300. It's pricey for sure, but you're buying those copies forever, and you'd end up paying almost half that for just a year of cloud service access anyways. A cloud service that could be shut down any minute without warning. Sony is the company that had a two month long outage of services following a fuckhuge hack in 2011; nobody in their right mind should trust them or any company like them with either their data or network.

Yeah I only buy PS+ when it's on sale at Costco. I never enter my credit card if it can be avoided.

 

[Astro Galactic Megalul]

Oh is that shit The Long Dark was pulled from? What's the latency rate of this cloud gaming shit, anyway? Don't see the appeal.

It can be decent, at least for singleplayer and non-competitive multiplayer. My brother uses one of these services to play on his shitty laptop. It's good for poor countries where people can't afford a proper gaming rig.

 

[Stoneheart]

Its not a bad deal if your own hardware is ageing and you just want to wait for the next gen of cpus and gpus.