The endgame of all these subscription services is always the same. They make you reliant, and then they jack prices and reduce service.
At this point, there are enough exemplars that anyone still buying in is just not paying attention.
My buddy was toying with investing in this service. I cautioned him that he’d be a the mercy of a company that isn’t at all consumer friendly. Case and point
An expense or purchase is not an investment.
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Genuinely when there was actually some competition in this space, GeForce NOW was actually the consumer friendly one
Guess we have another case study in why competition results in worse outcomes for the customer in its eventual conclusion
i mean its not like Microsofts XCloud is an unusable service. they just have a completely different monetization approach.
The big win for GeForce NOW was you could fire up games from your steam library—you didn’t need to directly invest in a service which might die for your ownership of a game
more or less yes, that was its main advantage, but most of the cloud doesnt really compete there.
Shadow cloud gaming is an example that competes with nvidia on that front if game ownership is part of your concern, but its not the main concern for all cloud services.
This fucking sucks, even if 100 hrs/month isn’t crazy unreasonable.
It will be 90 eventually.
This is why I dont care about game streaming. These corpos want us more reliant on them so they can suck out more money.
deny the parasite profit. exhibit 2109325897
This could be reasonable depending on the limit. I think 1 hour limit for free tier is generous, 6 hour limit for medium tier is reasonable if most users play less than 6 hours per session. But 8 hours for the top tier sucks balls and is a major scam.
There’s probably a small portion of people that just leave it on so they never have to wait in queue to get back on.
An AFK kick seems simple enough to stop most of those situations.
Mouse wiggler, auto clicker, not hard to bypass any of those.
Yeah some people would do that.
