NVIDIA GeForce NOW Launching with $4.99/Month, Ray-Tracing Enabled “Founders” Tier?

[Tsing]

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After debuting back in 2017, NVIDIA’s cloud-gaming service may finally be exiting beta. VideoCardz has learned that GeForce NOW will launch with a promotional “Founders” tier, which costs $4.99/month for 12 months. This subscription level includes additional benefits, such as ray-tracing (RTX) support and extended session lengths.



There will also be a free tier that reportedly limits playtime to just one hour. That’s a huge downgrade from the current beta, which lets players game for up to six hours, but free is free. (As the official FAQ explains, there’s a limit in place to ensure equal server access so they aren’t overwhelmed.)



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[Zarathustra]

I was getting ready to rage against subscription nonsense, and then I realized they were talking about a game streaming service and calmed down.

As long as I don't have to use this game streaming garbage, and all titles stay available on the traditional desktop, I don't care what the likes of GeForce NOW and Google Stadia do. I don't plan on ever using them.

I'm a hardware enthusiast first. I only play games because I have the hardware.

If gaming moves to the cloud, I just lose interest and stop playing games.

 

[Brian_B]

I won't lie, I've bought more than a few titles just to demo off my own hardware. But I've never really played them past just looking at the pretty graphics a time or two, and almost always regret having thrown money at them.

But mostly, I play a game for the game's sake. The platform it runs on does matter, to a small degree, but much less so than the game itself.

That being said, to each his own.

For this.... it's another streaming service, I can't use them because of a crappy ISP, and even if I could, I don't know that I would. At least this one makes more sense than Stadia does, since it does integrate with your current Steam library.