NVIDIA has announced that starting January 1, 2026, each GeForce NOW cloud gaming subscription will be limited to 100 hours of play time per month. The company is implementing its long-lasting promise revealed in 2024, with the option for users to purchase additional play time as needed. Under the standard Performance tier, which costs $9.99 per month, after the 100-hour play time is reached, users can buy extra 15-hour blocks for $2.99 each. For the Ultimate tier, priced at $19.99 per month, additional 15-hour blocks are available for $5.99 each.
Since months are averaged to about 30.437 days, any play time exceeding the 100-hour limit is rounded up to the next 15-hour block, potentially leading to extra charge if someone wants more play time. For instance, playing around three hours per day (approximately 91 hours per month) remains within the base fee, but playing four hours daily (about 122 hours per month) results in extra costs of approximately $15.97 on the Performance tier or $31.97 on the Ultimate tier.
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.
Bold of you to assume they won’t just market to the top 10%. They already make up over 55% of market trends and are steadily growing. Eventually, companies will consider it too risky or burdensome to market and sell to the bottom 90%.
And those people will also be fucked over by these companies.
Or you could just buy a used gpu that runs 10 times faster than an integrated one and doesn’t overheat your CPU in CPU demanding games… Just sayin
A used gpu equivalent to an igpu is dirt cheap
You say this, but I think most of us have offloaded formerly local computing to a server of some kind:
All these things used to be local uses of computing, and can now be accessed from low powered smartphones. Things like Chromebooks give a user access to between 50-100% of what they’d be doing on a full fledged high powered desktop, depending on the individual needs and use cases.
Almost all of my desktop usage is gaming. No, I don’t think a Chromebook and a server somewhere is going to replace that for me.
Same but I’ll be old