Nvidia has a streaming service, GeForce Now, and the actual platform seems a much better deal than the more famous – and criticized – Google Stadia. Unfortunately, the service has had some major problems with keeping an intact library of supported games.
Shortly after GeForce Now exited its trial period, Activision and Bethesda pulled their games from the service. With Activision, 20 games were lost in a single day, without advance warning. Similarly, all of Bethesda’s games except Wolfenstein: Youngblood are unavailable to stream.
As publishers continue to experiment with how to make more money from cloud gaming, Nvidia’s issues highlight the problems a cloud-based future will have. It’s a similar issue to streaming television right now – too many companies wanting too much money.
When service can change or diminish at any time, and when it’s easier to lose track of which service has what games, cloud gaming is hard to stay excited about.
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Thanks for reminding me how *MAXIMUM CRINGE* the Stadia commercials were
Publishers are just the worst aspects of the gaming mentality, but given control of an entire company: brattish and controlling.
“nnh?”
-Jim Sterling, 2020
man just hearing the word “Bloomberg” in any context has pissed me off. His ads sure work!
A week later: “Announcing Blizzcloud a new groundbreaking streaming service that allows you to stream all* your games right to your phone!”
GeForce Now is probably the best “neutral” streaming service now, but publishers pulling their titles only seems to signify that they themselves plan to install themselves as streaming giants, their games being exclusives to their own service. This is probably the worst idea ever from publishers and serves only to burden the consumer should they wish to play games on a streaming service as now games from each publisher needs to be streamed from each publisher’s own streaming service, similar to what the TV streaming service is going through right now. From Netflix being the one stop shop for all TV shows but now everyone wants to have their own streaming service, pulling popular TV shows from Netflix just so that they can have that “killer show” that people will subscribe for. Fuck Activision. Fuck Blizzard. FUCK BETHESDA.
Its the “we are off steam and have our own launcher” situation all over again…
Only with streaming services
Denying people from playing Blizzard games seems to be more of a favour than hindrance tbh
Activision-Blizzard: “You makes the money? … We wants some… We wants moneys… Gimme…”
Ah, I had a feeling From Soft choosing Activision to publish Sekiro would backfire somehow at some point. It’s not a big deal IMO, but the established order of the universe is maintained.
you rent a decent pc for 4.99 monthly to play GAMES YOU HAVE BOUGHT ALREADY, developers get mad for LITERALLY not reason.
This doesnt really seem like it’s Nvidia’s fault here. All they’re doing is renting hardware out to people and publishers are demanding money for their games to even run on that hardware.
Imagine like Nvidia having to pay activision to get call of duty functioning on nvidia cards, or with AMD?
Big publishers are just crime organizations now i guess.
When moving pictures started getting big, each movie studio owned its own series of theaters. Eventually the anti-consumer, anti-competition bad practices reached such a feverish pitch that lawmakers had to step in. Now streaming is heading in that same direction. Capitalism is always trudging towards maximum exploitation.
Awww, that’s a shame, GeForce sounds like it could have been super useful.
I’d have too much anxiety if my game could be taken away at any time. Imagine spending weeks or months trying to beat a game, and the game gets removed before you get that chance.
What’s the legal ground for publisher to forbid streaming a game to a user who bought it ? This seems just ridiculous. Should Microsoft pay publisher for allowing to run games on Windows ?
This is the problem with Streaming imo. Every one wants their own pie, no one wants to share. It kind of what killed netflix for me personally. When I started the service it had everything for the most part, and got anything newly released even if it missed some older movies. Now that it cost more than ever and has less I see no point in it.
Now gaming has a bit of a leg up as it’s far harder to find a game that “fell off the truck” than to find movies and TV shows online “accidentally”. But the same result is there. Even people who would normally never think of going sailing will eventually be pushed towards it as the convenience factor is lost. Having to have a dozen different services, paying money for all of them is beyond nuts. Not to mention if you end said service with video games you lose any and all progress you had in said games unlike a movie.
Exactly! Companies’ greed more than limitations of technology or inertia of market is a bigger hindrance to streaming of games becoming mainstream…
If I bought the game those publishers allready got my money. The fact they want nvidia to give them more money to stream a game I allready bought is stupid.