GeForce Now/Cloud Gaming Opinion Thread

[Macky]

I am going to sound like a huge shill for these data centers and cloud gaming. However, I love GeForce Now + Xbox Game Pass. I think as of right now, it is an extremely great deal when you pair it with game pass. $34 /mo for 4K 120FPS gaming is a great deal with a bunch of games available from your Steam library and in game pass. It would take 5 years at $34 /month to save up $2040 and that would just net you a mid-range pc build with 0 games and its platform agnostic between operating systems.

I am currently playing games at 4K 120FPS on a 2017 iMac I got for free that I upgraded to an SSD for free (I already owned it). The value in the set up I have is amazing to say the least.

Big downside, not every game is supported which is why I would think that cloud gaming being the norm is not the future. I do have a gaming laptop that fairly midrange and great at 1080p gaming, but I can just use that when I want to play something that is not available.

I personally don't believe cloud gaming will completely overtake the traditional form of downloading games, but I do think it's a good option if you want to experience high resolution and great performance or try out games on game pass. What do you guys think?

 

[G.L.a.D.O.S.]

If you're happy with it, that's fine, your choice.

However, I prefer my games, movies, and media not to be taken away at a whim or because some company lost the license to the media. Look at the whole debacle with Sony pulling over 500 movies from their storefront, and they will auto-delete them from customers' accounts as well. You know, people who paid for those movies.

So no, if you like having your games, movies, music, etc. all stored on someone else's system, where they can just give you the big middle finger and remove it, even though you've paid for it.

Enjoy.

I'll just watch my movies and anime and listen to my music from my NAS.

 

[Zerpina]

If you're happy with it, that's fine, your choice.

However, I prefer my games, movies, and media not to be taken away at a whim or because some company lost the license to the media. Look at the whole debacle with Sony pulling over 500 movies from their storefront, and they will auto-delete them from customers' accounts as well. You know, people who paid for those movies.

So no, if you like having your games, movies, music, etc. all stored on someone else's system, where they can just give you the big middle finger and remove it, even though you've paid for it.
Enjoy.

I'll just watch my movies and anime and listen to my music from my NAS.

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I wholeheartedly agree. I keep my media stored on a separate system myself, and I have a couple of pure Batocera PC's solely for my games. No matter who owns the rights to any media I have, unless something outside my control happens, no one can take the media off it.

As for the Sony situation, that's kind of a scuzzy practice, honestly..... I mean, okay, I get that they are losing the licenses and are removing the movies, that's fine, it happens. But removing content from people's accounts who legally bought and paid for it?

That’s akin to theft, if you ask me.

That would be like buying a copy of the 1995 Mortal Kombat movie, and because New Line no longer owns the rights to it, whoever owns the rights now... Warner Brothers, I think, kicks in your door and confiscates your movie.

That’s more or less what Sony is doing....

And I feel even less bad about jailbreaking my PS4 now and YO HO'ing games for it.