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.
(Not... mind you, that I felt bad about it in the first place... )

 

[Macky]

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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Yeah, I can see your point. I also watch shows from my NAS and prefer to store games locally including roms. My point is that you can use your steam library (Valve has a good track record of ensuring you can still play delisted games from the storefront) on approved titles on geforce now. I do not use GeForce now as a complete replacement, but just as another method to enjoy games that you might have never played especially with Xbox Game Pass. If you enjoyed the title and would like to secure it then buy it on Steam. With GeForce Now you are just using your Steam library that you purchased on another platform, but using nVidia's hardware and infrastructure to just facilitate the stream. There is a sense of ownership if you trust Valve that is and I do since they have a good track record.

I think people hear cloud and think it's a boogeyman of digital ownership when GeForce Now you are not using the subscription for the games. You actually don't purchase games on GeForce Now. If the services ever goes down permanently. You still have access to your games via Steam which you can just install it locally if you want to.

Trust me I would've never subscribed to the Ultimate if it wasn't like this. I tried it using their day pass because I got curious and realized "holy shit, this actually might be worth it" once I realized it was just using my Steam library.

EDIT: If Valve ever disappears or goes bankrupt then PC gaming we would be absolutely fucked, but I don't think that's likely. PC gaming as we know it now would not exist without Valve. I think that's unreasonable fear mongering to think Valve would go down. PC gaming has been like this for the past 10-15 years now we're never going to have true ownership of PC games anymore. GOG is the only true platform for ownership of your games technically speaking.

 

[Gabrinius]

I think it is a good option if you don't have a computer/console and don't want to buy (or face the absurd prices of upgrading yours).

and also if you are interested only in mainstream games, since gamepass is most about that.

i signed gamepass pc when it had those 1 or 2 dolar special prices, was able to play yakuza gaiden and sniper elite 5 with it, and a bit of forza horizon 4 or 5 (all expensive games). but i would not pay the normal price.

but...if i only had a very weak computer or only my tv... and only wanted to play recent games... i think i would consider using those things instead of going the old (and, for me, better) way.

 

[Sfjeov]

It's a nice option and I just used it to check out games that I gotten for free from the epic store for a free hour with the ads and such.

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?

Tbh I almost believe that cloud gaming might take over which is pretty disturbing since the public had already accepted subscription services like netflix and spotify as a given.

 

[Macky]

It's a nice option and I just used it to check out games that I gotten for free from the epic store for a free hour with the ads and such.

Tbh I almost believe that cloud gaming might take over which is pretty disturbing since the public had already accepted subscription services like netflix and spotify as a given.

It might, but I only believe it only will if Gamers are forced to once they get priced out of hell with hardware if Data Centers keep causing prices to be raised. I have already given up upgrading my computers at this point.

However, I still think there will always be an indie market that will still work on less demanding hardware and probably even cause a market for games like that in a cyberpunk dystopian way.