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The game streaming service will make almost all of its users pay extra for extended access.

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[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 day ago

First time I heard of this saas

[–] Cloudstash@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Changes like this are to be expected considering the fact that the average RGB Joe Doe consumer swallows everything while throwing crap at it simultaneously.

Sincerely not a subscriber that swallows everything.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 174 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Don’t pay for this shit. It’s another case of “you’ll own nothing and stop fucking complaining, peasant.”

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I agree but we have barely seen anything of what cloud gaming will become. Platforms like Steam will introduce it too. Especially after the Steam Machine is turning out to be such a headache for them because of uncertain hardware prices. This will happen and I am very afraid a lot of users will welcome it with open arms. We could be witnessing the end of home computers right now.

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First they came for your music. Then they came for your movies. They came for your Games. Now they want your computers.

[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Next up is rentable GPUs with a subscription. You'll eventually own nothing

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I mean, that exists. Just not for gaming specifically

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Just part of the lifecycle of every digital service.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

And now the other shoe drops. We can see what kind of future these companies are shaping for us. Where you have to pay them a subscription fee in order to use premium hardware. While they slowly stop selling it to the public.

[–] IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 104 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

4.6 trillion dollar company btw.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The dollars come from charging us extra. Nvidia has been well known in the early days being premium compared to AMD graphics.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 10 points 1 day ago

Aye, this is premium pricing, not necessarily premium quality. The biggest hassle I have with my PC comes from NVidia and their bullshit.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 99 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Just save what you would spend on subscribing to tbis dumb shit for a few months and build your own machine so you don't have to throw money away on a subscription service.

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 67 points 2 days ago (11 children)

In a few months there won’t be any affordable equipment.

[–] FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 days ago (15 children)

There is the Steamdeck OLED still, Steam Machine and Steamframes on the way early 2026. Also there is enough used machines in the second hand marketplace to tide everyone else over until the AI bubble pops.

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

for a few months

I'd love to see what kind of gaming PC you're going to build with $30.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

looks like it can run crysis

[–] theterrasque@infosec.pub 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I paid $200 for ultimate for a year and got borderlands 4 included in it.

You'd be challenged to build a decent gaming PC for 3 times that.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, no, no. They said save up for a few months. So we're looking at $75 tops.

[–] theterrasque@infosec.pub 8 points 1 day ago

Let's be generous and say $100. That's 6 months with the most expensive tier.

That should be plenty to get a gaming PC capable of playing latest AAA titles in 4k 60 fps and high settings.

It's one computer, Michael. What could it cost, 10 dollars?

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[–] DoctorPress@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

theory: they limit players' access to gpu so nvidia can sell them to ai companies.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

That's just the game plan for NViDiA

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I prefer buying Nvidia stock instead of their offerings

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I wish I could hit 100 hours of playtime a month.

Still cheaper than buying a gaming PC by far.

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[–] Holyginz@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

100h is fucking nothing. Such a waste of money

[–] ThoGot@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't know if you're joking or not. That's 3h 20 min per day spent on gaming lol

[–] OrganicWetNoodle@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

What a sober reminder that most people on these platforms are either 20 years old or don't have kids, jobs and responsibilities, lol.

Regardless, fuck this enshittified subscription bullshit.

[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know a lot of people who would consider 3 hours of gaming a day to be plenty, and I know a lot of people who buy Nvidia products. They are not the same people.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Ha, no. Many older gamers have the disposable income but not the time or motivation to spend hundreds of hours on gaming per month. I know what I'm talking about.

Still never buying into that subscription bullshit.

[–] simple@piefed.social 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

what are people even paying for, 100h per month isn't that much if you have a fair amount of free time or would pause the games between doing other things. i'm expecting for posts about someone accidentally leaving it open and not being able to play for the rest of the month.

[–] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 31 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Its 3h per day. Enough for moderate user, but if you share with a family or just a hardcore gamer, you'll run out

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[–] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I hit 112 hours in Black Ops 7 in two weeks.

Genuinely eat shit, Nvidia.

[–] turkalino@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 days ago (3 children)

If that’s the game you choose to dump your time into, maybe you should be given a limit…^/s^

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Remember, you're borrowing their hours from AI data centers, and AI takes precedence. Don't use this service

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