Nvidia, the company that makes graphics cards you can’t afford anymore and keeps vying for status as the world’s most valuable company, is taking a page from Xbox’s book and announcing a confusing change to its GeForce Now cloud gaming service that includes a monthly cap on the hours you can play games. As many people are saying in the comments to the announcement, maybe it’s time to build a PC.

I will be honest that after writing the lede above I had to look up exactly what GeForce Now is, and reaffirm that it is not one of the many Nvidia things my graphics card installed on my computer. Like Stadia (RIP) and Microsoft’s xCloud, GeForce Now can let you stream games your hardware might not be able to support. It has a bunch of tiers, some of which now have new names and new limits.

  • @zoostation
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    1217 days ago

    The whole reason they want to move us from ownership to streaming is because it keeps the control on their side and they’ll converge on enshittification every time.