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NVIDIA has announced that starting January 1, 2026, each GeForce NOW cloud gaming subscription will be limited to 100 hours of play time per month. The company is implementing its long-lasting promise revealed in 2024, with the option for users to purchase additional play time as needed. Under the standard Performance tier, which costs $9.99 per month, after the 100-hour play time is reached, users can buy extra 15-hour blocks for $2.99 each. For the Ultimate tier, priced at $19.99 per month, additional 15-hour blocks are available for $5.99 each.

Since months are averaged to about 30.437 days, any play time exceeding the 100-hour limit is rounded up to the next 15-hour block, potentially leading to extra charge if someone wants more play time. For instance, playing around three hours per day (approximately 91 hours per month) remains within the base fee, but playing four hours daily (about 122 hours per month) results in extra costs of approximately $15.97 on the Performance tier or $31.97 on the Ultimate tier.

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[–] verdi@feddit.org 183 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Haaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

I wish I could find the people on Reddit that called me a lunatic when I said subscription services always enshitify, NO MATTER WHAT. It's a matter of when, not if.

[–] Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you think Dropout will enshitify? It’s one of the best streaming services, and tons of people on the fediverse say it’s the only subscription they have. They raised their prices last year by $1, but let people keep their old price if they stay subscribed.

[–] verdi@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

Is it a non-profit? No? It will enshitify.

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And this is combined with cutting Blackwell production by 40% and exacerbating a market already dominated by scalpers and AI data centers. Everything is getting enshittified, subscription just one component of it.

I've always held out for PCMR but these companies are making it near impossible - or just prohibitively expensive - to be a PC gamer.

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

and they just dropped support for pascal :/