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NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions (www.techpowerup.com)
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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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[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 92 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I'll never game or do my general computing as a subscription to a server.

If it comes a day when I can't buy a GPU and run a game myself, I'm not going to game anymore. Simple as that.

[–] Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

emulators for the win baby!!! (assuming it's all games between snes to dreamcast) :P

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

Xemu does decent. I am torn on whether changing loaders has any real benefit on the emulator though. I used third party loaders back in the day on the original machine... (I miss my baby. Softmodded via MechAssault, led changes, 250Gb HDD installed. Sadly, somehow shorted it out whilst copying from a 250GB HDD to a larger one that I was going to use for more storage. Magic smoke, BIOS corrupted)

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Modern integrated GPUs have gotten pretty good lately. If it comes a day where we can't buy GPUs, we'll be able to enjoy older titles without much trouble at least...

[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Until the day CPUs aren't sold to you either. Just the weakest most useless little blob of silicon that's enough to connect to their servers, and then you run everything on the server.

[–] nforminvasion@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Bold of you to assume they won't just market to the top 10%. They already make up over 55% of market trends and are steadily growing. Eventually, companies will consider it too risky or burdensome to market and sell to the bottom 90%.

And those people will also be fucked over by these companies.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

Or you could just buy a used gpu that runs 10 times faster than an integrated one and doesn't overheat your CPU in CPU demanding games... Just sayin

A used gpu equivalent to an igpu is dirt cheap

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Same but I’ll be old

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

my general computing as a subscription to a server.

You say this, but I think most of us have offloaded formerly local computing to a server of some kind:

  • Email organization, including folders and attachments, has mostly shifted from a desktop client saving offline copies retrieved and then deleted from the server, to web and app and even IMAP interfaces to the canonical cloud server organization.
  • A huge chunk of users have shifted their productivity tasks (word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, image editing and design) to web-based software.
  • A lot of math functionality is honestly just easier to plug into web-based calculators for finance, accounting, and even the higher level math that Wolfram Alpha excels at.
  • Lots of media organization, from photos to videos to music, are now in cloud-based searchable albums and playlists.

All these things used to be local uses of computing, and can now be accessed from low powered smartphones. Things like Chromebooks give a user access to between 50-100% of what they'd be doing on a full fledged high powered desktop, depending on the individual needs and use cases.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Almost all of my desktop usage is gaming. No, I don't think a Chromebook and a server somewhere is going to replace that for me.

[–] Camille_Jamal@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

I think they mean stuff like cpu and gpu processing power for games and similar? anyways have a great day and happy holiday!

those are good points though