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 s...

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.

  • kadu@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
    59·
    13 hours ago

    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.

    • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10·
      13 hours ago

      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.orgEnglish
        12·
        12 hours ago

        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.

      • 87Six@lemmy.zipEnglish
        51·
        12 hours 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

    • GamingChairModel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      43·
      11 hours ago

      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.