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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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[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Aren't the waiting rooms mainly for the non-paying customers? I thought as soon as you subscribe, you jump way ahead of most other users.

Surprisingly, if they have such waiting times, it seems to indicate they do have people using the service.

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Surprisingly, if they have such waiting times, it seems to indicate they do have people using the service.

If there are waiting times on a regular basis, it mostly says they under-bought hardware to service what customers they have. Which comes at the cost of future customers as people hate lines.

But, yeah, I think GeForce Now is the only cloud gaming service that didn't flop instantly. Though, with the prices listed in OP's article, the value proposition just seems really bad. They may be killing what audience they have.

[–] theyoyomaster@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Well you forget that the purpose of a subscription is just to take even more money regularly. It was never about providing a service. The fact that they’re limiting playtime shows they have insufficient hardware and have no intentions of correcting the issue. The answer is to just charge more money for the same flawed “service. “

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The last time I tried it was around the skylines 2 launch and I paid for the premium whatever thing and I definitely waited a lot