- this means that players on macOS can also play the game
- should be done before Microsoft gets their hands on the company because they will want to have it exclusive to xCloud with its terrible bit rate - 15 Mbps versus GeForce now 50 Mbps
- GeForce now is generally the best cloud gaming service
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It was on Geforce now until they took it off. I still think it’s ridiculous that companies have any right to take their game off of Geforce now when it’s nothing more than PC rental. It’s not as if you get free access to games.
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Agree but does it even have any Microsoft games?
Why give away something for free when you can charge for it?
Indies sees it as free advertising. Big companies sees it as someone else making profit from them.
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But that isn’t the case at all. Geforce now isn’t giving you access to games, it’s giving you access to processing power. It’s also a free service if you aren’t very urgent to play a game in peak hours.
It’s as if your friend let you borrow his PC but you couldn’t play Overwatch (that you paid for) because Blizzard thinks you should buy your own PC.
A common misconception is that Geforce now is something like game pass, but it’s not. It’s just remote access to a PC for you to play games that you already own on steam, blizzard, etc. Nothing more.
I think the issues is that nvidia needs rights to host the game client.
They will need to at least own a copy of the game for every single user that uses their service.
That makes no sense though. How it worked previously is that the Blizzard app was just installed on the remote PC you get access to. You log in to BattleNet, install your games on their fiber internet, and then play. Why would they need a copy for every user? They don’t give you the game for free, you still have to buy it yourself (from Blizzard) if you want to play it on their service.
With the game pass u can use Microsoft cloud. I don’t really think you can find a work around so you don’t use Microsoft services in any way. Unless you play on switch or ps I guess.
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Yeah but technically they are making money because of hosting the game. Without the game, they wouldn’t be able to do that for this particular game. So in the eyes of gaming companies nvidia is making money out of their product on the cost of few game copies since they are selling it as a service. So it is not the same as borrowing someone else’s pc because money are involved.
What is “hosting” the game in your eyes? I don’t think downloading a game from Blizz servers and then opening it is Nvidia “hosting” the game. With the same logic VPS servers wouldn’t exist because private software companies wouldn’t want VPS hosts “hosting” their software.
Nvidia is making money off of game copies? What? Nvidia does not sell games. The only thing you can pay Nvidia for is to skip the queue to get a PC. There is no money to be made off of game companies whatsoever. Any attempt to make a connection there is a stretch because Blizzard still gets paid at the end of the day when the user has to buy the game (from Blizzard, not from Nvidia because Nvidia does not sell games).
You are playing the game on their copy regardless if you already own the game.
No. They are making money of providing you subscription service for a game that they don’t have rights to do so.
That’s just blatantly false as I’ve explained multiple times. Nvidia does not provide you with a copy, you must bring your own. If you do not own the game, you cannot play it. You must use your own Overwatch license.
They do not do this either. The only subscription you can pay for is to skip waiting, get higher streaming quality, and use an RTX GPU. I feel like I’ve explained this enough.
Again, the same effect could be accomplished with a VPS (and you’d even have to pay more!) and Blizzard would be none the wiser. Geforce NOW has zero capability to reduce Blizzard’s profits, and if anything would provide a small boost in sales from people who previously couldn’t afford a PC good enough to play Overwatch.
This goes for ANY company. Before it was attributed to contracts with Stadia, but seeing how that isn’t the case for many games anymore it’s just ridiculous.
No. You don’t bring anything. You play on their game client. They are only adding restriction that you have to own the game to allow you to use their client that is somewhere on a server.
It doesn’t really matter if the use of the game is what brings money. But even if it didn’t they still need permission to host/publishing it.
Won’t happen unfortunately, it’ll probably come to Gamepass now that Microsoft owns them.
They don’t have a game client. You’re just using words vaguely related to the situation. Are you referring to the PC you remotely access as a game client? I’m honestly just left to guess what you’re talking about at this point.
They do neither. I don’t think I’ll respond to you again. It’s one thing to misunderstand, but another to pretend that you didn’t and repeat false information.
yes. That PC has a copy that nvidia has bought for people to use and companies probably have issue with this because nvidia don’t have to buy a game client for every person on their platform.
if that was the case private servers would have been legal and we know very well that they are not.
That is not true. You’d know this if you read anything I said or had used the service a single time. I’m just done here. Please, do some research on the service before replying with more false information.
It is not your copy of the game that you are playing there that is for sure. You are just using your account on another game client installed on a PC somewhere. you own the game digitally but physically it is a game client that they have installed on their servers.
How are we defining the word “copy”?
Obviously, the game is installed on their systems that you then stream. Nvidia hasn’t bought this copy of the game. They simply have the Battle.net client installed which is completely free. The game is then played using your own license.
In that sense the copy of the game is your own that you have purchased.
You have to log into your Battle.net account that owns overwatch in order to play on GeForceNOW or at least that’s how it was when it was first on the service.
It still is. You still have to bring your own “copy” or license. Depending on the PC you get you might not have to reinstall the game, but the game is unplayable just like on your own PC if you log out of Blizzard. “Copies” don’t even exist anymore, only licenses. You can give anyone your copy of the game on a flash drive but it’s unplayable without a licensed Blizzard account.
Even for a money grubbing corporation, there is seemingly no reason to remove the game from Geforce now unless you have it exclusively on another cloud streaming service, which as of now they do not.
Game stream is such a dumb idea, just save up buy a pc or console and play the damn game, why go through all the trouble to stream a damn game