Has anyone tried playing WoW on Geforce Now yet?
I doubt I’ll do it, but I am pretty interested in the concept of what their trying to pull off, especially with WoW. I have to imagine that connecting to an online service that is running an online game for you would add a lot of latency to gameplay.
That dumb why would anyone wanna play on cloud when ssd is fast, and i dont think anyone in 2024 is low on HD space lol
If I had to guess, it has more to do with graphics than computer storage. Essentially, you can stream any game that you own from Geforce Now to your potato computer at max graphics without having to worry about upgrading.
It seems like the graphics quality is only limited by your internet connection and plan.
For example, the 19.99 plan lets you play at 4K resolution and 240 FPS if your internet can support it.
I see, well i have a 1GB line, would probably be on max, wait you can only play for 8 hours ?
$20 buck a month i rather finance a new pc and pay a little more lol
I played on in a bit back when it was on the service the first time. Bearing in mind I have ludicrously fast fiber internet, the latency it added was surprisingly low (like an extra 25ish ms). That said, I’m also near to one of their data centers, and all of that stuff adds up.
Also, something to maybe note, I’m not sure if you can use addons. When I tried it, there were 2 different launchers, and one said ‘with addons’, but didn’t appear to do anything different. Now, it just says ‘Play’ and that’s it, so I don’t know if they gave up on the idea or what.
Just looking around on the internet, that is the amount of time you can play continuously before having to go back into the play queue.
For free accounts its only 1 hour…but for the highest account its 8.
There isn’t a daily limit on how much you can play though.
Yeah, the WoWHead article said no addons. But thanks for sharing your experience. 25ms seems way better than I was expecting.
I was looking at a PC the other day with 4060 Ti i think for like 1800 if you put that on a credit card thats like around 45 bucks a month a little more than what they offer for $20
Always better to upgrade/build/buy new PC.
Yeah, but there are cheaper plans out there as well. You can 1080 at 60fps for 9.99 a month or 8.33 per month if you sign up for 6.
Plus with interest rates being what they are, I would never recommend anyone go into a lot of debt at this point.
Yea but i get more than 60fps now and my pc is almost 6 years old lol
I can definitely say that a 4060 Ti and a 4080 aren’t even in the same ballpark.
That said, this service is more for people that maybe are Mac people, or use something like a gCloud (I have one of these), and if you have good internet it’s a cost effective way to play games on some pretty powerful hardware. My gCloud certainly isn’t running path-traced Cyberpunk locally, lol.
Yea but if you playing wow you dont need a 4080 tho lol , i have a 2080 and im on 7 setting and i get 60 fps in towns and like 140 in world
That’s assuming you only play WoW. The service currently supports over 1800 games.
But yeah, it’s probably not worth it to ONLY play WoW.
Oof, I’m not sure this game is worth paying 2 subscriptions for a single account lol.
I’m already renting my WoW account. I’ll pass on renting the “hardware” I run it on.
I had no idea something like this was available. In looking at the price and requirements and what you get, I think just upgrading/building a new computer would be a better deal but this is a really good idea.
I might opt for it if the prices go down and the time limits are removed.
Yeah, I upgraded me and my wife’s computers last Christmas to the tune of $5K.
Comparatively, keeping the old computers and paying $500 a year for access to top-of-the-line hardware doesn’t sound so bad.
It’ll definitely be something I look into next time around, especially if they keep expanding services like this.
If you have the means, it’s probably better overall to just build your own PCs… but those that either can’t or just don’t want to, being able to play most of your games, for almost half a decade for what just the cost of the video card alone would be, is a pretty solid deal (totally ignoring the cost of your PC’s supporting cast of hardware characters).
I’d still be using it, but I bought a 4070 off of a friend for super cheap, and it’s plenty for local streaming to my handhelds, or even playing on my 4K TV (what with the proliferation of stuff like DLSS)… but I have nothing bad to say about my time using GFN and, if anyone is interested, I’d encourage you to just boot up the free tier in the browser. It’s pretty wild how far the streaming stuff has come.
FYI if you need to play in Windowed mode, you are out of luck with GeForce Now. The player only runs in full screen. I found that out after recklessly paying the $20, instead of trying it out first. Never in a million years did I think there would be such a dumb restriction.
Yeah I could imagine someone signing up for this without signing up for an unlimited data plan with their cable company or phone and at the end of the month 
surprise! Here’s your bill sir that’ll be $500.