Ugh. I really hope this subscription based hype dies down. I'm not convinced it's good for the medium.
GeForce Now is the service you should be in favor of then, since it's only renting out servers to stream your own Steam purchases from.
The problem here is that it's the first (?) time a publisher has stepped in and explicitly said "No, you don't own the games that you bought; you own a license and we're not permitting you to play those games here. We decide where you can play them."
I don't think a lot of people here are getting that.
I still think it's odd that publishers have a say in this. I could still use Steam, Moonlight, Parsec or whatever to stream my games from my own desktop. If I buy a dedicated streaming desktop or rent one trough Nvidia shouldn't matter.
All of these are against the EULA for Activision Blizzard games, as I posted earlier.
They're more difficult to enforce (except Steam Remote Play) and the main difference here is probably that NVIDIA are making money off it.
Valve has been rumored to be working on their own cloud gaming service, which would likely be an extension of Steam Remote Play, running off their servers rather than your home PC - so the implications of this are bad. It could lead to Remote Play being disabled for certain games.
I wish that NVIDIA would challenge the EULA in court rather than conceding and removing access to the games.
Nvidia is playing the game on their hardware, and streaming the results to an Nvidia customer who also has a license to play the game.
No: I'm playing the game that I already bought, via my own Steam account, logged in on a computer that I'm renting.
Wait. Are Nvidia doing this without getting publisher permission first and just assuming liking accounts to confirm ownership is enough?
They are not granting access to games by linking accounts.
You are using your own Steam account on their servers. You actually log into Steam and install the games yourself.
I think that the "free 1 hour session" tier is the main reason why ATVI decided to pull out. Their revenue is more than likely based off user spendings on streaming their titles through the platform - and these are zero in case of the free tier. ATVI being ATVI can't have anything available for free. See WC3R EULA for details.
You already bought the game if you're playing it on GeForce Now.
You can't play any game you want for free.
They are in a literal sense but, ehhhhh, it's kinda semantics. You're paying Nvidia to play these games. The product that they're selling it 'you can play all of these games with this sub!'. With no games on the service, the service doesn't exist. When you load iup the app they're not showing you thumbnails of server racks, they're selling you on The Witcher 3 and Battletech and Civ etc. Publishers are gonna want a cut of that sub I'd imagine considering it's their games that are selling the sub to people.
A GeForce Now subscription doesn't come with any games. You have to buy them from Steam, Battle.net, Uplay, Origin etc.
The companies have already been paid, but now they want more money.