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Rockstar has removed GTA games from GeForce NOW

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GTA series games are no longer available on GeForce NOW and have been removed from the list of supported games.

Word was first spread on Reddit, where confused users were wondering why they suddenly were no longer able to play GTA V. NVIDIA's own forums then also blew up with angry users. A user on Reddit contacted NVIDIA support and was told that it was an intentional removal:
I talked to live support they said that it was decided by Rockstar and GFN to remove it. When I ask why they don't give me a proper answer they just keep repeating that "it was decided by the devs". RIP
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No explanation has been given for the removal, though speculation is rife that it may possibly have something to do with the Stadia partnership that Google and Rockstar formed earlier in the year.
 
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Welcome to cloud gaming folks. Do you rike it?

Edit: Sorry for the casual racism, I accept my inevitable ban.
 
Jameson

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Buying exclusive rights for 3rd party games for streaming services incoming. monkaS
 

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streaming is gonna be so fun. playing a game for days and one day it being pulled from the service like a show being removed from netflix, with no way to keep or transfer your save to another service. who wouldn't want that?
 
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modiz

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Say hello to the streaming future.
Also i assume this means GTA series and RDR2 are now stadia streaming exclusive.
 
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Blizzcut

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Dark days are ahead if developers start shoving the idea of streaming games down our throats. Its just not the answer, not now or the foreseeable future.
 
Pokemon Master Tim

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Second-tier exclusivity inbound. Not only do we have to deal with games being exclusive to a platform, but they may be exclusive to a streaming service too. Imagine DMC5 on both PS4 and XB1 but is exclusive to XGP/xCloud in the streaming/subscription world. This is where we're heading, isn't it? Ffs.
 
gofreak

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Were these buy to play games, or part of a subscription? I assume if the former that they can't summarily withdraw them like that.

With all the worry about 'what happens to your game if the service stops existing in a couple of years', I feel like the much more likely scenario of 'what happens to your games if the publisher pulls them off to service an exclusivity deal elsewhere' perhaps hasn't got as much attention.

I feel like this is maybe an acceptable risk with subscriptions, but if you've paid full dollar for a game, that feels like something that shouldn't/couldn't happen.

Pokemon Master Tim said:
Second-tier exclusivity inbound. Not only do we have to deal with games being exclusive to a platform, but they may be exclusive to a streaming service too. Imagine DMC5 on both PS4 and XB1 but is exclusive to XGP/xCloud in the streaming/subscription world. This is where we're heading, isn't it? Ffs.
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I feel like MS and Sony may tie licensing to existing distribution on their platforms - it's a good way for them to leverage their existing strengths in this new landscape vs Google or Amazon, or whomever. In which case deals like that probably wouldn't be feasible, at least unless a third party was already willing to make a game entirely 'console exclusive' to one platform or whatever.
 
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Pokemon Master Tim said:
Second-tier exclusivity inbound. Not only do we have to deal with games being exclusive to a platform, but they may be exclusive to a streaming service too. Imagine DMC5 on both PS4 and XB1 but is exclusive to XGP/xCloud in the streaming/subscription world. This is where we're heading, isn't it? Ffs.
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Orcs Must Die! 3 for instance. Stadia exclusive release.

At a very minimum streaming services should probably be required to let people download their saves somewhere.
 
Koeta

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figures lol, I just uninstalled it to save space on my PC because it was on Geforce NOW, and they remove it like 2 days later >.<
 

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In a way, that's what makes a streaming future so attractive to big publishers, full control over the product and the player.
 
Alexious

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It should be worth reminding GeForce NOW is still in beta and requires no fee, which means no one paid to have streaming access to those games.
 
BassForever

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Pokemon Master Tim said:
Second-tier exclusivity inbound. Not only do we have to deal with games being exclusive to a platform, but they may be exclusive to a streaming service too. Imagine DMC5 on both PS4 and XB1 but is exclusive to XGP/xCloud in the streaming/subscription world. This is where we're heading, isn't it? Ffs.
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It's coming exclusively to pc
Through the epic store only
But you're paying to access the game on a cloud streaming service

The future looks bright
 
Cow Mengde

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You guys can just not support streaming and kill the business right then and there. Streaming won't pick up steam if players don't want it. That's why I have no intention of buying any streaming consoles in the future.
 
tuxfool

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What happens is you own the game through steam? Surely that will still work on GeForce now?
 
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gofreak said:
Were these buy to play games, or part of a subscription? I assume if the former that they can't summarily withdraw them like that.
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To play, you needed to own the game on Steam or Rockstar Social Club. Now that they've taken it off, you will still own it on Steam or Rockstar so no refunds (unless you qualify for Valve's 2 hour refund).
 
Diablos

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What a bunch of horseshit.

I also fear tariffs on traditional consoles and PC tech will help blow the door wide open for streaming platforms because they'll be so much cheaper in comparison.
 
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tuxfool said:
What happens is you own the game through steam? Surely that will still work on GeForce now?
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No, it will not. That's what has been removed. You had to own the game on Steam or Rockstar Social Club to play it on Geforce Now.

Now that it has been taken off, you must get a PC to play it. You will get no refund because you still have the game.
 
EvilBoris

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This coincides with the Xbox 360BC version being updated to have the music remove. I wonder if he has been taken offline in order to produce musicless binaries
 
tuxfool

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No, it will not. That's what has been removed. You had to own the game on Steam or Rockstar Social Club to play it on Geforce Now.

Now that it has been taken off, you must get a PC to play it. You will get no refund because you still have the game.
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Ah. I always had the impression that Steam on GeForce now, was just plain steam. Effectively that GeForce now was just renting a remote instance of a PC.
 
blastprocessor

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It's like Disney pulling content from Netflix.

This should not be a surprise.

But hey streaming is the future and consoles are dead right?
 
neon_dream

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Oh, wow, the streaming future is so cool.

I love not owning my games or having access to the files or having access to my saves or being able to mod anything.

And it only costs me $19.99 a month. Sure, it was cheaper/free when companies wanted to get me hooked in, but still wottadeal.
 
BasilZero

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Never heard of GeForce NOW before.

But I'm guessing Red Dead Redemption 2 will be on Stadia.


Edit: Oh its a streaming platform...so its like Disney pulling its content from Netflix for Disney+.

Thanks Google! Oh snap, its a cycle oh yes indeed~
 

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I have the feeling more than half the people in here have no idea what GeForce Now even is with the kind of responses they're writing
 
Lump

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Smells like someone signed an exclusivity cloud streaming agreement. Playing cloud service games on a library you already use - that just makes too much sense for this timeline.
 
low-G

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This is definitely going to be a trend in streaming eventually. Happens all the time with stuff like Netflix after all.

People will buy entire series of games on a streaming service like CoD. They'll have hundreds of dollars in, friend lists filled with people who they play with. Then the games will get bought up by a competitor and they'll lose ALL THEIR GAME PURCHASES.

Then they'll have to rebuy their games and pay 2 monthly fees of $15/month to be able to maintain access to their partial libraries on two platforms.

This is the guaranteed future for all those who buy any games on streaming services.
 
Jessie

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We wouldn't want people to play GTA V on Switch, that's giving consumers way too much choice.
 
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Jessie said:
We wouldn't want people to play GTA V on Switch, that's giving consumers way too much choice.
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There is nothing stopping GTA V being on a Switch, except Rockstar not wanting to on there.

The rumours and reports from earlier this year were that Stadia will have exclusive streaming rights Red Dead Redemption 2 (and it seems the rest of the Rockstar library).
 
monketron

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Just wait till Microsoft/Sony/Ubisoft/EA/Google/Amazon/etc has their own competing streaming service.
 
Darryl M R

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I enjoyed Geforce Now but I am not surprised that games will start moving away from it to secure exclusive deals. It has been free and in beta for so long. I wonder if Destiny will also move off of it. Personally I hope not since Destiny 2 via Stadia doesn't play with Steam players which is one of Stadia's biggest flaw--marketing Stadia as a solution for people who do not want to build PCs but not being able to play by default with other players using different launchers.
 
TheZynster

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Kind of stupid since

1. You don't buy the game through nvidia
2. Its the steam version that you already own and are just using NVidias tech to play it without a PC.

But if stadia did pay for a deal than that means you would have to buy the game again on stadias platform since I don't think it uses or has access to any of your steam library
 
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