This is just peak enshittification at this point.
So much of the internet is enshittifying abuse of this moronic term enshittify.
It’s fucking free. Youtube had ads before FREE videos forever ago. This isn’t new. This isn’t enshittifying. What an idiotic post.
The enshitification discourse on lemmy is fucking nuts. Service goes from you getting a gaming PC completely free, no strings attached except your play session is limited to hour, to the same thing but you see preroll ads while you queue. Any person with more than two braincells could tell it was meant to be a trial for the paid service, but of course people on here are gonna cry because they don’t get free toys anymore.
Isn’t GeForce Now only available if you buy an Nvidia graphics card? In that case I would consider it part of the product that was sold, not a free software
Ignore my comment, GeForce experience is what I was thinking of.
They did remove GameStream though, which was GFNow but for using from your PC. Or rather GFNow was GameStream but from their PC.
And they took that out, so you couldn’t stream locally any more. And not enough people called them out for that.
You can replace it with Sunshine and Moonlight if you ever find yourself wondering why an nVidia Shield won’t connect to your PC.
I mean sunshine is the same thing as game stream, but better. It uses the same protocol and is much more stable for me.
Yes, but it still sucks that they took out their own implementation, especially when the main selling point of the Shield was streaming games from your PC is decent quality.
It did have a major flaw though, in that it always picked the leftmost monitor, and that’s not what I game on.
Steam Link is clearly a whole lot more joined up in terms of being able to browse and start games, but I’ve never got that to work acceptably either. Runs at about half the framerate of Sunshine, for no reason I can see. No amount of messing with the settings appears to fix it.
This is just peak enshittification at this point.
It’s a free service, and a game streaming one at that…
I’m the last person to be defending companies but this one really doesn’t sound unreasonableWait, can I game on my old laptop?
Yeah, as long as it can run a modern version of Chrome and can decode video fast enough.
I’m honestly surprised to learn they still offer a free tier, I’m not sure why? What advantage is letting users play for free?
Same reason drug dealers give out samples
why drug dealers? not really known for their samples except in DARE films. I think Costco would be a better example. are they doing that again btw?
Costco stopped samples for like barely a month, at least where I was at.
Win the race to the bottom
I didn’t even know they had a free teir. I could a been playing Fortnite this whole time
Xbox Gaming Pass allows you to play Fortnite for free too. If you have a Samsung TV it’s even easier, just plug the controller on the TV.
matter of time before they put ads in the paid tier too.
subscriptions suck.
We’re talking about a gaming streaming platform. How do you think that concept could ever work without a subscription?
And frankly, adds for the free users really isn’t that outrageous or surprising either. I’m mostly surprised that this wasn’t the case from the start.
this is not what im saying though.
i said this will be the first point of enshittification on the paid plan, exactly like on movie streaming platforms.
Oh well sorry that I took your “subscriptions suck” literally. I guess what that meant to say was “subscriptions with adds before them suck”. My fault for not figuring this out.
all subscriptions eventually do price hikes and ads.
subscriptions do suck.
And yet they are pretty much non avoidable for certain services. And some of those services are really neat.
My library subscription for example certainly is worth it. So is my public transportation subscription.
neither of those need to be a subscription, but rather a pay as you go model that isnt overpriced.
subscriptions are almost always designed to take MORE money longterm or else they wouldnt be pushing them so hard, on most cases its unavoidable because of how they push it onto us.
Ahh yes. Another reason to switch sides later this year.
What’s the other side for free cloud gaming?
buy a Nvidia card and host it yourself
Free user? Even after paying a buttload for the hardware?
