A few days ago, NVIDIA launched its cloud gaming service, GeForce Now. GeForce Now allows you to play all of your games on different devices via cloud. As such, you can play – for example – Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on your Android. Moreover, and if you are a Premium member, you can enjoy all of the game’s Ray Tracing effects. However, Activision has requested the removal of its titles from this service.
As NVIDIA has let its customers know via a forum post:
“As we take GeForce NOW to the next step in its evolution, we’ve worked with publishers to onboard a robust catalog of your PC games.
This means continually adding new games, and on occasion, having to remove games – similar to other digital service providers.
Per their request, please be advised Activision Blizzard games will be removed from the service. While unfortunate, we hope to work together with Activision Blizzard to reenable these games and more in the future.”
NVIDIA has not revealed the reasons behind this removal. We also don’t know whether more publishers will follow Activision’s example. Still, what matters, at the end of the day, is that you won’t be able to now stream your Blizzard and Activision games.
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Does it surprise you still? It shouldn’t at this point.
They really want people to hate them eh
Reason? Activision-Blizzard is trash. Have been for a long time now.
i find hard to believe they knew they were in this geforce thing to be taken out.
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Google bought exclusive rights to stream Activision games on Stadia
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Corporate wokeness. Cringe.
F*ck blizzard / Activision. They are pure trash.
Cloud gaming, the ultimate DRM, though still preferable to Epic.
WTH, Epic, make piracy great again!
Epic Store > Streaming cloud gaming
That’s like choosing piss or crap
Epic Store = free stuff, therefore consumer win. When you guys will learn.
Because you can always pirate Epic’s exclusives.
Couldn’t I still use something like parsec tho?
“Cloud gaming” can go f**k itself anyways. Think I’ll stick to local processing in my rig, instead of receiving garbage quality video from some server somewhere, under someone else’s control. To say nothing of mods, etc. etc. etc.
Just glad none of this cloud garbage is gaining much traction.
its not that simple. read my post above
Geforce not now. Where is the list with all the currently supported games?
It supports any game on your Steam account since it allows you to link your Steam account and use it as if it were remote play. I tried it last week sometime and its the first time I tried a game streaming service. It wasnt as bad I expected it to be, but I dont think ill use it again.
can’t I just use remote play on my phone,and just use my own bandwidth to do that though?
Yeah. unless somoene or something is stopping you? This isnt for people with high end PCs though. If you have a capable PC and good upload speeds then there is absolutely no need for a streaming service, unless you dont like leaving your computer on.
they needed their permission and to offer cut of profit
Another brick in the wall..
F**k streaming.
Thanks Google, how was it? don’t be evil? guess it doesn’t apply when you are a looser
this has nothing to do with geforce now but more with playing remotely using any software when it comes to blizzard games. you even risk getting your account banned for playing remotely within your own network to another computer in another room using moonlight or parsec for example, so its no surprise it would happen with this. you can get really loww latency with a jetson nano or raspberry pi running moonlight and streaming the game to another room down stairs for example wirelessly without having to move your entire computer, however like i said you can get banned for this. go look at the support forums, you either get a response saying its not allowed or the customer support/tech support will never give you a straight answer. the main reason behind it is mostly because they dont like people logging into other peoples accounts and playing it without paying for a license, and there is no way to know who is playing when its done remotely so they just ban the entire thing outright.
What a bunch of cu*ts. That again, we’re talking about Activision/Blizzard
dont even interested in your game, blizzard.
JOHN,
Nvidia sheds light on why Activision Blizzard removed their games from Geforce Now
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-14/nvidia-blames-misunderstanding-for-activision-faux-pas
https://www.overclock3d.net/news/software/nvidia_sheds_light_on_why_activision_blizzard_removed_their_games_from_geforce_now/1
Earlier this week, Nvidia confirmed that Activision Blizzard asked for its games to be removed from the company’s newly launched Geforce Now service, removing games from Nvidia’s gaming library less than a week after the service became publically available.
Since then, Nvidia has released more information regarding Activision Blizzard’s
decision, calling the move a “misunderstanding”. Based on a statement that Nvidia made to Bloomberg, it looks like Activision desired a commercial agreement with Nvidia before they launched Geforce Now. On the Nvidia side, It appears that they thought that their preliminary agreement, which brought Activision Blizzard’s games to Geforce Now’s beta, would also extend to Geforce Now’s 90-day trial period.
Nvidia released the following statement to Bloomberg, revealing their intent to bring Activision Blizzard’s games back to their Geforce Now service.
Activision Blizzard has been a fantastic partner during the GeForce Now beta, which we took to include the free trial period for our founders membership.
Recognizing the misunderstanding, we removed their games from our service, with hope we can work with them to re-enable these, and more, in the future.
Right now, Geforce Now costs Founders £4.99/$4.99/€5.49 per month for the next 12 months, with Nvidia offering users a 90-day free trial during the service’s introduction.
With its Geforce Now service, Nvidia plans to outcompete Google’s Stadia platform with a larger gaming library while launching before Microsoft’s Project xCloud, the Xbox streaming service. With the power of PC gaming hardware and a wide array of supported titles, Nvidia’s cloud gaming offering may be the strongest to date.