NVIDIA has just announced the removal of all of 2K Games’ from its cloud gaming service, GeForce Now. While the green team did not reveal the reason behind this removal, it did state that it’s working with 2K Games to re-enable them.
As NVIDIA’s Cory Banks wrote on the official forums.
“Per publisher request, please be advised 2K Games titles will be removed from GeForce NOW today. We are working with 2K Games to re-enable their games in the future.”
2K Games is the third big publisher that has requested the removal of its games from GeForce Now. The other two big publishers are Bethesda and Activision.
As said, NVIDIA is working with all three publishers so they can re-enable their games in the future. However, there is no guarantee at this point that you will be able to stream these games in the foreseeable future.
Needless to say that this is a really anti-consumer stance. On the other hand, this is most likely a business decision and nothing more. After all, some of these publishers may want to sign a deal with Google and Stadia.
Anyway, it will be interesting to see what all the other triple-A publishers will decide to do now. Will Bandai Namco, Warner Bros and SEGA follow 2K Games’ example?
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i see google pulling strings in background who wants streaming sub like stadia when nvidia geforce now lets you use your steam library no need of buying games again …..
Streaming is the future guys!
Just like Facebook games and mobile!
If you think about it GFN is similar to a rented PC, you can play the titles you already OWN on that same PC platform.
The music industry is greedy but not even they would demand you double dip on your purchased tunes if you say played them in a rental car opposed to in the stereo of a car you own.
You’d be surprised. In my country, we pay so-called “protection money” for every medium that can store data.
Cloud gaming? Does anyone really care?
Actually quite many. Like in this comment section many are crying that they can’t play their favorite game while sitting on the toilet
This was written 8 hours ago and there is 5 comments in this whole thread lol
Just read the other articles and the comments and you see the trend i was referring to
That’s so surprising i’m with you that i have no idea why people on this site care so much.
I guess Reggie Fils-Aimé did say he thinks its the future of gaming. I still think we are a easy 10 years away from it.
I know every generation people say “This will be the last gen” but i really think it might be before we move to non dedicated hardware on the console end.
I get like 20-25ms of latency on my WIFI AC. I should give it a try again just to see but i’m no competitive gamer.
I don’t but then again… it works REALLY good on my very old laptop and it felt pretty good to play with a normal internet. I played Borderlands and a few other games. It was all good.
Soon there wont be anything left if this keeps going -.-
I’ll just leave this here for the 7 clowns who downvoted me…
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GeForce NOW – the amazing service where the library is tech demos, freely downloadable from NVidia’s website.
so we don’t even need to revolt. publisher greed will help us kill cloud gaming before it become more common among gamer.
How stupid are you?
Do you know why these publishers are demanding to get their games taken off GFN? Because GFN does not sell games, because you’re not forced to buy your games again, you merely connect your existing game libraries and play them.
All of these publishers are more than likely negotiating with Google or Amazon, in order to re-sell their games on cloud platforms.
that’s why i said it will kill cloud gaming. right now GFN is one of the most sensible one when it comes to cloud service. so game developer want to kill gamer interest in cloud gaming even in it’s infancy.
and some of us definitely does not like the direction of cloud gaming. if majority of the masses starts adopting cloud gaming then game publisher will have their ultimate DRM where the game will be 100% cloud with no options to install the game on local machine. so how long their going to let their server up? 5 years? 10 years? after that the game will be completely unplayable when the client being shut down. company like ubisoft definitely like this idea. for a decade they have tried to push always online stuff even for single player games like AC.
lmao, who d fk cares 2k’s sh8y games..