Valve has just announced Steam Cloud Play. According to the company, Steam Cloud Play will allow you to play via cloud a select number of games, and is currently in a beta phase. Moreover, Steam Cloud Play supports NVIDIA’s GeForce Now cloud service. This is currently the only Steam Cloud Gaming service that Steam Cloud Play supports. However, Valve may add additional cloud gaming services in the future.
Going into more details, Steam Cloud Play will give Steam users more options on where and how to play their PC games. Contrary to Stadia and similarly to GeForce Now, PC gamers won’t have to buy new copies of their games to play. As we’ve already stated, though, this service supports only a select number of games.
Furthermore, Valve and NVIDIA revealed that developers must manually opt-in the games they wish to make available on the service. As such, you may not find your favorite triple-A games.
Speaking of GeForce NOW, NVIDIA has shared some new details about its service. According to the green team, numerous games will be removed from the service on May 31st.
“Going forward, only the games that are opted in will be available on the service, providing confidence in the GeForce NOW game library. Yet some publishers are still figuring out their cloud strategies. Those that haven’t opted in as of May 31 will be removed.”
You can find the list of games that will no longer be available here.
Lastly, here is how you can enable Steam Cloud Play for your Steam games.
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Now our lord and savior lord GabeN, will show all those amateurs how cloud gaming is done. Now we have to wait shtepic response, maybe they will give us a candy and kisses if we use their piece of crap.
I hope people won’t be converted to streaming crap just becasue it’s Valve. Well looking at HL Alyx and Valve VR reception it gives me hope that they won’t.
People will eventually embrace streaming just like they embraced digital, which is hardly different when you factor in DRM. In the end convenience will trump common sense.
Nope not for gaming, this streaming schitt ain’t new it stated way back in 2011ish and its still going in the dumbster, like it should.
Hardly different? Rly?
Why not just allow us to play all the games we own through Steam’s cloud service then? We bought them anyway. Considering how much an average player lets Valve earn from just pure sales – it shouldn’t even cost a penny.
You don’t get it – it is not Valve who is asking people to pay twice for games already purchased, it is the game developer / publisher who wants the extra money. They see each platform as requiring a different purchase, a bit like a game purchased on Playstation 3 needs to be repurchased again to play on Playstation 4.