Sunday, December 18th 2016
NVIDIA to Launch "Club GeForce Elite" Subscription-based Service for $10 a Month
The same job post that brought us confirmation about an eventual GeForce GTX 1080 Ti release, as well as the likely introduction of a step-up program for GTX 980 Ti owners, also brought to light the most recent monetization effort from the green company: a subscription-based service for their elite supporters. This subscription service will, for a mere $10 monthly deduction on their bank account, grant subscriptors an "Elite" status amongst their NVIDIA peers, as well as access to a "rotating bundle of free games from our GFE app store (4x games per quarter)", a "Free GeForce PC in the cloud subscription", as well as "exclusive skins, in-game items, and GeForce Gear".
Some more details about a revamped GFE "GeForce Experience" program have been let out in the open:
Annual Benefits To All GFE Users
"Club GeForce" should provide 3 classes of rewards to GFE users:
Source:
LinkedIn
Annual Benefits To All GFE Users
"Club GeForce" should provide 3 classes of rewards to GFE users:
- Free full copy of exclusive Indie game (1x/year)
- Free custom skin or in-game item for AAA game (1x/qtr)
- Early beta access for Talos and NVIDIA 1st party content
- Exclusive hardware discounts for gaming gear
- Free AAA game codes and In-game currency
- Early beta access to AAA games
- Accessories to help gamers enjoy gaming better (HMDs, SHIELDs, Keyboards, etc)
- Golden tickets to gaming events (Blizzcon, PAX, etc)
- Free game codes for users who report a confirmed bug or contribute useful feature enhancement requests
- Free game codes to our most active Share and GeForce Forum users
- Free game codes to users who rank most negative and most positive on our sentiment tools
- Early Registration and Invitations to Club GeForce Meetups, GeForce LAN and Community Events
- GeForce Forum badges and rankings based on years in the Club
26 Comments on NVIDIA to Launch "Club GeForce Elite" Subscription-based Service for $10 a Month
Its a smart business move. If they can get a good chunk of their users paying $10 a month it pays for itself and might provide additional revenue.
Next up "Game Ready" drivers move to subscription base $$$ monthly fee.
here you go :roll::roll:
EDIT:I should've have seen before positing, my apologies.
please don't shoot me :respect:
What the actual fuck :\.
If they both pull that crap I can tell you right now that's a Pandora's box a lot of manufactures will follow. Adobe went this way and people are holding on to CS6 like its gold. It seems to be a growing trend. Ill just buy an old console and enjoy the rest of my life. I am not going to pay monthly for anything I don't NEED to. Cars, House, Internet., etc.
On the other hand if you buy a physical product in this case hardware, that relies on software updates I will not pay a monthly fee to able to use it or its features. That would be called leasing. But you don't buy something you are leasing, you are paying for usage rights not the actual hardware.
It's also CRAP! No way will I be opting to pay $120 a year that I could use to take the wife out for a nice dinner an additional time. I pay enough recurring expenses, and, I don't like being locked into one brand OR the other.