Monday, February 24th 2020
Bethesda Removes Games from GeForce NOW Game Streaming Service
NVIDIA's GeForce NOW game-streaming service had been hit or miss lately depending on how you look at its current situation, given the fact that Activision-Blizzard removed its game catalog from the GeForce NOW service and the fact that CD Projekt RED announced that Cyberpunk 2077 will be present on the platform. Some moves like the one coming from Activision-Blizzard are taking a tole on the new game streaming platform, while others like the addition of Cyberpunk 2077 are giving the platform users hope to see it become a viable option.
To add to the pain, Bethesda Softworks, a maker of many popular titles such as the DOOM, Fallout, Wolfenstein, and The Elder Scrolls series, has decided to pull a big part of its game library from the NVIDIA GeForce NOW game streaming service. In another surprising turn of events, a part of NVIDIA staff announced that Bethesda Softworks will pull most of its games form the GeForce NOW platform, excluding Wolfenstein Youngblood, which will remain playable to give users a chance to experience it with "RTX on". We do not know why big publishers are pulling their game libraries form this platform, so we have to wait for more information in the future.
To add to the pain, Bethesda Softworks, a maker of many popular titles such as the DOOM, Fallout, Wolfenstein, and The Elder Scrolls series, has decided to pull a big part of its game library from the NVIDIA GeForce NOW game streaming service. In another surprising turn of events, a part of NVIDIA staff announced that Bethesda Softworks will pull most of its games form the GeForce NOW platform, excluding Wolfenstein Youngblood, which will remain playable to give users a chance to experience it with "RTX on". We do not know why big publishers are pulling their game libraries form this platform, so we have to wait for more information in the future.
44 Comments on Bethesda Removes Games from GeForce NOW Game Streaming Service
The only time I ran into problem was boss fights in God of War. Still made it though.
If you exclude super fast paced games, or just limit audience to non-competitive players, 30ms is more than bearable.
Motivation of Betheda is interesting in this case.
Did they ask NV to pay for it?
Won't be surprised if Besthesda and Activision Blizzard announces their very own streaming platforms. Hypothetically speaking, no matter where you log on from, local PC/Browser/Mobile/etc, you'll have access to your games progress and all attached DLC's. The difference being local or internet based gaming.
Why give Nvidia more money when the developers can get the money themselves..
nVIDIA is either asking too much from these publishers or they deemed that it ain't worth the investment.
I doubt anyone else wants that either.
However, I wont be getting 2048 different platforms and I dont think I'm alone in that notion.
Game streaming (for playing) will remain a niche for non-interactive or non-realtime gaming.
Nvidia thinks about it as a rentable hardware, publisher(s) think about it as a new platform, so they want to make commercial contracts with nv as other gaming/drm platform (steam, uplay, etc. Publishers wants that nv pay for them for their games. But if it is a service (as nv consider it itself) maybe the gaming stores can request some kind of money.
Time will tell which side win.