NVIDIA to Launch "Club GeForce Elite" Subscription-based Service for $10 a Month

[Raevenlord]

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:

• 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

Weekly Giveaways And Prizes

• 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)

Targeted Spot Prizes To Drive Sentiment, Reward Behavior, And Grow Advocates

• 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

Club GeForce Also Provides Benefits Outside Of GFE

• Early Registration and Invitations to Club GeForce Meetups, GeForce LAN and Community Events
• GeForce Forum badges and rankings based on years in the Club

View at TechPowerUp Main Site

 

[Xzibit]

Wasn't most of this, like the game & giveaway stuff already promoted to be GFE when the sign-up to download thing happened.

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.

 

[Camm]

Wonder if it means that 'Elite' users get actually decent drivers rather than the load of horseshit being bandied about recently.

 

[qubit]

Call me cynical, but this seems a way to try and lock users into the NVIDIA brand. Just think, with all that monthly investment and "benefits" it's gonna be harder for users to switch to AMD based on performance alone. Funny how this is going live a little before the allegedly head-to head competitor GPU, Vega, from AMD is about to hit retail isn't it? I also think it's gonna force AMD to do the same thing, which won't be good for customers.

Next up "Game Ready" drivers move to subscription base $$$ monthly fee.

I sure hope you're wrong on this one, but it seems more than a little bit likely.

Wonder if it means that 'Elite' users get actually decent drivers rather than the load of horseshit being bandied about recently.

While I don't think the drivers are that bad, there have been a few glitches lately, I think the way you put it is hilariously cynical and I like that.

 

[btarunr]

Next up "Game Ready" drivers move to subscription base $$$ monthly fee.

I find that actually possible.

 

[Prima.Vera]

nVidia is officially now becoming nGreedia.

 

[alucasa]

Personally, this doesn't matter to me. I prefer consoles for gaming. My PC GPU is for CUDA rendering.

 

[Ungari]

Personally, this doesn't matter to me. I prefer consoles for gaming. My PC GPU is for CUDA rendering.

Why do you continuously bother to post that a topic has no interest to you?

 

[alucasa]

Why do you continuously bother to post that a topic has no interest to you?

My apologies. I will quietly see myself out, sir.

 

[chaosmassive]

I am really sorry, I just couldn't resist doing this
here you go

 

[jigar2speed]

Personally, this doesn't matter to me. I prefer consoles for gaming. My PC GPU is for CUDA rendering.

Then why did you even bother telling us ? No one is interested in your opinion if you are not affiliated to PC gaming community.

EDIT:

My apologies. I will quietly see myself out, sir.

I should've have seen before positing, my apologies.

 

[Ungari]

I am immune to Nvidia's crass commercialism and marketing promotions.

 

[Frick]

a "Free GeForce PC in the cloud subscription"

What is this?

Call me cynical, but this seems a way to try and lock users into the NVIDIA brand.

I'd say realistic. It is definitely the reason. It is the only reason they have to do things.

 

[Dethroy]

Call me cynical, but this seems a way to try and lock users into the NVIDIA brand. Just think, with all that monthly investment and "benefits" it's gonna be harder for users to switch to AMD based on performance alone.

You are most definitely right. You don't have to agree with what Nvidia is doing. But you gotta admit that it is a smart move as far as business is concerned. And it seems to me, like people these days embrace subscription-based services.

I am really sorry, I just couldn't resist doing this
here you go

SUBCRIBE NOW

 

[chaosmassive]

You are most definitely right. You don't have to agree with what Nvidia is doing. But you gotta admit that it is a smart move as far as business is concerned. And it seems to me, like people these days embrace subscription-based services.

SUBCRIBE NOW

nice spot on typo sir
please don't shoot me

 

[Camm]

So figure me this; your paying $10 a month subscription on top of your GPU purchase, with the primary benefit being that you can stream games from your manufacturer, running on a different GPU than the one you bought?

What the actual fuck :\.

 

[TheMailMan78]

I find that actually possible.

And if they do AMD cards will not only sky rocket in demand/price but, NVIDIA's market share will plummet.

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.

 

[sutyi]

nVidia is officially now becoming nGreedia.

I think you are 3 years late with this pun.

And it seems to me, like people these days embrace subscription-based services.

Depends really, if a subscription-based service gives you something you need, or makes you life easier in some way it is alright to pay for it I think
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.

 

[rtwjunkie]

It's a smart move to hook people for life and make them less likely to jump ship.

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.

 

[TheMailMan78]

It's a smart move to hook people for life and make them less likely to jump ship.

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.

I bet AMD is praying they pull this. AMD is going to become the "Go to" for GPU's no matter how much an edge NVIDIA has.

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

They want me to pay them $10 a month to test their bugs? In-exchange for some crappy indie games? This only gets worse from here.

 

[rtwjunkie]

They want me to pay them $10 a month to test their bugs? In-exchange for some crappy indie games? This only gets worse from here.

Are you implying all Indie games are crappy, or just that Nvidia would only give people the crappy ones? There are actually quite a few Indies that are better than AAA.

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

Are you implying all Indie games are crappy, or just that Nvidia would only give people the crappy ones? There are actually quite a few Indies that are better than AAA.

I'm expecting a lot of crap at the volume they're promising. I only find a decent indie game like once every 3 months.

 

[Dethroy]

Depends really, if a subscription-based service gives you something you need, or makes you life easier in some way it is alright to pay for it I think
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.

You are applying logic, sir. My statement was targeted towards the seemingly bigger and ever increasing crowd of earth's population that seems to defy logic.

 

[sutyi]

You are applying logic, sir. My statement was targeted towards the seemingly bigger and ever increasing crowd of earth's population that seems to defy logic.

Touche, sir.